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"Only that which is fit to print"What will you tell your children?
2007-04-01
What will you tell your children?
How do you explain to kids that politicians feel the need to lie even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? What of laws that are unpopular to certain special interest groups and invite civil disobediernce? What about the lies government hides for many years such as funding for social security. How do we say to the children that it is not ok for them to lie but a retirees lifetime pension is wiped out in a single stroke through lying and deciet? When the evidence clearly supports that people lie at every level of government; that our attorney neral is in fact lying, how can we tell our kids that he is a truly honorable man? If we allow powerful and wealthy people to flout the law can we expect our own children to respect the law? When others are given carte blanche to defy the rules and go their own way, shouldn't we allow our own kids no less? Are they not entitled, as the budding fruit of our society, to resp;ect and abide by only the laws that they feel are in their own best interest? George Bush's attorney went into judges chambers in Texas, and when he came out our president's drunk driving and drunk and fighting charges were suppressed. The attorney who did this? Good old attorney general gonzales. Think of the ramifications. An alcoholic is elected president and the country is almost simultaneously in a state of constant disarray. Look at what happened during a pivitol period when the drunken Yeltiz trusted his newly won democracy to a former KGB man. W:hy is everyone shocked when Putin turns the former soviet union over to his former kgb colleagues to turn the government back into an oligarchy?
You probably won't mind much if the rules are broken to convict someone "we know is guilty." l7 convictions or more of capital murder case convictions recently thrown out and innocent men set free is the standfard we tell our kids, so that a pice of paper gets "closed," the DA gets another rung toward the governor's office, not that a murder was solved and the guilty party punished. In the OC jail, santa ana, california someone spills the beans on an alleged perp who liked kiddy porn and was a resident of the jail awaiting a bail hearing. Somehow, he is executed by the jail residents out of sight of cameras and guards.A guard is accused. Other allegations, so far unproven, come down.It is a tragedy. And it is the first inmate death in l8 years at the jail. How could such a thing happen in the U.S. where safe-guards protect the innocent.?
We really mean the innocent who have money. Most public defender cases are pled whether the alleged perp is guilty, innocent, or just happened to be watching the day's proceedings at court and got swept up by uniforms a judge ordered to "clean this place up!" Some estimate that 65% of jailed individuals are there for a plea thay accepted, even though they didn't commit the crime. What? Why would anyone accept this? Been in jail for 45 days already, and no bail money. This is the third alleged offense. Who is going to take the perp's word he didn't do this one? Guilty! And so it goes.
A rotton defense lawyer may pleade your case without your knowledge or consent, and may have done it at lunch with the judge and the prosecutor present.
And please don't believe fox news and others who scream about crime and victims gone out of control, and build more prisons. Crime is no more higher than it ever was, given demographics and population. Stop looking and acting like victims. We are not victims but if we look like a victim we could attract the very thing that fox news got us all hysterical about in the first place.
Some think that death is too good for those accused of looking at nude pictures, especially kids.. If everyone agrees, I suppose the law could change to hang all accused sex offenders, and anyone who through curiosity looks at a picture. And if that is the goal of our society then the law should be changed to reflect the feeling of the people.
We put extreme demands on those who look after jail residents. They have to work shifts that places very disorienting and stressful demands on those under constant, unrelenting stress, and sometimes fear. Guards are not armed and the ratio is not condusive to an easy, save feeling among guards. They are the object of thrown feces and urine which can and often does contain the deadly aids virus. When a guard buckles under this unnatural pressure, bad things can happen. When too much is demanded from human beings, especially too much responsibility , it is asking too much to expect that one won't crack on occasion. They should not be the target of prosecution. Inmates will lie about them to protect their own skin. In these situations they are forced to stand together. If there is an officer responsible he/she does not deserve punishment but a rest in the country. Most often fair and non-judgmental treatment will return a more objective and relaxed employee who feels he is wanted and supported by his government and society. With positive support, Maybe he won't feel inclined to take out his frustration on the inmates he is supposed to oversee and protect. Under the current system, no one talks. This is one of the best examples of societal co-dependency anywhere. Better to not talk about the devil you know, than talk about the devil you dont know is the disfunctional rule.
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