Friday, November 12, 2004
More Fascism...this time in the courts
Scott Peterson was just convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence. Circumstantial means storytelling. It’s like telling a story and saying…can you imagine that these events could take place?
No one should ever be convicted of murder without real evidence. Otherwise anyone can make up anything about anyone and convict him or her.
Remember that when someone is arrested for a crime you are only getting the police’s assumption. And the police need to get a man, any man or woman, to appease the families and populace that want a conviction. Otherwise we would feel the police are inept (sometimes they are) and that people get away with crimes (they do). Still you cannot err on the side of maybe this person did it.
Think about all of the prisoners that have been let out of prisons because DNA proved they were innocent.
You cannot give the police and the courts so much power. It will be abused.
Also people behind me right now are saying that the testimony by his mistress sunk him because he lied to her….about being in Paris when he wasn’t, etc. If a person can be convicted of a crime because of lying to their mistress a lot of men are dead meat.
What about dismissing jurors? Doesn’t sound good.
Did Peterson kill his wife? I don’t know. But do you want to let your rights erode even farther than they have since 9/11?
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Thursday, November 11, 2004
Gifts for Democrats Worth a read!
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Start at "A"
I had a dream, an Arcadian dream, just like Martin Luther King Jr. did. I dreamt of a world better than the world we now live in. A world where we institute a program to align and create social justice in America. (See my plan below.)
Here are some fine tuning elements:
I ‘d find out how to implement the plan with Alan Greenspan taking a look at it. I’d start with the A’s and work toward the Z’s. As each billion was paid out and fed back into the economy I’d move onto the next group of people.
The working have-nots could buy a house, send their kids to school, repair their living spaces…the money would go into the communities not into some CEO already over-bloated salary. The money would not go to war profiteers.
And I would base the program not in insulated out-of-touch Washington, DC. I’d have it run out of Wisconsin, a state where character counts for more than political affiliation, a state where good schools and good roads are given priority, a state that gave the people back state tax when it took in too much, a state that uses it’s lottery earning to give the people real property tax relief (unlike a state like Illinois, where I live, that says it gives the money to schools, which it does in a back-handed way by taking away the original school funding and replacing it with the lottery earning).
We can change. We can become more than the sum of our current bad character traits. We can become an Arcadian dream that spreads our glory out into the world by the echo effect. We can align ourselves with something positive, less filthy, less vulgar.
We can do this.
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