Comments on: What ever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?

By: Will Sommer

Will Sommer — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:36:11 +0000

Rabbitize, I’m not sure what Duke preppie you’re referring to, but I do like your French revolution analogy because if that’s the case, then the Voice is Marat.

Cynthia McKinney lost her seat in Congress, and Patrick Kennedy DID go to rehab. What did Cynthia McKinney do that was so awful, though?

By: Tinkerbell

Tinkerbell — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:39:13 +0000

Thank God people are finally talking in a balanced, sensitive and thoughtful manner. All of us, as Americans, need to continue to support our legal system..Innocent before proven guilty and “ONE NATION …UNDER GOD ..WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!!! That would be victims and perpetrators…… By the way Where do the falsely accused fit in…..????

By: Rabbitize

Rabbitize — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:33:00 +0000

Ah, but remember that justice in DC is always political, and about as fair as the tribunals during the French Revolution.

Cynthia McKinney and Patrick Kennedy can do things that would get a student fines and time in rehab or the slammer, but they are allowed to skate.

A rich white male preppie from Duke can be harassed and then knocked down and then make threatening gestures (defensive?) at his assailants and call them names, and the DC Attorney assigns a task force of 17 to prosecute him (all while DC is having a ‘crime emergency’).

The verdict always depends, as in France, on what the galleries are shouting.

I don’t know if in this current case the accused is guilty or not; but I do know that there will be tremendous pressure on the DC Attorney’s office
to make sure he doesn’t get the same treatment McKinney and Kennedy got.

What the Attorney’s office and the local police need is a ‘victims of false accusations support unit’. Don’t think we’ll be seeing one of those soon…