Comment by cgriswald
2 hours ago
You want to give the government the legal ability to threaten the life of the entire civil service, judiciary, and all elected representatives.
I’m sure that would never be abused.
2 hours ago
You want to give the government the legal ability to threaten the life of the entire civil service, judiciary, and all elected representatives.
I’m sure that would never be abused.
The government already has that, since currently anyone (except the King) can get the death penalty.
I am opposed to the death penalty in all cases, for a variety of reasons.
However, currently the court has to at least find that a murder has occurred or in some cases child rape (sometimes with conditions like a second offense). These are categorically different offenses that are unlikely to occur during the normal course of a public servants job, except perhaps if police kill someone there may be a question whether it was murder.
If “violation of trust” is given the death penalty than any normal act in the course of a public servant’s service history could potentially be used to hang him by questioning the legitimacy of the act.