The Court system Guilty or Innocent it doesn’t matter in the USA!

As is has been shown recently in Georgia and many other various locations across the country our judicial system is fraught with dangerous perils and suffering quite often caused by unscrupulous prosecutors hell bent on furthering their careers. In a case in Durham North Carolina a state prosecutor was disbarred and charges were brought against him for prosecutorial misconduct, however this is rarely the case.

Prosecutors only further their political careers by their conviction rates and quite often they become our future politicians. For them the defendants are an afterthought, that they were placed into the system whether innocent or guilty is of little consequence to them even if that defendant was sentenced to death, they won the glorious conviction.

Should the US stop the Inhumane Racially Biased Murders carried out in the name of Justice?

The American Bar Association released a report on Sunday which shows among other things the glaring racial disparity in death sentences handed down by our court systems.

Stephen F. Hamilton chairman of the American Bar Associations, Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project stated, “After carefully studying the way states across the spectrum handle executions, it has become crystal clear that the process is deeply flawed, the death penalty system is rife with irregularity”.

$500 Million Pledged for Mexico and the lost War on Drugs

Hidden within President Bush’s $46 billion dollar budget request is a $500 million dollar funding package for Mexico and the lost war on drugs. Members of Congress already weary of the costs of the Iraqi conflict are looking on in dismay at the $500 million dollar request as well, which they complain was negotiated in secret meetings between the White House and the Mexican government.

The United States already has the distinction of being a nation with more of its citizens incarcerated than any other industrialized nation and these funds would only exacerbate an already alarming trend.

The United States of America and the Functional Illiterates who contribute to its Decline

Functional illiteracy in the United States is growing at a rate of over 2 million new inductees per year into its ranks and the tide will only grow stronger if current educational policies are not changed to address the problem. The Presidential legislation of No Child Left Behind is not working and the country as a whole is now and will in the future suffer the consequences.

Statistics show that functional illiterates in this country;

1. Constitute 70% of the prisoners in state and federal prisons
2. That 85% of juvenile offenders are classified as functionally or marginally illiterate
3. That 43% of those with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty
4. Over 42 million American adults can’t read
5. 50 million read at fourth or fifth grade levels
6. That the total number of functionally illiterate adults increases by approximately 2.25 million persons every single year

“Law and Order”, the Media continues to Destroy and Distort American Jurisprudence

Via the many television shows in America today the ones that draw many viewers are the brand of so-called law and order shows.

However rather than show how the laws of the US should be interpreted and used they dramatize how to Abuse the law and how it is abused within our legal system. Nightly many US citizens watch these television shows and applaud how they rid the streets of our country of criminals who are the scourge of society. They implant in us that abuse of the law by those who are called to enforce it is to be commended not that it is an appalling abuse of the criminal justice system on which this country was founded.

The lost war on drugs by the Worlds Jailer the USA!

Saturday, September 29, 2007

The United States of America has the clear distinction of incarcerating more of its citizens then any other industrialized nation, with over 2.2 million incarcerated which is a 500% increase in just over thirty years. This 500% increase is also 7 times greater than in 1970 with a cost to the American taxpayer at some $60 billion a year.