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 From: gowch@SPAMTHEENOThotmail.com 
  
 On 18 Apr 2004 22:32:56 -0700, bja@ix.netcom.com (Jim Austin) wrote: 
  
 [snip] 
  
 ==>> If the politicians elect a better way of dealing with crime 
 ==>> than by perpetuating the incarceration industry, which is toothless 
 ==>> against ongoing crime, then there is certainly an opportunity for 
 ==>> society to live without prisons. They can be simply closed and 
 ==>> never reopened again.... 
  
 ==>And all the freed prisoners can be given bus tickets to this guy's 
 neighborhood. 
  
   You're an asshole, Jim.  You don't know squat. 
  
   About 90 per cent of prisoners in the U.S. are 
   incarcerated for non-violent crimes, and should never 
   have been imprisoned in the first place. 
  
   Besides that, an unknown but significant percentage 
   of prisoners in the U.S. are utterly innocent of the 
   crimes for which they were arrested -- having been 
   convicted through wrongdoing by police and/or 
   prosecutors or because they couldn't afford competent 
   counsel.  Mostly, they were members of a minority 
   group and therefore an easy conviction in the racist 
   U.S. 
  
   The other day, North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley 
   pardoned Darryl Hunt (a black man, of course) in a 
   1984 rape and murder, a crime for which he was 
   wrongfully convicted and spent 18 years in prison. 
  
   As compensation, Hunt will receive $360,000 -- that's 
   $20,000 for each year he rotted in prison.  That, in 
   the United Snakes, is what an innocent man's life is 
   worth. 
  
   There's a similar story almost every week.  The 
   "justice" system in the United Snakes is a grim joke. 
  
   You motherfuckers who defend it had better pray 
   there's no just God. 
  
  
  
  
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 THE RULES OF RESISTANCE 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 NEVER tell the police anything. 
 NEVER consent to a search. 
 NEVER confess. 
 NEVER discuss your case with others. 
 NEVER plea bargain. 
 ALWAYS demand a lawyer. 
 ALWAYS plead not guilty. 
 ALWAYS demand a full jury trial. 
 ALWAYS appeal, if you are convicted. 
 ALWAYS pass on these rules. 
  
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