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<div>Warning.. angry rant to follow, with ruthless logic!</div>
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<div>I just read about this development. It might be that again we have an example where the media heaped unjustified implications of guilt upon the innocent (Jon Benet's parents) to exploit a tragedy for the sake of the profiteering media ratings game.
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<div>Oh, but I forget, in the new climate of civil rights in the USA, you are guilty until proven innocent, and anyone who says otherwise is a sympathizer with the pity party for the rights of criminals that is a liberal plot to undermine the righteous justice that must be carried out.
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<div>And the fact the USA has the highest incarceration rate per capita of any democracy on Earth, just means that unlike those other more liberal and social democracies, we mean business when it comes to removing evil from our streets, while the USA continues to have high rates of domestic violence, gun violence, and murder, higher than most other democracies.
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<div>These facts have nothing to do with any failures of our culture to address the glaring inequalities between the rich and poor... To claim this is to be marginalized as a left wing extremist. As if a system that demands the need to incarcerate such a high percentage of its own people does not have some sort of fundamental flaw in how it is structured? Some lack of humanity and compassion, a lack of willingness to address the despair of the desperate?
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<div>No, the blame clearly falls upon those poor marginalized people who embody evil, due to their imperfect moral character... Let them rot in jail! </div>
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<div>I got my happy fat life, and to hell with them!</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Saundra Lund</b> <<a href="mailto:sslund@adelphia.net">sslund@adelphia.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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</a><br><br>Saundra Lund<br>Moscow, ID<br><br>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<br>nothing.<br>- Edmund Burke<br><br><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,
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