SavannahMann
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INDIVIDUALS are responsible for their own actions.
The bad acts of a few cops do not make good cops guilty.
You say the individuals are responsible for their actions. The actions of the few do not make the rest guilty. Then help me out here.
The one who brutalizes the individual is guilty. The others who assist, are guilty. The Sergeant or other supervisor who has people write their report to minimize the brutality, is guilty. All of the individuals are guilty, but who else is? Obviously this isn’t the first time the guy did it. So those who did this before are guilty as well. The ones who minimized and covered up the lies are guilty.
The cop who plants the evidence is guilty. The cop who turns around so he won’t see it planted is guilty. That cop is avoiding personal responsibility because he knows a crime is being committed. All these individuals are guilty. By your own standard.
Yet, why can the cop get away with planting evidence? Because he knows the others will stand by him. They will lie to cover it up. They will lie to protect him.
Let’s say you are raped. The suspect is a neighbor, and I swear up and down that you were hanging all over the neighbor and were begging him to take you to bed. You weren’t, but I say it on the stand. I am a respected citizen, a Deacon at the Church, a prominent businessman, and a friend of the Mayor. The Prosecutor does not challenge my claims, and the Grand Jury fails to indict my friend.
Yes, I have committed Perjury, but I have done worse. I have denied you justice for the crime you have experienced. I have abused my position to insure that Justice is not served. I have betrayed my oath and my duty as a man. I have committed a crime so terrible that no amount of prison would be sufficient.
This happens every single day. For offenses minor, and major. For traffic violations, and for major investigations.
This is just one example, of many thousands. How Prosecutors Ruined the Life of Corey Williams
An innocent man served twenty years for a crime he did not commit. The actually guilty people never served a day. Worse, they never will. They will never see the inside of a prison for the robbery and murder they committed.
Yes, we want the Guilty punished. But we have rules, and those rules are not hurdles to get over, or around. They are in place to make as sure as humanly possible that cases like this never happen. They are in place to make sure that the innocent does not go to prison. They are in place to make sure that the only one who goes to prison is the guilty.
But when we send an innocent man, or woman, to prison we commit a crime as a society. We send that person to prison for a crime they did not commit. We blew through those safeguards, we violated the highest law of the land, the Constitution, to do so.
Our system of laws is simple. All laws derive their authority fromt he Constitution, and all laws must obey the Constitution. If I was President, I could not pass a law saying that a religion is prohibited. The First Amendment makes sure I can’t do that. I could not, would not sign a law that violated the Second Amendment. Similarly I would object mightily to violations of any other right guaranteed to the citizens by that document.
I can do no less as a citizen and maintain the ability to look at myself in the mirror.
Each individual is responsible for their own actions, and collectively they are corrupt. Because they cover up for the abuse, and corruption, of the others. Like the scenario above where I covered up a brutal crime for a friend, they are no less terrible.
Oh, and for the record, my friends know I would never do that. If they are looking for someone to lie for them, I’m not the one.