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backHere's One Small Reason Why Government Should Not Have a Monopoly of the Courts As reported in the New York Times, a judge in the Niagara Falls, New York, city court, more or less went beserk when a cell phone rang in his court.
After threatening to jail everyone in his presence (except of course the court emloyees) unless the owner of the phone 'fessed up, he impertinently inquired of the defendant in front of him, Reginald Jones, if he knew who owned the phone. When the perplexed Mr. Jones answered that he did not, the judge scuppered his plan to release him, set his bail at $1,500, and ordered him
into custody.
Here is the story. The judge is going to be removed, so there is some semblance of justice here. In a free market court system (see David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom; William Woolridge, Uncle Sam the Monopoly Man; and Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty), the judge would be fired and good luck to him obtaining work as a judge again. And it wouldn't require a government commission to do it--at taxpayer expense, thank you.
[Posted at 11/27/2007 03:52 PM by William Stepp on Against Monopoly CommentsSubmit Comment |
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