To be honest, the faithful on this thread are the only folks I've corresponded with who feel as you and I do. I don't think America is aware of what is going on -- at least that's what I tell myself. Before this thread and those in America who were "on" to what was happening in Durham, I thought I was the lone ranger. Having lived through it, I knew what was happening -- it was like living it all over again -- the total insanity, the more you say you're innocent, the more the authorities say you're not. It used to be like that in involuntary commitments to insane assylums. The more you'd say I'm not crazy, the more meds they'd pump into you. It has been like a nightmare you can't wake up from. All of you on this thread have helped me keep my sanity.
No one in my family has every encountered anything like this. Geez, my ancestors names are on the Declaration of Independence. We don't raise criminals or heathens. We work, pay our taxes and bills, go to church, teach Sunday school and wind up with a kid with a sealed record for what? Telling another kid to stop goofing off in class and wasting paper. Holy Mother of God, I don't know what I would have done if others couldn't see the terror a misguided police officer and D.A. can cause. It's like the old, "If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?" I was yelling and no one could hear.
"I don't think America is aware of what is going on"
Hey, all we see is Adam 12, Perry Mason, Law and Order, and SCI.
The good guys are all on one side and they win in the end.
(Can't remember when I saw a crooked judge or DA on the screen, except maybe in one Al Pacino movie.)
I see lots of movies with crooked priests and politicians, but no judges or DAs. So I'm not prepared to accept that maybe Judge Dimwittle, the epitome of righteousness, might be on the take.
Know this. FreeRepublic was the FIRST bulletin board to get out in front of this hoax. We were the only ones for a while. Before the blogs, before TalkLeft, before CourtTV. We were it. I'm really proud of all the faithful here. And we're gonna stick with it to the very end...
I am generally supportive of the police and law enforcement, but when you read about cases like this one here, it offers up pictures of totalitarianism........a complete white wash of the facts and bending of the law by those in power.....