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Steve Thompson
stevet at sendon.net
Mon Jul 16 07:11:59 PDT 2001
Quoting George at Orwellian.Org (George at Orwellian.Org):
> : After more than a quarter of a century in prison, a Black Panther
> : activist has won the right to a new trial. A judge ruled there had
> : been prosecutorial misconduct. The judge overturned the conviction
> : when it was disclosed the government prosecutors withheld critical
> : evidence:
>
> That's a long time to sit in jail just because the FBI didn't want to
> reveal its monitoring operations, isn't it?
What a surprise that the interests of State Officials trumps due process.
It's also a shocking surprise that the individuals employed by the various
agencies collectively remained silent.
"Broken eggs and all that."
Regards,
Steve
--
``The pressure of society forces upon us conduct which later we discover to be
necessary for our happiness and for the preservation of a society whose
survival is a condition of our happiness.''
-- H. J. Paton, ``Can Reason Be Practical?''
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