Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 51st STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS - The Ninth Amendment gently reminds faithful readers to avoid READING FREE UNLIMITED CONTENT OF THE NEW YORK TIMES SIMPLY BY SETTING THEIR FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING". The Ninth Amendment post below was published verbatim (i.e., no minor editing here) in yesterday's digital Times in response to a very significant article essentially focused on the practical elimination of Americans' right to a jury trial or any trial at all.
The fact for the day is that this process has been simplified to a much smoother one whereby defendants in criminal cases are "encouraged" to plead guilty by Courts and particularly prosecutors who increase defendants' probable sentences exponentially should they be foolish enough not to plead guilty immediately and gratefully, regardless of the time-consuming issue of determining actual guilt or innocence.
The hidden fact for the day is that should one decide to go to trial in Federal Court, one's chances of being found innocent are less than 1 in 200, according to the Times. The humor for the day should readers wish to call it that is the nearly universally known line of Clint Eastwood in the first "Dirty Harry" movie. "Do you feel lucky?"
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Thank you for your thoughtful piece documenting the unilateral systematic elimination by the State of all elements of the United States Constitution which protect the rights of the individual against the State. We at the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com maintain that the State should promptly return important phone calls from the New York Times, even if the State is busy "extracting guilty pleas", teeth, or whatever. That is unless the call is to an agency of the State arguably charged with "national security", in which case the caller should be disposed of summarily.
Copyright 2011 Big M and Little L All World Rights Expressly Reserved
Copyright 2011 Big M and Little L All World Rights Expressly Reserved
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