Sunday, November 30, 2014

We're all Good Germans: "As Ben Casselman at FiveThirtyEight has pointed out, grand juries nearly always decide to indict — unless the perpetrator is an on-duty law-enforcement official. In such cases, the jury goes in the diametrically opposite direction and nearly always lets the perp off without a trial. This is true even when the act of violence leads to death, even when the confrontation was the result of police error, and even when the victim was (like Michael Brown) unarmed."

Ze authorities iss alvays right!  Ja. Das ist the ting!  More oompah ooompahing here. Grand Juries - originally a key protection of the common law - have been turned into liberal fascist jokes.  Only 11 out of 162,000 times did a Federal Grand Jury refuse to indict.  And since 97% of the indicted are intimidated into pleading, it means that the Feds can destroy anyone they want to.  Anyone.

Hey I have an idea:  why don't we treat cops and their vile lawyer overlords like everyone else rather than death dealing demigods. I know, I know: blasphemy! The state is our savior! 

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