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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Ish who wrote (121156)	1/7/2001 5:14:26 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) of 769667

<Oh God say that isn't true. Ashcroft want's to lock up the killers of the thin blue line that keeps us semi safe? Can't let him be AG. No sir. Let the killers run loose. Bet you want me to turn in my guns too.< The issue wasn't "locking up" killers. The issue was whether or not he received sufficient and adequate defense to impose a death penalty. Like most people on this thread you talk a lot about "rights" and "freedom", but, when someone questions whether defendants in a criminal proceeding received their "rights" and were properly deprived of their "freedom" or their LIFE you assume that the gov't has done things properly and legally. This is all the more amazing given the incredible level of paranoia about government that's on this thread. People who are worried about the FBI or CIA or whomever barging in their houses and "taking their guns away" should wake up. You have more to fear from a runaway DA, corrupt or dishonest police than you do from the CIA or AFT running amok in your neighborhood. The assumption that everyone arrested and indicted ACTUALLY committed the crime they are accused of is very misguided. The issue is PRESERVING EVERYONE'S RIGHTS TO FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JUSTICE. Its not about "criminals" rights, its about "defendants" rights. If you think this is all BS then go look up the sad history of Illinois in death penalty cases. 33% of all death penalty sentences have been reversed and nearly 20% of all convictions overturned because they convicted and sentenced to death someone who didn't commit the crime! Lastly, if you think this is all "bleeding heart liberal" stuff you aren't upholding the very "freedoms" you talk about so much and have never actually seen what one of these cases is about. I used to be a big supporter of the death penalty, too. But, I got involved with a case from S.C. that was on appeal and learned what can really go on. It changed my mind because I never had a problem with the government's "right" to execute people, but, I learned that there is no way to actually assure that everyone executed actually committed the crime they were convicted of.

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