 chestnut501 says: The power of DNA testing to overturn convictions is clear. DNA testing of biological traces has exonerated 238 people in the past 17 years. "I don't care if you're innocent. I don't care about justice. Bow to procedure and shut up!" The SCOTUS has just shot lady justice. She laying in the street bleeding to death. This decision is obscene.  So, according to our "esteemed" Supreme Court: The government can seize your property and gift it to a higher tax payer (see what tax the "rich" brings, perks) If wrongly convicted, you have NO right to clear yourself. Warrentless searches are fine if they find something. The list of travesty goes on and on. The Founding Fathers would not recognize Washington as American There are so many horrors to endure in our over-crowded prison system. Then to be forced to endure them while innocent of the crime you've been convicted of. A nightmare. Truly hell on earth. The pendulum of lady justice has not swung equally for some time and has become more bias to her own desires for some time now. DNA is a wonderful tool and one should not be denied its use to prove one innocence. @genfemfox - excellent comment well put! @All - good comments. Question? What can we the people do to change it? Anyone have a viable answer to the problem?  The only "viable" answer is to fire EVERY politician currently in office and hire real small businessmen (not overpaid CEOs with no idea of the "real" America). Ban new laws for a time Sunset all other laws and bring them back to a vote. Those things would go a long way to getting us back to what America was supposed to be. Will never happen as will be evidenced by the number of returning members of Congress next year. @gemfemfox Lot of truth in that statement. As far as I'm concerned when we get members of congress who are on the same playing field as the rest of us then changes can be made that will be relevant to the needs of the people that now support the present idiots at the helm. Will never happen as will be evidenced by the number of returning members of Congress next year. I think we need to realize that the real division among Americans is between the rich and the poor. Only then can we come together to fight our common enemy. I truly believe that at some point the human spirit will rise up and defend itself. If the rich were smart, they would stop taking before that happens. But they aren't that smart. Their persistant greed is their biggest vulnerability. You are correct chestnut but we should also realize that white racism at the start was a vehicle for classism (and still is - SEE Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan). The beginning of this history is the Virginia colony, 17th century. Today, the problem is that too many people are invested in this system of oppression (Matrix anyone? Blue pill? Red pill?). There are hints that the two despised groups[black and white slaves] initially saw each other as sharing the same predicament ...A. Leon Higgenbotham Jr., the former chief judge of the United States court of Appeals for the third Circuit, is right when he says the Virginia race laws, which were soon imitated throughout the colonies,... Zizzy, Thank you so much for this information. I understood some of it, at least, in principle. But now I have the history to go with it.  |
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