Ambition Has Prevailed Over Justice
For the entirety of my life I have believed that without justice there is no security and no life. Justice is more important than national defense, education which today works against justice, and even health. Justice is based in love, which is why injustice is hated. The problem of our time is that we live in injustice, not in justice.
In the 1980s and 1990s I began reporting on specific cases of injustice. There were the frame ups of child care centers, parents, and grandparents accused of sex abuse of children. I played a role in exposing some of the frame ups, especially the Wenatchee child sex abuse orchestration. When legislators create a new statute, prosecutors find a way to make hay with prosecutions that boost their all important conviction rates. When they passed a law that a man could be guilty of raping his own wife, that created a new avenue for women to get rid of unwanted husbands.
The asset forfeiture laws created an entirely new range of offenses for which an American could be dispossessed of his assets despite the fact that he or she had committed no crime. Police agents could commit a crime by holding a drug sting on your property and then steal your property for “facilitating a crime.” Your car could be confiscated if you picked up a hitch-hiker who had drugs in his possession. And so on endlessly. If you were stopped by police and searched and had more than $100 cash, your money was regarded as intent to buy or sell drugs and could be confiscated. There were more cases than I could report.
In 2000 my research associate and I published with a division of Random House a book that the publishers titled, The Tyranny of Good Intentions. It sold well for a serious book and a paperback edition followed.
The book establishes many things. Perhaps the most important is that justice has been subordinated to prosecutorial success. Prosecutors want high conviction rates, which they get with coerced plea bargains. Judges love plea bargains, the self-incrimination of which they never challenge because
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