Quote (gnarjay @ Aug 9 2023 07:23pm)
goom, he is a pedophile
What, am I teaching a course on Civil Liberties 101?
In 1975 a 12 year old girl named Kathy Shelton was brutally raped by two men, one of them was Thomas Alfred Taylor. Brought to trial on charges of forcible rape of a minor, he was defended in court by a 27 year old public defender named Hillary Rodham Clinton. She provided a vigorous legal defense and arranged a plea to unlawful fondling with a vastly reduced sentence due to missing evidence.
I can do you one better. Jacob Wetterling was the son of representative Patty Wetterling, who was abducted, raped, murdered and his body buried in the woods in 1989. Though a local man was a primary suspect, police never had any solid evidence against him and didn't bring charges and the murder went unsolved for 26 years. Then in 2015 the police matched the DNA of Danny James Heinrich to another abduction and rape of a child in the 80s, but had an expired statute of limitations so they couldn't bring charges in that case, and couldn't prove it in the Wetterling case. Instead they cooked up a search warrant for a case they couldn't bring charges in, and found a few images of child pornography on his computer. Even though was a 'first time offender' and they couldn't indict him on the other crimes, they simply prosecuted him with redundant and consecutive sentences for each child porn image to give him hundreds of years in prison, then arranged a plea deal where he agreed to 25 years in prison (on the CP alone) and in exchange revealed the burial place of Wetterling's body. They blatantly railroaded him by doing the old prosecutorial trick of redundant charges for the same offense, then sought an order to refuse to set him free from prison even once his term runs up so it became life in prison without actually charging or prosecuting him with it. They judge in the trial didn't even attempt to pretend the trial was actually about CP, and openly stated they were sentencing him for the murder that they couldn't charge him with;
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We won't pretend that this crime and sentence is about child pornography. It is also about changing the lives of so many children and parents, who prayed for Jacob's return, and also feared you coming out of the dark ... every child knows the story of Jacob Wetterling. You stole the innocence of children in small towns, in the cities of Minnesota and beyond.
As I said, we're better served as a society if we simply hang people like that from a tree, no trial, no bellyaching.
Lynching people doesn't pervert our law and debase our legal system and allow prosecutors an opening to weaponize novel legal theories to attack political rivals and oppress normal people. When people get lynched, the lynch mob knows its illegal, the courts know its illegal, and they all just shrug and go on their way. But as soon as you start denying civil liberties to one person, you deny them to everyone.