Do you think that someone should be above the law? I am talking about certain people who are non-criminals. Please explain.
2006-08-11 05:13:27 · 12 answers · asked by caltam84 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
If someone is not criminal, then (by definition) they haven't broken any criminal laws. Aside from laws that carry punishment, what others laws can someone be "above"? If there is no penalty for not following the law, then it's really more of a guideline than anything else.
The question is paradoxical, because it assumes a condition that defeats its own premise.
2006-08-11 05:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't. The law is either for everyone or for no-one. What annoys me at the moment is the fact that lawyers actually help people to be above the law in certain instances. For example, I read quite often in the papers about criminals such as murderers, rapists or child-abusers who have been freed due to a technicality. How can this be right? Surely the lawyer should be indicted for aiding and abetting a criminal? I have a friend who was a lawyer, but she gave it up because she was sick of drunk-drivers coming to her trying to get off the offence.
2006-08-11 12:25:06 · answer #2 · answered by superwop2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some politicians do have protection from the law, as do dimplomats.
Some activity is allowed just for certain people - e.g. LEO are allowed to break the speed limit, under certain circumstances.
Also, the outgoing president has the opportunity to pardon just about anyone he chooses - convicted (False statements to federally insured financial institutions, wire fraud, attempted extortion, and false statements in bankruptcy proceeding) former Arizona governor Fife Symington was pardoned by outgoing Bill Clinton.
2006-08-11 12:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No... no one should be above the law. What's fair for one should be for all. No one should be allowed to bend the rules and get away with it if someone else who does the same gets in trouble with the law. Money and prestige shouldn't make a difference.
2006-08-11 12:21:45 · answer #4 · answered by WenckeBrat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on who passes or decrees the law and how it is enforced. In a democracy, no one is supposed to be above the laws of the land. In a dictatorship, it is a different matter - it could be 'Hi Hitler!'
2006-08-11 12:21:06 · answer #5 · answered by Sami V 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course especially people who sneak in like some 11 million Mexicans of course they should be above the law... I mean they have contributed so much to our country far more than the Blacks or Whites even the Chinese... of course without them our country would crumble into the sea... Of course I mean this sarcastically...!
2006-08-11 12:26:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's not true, stateless people are above the law.
2006-08-11 12:17:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. If we give some people special priveledges, they'll abuse them. If we all are at the same level of rights, it is much harder for someone to abuse it.
2006-08-11 12:15:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well...Bush thinks HE is above the law.
But no one should be, I don't care who they are.
2006-08-12 12:52:39 · answer #9 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answered your own question before you asked it.
2006-08-11 12:19:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