>> ^potchi79:
>> ^entr0py:
I can't help but be reminded of the recent Supreme Court ruling that convicts do not have the constitutional right to request DNA tests on preserved biological evidence. It seems that protecting judges and prosecutors from embarrassment is more impotent then sorting out the innocent from the guilty.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55H4BD20090618

What the.. unfucking believable. This is sad.


What's sad is that we borrow and spend so much god damned money on unconstitutional shit that they can use the excuse "it will cost too much" and not get completely laughed out of town. A solid justice system is one of the few, undeniable, constitutional activities for which the Federal government needs funding, and we've pissed it all away on useless wars, bureaucracies, and welfare ponzi schemes.

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>> ^entr0py:
I can't help but be reminded of the recent Supreme Court ruling that convicts do not have the constitutional right to request DNA tests on preserved biological evidence. It seems that protecting judges and prosecutors from embarrassment is more impotent then sorting out the innocent from the guilty.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55H4BD20090618


What the.. unfucking believable. This is sad.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
As horrible as this story is, don't think it still isn't happening today, under other circumstances and/or other technology.


You mean like the story of Eric Frimpong?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=4300383

>> ^Samaelsmith:
entr0py,I just read your link. That's seriously fucked up.


They basically said it's a legal issue, not a constitutional one.

Insane. What a horrible situation.

>> ^FaerieWhings:
He convinced people that his dog can track a scent underwater? That's just strange that anyone would believe that. It would mean that the dog can breathe under water. There is none so blind as he who will not see.


I think he meant the dog could smell underwater scents while being above water.

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>> ^dag:
What? Apply rigorous scientific double blind testing to the technologies used to throw people in prison? That's crazy talk. I'm sure Jesus was personally guiding that german shepherd- no further testing needed.



that's such an offensive thing to say I think you should be shakeld for a month.

This isn't garbage at all.

Our country was attacked on 9/11, and Al Qaeda had nothing to do with it.

OK, who did it? Is there evidence to back up that assertion? Really? Does that evidence actually come together to form a logical story that isn't self-contradictory and doesn't rely on motivations that would require hundreds of crazy, inconsistent people involved and a massive conspiracy of silence? All I ever see are lists of "unanswered questions" - exactly the kind of runny crap that moon-landing hoaxers bring up.

The other tactic used heavily here is changing the subject. It doesn't matter how many of the old questions were answered in the report - they were never the real questions. Now the real question is why don't they talk more about their shadow-based dating. THAT'S SO VERY UNSCIENTIFIC. THESE SO-CALLED ENGINEERS NEED TO RESIGN! RESIGN THEMSELVES TO A LIFE OF PRISON FOREVER THAT IS!

Look, when your anti-American nutball conspiracy is so - I'm just going to say it - stupid that Noam Chomsky won't even placate its believers, won't even hedge his bets on whether it has merit, then you know you're out to lunch.

And don't bother replying (to me anyway). I have all your comments on ignore, and will forever. You may think this makes me a coward. Feel free to post about that to people who don't have you on ignore. However, I can say with confidence that you will never have anything interesting to say, ever, in your miserable, stupid life - so I don't think I'll miss anything.

What all you kids fail to mention/realize is that weed affects everyone differently, like any drug. Just because you're a wonderful driver stoned out of your mind doesn't mean everyone else is.

TRILL.

Also, it's proven that weed oftentimes leads to harder drugs down the road.

Not true. And if it did, so what? All or nearly all drugs should be legal. Let the junkies kill themselves.

This guy should do life in prison for repeat offending of sales/trafficking.

Drug Prohibition has been a massive failure, a waste of time and money and a greater threat to our rights than the drugs themselves. While these two crewcuts are dealing with Rastaman, rapists and burglars roam free. Enough is enough.

>> ^volumptuous:
>> ^BillOreilly:This guy should do life in prison for repeat offending of sales/trafficking.

