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Leftists usually show their true signs. Whenever a rich person needs to get it, lefties don't even care if it's the evil Bush/Ashcroft Justice doing their bidding.
Some of you guys who are falling over yourselves bashing Martha Stewart need to ponder some of this. Note especially the words of lefty hero Alan Dershowitz.
(BTW, Kev - you are no libertarian.)
Happy reading for those who bother.
Some of you guys who are falling over yourselves bashing Martha Stewart need to ponder some of this. Note especially the words of lefty hero Alan Dershowitz.
(BTW, Kev - you are no libertarian.)
Happy reading for those who bother.
Studies show Americans close to being the worst educated and least aware population among first-world countries. Americans easily stumble into war and give up their rights because of exaggerated fears of terrorists and criminals. Americans have been losing accountable government, liberty and justice for a long time. At some point these values become irretrievable.
Consider justice. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and imprisons 6 to 10 times as many people as any other industrialized country. Between 1990 and 2000 the US population increased 13%. The US prison population more than tripled.
There are hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans in prison. They are there because the criminal justice system no longer works to discover the truth of a crime, but to convict at all cost whoever happens to be charged with a crime. And they are there because the US criminalizes more acts than any other country in the world, including tyrannical police states.
In the US there are three categories of prisoners: the guilty, the innocent, and those convicted as a result of prosecutors’ interpretations of vague and broad statutes that deem conduct to be criminal that reasonable people – and every other country – do not recognize to be criminal.
For example, in the Martha Stewart case, the prosecutor criminalized her exercise of her constitutional right to declare her innocence. He said it constituted fraud for her to declare her innocence and tacked on the charge. Remember that if you ever stand before a judge.
- Paul Craig Roberts
Consider justice. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and imprisons 6 to 10 times as many people as any other industrialized country. Between 1990 and 2000 the US population increased 13%. The US prison population more than tripled.
There are hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans in prison. They are there because the criminal justice system no longer works to discover the truth of a crime, but to convict at all cost whoever happens to be charged with a crime. And they are there because the US criminalizes more acts than any other country in the world, including tyrannical police states.
In the US there are three categories of prisoners: the guilty, the innocent, and those convicted as a result of prosecutors’ interpretations of vague and broad statutes that deem conduct to be criminal that reasonable people – and every other country – do not recognize to be criminal.
For example, in the Martha Stewart case, the prosecutor criminalized her exercise of her constitutional right to declare her innocence. He said it constituted fraud for her to declare her innocence and tacked on the charge. Remember that if you ever stand before a judge.
- Paul Craig Roberts
I caught Alan Dershowitz defending Martha Stewart on ABC tv this morning. Most Americans who pay any attention at all to the news of her trial think she is being charged with insider trading. She is not. She is accused of asserting her innocence to federal prosecutors who accused her of insider trading. She is on trial for allegedly lying about her innocence.
Think about that. The Constituton supposedly gives us the presumption of innocence. A federal bureaucrat shows up and says, in effect, "We haven't defined insider trading yet, Mrs. Stewart, but we think you're guilty of it and should go to prison for it." Marth says "I'm innocent" and for that she's prosecuted.
Dershowittz was right on the money when he announced on ABC, "This is like the Soviet Union!"
- Thomas DiLorenzo
Think about that. The Constituton supposedly gives us the presumption of innocence. A federal bureaucrat shows up and says, in effect, "We haven't defined insider trading yet, Mrs. Stewart, but we think you're guilty of it and should go to prison for it." Marth says "I'm innocent" and for that she's prosecuted.
Dershowittz was right on the money when he announced on ABC, "This is like the Soviet Union!"
- Thomas DiLorenzo
Now, to Martha. The feds were looking for scapegoats for the stock market crash caused by "the fed." Also, there are a lot of federal bureaucrats out there with free-floating hostility toward people who work for a living. They are called U. S. Attorneys, who, judging by prison statistics, specialize in prosecuting people for victimless crimes. Also, every federal prosecutor envisions himself ensconced in the U. S. Senate in a few years and to that end it is always helpful to destroy the life of someone famous. Combine these malevolent motives and add in one famous businesswoman friendly with the previous administration and the result is an expensive and highly-publicized investigation over nothing.
As I wrote last August, Martha Stewart was not guilty of insider trading; she was "guilty" of outsider trading, which is perfectly legal. Nevertheless, she was investigated by people who are virtually immune from suit. They investigate, prosecute and ruin lives because they can get away with it. Martha did commit a serious crime during the investigation. She refused to be intimidated; she refused to grovel; she refused to take a plea. The feds can’t stand it when anyone stands up to them. It’s an attitude they copped after the confederates kicked them out of Charleston harbor in 1861.
But the feds faced a small problem. Martha was not guilty. What to do? Apologize and offer to pay her legal fees? Not a chance. They needed the scalp of a non-friend-of-George. They plunged forward, playing the old perjury trap game. You go after someone who has done nothing wrong in the hope of getting them to lie so they can be charged with perjury or lying to the government. Funny – when people lie to the government, it’s a crime; when government lies to the people, it’s just another day at the office
- James Ostrowski
As I wrote last August, Martha Stewart was not guilty of insider trading; she was "guilty" of outsider trading, which is perfectly legal. Nevertheless, she was investigated by people who are virtually immune from suit. They investigate, prosecute and ruin lives because they can get away with it. Martha did commit a serious crime during the investigation. She refused to be intimidated; she refused to grovel; she refused to take a plea. The feds can’t stand it when anyone stands up to them. It’s an attitude they copped after the confederates kicked them out of Charleston harbor in 1861.
But the feds faced a small problem. Martha was not guilty. What to do? Apologize and offer to pay her legal fees? Not a chance. They needed the scalp of a non-friend-of-George. They plunged forward, playing the old perjury trap game. You go after someone who has done nothing wrong in the hope of getting them to lie so they can be charged with perjury or lying to the government. Funny – when people lie to the government, it’s a crime; when government lies to the people, it’s just another day at the office
- James Ostrowski
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