What ever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty"??

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45. Ah excuse me but in legal circles there was quite a bit of furor over

A President (Nixon during the Charles Manson Trial, and Obama during Manning's tirial) saying words to the effect that that the guilty person should be found guilty.

You mightn't think that it is important. So I invite you to watch or re-watch the excellent movie "State of Siege."

You might need to watch it several times for it to sink in - the "guilt of any person in this nation, if allowed to be determined ONLY be the playing of "evidence" on TV is a shabby way to handle our inalienable rights to be presumed innocent and to have a trial."

Remember the original suspect in the Atlanta GA Olympic bombing? IO am fairly convince that had this bombing occurred after Nine Eleven, then he would have been shot and seriously hurt long before it was discovered the authorities had nabbed the wrong person.

No where in any major discussion of our Constitutional rights do our founding fathers say, "Well if it should be explained again and again on our nation's Major Main$tream media that an individual did such and such, at the tenth viewing of such claptrap, that person no longer deserves his right to be presumed innocent."

We have all witnessed over the last fourteen years the damage this type of "The matter before us is so serious that it deserves no thoughtfulness or real consideration - so full steam ahead."

In fact, it is this style of "Shock Doctrine" thinking by which so many people on the Democratic side of the aisle condemn George Dubya and Cheney. the judgement against the Republicans in power is out in full force -- on account of the fact that now most people are aware of the Big Lie that launched the Shock and Awe and ten eyar Occupation of the nation of Iraq, with so much civilian death, perhaps as many as one million people killed there, and six and a half thousand of oru people as well. Even though, let's be honest the damn Democrats voted for the Iraq War the second they affirmed the passage of the Iraq War Resolution, Fall of 2002.