Certainly I do. It's a travesty.
Tom C.
From: Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Clarification: I feel the same way about the heinousness of the crime.
Thats what I meant by I feel the same way. I'm not advocating convicting
innocent people, nor throwing a net out that would result in the same, even
if the crime is pretty bad.
This case in Vermont, USA, tho, is pretty ridiculous, dont you think? The
guy was guilty by his own confession.
Tom C wrote:
That's ridiculous but how would it justify accusing, trying, convicting
and innocent person?
Tom C.
From: Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Vigilant or Bloody Minded
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:18:27 -0600
I feel the same way. Did you hear about the case in Vermont where the
judge gave an offender who had been raping a 6 year old girl for 4 years
only 60 days in jail? The judge said that because vermont did not have a
way of rehabilitating the offender, that it was not worth keeping him in
jail. Ridiculous. Where is the justice for that little girl?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/10/2006 2:12:57 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
but we're talking here about innocent people. People wrongly convicted
whose
balls you've already cut off when you find out they're innocent. What
about
these women here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3306049.stm.
Which parts of their bodies would you cut off?
--
Cheers,
Bob ========
How come you guys keep identifying with the innocent, instead of with
the literally tons of non-innocent?
More people are convicted who are guilty than innocent (of the crime
charged).
Personally, I have zero tolerance for pedophilia. And I am not talking
about someone just photographing kids. Or someone being mistaken for a
pedophile who photographs kids. Someone who actually commits physical
acts. Proven. It does happen. And it happens a lot. Maybe a lot more
than people want to admit.
Maybe this is a male/female thing or a parent/non-parent thing. Although
not a parent, personally, I identify with parents. And I know there
really are evil people in the world (well, seriously sick, but it
amounts to the same thing).
Oh, well, tired of this discussion. Someone can argue with me, but I am
out of it now.
Just puzzling to me that people keep identifying with the innocent. I
think DNA is great and I am glad it is being used now to free truly
innocents from old cases. Not being done fast enough and wide enough,
but it is happening.
But the US criminal justice system (except for people in jail for drugs
which I think should not be a crime) is not 100% wrong all the time. I
suspect it's more in the range of 10-20% wrong. Hard to know, really.
But that leaves 80-90% right. Probably even higher than that.
We have too many people in jail, yes, but that is mainly drug related.
Marnie aka Doe
--
Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I was
younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. "...Here's a
picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man?
- Mitch Hedberg
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Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I was
younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger. "...Here's a
picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man?
- Mitch Hedberg
