This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

David Stockhoff · 14 Apr 2012, 15:40 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:40:01 -0400
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires
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On 4/13/2012 9:03 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> In the United States I feel like those who are completely blameless are very rarely incarcerated unjustly, unless it be for "he said, she said" cases of rape/molestation.  It is a straw man argument in some sense to justify treating dangerous and repeat offenders with kid gloves.  I am not an administrator of justice, because I would always err on the side of mercy, but I think it is a weakness in my character, where I would fail to live up to what should be done.  I would want a more stern administrator of justice than myself.

And I know you would want that administrator to be more impartial than 
you as well. Unfortunately, the American justice system is blind to its 
own racism. The situation is far worse than you think. Blacks are always 
robbed of the benefit of any doubt, and but that same benefit is always 
awarded to whites. I could accurately rewrite your statement as follows:

In the United States ... those who are *white *are very rarely 
incarcerated unjustly, unless it be for "he said, she said" cases of 
rape/molestation.  It is a straw man argument in some sense to justify 
treating *black *offenders with kid gloves.

And so on.
>
> There are innocent casualties in every battle, but sometimes the end justifies the means, or all those who gave their lives for something did it for naught.  Justice is much the same, though it lacks the nobility of World War II.

I'm just glad our republic (such as it is) was not founded on these 
theocratic principles. Rarely enough does it live up to its standards as 
it is.

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