Transexuals

[Sterben]

          Would you feel empathy for someone who assaulted a loved one? Would you feel anger or pity when your in the court room, having to watch as a good defense attorney works the room? When the moment finally arrives and that not guilty verdict is announced, what happens to your humanism then?

I would be sad, but I would take some comfort in knowing that our Justice System worked; he's supposed to have a good defense lawyer, obviously the State did not adequately prove its case, and the person (no matter how much I may "know" they are guilty) was protected by Due Process. It is far more important that we protect ourselves from a runaway court system more interested in revenge than fairness than it is for me to get my personal revenge. That's why we have a court system.

It's also why it's important to fight for better science in the courts and legal system. Courts still rely too heavily on eyewitness testimony, which has been shown in hundreds of scientific tests to be effectively useless as proof because of the way the human mind works, and also the opportunity for tampering-- yet juries love it and believe it, and the courts hide behind the jury's belief in upholding convictions that are often later shown (by science, such as DNA testing) to have been false convictions.

I would much rather someone whom I am convinced murdered my whole family go free than to think of one innocent person rotting in a cage my society built.

           Fighting the injustice that our legal system has become is a becoming a losing battle. Protests that non-violent are ineffective, the only way change will come to our justice system is through means of sheer force. "Tough on crime" is a concept that has done massive amounts of harm to our society. I agree fully on the aspects of improving sciences and making it mandatory in legal system. We're facing a new major threat, and that is the (N.S.A), they are the new major player in the violation of our rights. If your watching us talk about you I'd like to give a message "Fuck you, your fucking scum and your actions are shameful!". There will be a major uprising one day when enough people are serving prison terms for non-violet drug charges as well as similar crimes.