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Yeah, yeah, old news. . .
Why do you think we have defense lawyers AND the RIGHT to have one in a
criminal trial?
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Ivan Gowch wrote:
IG> The U.S. system of "justice" is a tragic joke,
IG> and everyone knows it. Canada's is little
IG> better.
IG>
IG> Police abuse, and sometimes kill, innocent persons
IG> at will. Cops plant evidence, they lie, they coerce
IG> confessions and they commit perjury. Many are,
IG> simply, criminals.
IG>
IG> Prosecutors suborn perjury. They introduce "evidence"
IG> they know is false, they fail to disclose and try to
IG> suppress exculpatory evidence and they knowingly
IG> prosecute innocent people.
IG>
IG> The laws against some drugs are primarily a means
IG> to give the cops an open-ended warrant for search
IG> and seizure and a mechanism to keep poor people,
IG> young people and especially poor, young *black*
IG> people fearful, off-balance and easy to control.
IG>
IG> The U.S. law that mandates heavier penalties for crack
IG> cocaine possession than for the powdered Hollywood
IG> variety is an outrageous act of oppression aimed at
IG> ensuring that blacks are punished more harshly than
IG> whites for the same offence.
IG>
IG> The U.S. "Patriot Act," of course, is an abomination
IG> that has turned that supposedly freedom-loving
IG> land into a police state. The current
IG> administration's program of warrantless, covert
IG> surveillance of citizens is illegal and an outrage
IG> that should have people demonstrating in the street
IG> or marching on Washington. With guns in hand.
IG>
IG> Criminal court judges, for the most part, are in
IG> collusion with the cops and prosecutors and many
IG> wouldn't know justice if God came down from Heaven
IG> and handed it to them on a golden platter.
IG>
IG> The result is that in the U.S., almost one in four (23
IG> per cent) black men in the age group 20-29 is either
IG> in prison, jail, on probation, or parole on any given
IG> day (four times that of whites). The number of young
IG> black men under the control of the criminal justice
IG> system is greater than the total number of black men
IG> of all ages enrolled in college as of 1996. It's
IG> almost certainly worse today.
IG>
IG> That the system is a blunt weapon for the continued
IG> oppression of black people -- and, in a larger sense,
IG> poor people -- is so obvious it needs no further
IG> assertion.
IG>
IG> The prisons are overflowing with people who have
IG> never harmed a soul, and uncounted thousands
IG> who are innocent of the crimes they were convicted
IG> of. And these don't even include the suspected
IG> "terrorists" being tortured in various parts of the
IG> U.S.-owned and -operated gulag and denied any
IG> type of due process.
IG>
IG> The system must be brought down. It must be
IG> strangled, clogged and made so unworkable that it
IG> collapses under its own weight. Once the
IG> system grinds to a halt, the powers-that-be will
IG> panic, the legislators will be forced to act and the
IG> laws will change.
IG>
IG> Accomplishing this may not be as difficult as it
IG> sounds. What it will take is to educate young people
IG> -- and especially young BLACK people -- to follow a
IG> few simple rules when dealing with the authorities.
IG>
IG> The rules should be posted in foot-high letters on
IG> billboards in every city. They should be scrawled as
IG> graffiti on every ghetto wall. They should be taped
IG> to lockers in schools and carved into police-cell
IG> walls and posted all over the Internet. They should
IG> be set to a beat and turned into a hip-hop song.
IG> They should be seen wherever people who are the
IG> system's favourite targets gather.
IG>
IG> If everyone followed the rules to the letter, the
IG> system would stumble to a halt. And then, either the
IG> laws would change in an attempt to eliminate
IG> injustice, or the system would be forced to cast off
IG> its mask and reveal the monster police state lurking
IG> underneath.
IG>
IG> If that happens, there can be only one response, and
IG> that's to take it to the streets, dismantle the
IG> motherfucker and start afresh.
IG>
IG> The rules fall into two categories: Stymie the Cops,
IG> and Get Your Rights -- ALL Your Rights.
IG>
IG> You've waited long enough. Here are
IG>
IG> THE RULES OF RESISTANCE
IG>
IG> NEVER tell the police anything the law doesn't require
IG> you to tell.
IG>
IG> (According to a disastrous U.S. Supreme Court
IG> decision in June 2004, that means your name
IG> only [unless you're driving a car, in which
IG> case, of course, you're required to show I.D].
IG> Practice these words for all other cop
IG> questions: "I'd rather not say.")
IG>
IG> NEVER consent to a search of your person, your
IG> vehicle, your possessions or your residence.
IG>
IG> (Insist they get a warrant. If they
IG> search without one, they generally can't
IG> use as evidence whatever they might find.)
IG>
IG> NEVER confess. To anything. Never admit to
IG> anything.
IG>
IG> (If arrested, say "I want to speak to a
IG> lawyer." Say nothing until you have. Never
IG> believe the cops when they tell you things
IG> will "go easier with you" if you give a
IG> statement, turn in your partner or point them
IG> towards evidence. This is the biggest lie
IG> cops tell, everyone knows it and yet, dumb
IG> motherfuckers fall for it every day. Don't
IG> be a dumb motherfucker. The policeman is
IG> not your friend. He wants to see your ass
IG> in stir.)
IG>
IG> NEVER discuss your case with cellmates or others
IG> in or out of jail.
IG>
IG> (Assume everyone you meet in jail is a
IG> police informant. Many of them are.)
IG>
IG> NEVER plea bargain.
IG>
IG> ALWAYS demand a lawyer.
IG>
IG> (From the moment you are arrested,
IG> tell the cops you want to speak to a lawyer.
IG> At the police station, tell everyone you
IG> come into contact with that you want a
IG> lawyer. Don't talk to the cops until you've
IG> spoken with a lawyer.)
IG>
IG> ALWAYS plead not guilty.
IG>
IG> (Even if you're guilty as hell. Make them
IG> prove it. Often, they won't be able to
IG> if you don't help them.)
IG>
IG> ALWAYS demand a full jury trial.
IG>
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