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American Justice? FBI Lab Overstated 95% Of Forensic Hair Matches (Including 32 Death Sentences)

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

 

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

 

The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison.

 

“These findings are appalling and chilling in their indictment of our criminal justice system, not only for potentially innocent defendants who have been wrongly imprisoned and even executed, but for prosecutors who have relied on fabricated and false evidence despite their intentions to faithfully enforce the law,” Blumenthal said.

 

– From the Washington Post article: FBI Overstated Forensic Hair Matches in Nearly All Trials efore 2000

The American justice system is broken. Completely and totally broken. This has been one of the key themes here at Liberty Blitzkrieg since inception, and I’ve come to realize that the death of the rule of law is the single most important issue facing our society at this time.

This site has focused on the increased use of selective prosecution in these United States. If you are poor, disenfranchised, or a dissident, the full force of the law will rain down on your skull like a thousand tons of bricks. We have seen this repeatedly in cases such as the South Carolina man who was fined $525 and fired from his job when he failed to pay for a $0.89 soda refill. We saw it in the case of Aaron Swartz, the child prodigy was driven to suicide by overly aggressive and ambitious feds. Finally, we saw it in the case of Barrett Brown, who was threatened with over a century in jail for essentially exposing the criminality of certain very rich and/or powerful individuals.

On the other side of the fence, we see that anyone associated with the power structure can do whatever they want with zero repercussions. We saw this in the case of General David Petraeus, who received a slap on the wrist for passing on highly classified information to his mistress and biographer Paula Broadwell. We saw it in how DEA agents were’t even fired from their jobs despite participating in sex parties filled with prostitutes that were paid for by drug cartels, and sometimes taxpayer funds. Most despicably, we have seen it in the explosive use of deferred prosecution agreements when it comes to all the bailed out Wall Street banks, thus ensuring that no senior bankers went to prison and that their bonuses would be forever protected.

The examples listed above are a mere fraction of the incidents I’ve highlighted here in recent years. Yet it’s even worse than just the unequal application of the law based on who you are or who you know. The U.S. prison system is filled with non-violent offenders and perpetrators of victimless crimes (if that’s not an oxymoron, I don’t know what is). After all, we’ve all heard the stat about how the U.S. has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of it’s prisoners.

Yet it goes even beyond that. Police officers who are supposed to “protect and serve” are often more interested in confiscating citizens’ money and property without due process via the absurd concept of civil asset forfeiture. When they’re not doing this, they are often seen pounding on American citizens just for kicks. We recently learned that U.S. police killed more civilians in March of this year than the UK police have killed in the past hundred years.

But it’s goes even deeper. Prosecutors, the FBI and even judges are often more interested in putting people behind bars and advancing their careers than they are in the concept of truth and justice. When you take all of this together you have a breakdown in trust, decency and pretty soon society itself gets flushed down the toilet.

The latest revelations from the Washington Post about the FBI should leave you in no doubt about just how far gone this “justice” system is. Read it and weep:

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

I’m not sure what makes them “elite.” Perhaps it’s their penchant for incompetence?

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

 

The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions.

 

The admissions mark a watershed in one of the country’s largest forensic scandals, highlighting the failure of the nation’s courts for decades to keep bogus scientific information from juries, legal analysts said.

 

Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, commended the FBI and department for the collaboration but said, “The FBI’s three-decade use of microscopic hair analysis to incriminate defendants was a complete disaster.”

 

“We need an exhaustive investigation that looks at how the FBI, state governments that relied on examiners trained by the FBI and the courts allowed this to happen and why it wasn’t stopped much sooner,” Neufeld said.

 

“These findings are appalling and chilling in their indictment of our criminal justice system, not only for potentially innocent defendants who have been wrongly imprisoned and even executed, but for prosecutors who have relied on fabricated and false evidence despite their intentions to faithfully enforce the law,” Blumenthal said.

 

The FBI is waiting to complete all reviews to assess causes but has acknowledged that hair examiners until 2012 lacked written standards defining scientifically appropriate and erroneous ways to explain results in court. The bureau expects this year to complete similar standards for testimony and lab reports for 19 forensic disciplines.

 

The review confirmed that FBI experts systematically testified to the near-certainty of “matches” of crime-scene hairs to defendants, backing their claims by citing incomplete or misleading statistics drawn from their case work.

 

In the District, the only jurisdiction where defenders and prosecutors have re-investigated all FBI hair convictions, three of seven defendants whose trials included flawed FBI testimony have been exonerated through DNA testing since 2009, and courts have exonerated two more men. All five served 20 to 30 years in prison for rape or murder.

Nothing like spending decades in jail for a crime you didn’t commit.

University of Virginia law professor Brandon L. Garrett said the results reveal a “mass disaster” inside the criminal justice system, one that it has been unable to self-correct because courts rely on outdated precedents admitting scientifically invalid testimony at trial and, under the legal doctrine of finality, make it difficult for convicts to challenge old evidence.

 

The findings likely scratch the surface. The FBI said as of mid-April that reviews of about 350 trial testimonies and 900 lab reports are nearly complete, with about 1,200 cases remaining.

The bureau said it is difficult to check cases before 1985, when files were computerized. It has been unable to review 700 cases because police or prosecutors did not respond to requests for information.

 

Also, the same FBI examiners whose work is under review taught 500 to 1,000 state and local crime lab analysts to testify in the same ways.

I think the following tweet sums it up:

This is not what freedom looks like.

 

 

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Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:31 | 6010007 TeamDepends
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James Holmes= Jim Morrison = Manson =

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:31 | 6010008 golden torch
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I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:33 | 6010011 Government need...
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How many different flavors of cock do you taste?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:50 | 6010041 Karl-Hungus
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It's horrendous if we have wrongly executed even one person. I try to point this out when I surprise people by being anti death penalty. The govt is too hopelessly corrupt and inept to be executing people. I try to point this out to my right wing friends. Most of them think the government sucks at pretty much everything(they are correct) yet they still trust it to only convict and execute guilty people, and don't see the contradiction. And this information is probably just the tip of the iceberg

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:56 | 6010058 Ignatius
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Let's see if they prosecute these perjurors.

...crickets...

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:30 | 6010140 NoDebt
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The best legal system money can buy.

If any jusice happens to fall out of it along the way, it's purely by accident.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:32 | 6010144 NoDebt
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"Have you killed people?"

"Yes, but they were all bad."

- True Lies

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:50 | 6010170 jeff montanye
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better to be rich and guilty (corzine, bush, obama) than poor and innocent (see above).

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:18 | 6010198 Anusocracy
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The only analysis they got right was identifying hair depilated from Hillary's chin as belonging to a species of underworld demons.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:04 | 6010242 wee-weed up
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And the Obozo Admin and their sycophant MSM reaction will be...

"None of our elite friends or contributors involved here...

So, Meh... who cares."

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:59 | 6010298 A Nanny Moose
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Obviously, what is needed here is moar oversight....

That would be a /fucking s

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 09:43 | 6010619 TeamDepends
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Apologies for above post, we were quite inebriated at that point.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:38 | 6010325 Otrader
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or young

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-judge-receives-28yea...

