"Constitutional Due Process"
Compare these two concepts:1) A court where the fines assessed go into the judges budget. An incentive to find people guilty and impose the maximum fine. A situation that would not instill a feeling of "justice". 2) A court where the fines assessed when into a the public budget of a neutral foreign country. Now one would hardly second guess whether a judge was imposing fines out of self-interest or strictly as appropriate punishment. Which does a secret machine, that secretly collects information resulted in the secret seizure of assets to employ people (and more people) to operate the secret machine. Sounds like a loop that could easily spiral out of control into a process with a main intent of generating revenue. At least in situation #1 above, the process is open to the public so there is a possibly of some public oversight. I think what you desire is unlikely to have any viable oversight from legislatures, the judiciary, and certainly not from the public. The whole system and process today may well meet reasonable standards of due process, but where is the oversight that will keep it purely within the bounds of seeking justice. |