05-01-2011, 06:27 PM
Sad.
Poor = convicted even if innocent.
Black = convicted even if innocent.
No Legal Representation = convicted even if innocent.
Not much education = convicted even if innocent.
Prior convictions, no matter how petty [or false] = convicted even if innocent.
Non-white = convicted even if innocent.
Most in prison are either innocent, being mistreated, have been sentenced to longer terms than called for for the crime, or would someone not poor, black, educated, etc. get for the exact same crime. A disgrace...but what isn't these days in the Empire. Many went to their executions innocent, as well. America will never be able to pay for its crimes!
Poor = convicted even if innocent.
Black = convicted even if innocent.
No Legal Representation = convicted even if innocent.
Not much education = convicted even if innocent.
Prior convictions, no matter how petty [or false] = convicted even if innocent.
Non-white = convicted even if innocent.
Most in prison are either innocent, being mistreated, have been sentenced to longer terms than called for for the crime, or would someone not poor, black, educated, etc. get for the exact same crime. A disgrace...but what isn't these days in the Empire. Many went to their executions innocent, as well. America will never be able to pay for its crimes!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass