Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Your Government Doesn't Care If You Are Actually Guilty

"In the past quarter-century, the work of dogged attorneys and advances in forensic science have exonerated more than 2,150 men and women, 161 of those from death row. The Innocence Project, a New York–based nonprofit founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld in 1992, has freed more than 200 people and spurred the creation of numerous smaller organizations around the country devoted to the same mission. (From 2012–2015, I was the director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles.) By some estimatesthere are tens of thousands more wrongfully convicted prisoners languishing behind bars. Nevertheless, some prosecutors—the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system—refuse to correct life-altering errors. (You can read more about 17 such cases here.) If we are committed to fostering a justice system that is truly just, it is imperative to call out these innocence deniers and hold them to account."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/innocence-deniers-prosecutors-who-have-refused-to-admit-wrongful-convictions.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/innocence-deniers-seventeen-cases-of-prosecutors-fighting-exoneration.html

Your Government Will Arrest You And Shove You To The Floor If You Speak Out Against Them

6 minutes from beginning to speak to be arrested (she actually barely spoke for 2 minutes).  That is the extent that the government will tolerate you speaking out against them...6 minutes:

"You can watch Hargrave begin speaking about 33 seconds in. The situation starts becoming contentious around 6:35 minutes. Hargrave is arrested at 8:35, and then walked outside in handcuffs and placed in the back of police vehicle. "

http://www.upworthy.com/a-teacher-asked-a-great-question-about-superintendent-pay-then-all-hell-broke-loose-2?c=ufb1

Your Government Is Sick, Depraved and Unaccountable!

 If anyone can read this and not be sickened by it. If anyone can read this and have any faith in their government. I am baffled. I wish wid...