CDR: Re: Lee Free - Judge Apologizes For Government's Conduct

[Tim May]

At 6:17 PM -0400 9/13/00, Steven Furlong wrote:
>Tim May wrote:
>...
>>  Lee spent 9 months in solitary confinement and lost significant
>>  salary and retirement benefits.
>>
>>  This makes it a moral requirement that former Defense Secretary
>>  William Perry face a similar period of confinement and similar loss
>>  of benefits. Perry has acknowledged downloading top secrets to his
>>  home computer and leaving codeword material where his family,
>>  housekeepers, and other visitors could have found and copied it.
>
>For once, I am even harsher than Tim, or at least what Tim wrote.
>
>FBI and other agents admitted to making "misleading" statements in
>their arguments to keep Mr Lee in jail. Every goverment employee
>involved in "misleading" statements, pressure on Lee's family and
>friends, and supression of exculpatory evidence should be immediately
>jailed and held in solitary confinement for some multiple of the time
>Lee was held.
>
>Those who would monitor and control our behaviour should be held to
>higher standards than those they would control.

Maybe harsher than what I wrote above, but, as you allude to, not 
necessarily harsher than what I think.

Fact is, government criminals are almost never held accountable for 
their crimes. Order the killings of innocents...get a transfer and 
promotion. Write assassination manuals for third world police 
forces...get a medal. Illegally use FBI files to attack one's 
political opponents...be told not to do it again. Shoot an unarmed 
man 31 times in a hail of gunfire...be found innocent.

And the gubment types and their court lackeys have written things so 
that "suing the government" is nearly impossible.

Meanwhile, "double jeopardy" is being rolled-back on almost a daily 
basis. Prosecutors are congratulating themselves when they find 
loopholes and new laws which allow them to "take a second bite of the 
apple."

Fucking creeps.

--Tim May
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