The Police State Is Already Here

This is really terrifying. This should have never been in court in the first place, let alone gone this far.
This is as bad as Nifong during the Duke rape case.

Courtesy of Trey Ellis at the HuffingtonPost.com

If you were watching CNN this afternoon you saw incredibly compelling television. Genarlow Wilson, the Georgia high-school homecoming king and 3.2 G.P.A. student, sentenced to ten years for receiving consensual oral sex from a fifteen-year-old when he was seventeen, was finally freed by a judge. The Soviet-styled sentencing was overturned after the state of Georgia had already wasted two years of this young man's life.

It seemed that the Kafkaesque nightmare was over and this young black Georgian could finally get on with his life.

Yet moments later Georgia District Attorney Thurbert Baker faxed the celebrating family of young Mr. Wilson that he was appealing the verdict.

As Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson stated in his decision to free Genarlow Wilson, "If this court or any court cannot recognize the injustice of what has occurred here, then our court system has lost sight of the goal our judicial system has always strived to accomplish....If any case fits into the definitive limits of a miscarriage of justice, surely this case does."
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The people who prosecuted this case are either crooks or extremists.
Thurbert Baker must have gone to the same law school as Gonzales. And the worst part of all, the kid still sits in jail while the creeps who prosecuted him are immune to any accountability.
I have been convinced for some time that our Democracy is gone, cases like this just reinforce that belief.
The Gestapo might come for you, next.

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