19-08-2009, 06:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 19-08-2009, 07:08 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Keith Millea Wrote:Ok,we Americans are so friggin' stoopid that even our Highly exalted Supreme Court Justices can proudly claim to be Exaltingly stoopid.Here,Just read this news brief from Democracy Now.It's so sadly STOOPID............
Scalia: Constitution Does Not Forbid Execution of the Innocent
In the majority opinion in the Troy Davis case, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, “The substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification for holding an evidentiary hearing.” Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas objected to the court’s decision. Scalia criticized his colleagues for thinking that mere innocence is grounds to overturn a conviction. Scalia wrote, “This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.” We’ll have more on Troy Davis’s case on Wednesday.
See what I mean?
...that's not stupid, its cruel, meanhearted, disgusting, undemocratic, hateful...yeah, lets excecute the innocent as well as the guilty...if we were smart enough to deny them a fair trial and fool the jury with lying witnesses, false evidence, vindictive prosecutors that know they are innocent - then he/she deserves to die...only the Oligarchy who can afford really expensive law firms and private detectives and are not picked-on by prosecutors as random scapegoats to 'solve' a crime have a chance at a fair shake at trial..so long as they are not black, muslim, female, gay, politcally progressive, etc. What a system.....how much has it changed from when a King or Emperor just decided 'off with his head' just because he doesn't like his looks?...Not much. The Constitution also doesn't specify which reality TV show should be watched at which hour either. '..mere innocence as grounds to overturn a court decison..."?!?!? - what the **** do they teach in Law Schools! Trial by drowning or fire would be equally [un]fair. However, it fits with the 'morality' (sic) of the rest of our sick society, which thinks (sic) that if one is clever enough to fleece someone of their money - no mattter how - they then deserve the money they fleeced. Our polity - all branches - are a JOKE...a very sick and sad [and stupid] joke.
..but to stay on topic, no one has to convince me the Average America is dangerously naive - and in many cases stupid......and most of our 'leaders' who are the above, plus evil, selfish, arrogant, vindictive, elitist, hateful, corrupt, etc.
"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