 

Outrageous story!  I can only imagine what parents went through day and night while their kids were in prison.  Death penalty for crooked judges.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 09:59 | 6010651 JRobby
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Crooked Prosecutors, Agents, Lab Personell. The Judge can only rule on the evidence before him or her. To the extent the judge may believe the evidence is tainted?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 07:24 | 6010449 SoDamnMad
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fudge

After the MSM caried his conviction news, he got a plea bargain (split his earnings with the new judge) and got off of 90 days of probation.

Helps when you have dirt on a lot of people in the judicial syste.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:33 | 6011465 Vullsain
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I bet the MSM then hardly mentioned the plea deal instead of blasting out the news as they would have if it was a PC advantaged group.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:13 | 6010194 ThroxxOfVron
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We sent some folks to the chair.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:24 | 6010267 Condition 1SQ
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Fucking outrageous.  The FBI/DoJ just shrugs this shit off.  I mean, who wouldn't want to work for the government?  You can basically do whatever the hell you want and avoid prosecution.  Porn at work?  Cool.  DEA agent snorting coke and banging whores in a cartel villa? No biggie.  IRS targeting tea party groups?  Don't worry about it.  FBI sending innocent people to prison due to corruption and incompetence?  Par for the course.

Having worked with some FBI guys in the past, I can tell you that it is one gigantic clusterfuck of a bureaucracy.  The field guys are generally hard-working, stand up people.  But, as in all parts of government, this shit floats.  Red tape for miles.  There's a form for everything and I mean everything.  On the one hand, I kinda like the idea of the gov't working at a glacier's pace.  On the other hand, it's a tragic waste of resources.  I am convinced that this is why large corporations and governments degrade over time.  Inefficiency becomes adopted as a matter of protocol, like a cancer, and no one has the power or desire to excise the tumor.  The end result is Roman Empire 2.0.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:02 | 6010304 A Nanny Moose
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My A.D.D kicked in before I could read the entire post, so forgive my short attention span....

Let's not forget that the only thugs the FBI can catch, are the ones that the FBI ENTRAPS into schemes the FBI CONCOCTS.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 06:32 | 6010414 Bendromeda Strain
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Happy Green Jogger Day everyone...

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:24 | 6010316 ThroxxOfVron
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"I am convinced that this is why large corporations and governments degrade over time.  Inefficiency becomes adopted as a matter of protocol, like a cancer, and no one has the power or desire to excise the tumor.  "

All management/bureaucracies develope along the same course.

All management/bureaucracies are self interested and eventually become wasteful and parasitic, ignoring their public goals in favor of aggregating wealth to themselves.

Oliver E. Williamson has done some amazing work describing how management/bureaucrats in corporations and govenment eventually basically steal everything the shareholders and/or citizens own.  

The profits dissappear in huge salaries and bonuses, the early ridiculouly retirement with mad inflation adjusted bennies, and the golden parachutes are all symptomatic of this...

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 10:19 | 6010714 JRobby
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In the history of the FBI, there has never been any administrative proceedings finding that a shooting by an agent was unwarranted or illegal. 100%

This is just an addition or extension to that. They will get you once they decide they don't like you. One way or another. History likes to condemn other such "police" tactics through history. Stasi, Gestapo, etc.

 

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:46 | 6010278 Trucker Glock
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"How many different flavors of cock do you taste?"

golden torch's blowjob rate

France 96 per 100k

Russia 568 per 100k

America 700 per 100k

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:03 | 6010382 random999
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while I'm pretty sure the french crimerates have skyrocketed the past 10-20 years due to the multicultural immigration.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:54 | 6011562 mojine
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Suggestion for Tyler(s):
Automate a process that instantly deletes an account that posts this asshole's link to Globe- report dot com.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:33 | 6010010 Government need...
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Agree, US rule of law is kaput.  Has been for at least 10 years.  Courtrooms are nothing more than justice theater.  Want justice?  But a gun.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:35 | 6010015 The Joker
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4749 african american men per 100k, out of 2285 african americans per 100k, out of 700 americans per 100k.

Is it my math or Mr. Coates?  Am i missing something or is this impossible?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:51 | 6010049 Karl-Hungus
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Yes, yo most certainly are missing something...

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:04 | 6010309 A Nanny Moose
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African Amerikan men are raped by white women, in "Social Security" parlance.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:08 | 6010076 rwe2late
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 Coates' statistics should have been more exactly stated.

I presume he may have meant:

700 of every 100k (adults & children?) Americans are incarcerated

2285 of every 100k AA (adults & children?) are incarcerated

4749 of every 100k AA (adult males?) are incarcerated

 

Including children in the total population statistic of course would LOWER the apparent percentage of adults incarcerated. It would skew comparisons between populations and nations with different ratios of adults/children.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:20 | 6010114 ThroxxOfVron
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"I presume he may have meant: " GUILTY!

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:54 | 6010233 Ace006
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The 4,749 figure shows an astonishing black male criminality and no crime stats that do not disaggregate black stats are dishonest or wildly inaccurate at best.

The FBI has produced corrupt testimony from its forensic "experts" before this. I'm no fan of federal courts or prosecutors under the Muslim in Chief but I'm a loooong way from saying large numbers of federal prisoners don't belong where they are, and I have the highest regard for prosecutors in the state I practiced in.

Dishonest grievance mongers want to churn the numbers to show racial bias but that's nonsense. American courts are biased against dishonest and violent people and if blacks don't like being in jail they can always elect not to break the law.

But this is rocket to them apparently. They bad.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 09:44 | 6010612 rwe2late
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The primary bias is against the poor, with an additional racial bias against blacks.

higher incarceration rates generated (direct or synergy) by:

weaker legal defense for poor

export of jobs exacerbating ghetto conditions in urban areas where poor (including blacks) are concentrated

duplicitous "war on drugs" with heavier (biased) policing and enforcement against poor and blacks

Prohibition II "war on drugs" fostering of criminal gangs both inside prisons and in ghettos

incarceration rates also contribute to breakup of families, juvenile crime, and the seeking of alternative support from gang "families".

"war on drugs" corruption coupled with "war on poor" corruption (e.g. 'payday loans') typically result in corrupt and dysfunctional local government exemplified by dysfunctional schools poorly funded by locally impoverished localities.

bad schools and low job expectations lend credence to anti-education biases

 

The argument that "some" will 'succeed' despite societal obstacles

does not invalidate the point that societal factors do exist,

and the more obstacles society has,

the fewer who will overcome them .

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 07:30 | 6010455 razingcane
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i think it's the new ObamaMath.............you know, the stuff that went into the Obamacare calculations and website design.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:38 | 6010020 Intoxicologist
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Long Wahl clippers.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:41 | 6010023 honest injun
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Who is this FBI?  Aren't they a sub group inside the Department of Justice?  The Department of Justice was set up to protect the freed slaves.  How does the FBI have authority to deal with people who are not government employees or freed slaves?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:59 | 6010240 Ace006
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The federal criminal code is longer than the Encyclopedia Britannica with draconian punishments. All thanks to a Congress and Sup. Ct. that couldn't care less about the Constitution. They blow right by that historical curiosity at 90 per.

Didn't know that about DOJ.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 10:25 | 6010731 DullKnife
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Other than jury experience on a mass murder/gang execution trial....in which boredom was the biggest problem.....just one court case....had an elder abuse case with onl-going clear elder abuse....our side had a clear cut case.   The judge (Judge I_don't_give_a_ sh*t) gave everything to the other other side.  Plus it took about 2 years to make it to the top of the court calender.   So the elder abuse victim (with the elder abuse going on the whole time), died soon after the case ended.   Died of elder abuse.  Plus huge legal and related costs.  Yes, my advice to anyone thinking the American judicial system is good, well, you took the wrong pill.