How much time should McCain do for napalming the shit out of innocent Vietnamese villagers, and bilking the taxpayers of this country out of $125 billion dollars (keating five)?
End the ridiculous drug war, and guys like him wouldn't be selling anything.


Ya, McCain was making the decisions over in Vietnam. Sounds true to me.

Excellent idea about ending the drug war-- I don't think we have enough crime in this country as it is, let's double the crackheads and methheads, it'll make for more entertaining episodes of "COPS".

>> ^BillOreilly:This guy should do life in prison for repeat offending of sales/trafficking.


How much time should McCain do for napalming the shit out of innocent Vietnamese villagers, and bilking the taxpayers of this country out of $125 billion dollars (keating five)?

End the ridiculous drug war, and guys like him wouldn't be selling anything.

What all you kids fail to mention/realize is that weed affects everyone differently, like any drug. Just because you're a wonderful driver stoned out of your mind doesn't mean everyone else is.

Also, it's proven that weed oftentimes leads to harder drugs down the road.

This guy should do life in prison for repeat offending of sales/trafficking.

Seriously deranged. Anything less than life in prison would do this victim, his family, and society as a whole, a great injustice.

The victim's only chance would have been the immediate action of several nearby passengers--which given the perpetrators size and possession of a weapon, is unlikely unless one had formal training or exercised a ccw.

qbert, it's way more than a moral question: it's a legal one. Every one of those guys that punched the male would be found guilty of battery in a court of law. "Teaching someone a lesson" is not a valid legal reason for throwing a punch. You are only allowed to use as much force as necessary to stop the assailant and it's clear in the video that the guy is being clocked AFTER being separated from the girl.

For all the knight-in-shining-armor wannabes who seem to be posting here, let me give you a reality check. My roommate in college was best buds with one of his male cousins--they used to hang out all the time. Anyway, this cousin overhears his sister telling their parents that her boyfriend had raped her. Said cousin gets two other guys together and they go out to "teach the guy a lesson." They find him, drag him out to a deserted spot, and proceed to beat the living crap out of him. Justice served right?

Problem is, one of the guys my roommate's cousin brought along was a little overzealous. He was packing heat and when they were through beating the guy he pulled the gun and shot the alleged rapist in the head. But hey, the guy deserved it right?

Well not exactly. Turns out the sister was lying about the rape. See, my roommate was Filipino and everyone in his family is strict Catholic. The girl had gotten pregnant and couldn't admit to her parents that she'd had premarital sex. So she made up the rape story to cover.

My roommate's cousin and his two friends all got life in prison. Even though two of them didn't know the third was even carrying a gun, they were considered accessories to the murder by virtue of the fact that they had set out with the intent to cause the victim harm. So all through freshman year of college my roommate got to spend his weekends visiting his best bud in a maximum security prison. The cousin was 18 at the time of his arrest (same age as me and my roommate at the time). He basically threw away his whole life in order to "teach a guy a lesson."

Think it can't happen to you? People can die from a single punch. Maybe you didn't mean to kill the guy. Won't matter in court. You can kiss your life as you knew it goodbye with at a minimum a felony manslaughter charge. In this video, in all the confusion, someone (like some of the bystanders you can see scrambling to get out of the way) easily could have gotten knocked unconscious accidentally by a missed punch and slipped underwater before anyone realized what was happening. Is that justice?

Vigilante violence doesn't teach anybody anything. Supposing the guy in this vid truly is a chronic woman abuser, all these guys did by kicking his ass is to make him take his embarrassment and emasculation out on the next girlfriend by beating her twice as hard. Good work.

Make no mistake about it: if you're willing to jump in there to throw punches at this guy, you're not interested in justice or protecting the woman. You're interested in stroking your own ego by actualizing the over-glorified bullsh*t cultural stereotype that equates "justice" with ass-kicking. And even though you see yourself as the good guy--like my roommate's cousin did--you will be in for a rude awakening about how the world really works in the event the police do show up and start sorting things out.