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February 20, 2009
A law to keep down tyrants
It is hard to imagine a more serious crime than those who wield the nearly unchecked power of the state as a tool to abuse the people for their own gain.
With the recent revelation that two Pennsylvania judges rook bribes from private prisons to give maximum punishments (Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit) instead of the common ones the cases merited and evidence that medical examiners in Mississippi doctored evidence to help prosecutors convict (Did dental examiner create the bite marks that put a man on death row?), I have a simple proposal. This isn't shouldn't be treated as criminal evidence tampering. It should be treated as kidnapping.
If you are entrusted with state power (as medical examiners, policemen, judges, and district attorney's are), you abuse that authority to knowingly misled the courts in their aim of justice, and that results in someone's incarceration, we should treat that as though you locked them in your basement. Instead of the 87 months for wire fraud and income tax fraud that the judges were convicted under, they should have to face the electric chair for hundreds of acts of kidnapping and if not spend the rest of their lives in jail.
Posted by OneEyedMan at February 20, 2009 5:01 PM
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