Now, if only we could get a conviction... -----Original Message-----
FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED MARCH 1, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Where are they now?
Only last week did a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous ruling, overturn the conviction of Miami police officer Grant Snowden, sentenced in 1986 to five life terms on charges he had committed sexual crimes against small children.
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If juries are willing to embrace "professional" testimony that small children who make fantastic, rambling accusations are telling the truth "99.5 percent of the time," have we really come so far from the days of the Salem witchcraft trials ... which ended, instructively enough, when 23 Massachusetts juries in a row finally refused to convict? ...
What about those prosecutors, by the way? What ever did become of the ambitious Dade County State Attorney whose office prosecuted Officer Snowden -- now ordered to be released "unless the state affords him a speedy new trial"?
Why, her name was Janet Reno, and she was elevated in 1993 to the position of attorney general of the United States, where she immediately oversaw the "protection" of the children of the Mount Carmel religious community in Waco, Texas, by federal agents who trapped them in their church by using armored vehicles to knock down walls and escape staircases, injected the premises with poison gas, and in the process started a fatal conflagration by knocking over kerosene lanterns and space heaters, all while fellow G-men poured "suppressive" automatic weapons fire into the structure to stop anyone from escaping or resisting.
(See it for yourself, as filmed by federal government cameras: Order the video "Waco: The Terms of Engagement," now nominated for an Academy Award as best documentary, at $25 by dialing 1-800-771-2147, ext. 19.)
Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin@lvrj.com. The web site for the Suprynowicz column is at http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127.