| Username2324 said: For the China comment, we're not in China, our system is very different from theirs. |
Do I need to explain to you why our system is so much different than theirs? Because we value defendant's rights far more than they do. If we didn't, we WOULD live in a country that was more like China.
Look at our Constituion. How many times do you see the Founding Fathers put shortcuts in the Constitution for law enforcement? How many times do you see the Founding Fathers make it harder to convict people of crimes?
A system without these protections would fundamentally change our way of life. You say we should "restructure" our appeals process. Maybe we should just get rid of the Bill of Rights? Or the ex post facto clause? And double jeopardy protection?
People take all these rights for granted until the government starts taking them away. Everyone innocent person who ends up in prison never thought it could happen to them. They know their government would never do something like that! I find it laughable that conservative people don't trust the government to do anything, unless of course they are waging war or prosecuting criminals.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
