Um I'm sorry but the system was never abused.
In any system, there will be mistakes etc...it seems to me that this young man took a risk by taking part in the protests-- and was arrested and charged in good faith by the police and prosecutors.
I feel no sympathy at all for him or his family.
Amerika? With a k.
Bye bye troll.
That's the most un-American thing I've heard in awhile.
and was arrested and charged in good faith by the police and prosecutors.
Oh really? There was a thread posted here the other day about how 90% of these cases were being dropped by the state because of cops lying and fabricating evidence. The only reason this was discoved was because many private citizens were recording events with their own video cameras, and later turned them in to the DA. In one case, the cops had their own tape, but cut out all the exculpatory evidence. They blamed this on an "editing error".
I suspect that next time around, they'll simply ban video recorders as a "security" measure. And the statist contigent here will applaud that also.
I feel no sympathy at all for him or his family.
Anyone who dares to disagree with you obviously deserves to be falsely arrested, right?
Amerika? With a k.
Yep. Welcome to the police state.
I have to disagree with you. The troll with America with a K revealed an anti-American bias. Plus I agree with you that it does sound as if he was charged in an honest mistake.
But certainly you would feel sorry if say an anti-abortion protestor was misidentified and it cost them a lot of money and it upset their life. I know I would feel sorry for them. And you can't have it both ways. People have the right to protest and speak their mind in this country. Sometimes at a protest, right or left, someone will do something illegal. But similarly if you go to a movie, a ball game, a concert, a play etc someone could do something wrong and you could be misidentified as the bad guy. So of course we should feel bad for this guy IF HE REALLY DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG.
And in fact we should feel doubly bad for him, not only did he wrongly get identified and have his life upset for nine months and cost his family a good bit of money, but he is apparently a clueless Dim who does not have any idea how the world works. Thus as I said, we should feel doubly bad for him.
I assume you would feel the same for somebody arrested at a conservative protest where some people broke the law.
Say you were identified as somebody who crossed the abortion clinic barrier but it was actually somebody else.
I assume you would say..."oh well, mistakes happen. Tough luck watson. I guess you shouldn't have exercised your constitutional right to peaceably assemble since some others broke the law and they screwed up and lumped you in with them. But oh well watson, it is really your own fault, so oops....I guess I will go to jail over it."
No, of course you would defend yourself.
This guy was peaceably protesting, which is his right as an American even if we disagree with him.
The city of New York owes him his life back.
Mulder's been here three years longer than you have. I seriously doubt he's a troll. Get a grip. Simply because he has a different opinion than yours does not necessarily make him a troll. I've seen conservatives use "Amerika" many times, especially in stories about the abuses of government. I've also seen them use "fedgov" and "comsymp" to communicate the same sentiment.