"John Kerry's Latest Snowden Comments Are Moronic, Offensive, and Dangerous"--Nathasha Lennard

[Swede Atlanta]

20. Our justice system if pretty good?

What?

Our justice system is a joke. We have over 25% of the world's prison population. Why? Is it because Americans are that much more criminal than people in other countries? There may be something to that based on the "me, me, me" mentality of the right but that is not my point.

Of those incarcerated, minorities constitute the majority. Their percentage of the population is much lower than their numbers in our prison population. I wonder why? It is because we still have racism that is rampant in juries. It is because many minorities are people of limited means therefore dependent on public defenders. Here in Georgia the General Assembly basically doesn't want to pay for any public defenders. So you end up with lawyers who are trying to do the best job but are overworked and underpaid. With all due respect to public defenders, the brightest and sharpest lawyers are generally attracted to the highly paid positions with prestigious law firms, etc. So the poor and minorities get what's left.

We know we convict people to death who are innocent. Our illustrious Justice Scalia has said that "factual innocence is no reason not to execute". His view is even if a defendant is factually innocent, if the defendant got a "fair trial" and was convicted....party on with the death penalty.

Based on what we saw in Manning's case I wouldn't trust this government at all. They are criminal thugs who will do whatever they can to get a conviction despite the facts.

So no, Snowden shouldn't come back to face anything. I say thank you Mr. Snowden for your service to our country!