DK

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:46 | 6010028 Kirk2NCC1701
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I outsource to a Chinese guy named Dexter, if I can't afford a Wall St assassin.  Those guys laugh at Forensic Evidence. 

;-)

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:58 | 6010061 pgroup
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First, it ain't broken if it's fulfilling the mission. You think the mission is such-and-such. But the mission really is this-and-that and nobody told you.

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

and

At this point, what difference does it make?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:59 | 6010064 Seize Mars
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This, my friends, is why we cannot allow capital punishment. It's not because there aren't bad guys who deserve retribution. It's because you cannot trust the state with decisions like this.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:20 | 6010203 TBT or not TBT
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Um, juries decide convictions, not some unknown thing called "the government".    

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:45 | 6010227 fudge
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when did juries passed the laws for death penalty ?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:53 | 6010291 Trucker Glock
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Um, the government is presenting the "evidence" to the jury, if it can be called evidence anymore.

edit:  forgot to mention the govt is manufacturing evidence to present to the jury.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 14:44 | 6011512 Vullsain
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That is way to complex of a concept for a zombie, it would require at least some minimal inductive reasoning to undestand.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 15:00 | 6011600 rwe2late
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 actually

most convictions are a result of "plea bargaining"

when the accused (guilty or not) take a "reduced" sentence

instead of gambling on

a vetted jury decision on prosecution-threatened maximum charges,

and the trial judge's 'prerogative' to impose a maximum prison sentence.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:09 | 6010250 Ace006
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Quite. There are cases where there's no doubt but all death penalty cases cost $$$. And neither the convicted killers nor their cases ever die.

I think caning for first offenses where no serious crime is involved would do more good than relying on the death penalty. Escalate the number of strokes for subsequent offenses and keep jails empty.

Like a lot of things (e.g., universal franchise), we need to rethink failed penal codes.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:01 | 6010067 NoPension
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I want to know how and why this story made the light of day.
That is a bigger story.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:34 | 6010150 NoDebt
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Because they've reached the point they don't even give a shit if you see through their lies.  There's not a damned thing you can do about it.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 06:05 | 6010410 nailgunnin4you
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Calm your butthurt.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:02 | 6010069 Bazza McKenzie
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How many other FBI forensic specialists have exaggerated the certainty of their analysis implicating defendants?

This is likely to be a cultural issues, ie as an FBI forensic specialist, if your evidence does not lead to lots of convictions you will be seen as deficient and passed over for promotion.  So expect lots of the other forensic areas to be just as erroneous if ever evaluated.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:12 | 6010097 rwe2late
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 What? Police and police agents routinely give fabricated and/or slanted testimony.

I am shocked, shocked.

It can't be so.

 

(just kidding)

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:33 | 6010148 trulz4lulz
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I thought it was all just like the teebee!! The teebee never lies in Merikastan!

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:17 | 6010100 ThroxxOfVron
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Obama & Holder will fix this shit.

Er...

Hillary and Emmanuel will fix this shit.   ...Or, well, Jeb and Giuliani will fix this shit.   I think...

 

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fucked...

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:15 | 6010106 laomei
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Look, actual innocence or guilt does not matter.  The only thing that matters is what the court decided.  The surpreme court already ruled on this.  Actual innocence or guilt? That would call virtually all rulings into question.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:41 | 6010270 Ace006
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The criminal justice system is a blunt instrument often enough and prosecutors wield frightening, though not illegitimate, power. I saw one federal miscarriage of justice where the prosecutor relied on flawed evidence that slipped in due to defense counsel incompetence.

However, other federal matters I was part of involved decent judges and prosecutors.

State courts dispense excellent justice. I've secured dismissals, sweet deals, and reversals on valid 4th Amendment and other grounds. Judges dealt firmly AND politely with defendants and there was almost always a fair escalation of punishment based on previous offenses.

Our system is an excellent one when we don't have an anti-American president who started his political career in the living room of two communist terrorists. A Haitian student of mine in a criminal law class was distressed by how different the corrupt Haitian system is from ours. 

The racial disparity argument is garbage and I think we have a lot to be grateful for in our system. It's one of the areas of our national life where constitutional protections are fought for and observed by lawyers and judges.

This FBI corruption will be dealt with. Not at the top, unfortunately.

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:02 | 6010306 Trucker Glock
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"I saw one federal miscarriage of justice where the prosecutor relied on flawed evidence that slipped in due to defense counsel incompetence."

And attorney incompetence won't get you a new trial.  The court says your remedy is to sue the attorney - from prison.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:17 | 6010108 alexcojones
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Project Innocence. John Grisham is involved in that.

Can you imagine any Neocon being involved with something like that.?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:47 | 6010286 Ace006
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Yes. I think there are many people of good will outside of the lunatic left who (leftists) appear intent on trashing the rule of law and propagating the "living Constitution" garbage.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:26 | 6010124 Jack Burton
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The giant empire is grown fat, lazy, corrupt, greedy and living off of borrowed or printed money. We steal our wealth from the future generations without a thought or care. We use this stolen or printed wealth to hire a giant police state army to spy on us, arrest us, put us in prision. The other money we spend on drone wars, cold wars, coups, invasions, occupations and a giant world wide propaganda lie machine. We spend billions on NGO's to act as 5th columns in foreign nations, we spend billions supporting ISIS and Al-Qaeda and the Zionist entities. Our courts are slow, costly and deliver justice equal to a person's wealth. The rich simply don't get arrested, charged or jailed for their white collar and most of their blue collar crimes. Millions rot in hell hole jails full of gangs, perverts, killers, and just plain human scum.

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:32 | 6010147 Usurious
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same playbook as the British empire...........the only question is....when the American Empire collapse's on itself and self destructs, where will the Jews go? China?..............

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:29 | 6010215 Anusocracy
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Hell, Michigan?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 07:59 | 6010477 razingcane
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Don't you mean Michiganistan?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 06:50 | 6010423 apocalypticbrother
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Zionists are already engineering the next attack on Jews. Israel will be sacrificed and the tribe will continue their exodus to Astana kazakhstan....

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:51 | 6010171 kchrisc
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With respect Mr. Burton, but who is this "we" your wonderful and insightful post repeats over and over.

Surely you don't mean me, or even you? Not our kids either, but maybe my neighbor and his kids? Though I would bet that he would not concur. My friends are certainly not included. My father says that some of the "we" may be found on Sundays in the churches around his home, but he is certainly not one of the "we."

Now, if you are looking for "they," I can help, as I have a long list of who "they" are.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Unarmed sheep are eaten. Well armed sheep eat.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:18 | 6010201 TheMeatTrapper
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"With respect Mr. Burton, but who is this "we" your wonderful and insightful post repeats over and over."

 

"We" are the American people, en masse. 

It's important to remember that those of us who are lucid, aware and concerned are outnumbered a thousand to one by the morbidly obese, Wal Mart scooter riding, entitlement minded, Tee Vee watching, Red Team/Blue Team voting, EBT swiping, meth cooking human scum. 

