Thursday, August 07, 2014

Economic Waco

“My experiences illustrate the reality of prosecutorial over-reach, and the ease with which people can find themselves in court facing prison time and financial ruin over charges that have no merit,” Bujak told me during a quiet meeting in a Nampa coffee shop in the company of his wife, Crystalee. “That's why about ninety percent of the people who face federal charges accept a deal in exchange for foregoing their right to a trial. They're terrified, which is understandable, and if they wind up with a public defender they'll be fed into a plea-bargaining machine. And prosecutors know that the key to career advancement is to win convictions. This is especially true of elected prosecutors, such as district attorneys..." [More
And when the victims don't go along, tyrannical travesties like this are the result.

That one never ceases to disappoint me in re how few care: to get informed, to help, even to do the bare minimum of helping spread the word that "legitimate media" refuses to do...

Kind of makes me wonder how many chatroom warriors will be up for real hardships and sacrifices when the time comes...

[Via JM]

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