The Moomba mayhem on Melbourne streets last weekend has produced the predictable and understandable law-and-order response from politicians and police: smash the ethnic gangs, throw the book at them and lock them up.
It was Newton's conception of the Universe based upon Natural and rationally understandable laws that became one of the seeds for Enlightenment ideology.
Although it is understandable for law enforcement and intelligence to want more and easier access to information, including the ability to bypass encryption, it is counterproductive given the existing threats, including to the government's own communications.
With even a slight chance that Ceglia could be awarded tens of billions of dollars, it's understandable why law firms would want to represent him and take a cut.
This argument is perfectly understandable: The laws are hateful, and enlightened, modern and Western-oriented people in the opposition feel demeaned by having to take on the laws' supporters, armed as they are with eggs and stones and medieval rhetoric.
The police chief's outrage is also understandable, but expanding law enforcement and criminalizing addicts is not the answer.
For starters, he relies on the layman's understandable misinterpretation of "law".
I prefer the more understandable tragedies of Law & Order marathons.
A concern with homegrown terrorism is understandable, but if "law and order" and our safety are truly our concern--not xenophobia and bigotry--we must see that we are far less safe when people have such easy access to guns.
The result is an understandable distrust of law enforcement -- so much so that young African-American men go out of their way to avoid any contact with the police.
Unfortunately it is not always understandable from regional laws or DA designations to which kind of juridical notion they refer.