Guns will not fix this. Nature will. And nature is a cruel bitch for sure. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 03:21 | 6010348 El Vaquero
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Maybe guns won't fix it, but you might need a gun to survive.  As you say, nature is a cruel bitch, and as much as we'd like to think that we're better than that, we're part of nature.  It's not a plesant prospect.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:01 | 6010479 razingcane
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well said

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:14 | 6010256 Ace006
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An excellent summation. Ten or 15 years ago I would have dismissed it out of hand but no more.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:27 | 6010130 Thunderbox
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whoopsi - looks like a bunch of "examiners" are about to get promoted to manager level.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:35 | 6010152 kchrisc
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Keystone traitors.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

The FBI's new motto: "Treason for Zion."

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:42 | 6010161 flyonmywall
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Why is this such a surprise?

The lackeys who get paid by the system are interested in perpetuating the system that pays them. "Truth is treason in the empire of lies" - George Orwell

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:43 | 6010166 Weaponized Innocense
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Thats the political economy! We r preparing for hypocritical judgement day. All we need to do is train the rapebots to destroy the human race.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:29 | 6010216 SovietSuperStar
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We lock people up for a PLANT. Been broken.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:04 | 6010247 Radical Marijuana
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Yes, pot prohibition was the single simplest symbol, and the most extreme particular example, of the general pattern of social facts, that the American government had become almost totally based on integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which also pressured all other countries as much as possible to do adopt the same policies.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:01 | 6010303 MEAN BUSINESS
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...via their new mechanism, the United Nations. The League Of Nations, to which the USA never belonged, handed over the the reigns to the UN on this day 69 years ago. The LON had a drug policy too, centered around opium and alcohol.

Will the UN reach 70 years old? DOA I expect. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:42 | 6010225 Atomizer
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I'm a investigation discovery junkie. Believe the system should change. Forget life in prison, die by injection or old woody. The Prison system is expecting the same downward spiral to population shrinkage. Everyone always gets first degree murder charges. Just start giving them execution orders within 30 days. Crime will drop significantly. 

Latter side, the existing job GDP will crumble. Execute these fucks. Crime will go to almost zero. School and prison meals will be defected for taxpayers gravy train payments. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 04:47 | 6010375 Jadr
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First of all, most murders are not 1st degree.  It is hard to secure a 1st degree murder charge/verdict unless it was in the commission of another felony.  Additionally, with the large number of people who have been found innocent through DNA evidence etc after being initially found guilty and sentenced to death proves that the system should not have the power to implement the death penalty.  Death penalty cases & appeals are extremely expensive but given the many mistakes made by the system, there should not be a 30 day execution order unless you want a lot of egg on your face and lawsuits as people are proven innocent at a later date.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:50 | 6010400 ozzzzo
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Dead people can't sue. Thus the move toward execution without trial, now used in brown countries; coming to your town soon. This excitement about unfair trials is a red herring; trials will be considered a luxury after we "elect" Clinton or Bush.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:29 | 6010494 razingcane
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Need to get rid of the patriot act and to execute those in the C-J system who corrupt it.   There was a prosecutor in Texas named Ken Anderson who railroaded a white guy named Morton into 25 years served for a murder Morton didn't commit.  Anderson and his cohorts knowingly suppressed evidence that would have prevented conviction.  After Morgan was freed and Anderson's criminal handling of the case was established Anderson was sentenced to - GET THIS - Five (count 'em %!!!!) DAYS in jail (he served three) and Five hundred dollar (Count 'em $500.00) fine and was told he could never practice law again (he had been retired from the judiciary [the JUDICIARY -there's a scary thought] for over ten years). Moreover, another prosecutor who tried to keep the DNA evidence that freed Morton from coming to light sent an email to ALL other prosecutors in the state that they should endeavor to dispose of all DNA evidence immediately after someone is convicted of a felony, so that convictions would never be overturned (at  least, not on that basis).  These prosecutors - and the judges who let them ballet in the court room - should all be publicly crucified and skinned alive on a NATIONAL BASIS and at all levels of goverment.  I'll bet  that these corrupt a$$holes go home and jerk off all overthemselves when they get away with crap like this.

We have the technology to put the poeple in prison WHO TRULY DESERVE TO BE THERE WITHOUT convicting those who don't.  Unfortuantely, it may take a revolution to get us there (how did the French get rid of the guillotine???)

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:31 | 6010495 razingcane
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BTW - dead people can't sue, but their survivors can.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:32 | 6010239 Radical Marijuana
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"The American justice system is broken" BECAUSE the best organized gangs of criminals have been able to apply the methods of organized crime to the political processes in order to capture control over the government. Not only is the government the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gang of criminals, but also that is necessarily the case.

"The American justice system is broken" BECAUSE the vast majority of the American people do not want to understand that governments were basically military organizations, while the military was simply organized crime on larger scales. Therefore, "citizens" are actually members of a military organization, or members of an organized crime gang. However, because the overwhelming vast majority of those people do not understand that, because they do not want to understand that, they behave like incompetent political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple.

"We the People" have been defeated by the best organized gangs of criminals capturing control over the powers of governments, primarily through the vicious feedback loops of the funding of the political processes, which have resulted in the systematic corruption of all branches of government, until the government of the USA is almost totally based upon systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. Furthermore, that has gotten so bad that there is less and less effort made to continue to properly legalize those lies or the violence that backs them up.

There is nothing wrong with the THEORY of a democratic republic operating through the rule of law. However, after the best organized gang of criminals were able to capture control of the government in order to legalize their being able to make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts, then that effective privatization of the public "money" supply automatically generated worse feedback loops whereby the profits from frauds could be reinvested in more frauds.

Today, there is no reasonable doubt that the American "rule of law" has broken down. Furthermore, there are no good grounds to believe that the vast majority of Zombie Sheeple are going to stop acting like that. Rather, the only reasonably foreseeable futures are for the privatization of the powers of governments to automatically become more and more criminally insane. The ALREADY established systems of fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting have resulted in the monetary system becoming like a totally metastasizing cancer. That society is terminally sick and insane, because systems of triumphantly enforced frauds drive society as a whole to become more and more psychotic, as the government becomes more and more based on backing up legalized lies with legalized violence, where the basic dilemmas are that no amount of violence can ever stop those lies from still being false.

Krieger: "I’m not sure what makes them “elite.”

Perhaps it’s their penchant for incompetence?"

Promoting Hanlon's Razor as an explanation for those sorts of phenomena is NOT correct. It takes a much deeper analysis to understand how and why there is almost nothing but organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups. The ONLY things that exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies.

Approaching political problems using the same old false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, has become a theoretical dead-end. On the contrary, what I am suggesting is that the American systems are already committed to becoming even more inconceivably corrupt, until they collapse themselves into crazy chaos ... The issues then MIGHT arise about what could be rebuilt on those ruins (if anything) ... In my view, we should go through a series of intellectual scientific revolutions, in order to develop political science which can be become more consistent with the progress made in physical sciences.

At the present time, within the established social pyramid systems, which were based on being able to back up lies with violence, awesome progress in science and technology (for instance the ability to do DNA testing) actually tends to end up being applied to become better at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. The deeper problems follow from facing the facts that there are NO final solutions to the political problems that "Nobody Guards the Guardians." In THEORY, the operation of a democratic republic through the rule of law was supposed to enable "We the People" to be the Guards of the Guardians. However, what actually happened was that "We the People" were brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit so much, for so long, that they became Zombie Sheeple.

