The question of why they did it is an important one. I am not trying to minimize that. The callous nature of a heinous crime is important, but I am thinking of the unintended consequences attached to such a bill. I think the principle of the bill is a good thing, but at the risk of manipulating the bill makes it dangerous.
Thought I'd share a brief story from here in Sydney Australia, a few years ago, about how such issues might be manipulated.
Me and a friend were at his house, watching the news, and a story came on, the police had raided about 200 houses of suspected paedophiles, finding incriminating evidence in 37 residences (all videos d/l from internet etc). I have no problem with that. But the story went on : they didn't have warrants for any of the searches, so it looked like they'd have to let them go! Oh no! Never fear, the story went on, the state government had passed emergency legislation which made warrantless searches legal!
Me and my friend found this whole story all a bit dubious to say the least, after all they knew they didn't have warrants before the whole thing occured, but this other guy in my friends house, a bit dopey, was cheering it on all like "Yay! they dun gut thum dar peddos! Yay!"
We tried to explain to him that these "warrantless searches" meant ANYONE could have their door kicked in without a warrant, but he didn't seem get it.
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