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To: TexConfederate1861

Talk about "moving the goal post"... I was specifically asked to identify a single instance in which a Confederate was CHARGED with treason. I did so.

The fact that the charges were dropped against Davis makes him no more innocent of treason than the jury's decision makes OJ Simpson innocent of murder.


42 posted on 06/21/2005 8:36:17 PM PDT by ambrose (.)
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To: ambrose

Perhaps this little American concept eludes you: innocent until proven guilty.

I could bring up (false) charges against you, claiming you are harboring terrorists.

And if those charges are dropped, does that give me any right to keep insisting otherwise?


46 posted on 06/21/2005 8:40:50 PM PDT by MacDorcha (In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
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To: ambrose

So...now you've appointed yourself judge and jury.
The charges were DROPPED. That means no charges existed effectively. NO TREASON. And though like you, I dislike the OJ case, the man was found NOT GUILTY, by a jury of his peers. You either believe in our system, or you DON'T.


64 posted on 06/22/2005 4:19:17 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861 (Secession....the last resort against tyranny.)
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