Furthermore, within the American context, while the established systems have become based on results of runaway, triumphant organized crime capturing control of all branches of the government, at the same time, around that core of organized crime have developed almost nothing which is publicly significant than controlled opposition groups, who act like Black Sheeple, attempting to lead people backwards.

One of the most profound reasons how and why the American rule of law has broken down so badly is that the vast majority of people do not want to understand that the ONLY connection between human laws and natural laws is the ability to back up lies with violence. Thus, the only way to have better government is to have better organized crime. Theoretically, that would be possible if enough of the citizens understood enough that they were actually members of an organized crime gang, which was called their country.

However, obviously, the vast majority of people continue to want to believe in false fundamental dichotomies, and therefore, to promote solutions based on impossible ideals, that actually make the opposite happen. Those views tend to be implicit in most cases whenever people presume to use Hanlon's Razor. The government is not operating in stupidly incompetent ways. The government is necessarily acting in ways which are based on the principles and methods of organized crime, because human beings and civilizations necessarily operate as entropic pumps of energy flows. Governments get away with being arrogantly dishonest due to the degree that they can count on continuing to fool enough of the people enough of the time.

Not only is the American rule of law breaking down, but also, it can not be fixed as long as the vast majority of Americans continue to understand natural laws backward, and want to continue to understand the relationships between human laws and natural laws backwards.  There SHOULD come a point where all of the accumulating anomalies, such as the facts in the article above demonstrating the degree to which "the American justice system is broken," result in profound paradigm shifts regarding how people perceive the "rule of law" and/or "justice."

Since the primary driving source of the break down of the American rule of law was the effective privatization of the public "money" supply, that is also the area which is the first priority to fix, IF that was possible. However, that would require enough people understanding that money is necessarily measurement backed by murder, where the debt controls are backed by the death controls. The effective privatizations of the monetary systems are now headed towards the effective privatizations of the military systems.

Indeed, that is the primary driving reason regarding how and why there is developing a more and more militarized police force, or a fascist police state to protect and advance the agenda of the fascist plutocracy, that results from the supreme source of the plutocrats "wealth" having become their ability to legally counterfeit the public "money" supply, which frauds are enforced by governments, because those governments had their control captured through the history of all aspects of the funding of the political processes (like bribery, intimidation and assassination), driving the vicious spirals of runaway privatization of public powers.

It is hard to imagine how there could ever be greater use of information, enabling higher consciousness about those matters, as long as enough of the people act like Zombie Sheeple enough of the time. Similarly, there could be no genuine political progress as long as most of the controlled opposition groups continue to be nothing more than various kinds of Black Sheeple, who promote impossible ideals, based on presuming upon the validity of false fundamental dichotomies, (such as demonstrated by presuming Hanlon's Razor is validly applied to these sorts of social situations.)

The history of the destruction of the American Democratic Republic's Rule of Law has been the history of the development of government of the money, by the money, for the money. The core corruption was the effective privatization of the public "money" supply, which then enabled automatically worse and worse vicious feedback loops. By those means, the government of the USA became controlled by the best organized gangsters, the banksters, and the corporations that grew up around those banks, which had captured control over the public "money" supply. That was the most crucial event in the history whereby institutions based on legal fictions became runaway systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence.

The privatization of the public "money" supply, as a fraud by privately controlled banks, which was enforced by governments, was the most crucial way in which the American Democratic Republic's Rule of Law was undermined, until it is now more and more obviously broken, and going to collapse into chaos. However, I REPEAT, there is not almost nothing but that core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups. As long as the only publicly significant opposition are the various kinds of Black Sheeple, that are trying to lead the Zombie Sheeple backwards, then there could not be any way to rebuild a better rule of law.

Furthermore, I REPEAT, the only sufficiently valid ways to rebuild the human rule of law is for that to be done in ways which are made more consistent with the physical laws of nature. The ONLY theoretically possible ways forward are to develop radical paradigm shifts in the perception of political science, which then would apply to the combined money/murder systems. Without that, then we will continue to see the Zombie Sheeple being fleeced to exhaustion, and set up to be slaughtered, while the Black Sheeple opposition will NOT effectively resist that!

Only a radical transformation in the ways that enough people understand the relationships between natural laws and human laws is theoretically sufficient to resolve the problems that the American justice system is broken, as well as analogous problems all over the world, because that also applies everywhere, to other social pyramid systems, in every country, corporation, or church, etc.! At the present time, the vast majority of people continue to want to believe in various old-fashioned ideologies and religions, in ways which deliberately ignore the profound paradigm shifts that have happened in physical science. The vast majority of people want to use some technology, without appreciating the science that made that technology possible.

That problem especially applies to the ways that we have developed globalized systems of electronic frauds, backed by threat from the force of atomic bombs. At the present time, our politics continues to be almost totally dominated by the established systems of organized crime surrounded by controlled opposition groups, and almost totally dominated by old-fashioned religions and ideologies. Given that social situation, it seems politically impossible to imagine developing a more genuine political science. However, without that, then the basic failures to comprehend the real relationships between natural laws and human laws MUST necessarily mean that the human rule of law will continue to break down.

Those are the deeper reasons how and why: "The American justice system is broken. Completely and totally broken." That system can NOT be fixed without the kinds of profound paradigm shifts in political science, such as I have outlined above, which are similarly dependent upon even deeper paradigm shifts in the philosophy of science. At the present time, there is mainly the growing Grand Canyon Chasms between the paradigm shifts which have been achieved in physical sciences, enabling awesome technological developments, while there has been nothing like that allowed to develop in political science.

The results in the bigger picture are runaway systems of electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs, while on smaller scales there develop worse and worse abuses by the institutions which are supposed to provide justice through the rule of law. To resolve those problems would take radical transformations in the ways that enough people perceived the relationships between the physical world and the political world, so that the human rule of law could be made to become more consistent with the natural laws. While that is theoretically possible, both the ruling classes, and most of those that they rule over, feel like they do not want to do anything like that ...

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:25 | 6010389 g'kar
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I get the feeling the NeoStatist sheeple that downvoted your rant didn't even read and/or comprehend what you wrote.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 11:37 | 6010939 HopefulCynical
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Best thing I've read in a while.

One thing, though. If you could clarify what you mean by Black Sheeple? I think I know, but I want to be sure.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 22:33 | 6012070 Radical Marijuana
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Another phrase I use to describe the Black Sheeple is reactionary revolutionaries. They typically present material that is more than 90% relatively good analysis of the problems, then, in the last 10% or less of their presentation, they return to promoting solutions based on impossible ideals, which may be summarized as suggesting that: "Everyone should become better Sheeple."

Within the Human Ecology of social pyramid systems, there are metaphorical roles of the pyramidion people being the Vicious Wolves, who dominate the more Domesticated Dogs, that control the masses of Zombie Sheeple, the Black Sheeple are those who, after becoming more aware that the Vicious Wolves are wearing sheep's clothing, STILL then recommend the bogus "solutions" that: Everyone should become better Sheeple.

Seen in terms of those Political Parables about Wolves and Sheeple most of the FBI are varieties of Domesticated Dogs, that blend at the higher levels into some of them more being the Vicious Wolves.

The basic bifurcation is between people who act like the predatory parasites versus people who act like the productive prey.

To fight the Hegelian with the Hegelian: the production of destruction controls production. However, those who specialize in being deceitful and backing that up with destruction tend to dissemble that they agree with the moralities that work for those people who had filled the niches of the productive prey, i.e., the Sheeple.

