[mvpel]

Barnacle, are you suggesting that I need to be gung ho in my support of a system that condemns innocent people as often as it condemns the guilty in order to be considered "conservative?"

Again I ask, what do I have to think in order to be considered a "conservative" by you?

We're not Democratic Underground, we don't ban people here for failing to toe the party line.

The charter of Free Republic is to work to roll back decades of governmental largesse, and to root out political fraud and corruption.

I assume you agree that we are living under a government that has made mincemeat of our constitutional rights and has trampled well beyond its constitutional limits, since that's what FreeRepublic is working to correct.

Do you seriously want that kind of fraud-ridden, corrupt, fatted government, which actively works to stack the juries in its favor contrary to the spirit and intent of the jury system, to administer the death penalty?

I should clarify, though - I am not opposed to the death penalty per se, such as in cases where there is an eyewitness to murder. It's the shoddy circumstantial cases with gleaming facades, and the jury stacking involved in them, that I object to.

I really don't see what the L word has to do with that, or why it's inclining you to ignore my points.

[Barnacle]