Strange Vengeance

Wikileaker Assange is accused of sex crime, I guess, and being held without bail.  This is so very strange.  But it is a favorite charge in free-wheeling USA, especially in political cases. The veteran US Marine WMD inspector Scott Ritter was accused of such, going back ten years.

I know, I know, he admitted it, but often people are fooled into admitting to false charges on promises they will go away, only to find them reappear.  It works like this:  you are innocent, but the powers that be promise to prosecute you anyway, but will not if you admit it and promise to never do it again.  There is the tricky part, you never did it before, so never do it again is easy.  So you cut the deal to save your reputation.  The problem is expecting indecent people to become decent.  The powers that be simply make another charge, allowing them to bring out the old one, since you "did it again."  Ouch.

I watched this kind of stuff go on in Wenatchee, Washington in the 1990s, and 45 innocent people went to prison.   Here is a film where a falsely accused cop get 25 years of hell, and how that turned out.  Because he did not do it, he got a harsher sentence.  There are countless cases of this in usa from the 90s alone.

And of course the only anti-war entity left is the Catholic Church, so its priests have endured countless false charges.  We need a better legal system.  Something free market.

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