Thread: Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS

Originally Posted by Alric

If someone uses a legal loophole to get out of going to jail, then they are not actually criminals. If you didn't break a law, you didn't break a law.

You can murder someone and get away scott free on a technicality, like inadmissible evidence. This is unacceptable and is a huge let-down in the law.

A good example that I read the other day, UK intelligence agencies teamed up with Norway (I think) security in a sting to capture terrorists that were responsible for a bombing (who were obviously guilty). They were caught and arrested but later acquitted because of the technicality that British agents had entered Norway under false pretenses, rendering the whole operation unlawful. And now the men responsible are free (well this was quite a few years ago).

Completely unacceptable.

Edit: Gah I'm mixing up two different stories, the Norway thing was an art theft from a museum. There was a sting to recover the stolen art and capture the thieves, but they were later acquitted because the british agents entered the country under false pretenses. They're still thieves...