What the Black Sheeple are tended to do is to point out more of the real facts regarding how the Vicious Wolves and their more Domesticated Dogs are behaving, BUT, then promote the same old "solutions" that: Everyone should become better Sheeple.

Almost all of the publicly significant religions and ideologies are those of the more or less controlled opposition groups, that stay INSIDE of the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, because it was originally those biggest bullies that promoted the false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals that those bullies are the "good guys" when actually they were the best at being dishonest and backing that up with violence, and therefore, were able, for generation after generation, to beat others into submission, and agree with that bullshit, (or else be killed.)

Another way of expressing the situation, HopefulCynical, is that people have not become cynical enough!  While we are living in a Bizarro Mirror World, where everything appears proportionately backward, because governments paradoxically ARE the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, those governments, and currently the banksters, as the biggest gangsters that dominate those governments, continue to be able to promote their bullshit that they are somehow the "good guys."

In order to become cynical enough I say that we need to go THROUGH the looking glass of that Bizarro Mirror World. For several decades, I have been developing uses of the English language to attempt to explain what that means. However, I REPEAT, that takes a series of intellectual scientific revolutions in order to comprehend.

Meanwhile, the mainstream morons and reactionary revolutionaries, or the Zombie Sheeple and the Black Sheeple, stay STUCK inside of the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, because they are controlled, or controlled opposition. As the problems of living inside of a Wonderland Matrix of absurdities become more blatant, and those contradictions more obvious, more of the Zombie Sheeple are forced to begin to notice that. However, most of those who assert that they are attempting to "wake up" the Zombie Sheeple are still Black Sheeple, that have NOT gone through enough paradigm shifts, in order to perceive politics in radically different ways.

To become cynical enough requires some of the changes in attitude that I have outlined above: "WE" should start using Unitary Mechanisms, rather than relying upon Dualities. The false fundamental dichotomies between production versus destruction, or Sheeple versus Wolves, have become intellectual dead-ends, that continue to result in promoting the same old bullshit "solutions," which actually cause the opposite to happen in the real world.

I REPEAT, to become cynical enough is to accept that governments are NECESSARILY the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. Therefore, the only genuine solutions are to develop better government, as better organized crime, which would require enough of the Sheeple to understand that they too are Wolves. To put it another way, the genuine solutions are NOT "Everyone should become better Sheeple," but rather, that: "Everyone should become better Wolves."

The Black Sheeple are those who somewhat wake up to the realities regarding how the Wolves and their Domesticated Dogs actually behave, but then collapse back to promoting bullshit "solutions." Thus, the Black Sheeple never become cynical enough!

To be more Hopefulcynical, I promote profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceive political problems. Those paradigm shifts do not change what actually exists. However, those paradigms shifts could ameliorate the degree to which most people now see things backwards, because they are NOT aware that everything they see in the Bizarro Mirror World appears backwards. At the present time, the degrees of cognitive dissonance are building and building, even in the minds of the mainstream morons, because of the ways that the debt slavery systems have generated numbers which have become debt insanities, and the resulting ways that runaway train of the fascist police state, which was made and maintained to protect the fascist plutocracy, has jumped its rails, and so, become a slow-motion train wreck, in which events like those described in the article above become more common.

HOWEVER, that increasing degree of awareness, as vague intuitions in the minds of the Zombie Sheeple, that their social situation has become a runaway, tumbling trip through a Wonderland Matrix of increasing absurdities, STILL continues to be channeled to go towards backwards, bullshit "solutions" by the Black Sheeple ...

It is vital to recognize that INSIDE of the Bizarro Mirror World, or Wonderland Matrix, where the government is the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, the most publicly promoted "solutions" to those problems are also Backward and Absurd. I REPEAT: the genuine solutions are NOT "Everyone should become better Sheeple," but rather, that: "Everyone should become better Wolves."

Everyone has some power to rob, and power to kill to back up that power to rob. Governments assembled and channeled those powers, while the best organized robbers and killers were able to control those governments. In order to make a democratic republic operating through the rule of law work better, "WE" should go beyond relying upon the same old false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals. Governments exist because organized crime exist. Governments are NOT going to stop existing, because organized crime is NOT going to stop existing.

Governments are military organizations, which operate according to the principles and methods of organized crime on the largest scales. Within that context, the best organized gangs of criminals have captured control of those governments. IF it is actually possible to survive through that, then the genuine resolutions to those problems can NOT be anything less than better organized crime. Only that which actually exists can actually evolve, and the only things that actually exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. That is why I promote the basic perspective that money is measurement backed by murder. Since the debt controls are backed by the death controls, the only genuinely existing resolutions to political problems must be based upon better death control systems.

What the Black Sheeple tend to do is reveal some of the social facts regarding how badly the Wolves and their Domesticated Dogs are behaving, in light of the the impossible ideals that those Wolves and Dogs originally had promoted, in order to facilitate them continuing to be the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, which could continue to fool enough of the Zombie Sheeple, enough of the time. HOWEVER, after demonstrating that the actual debt and death controls are based on frauds and deceits, the Black Sheeple do not propose realistically better combined money/murder systems. Instead, the Black Sheeple switch gears to promote the impossible ideals that there ought not be any such systems, or at least none that human beings are conscious of operating.

Hence, the standing patterns are for most of the content published on Zero Hedge to actually be a range of Black Sheeple presentations, which do a relatively good job analyzing the political problems, but then, continue to promote "solutions" which are based on impossible ideals, that must cause the opposite to happen in the real world. Over and over again, most of the content on Zero Hedge stays too superficial, and so, grossly understates the problems, and then, grossly overstates what the the possible "solutions" to those problems could be.

Paradigm shifts in the physical sciences has profoundly changed the ways that we understand time and space. However, by and large, none of that insight has been applied within political science. In order to do that, one has to engage in more creative synthesis between post-modernizing science and ancient mysticism. The biggest bullies, or the ruling classes, have been engaged in a war against the consciousness of those they ruled over. The vast majority of people have been brainwashed to believe in bullshit, and that bullshit world view was built into the basic structure of the dominant natural languages and philosophy of science.

In my view, the Black Sheeple are those who begin to wake up to the magnitude to which society is dominated by bullshit, but then they attempt to wake up others, to some degree, but still not enough, because the Black Sheeple do not become cynical enough!  Instead, the Black Sheeple continue to promote the same old bullshit "solutions" based on some old-fashioned religions or ideologies, which continue to presume upon the validity of old-fashioned ideas about time and space, which results in them continuing to misunderstand everything in the most backward ways possible.

It is difficult to develop the English language in ways which could adequately communicate the paradoxical social situations which manifest after the best organized gangs of criminals capture control over the powers of governments. That is especially the case because that situation is much more profound than what the Black Sheeple barely begin to recognize. To express that in some of the most abstract ways, which relate to how the concepts of time and space have been radically transformed by progress in physical sciences, such as quantum mechanics the special theory of relativity and (which enables the technology of globalized electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs) there was an arbitrary minus sign inserted into the entropy equations of thermodynamics and information theory, in order that the measurements of power and information could be presented in relative positive values, rather than as relative negative values, which was what the original mathematical physics was revealing.

