[WikiEN-l] Re: ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?

Thu Mar 3 01:03:55 UTC 2005

zero 0000 wrote:

> If the witnesses in a criminal trial are found to have
> committed crimes themselves, they are sceduled
> for their own trials.  They are not given sentences
> by the original court.  The same principle should
> hold here.

The analogy fails because this is not an Internet Democracy
but an encyclopedia-writing project.

Even if that is not the case, it fails because ArbCom cases
are more analogous to civil trials, not criminal ones. We
have a pile of janitors with mops, buckets and M-16s for the
equivalent of criminal ones.

- d.