tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post6371214701323311397..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: The Blue Devil You Know....David Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-23586820008294251022007-08-03T10:02:00.000-07:002007-08-03T10:02:00.000-07:00Nonetheless, too often the lust to put someone, an...<I>Nonetheless, too often the lust to put someone, anyone, behind bars leads to illegal activity that needs to be punished.</I><BR/><BR/>I imagine there is a high proportion of cases where the prosecutors are sure they've got the right guy, but they (wrongly) see the system as grossly biased against them (e.g. the need to prove things "beyond a reasonable doubt"), so they engage in unethical conduct to get *this guy* (not just "someone, anyone") behind bars.Stentorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13629599671442149938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-43945825022200552082007-08-02T18:30:00.000-07:002007-08-02T18:30:00.000-07:00T'would appear to me that the single, defining cri...T'would appear to me that the single, defining crime in the matter is the tremendous discrepancy afforded by the law between people of means and people without them.<BR/><BR/>Race is not the issue and never has been. Rich blacks get treated like rich whites and poor blacks get treated like poor whites.<BR/><BR/>Prosecutorial zealotry is also a red herring inasmuch as the system of Defense is just as guilty. A rich man gets the best justice money can buy regardless of whether he's on the prosecuting end or the defensive end.<BR/><BR/>The facts simply are that when you're rich you have a damn fine chance of being cleared of a crime that you did indeed commit as well as of "getting your man" in having charges pressed against an enemy for a crime that he did NOT commit. And when you're poor you have a good chance of being maltreated by the law regardless of innocence (and this has occured with a far far greater percentage of indigent people than you could EVER imagine) and you have small chance of having your proper grievances redressed by our much praised system of "justice".<BR/><BR/>In fact, (though you'll likely think I'm WAY over-reacting - simply because you haven't experienced this first-hand) I consider the current policing and justice system to be so corrupted against the deserved justice of the poor that a violent revolution would not be morally wrong. I desire no such revolution and I believe that it would cause much evil and practically no good - but I'd consider such a revolution to be entirely morally understandable.<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>mnuezmnuezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328856077944673860noreply@blogger.com