The history of the philosophy of science has been shaped as a social enterprise by compromising with the biggest bullies, the same as every other social enterprise. The abstract way that works begins with the concept of SUBTRACTION. From that follows ROBBERY, that takes energy across the boundaries of the parts that were relatively subtracted from the whole. What the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories have done is that they subtracted the subtraction, without that being recognized or admitted.

Therefore, the genuine solutions amount to subtracting the subtraction of the subtraction, in order to return to what was originally the actual situation. The biggest bullies were able to promote social stories that negated their negations, and therefore, the genuine solutions are to negate the negation of those negations. As soon as we relatively perceive the SUBTRACTION of human beings from their environment, then they must necessarily live by being ROBBERS in their environment.

Human beings and human civilizations operate as entropic pumps of energy flows. However, the biggest bullies' bullshit world view has deliberately developed a view of the concept of entropy which is as backward as it can possibly be. A host of false fundamental dichotomies, and their related impossible ideals, have been constructed upon the foundation of the inversion of the meanings of almost everything. For example, the meaning of the words "money" and "dollar" were gradually inverted and perverted, until those words now mean nothing like they originally meant, but rather, mean mostly the opposite now of what those words used to mean, due to the banksters' bullshit more and more dominating the political economy.

The biggest bullies have deliberately prevented the vast majority of people from understanding elementary philosophy, or spirituality. Instead, various controlled opposition groups, operating through various ideologies and religions approved of by the biggest bullies, have promoted their inverted and perverted versions of philosophy and spirituality. In that context, the Black Sheeple are those reactionary revolutionaries who begin to perceive that some revolutions are imperative, because reforms are not being implemented, BUT, then propose old-fashioned fake "revolutions," sometimes based on fake "paradigm shifts," that do NOT really change paradigms, but rather, only promote the same old impossible ideals, within still taking for granted the same old false fundamental dichotomies.

I REPEAT, the driving force is progress in physical science, enabling technologies that have become many orders of magnitude more powerful and capable, WITHOUT enough matching progress in political science. What is more tragic is that there no longer seems like there is enough time to allow the processes of paradigm shifts to sufficiently take place. The political problems regarding the destruction of the American democratic republic and its rule of law are getting worse, faster, at an exponentially accelerating rate, while the development of the kinds of political paradigm shifts, sufficient to generate more realistic, genuine resolutions of those problems, are barely manifesting within the public spaces.

In the public spaces, there continues to be almost nothing but the core groups of organized crime, controlling big governments and big corporations, while there is practically nothing of public significance to stand against that than the various sorts of controlled opposition groups, who are the wide variety of Black Sheeple, or reactionary revolutionaries. At the present time, enough of the Zombie Sheeple are still being brainwashed to believe in bullshit by the mass media, while the range of available alternatives continue to almost totally still be Black Sheeple.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 22:38 | 6013320 Seek_Truth
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1. Tl;dr

2. War and Peace is more concise and entertaining.

3. More repetitious than a broken record.

4. Too many fluff words.

5. Needs major editing.

6. Overwritten, but underdeveloped.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 22:48 | 6013352 Radical Marijuana
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Another ad hominem "reply" that says nothing ... OBVIOUSLY, you do NOT "Seek_Truth!" You are another one of the typical Black Sheeple.  But then, that makes sense, since you are so fond of the Bible, which is one of the worst old-fashioned religions. The fundamental thrust of my argument, that political science should go through paradigm shifts that surpass those already achieved in physical science, is precisely the kind of approach that Bible thumping guys like you abhor. Hence, your merely ad hominen criticisms, which have no intellectually worthwhile content.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 22:57 | 6013383 Seek_Truth
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You've gotten nowhere in life precisely because you won't summarize your thoughts succinctly.

There was no ad hominem- I did not attack you- I criticized the obvious fact, that many others have also pointed out- that you are way too verbose, you repeat yourself, use too much fluff- and yes- your post are way too long to take seriously.

Once in a while, in a detailed response to a subject- yes- an exception can be made.

I did notice that I got you to summarize your thoughts in your reply!

Why was that?

Anger?

Perhaps you should lay off the bong- and get angry more often?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 23:44 | 6013492 MEAN BUSINESS
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Wrong again Deek_Truth: -noreply


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ATTN: Mean Business aka Jo-Jo_the_indian_circus_boy:

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt.

You're a 20 year old wet behind the ears kid drinking the Gubmint provided AGW Kool-Aid.

Quit while your ahead- devote yourself to agriculture or something beneficial and drop the Goredoctrination.

That is all.

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 08:50 | 5990203

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Revealing, Seek_Truth, that you would reply with a clip from a hollywood movie (I'm sure it's "deep") containing a slur towards ~1B people that don't read your bible.

Say, how do you think The Pope is gonna handle that whole "go forth and multiply" thing in his encyclical on AGW this summer?

 

I wonder how many people here at Zero Hedge had ever heard of Al Gore in 1990. I hadn't.

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 08:58 | 5990218

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Son,

You're out of your league. I couldn't care less what the "pope" does, thinks, says, or spits. You epitomize the unschooled here on ZH. And if you haven't watched the clip, you should- you might find that it will open your eyes to how you come across.

PS- I know I'm repeating myself, but it's better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 09:13 | 5990253

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Still nothing to say about the James Burke clip, just more belittling. It's as boring as your Bibley stuff.

p.s. I heard about Al Gore a few years later when I read Earth In The Balance. You? 

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 09:21 | 5990275

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We all heard the Goracle's lies when yer mammy was still changing your diapers. I have no interest in your James Burp, boy- is that your man crush? Run along now, yer mammy's sure to get cross with ya when she sees ya playin' on the 'puter. Back to the basement for ya. Or go outside and blow some stink off of ya, ya hear?

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 09:58 | 5990381

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I would prefer to let people here speak for themselves. That way I have some chance of getting an intelligent answer.

Haven't you got some little boys to fiddle-about Uncle? Revealing that you like to think of me as "Son"

That is all Creep_Truth

 

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 10:11 | 5990416

Seek_Truth

 

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You are brainwashed by shills who call themselves "scientists"- they are not- nothing coulld be further from the truth. You spam every thread with your AGW nonsense, you are constantly derided for doing so, but you are too feeble minded to understand what a fool you make of yourself. You are a 20 year old child according to your profile. That makes you a boy in my book- not a man.

And a gullible one at that. You should be embarrassed of yourself. Your heroes at the IPCC have already been caught in numerous epic lies- that is a fact, as has Al Gore-acle. Keep drinking the Gubmint shill coolaid and see where it gets you. Just another junior "progressive."

PS- There's none so blind as those who will not see.

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 14:08 | 5991231

MEAN BUSINESS

 

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Feel free to ask around, I haven't changed my silly profile since I wrote it upon signing up.

"Ist wave X'er"

fuck off

Tue, 04/21/2015 - 14:55 | 6015444 Radical Marijuana
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Indeed, MEAN BUSINESS, Seek_Truth may be an appropriately ironic name for someone indulging in apparently nothing but being a troll.

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:51 | 6010290 q99x2
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How we ever sposed to have a revolution if everyone is in jail?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:40 | 6010515 razingcane
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1)There are  never enough guards in a prison to put down a FULL-SCALE orgainzed well=planned seige by inmates.  The average unit has 2-3000 inmates and a couple of hundred guards on any one shift.  Inmates would have to be so desparate that they were wiling to die for the cause, but given that, eventually they'll get there hands on the gas, the batons, the gins and ammo.  If there were an external threat organized at the same time it action would be difficult to stop.

2) "EVERYONE" is not in prison.  The question is when the hell enough people are going to wake up to put the fear of God into politicians, judges and prosecutors.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:44 | 6010516 razingcane
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1)There are  never enough guards in a prison to put down a FULL-SCALE orgainzed well=planned seige by inmates.  The average unit has 2-3000 inmates and a couple of hundred guards on any one shift.  Inmates would have to be so desparate that they were wiling to die for the cause, but given that, eventually they'll get there hands on the gas, the batons, the guns and ammo.  If there were an external threat organized at the same time the action would be difficult to stop.

2) "EVERYONE" is not in prison.  The question is when the hell enough people are going to wake up to put the fear of God into politicians, judges and prosecutors.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:03 | 6010307 Jack Daniels Esq
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Impeach 535 clowns + Cunt-in-Charge for treason, fraud

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:49 | 6010332 Joe A
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But..but..Hollywood tells us Horatio is always right

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 02:50 | 6010334 Dork
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I wonder if Reagan's "deregulation" has anything to do with this???

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 03:09 | 6010344 Joe A
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Of course not because the FDA proves de regulation works by certifying that GMO is safe. Based on evidence supplied by biotech companies themselves because deregulation deemed that testing by the FDA is not necessary.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 03:02 | 6010340 g'kar
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The best way to survive the (in)justice system is to stay out of it.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 03:35 | 6010355 Aussiekiwi
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Which is why I would never go to the US, I would like to go and play Poker there in Vegas, but its a cash game and no doubt if the cops stopped me they would steal my cash.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 10:38 | 6010769 FrankDrakman
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I dip my toe into VT, ME, and NH, and occasionally make day trips to Buffalo (to see the Jays AAA team and shop) and Detroit (for White Castle!!). Other than that, I have no desire to visit the USSA anymore. 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 04:53 | 6010374 Sid James
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1406 executions since 1977.

More than 95 per cent of all 268 trials involving hair that were reviewed have been found to be unreliable in proving guilt of the serious crimes such as murder and rape.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-year

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fbi-overstated-forensic...

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:08 | 6010384 escapeefromOZ
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Eliminating the parasites from  FBI and the CIA and other spooks agancies would cause the unemployment rate to increase tremenduosly . Think about all the collaborators , informers and trolls employed to control the population . 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:24 | 6010390 chistletoe
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"Criminal Justice System" is a misnomer.  The correct appelation is "State-Sponsored Profit-Generating Revenge Apparatus".

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:47 | 6010399 Monetas
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The system is not broken in Nevada .... O.J. got jail time .... and Harry Reid got beat up and blinded in one eye .... and he's not pointing the finger at his brother .... it's a family thing .... from Searchlight, NV ! Remember when Ralph Nader got beat up .... he didn't want to talk about it, either !

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:48 | 6010531 razingcane
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When did that happen to Reid?  I hate that snot-nosed mothahfucka*.  I only hope whoever did it enlarged the dimenions of his a$$hole too, worthless putz that he is.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:54 | 6010403 Monetas
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The "Conviction Reversal Industry" is another liberal scam .... 99% of those reversals are bogus .... criminals don't even get charged for 99% of the crime they do .... when 20 year prisoners walk away quietly .... without suing .... you know there was a deal .... get real .... most of the world lives under ISIS justice .... a beheading is kind of .... final !

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 05:59 | 6010406 Monetas
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Jack Burton isn't a troll .... he's more of a Kremlin "plant" !

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 06:39 | 6010419 Last of the Mid...
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Another government agency gown awry, surprise, suprise. Thank God they have 100 tons of ammunition if they need it.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 06:54 | 6010425 Cloud9.5
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Is it true, probably, but you must realize that there is an internecine war going on between the old alphabet and agencies and the new alphabet agencies.  Hide and watch, this is going to get interesting as we come up on the night of long knives.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 07:35 | 6010460 Die Weiße Rose
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The American Nightmare: Debbie Milke Recounts Life on Death Row

By Clemens Höges and Antje Windmann

Debbie Milke, born in Berlin, was placed in solitary confinement Arizona for 22 years after being falsely convicted of conspiring to kill her son. Following her acquittal, she discusses her experience in prison and a life destroyed by a miscarriage of justice.

On Jan. 18, 1991, a court sentenced Debbie to death even though she was innocent. If the State of Arizona had had its way, she would have been executed on Jan. 29, 1998. Debbie was already being prepared for the execution in Perryville.

Over the years, the Arizona justice system never managed to execute Debbie. Nevertheless, it robbed her of much of her life. Debbie, born in Berlin, was in solitary confinement for 22 years. She was treated like a monster, locked up in the labyrinth of the US justice system, a system in which the more you know about it, the less you understand.

The United States has the largest prison population in the world. Almost 3,000 people are currently on death row, waiting to be poisoned, gassed or hanged, or executed in the electric chair or by a firing squad.

Statistics compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center show that 151 people have been released from death row and acquitted since 1973. Debbie's case shows how easily the innocent can end up in prison and on death row.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/debbie-milke-recalls-her-years...

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Mon, 04/20/2015 - 07:38 | 6010464 SoDamnMad
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Kind of long but read how much our FBI earned while stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. This became near tax free money if they stayed long enough in a "combat zone-hardship country".  I never heard they did much of anything while there.

http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s0812/final.pdf

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:51 | 6010475 razingcane
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They should kill the perjurers whose testimony resulted in wrongful executions, plain and simple.  Pulbic hanging, drawn and quartered, whtever.  And whoever mentioned caning (above) as a form of punishment is right on.  Of course, in the perverse political sewer we live in somehow caning would of course be deemed "Cruel & Unusual" while wrongful execution is just something that has to happen when criminal justice becomes nothing more than performance art. My dad was an attorney - he must have told me a million times "KId - there ain't no such thing as justice in a court room". "Stay the hell out of the system."  He never liked porsecutors.  PArt of my own professional experience as a pathologist exposed me to just how medical examiners offices work hand-in-hand with prosecutors to give them the evidence they want to generate the convictions for the stats to be re-elected.  Couple that with the pseudo-religious, self-righteous, sadistic sanctimony that auras over the C-J system and you have lottery ticket justice despite the technological ability to do much better.  It's amazing that the more sophisticated technologies are already corrupted, not used to really determine innocense or guilt, but just  used as another (more sophisticated and seemingly incontrovertible) tool to mnaipulate the system.  Horsehit.  justice is like politics - it's all local and it's all personal.  I'm not at all sure that having everyone wearing sidearms and being willing to use them would be any worse  than the malevolent (and insanely expensive) anarchy that masquerades as a "justice" system.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:12 | 6010486 1stepcloser
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we "overstated" some folks

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 10:15 | 6010613 22winmag
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If you believe that hair and DNA lab evidence is often bogus and fabricated, you should see the bullshit they invent with ballistics evidence and drug/chemical evidence.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 09:55 | 6010645 Salzburg1756
Mon, 04/20/2015 - 10:13 | 6010698 Seek_Truth
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Remember Operation Paperclip!

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_mj12_17.htm

Who won that war- again?

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 10:22 | 6010727 22winmag
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Brought to you by the same cowardly U.S. Gov't that entered WWI very late and stole the territorial victories from Germany.

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