3 1/2 Years of Profound Florida Evil Ends (for one man)
I first blogged about Richard Paey in in April, 2004. This was when Jeb Bush and other Florida cronies and mobsters first locked up a wheelchair-bound father suffering from multiple sclerosis for a 25-year sentence for the "crime" of medicating himself with painkillers. I posted again near the end of 2006 when the applicable District Court of Appeals implicated itself in perpetuating the crime against Paey.
I don’t know anything about Florida’s current governor, Charlie Crist, but at least, finally, someone has gone and done the right thing.
It should have never happened, it’s 3 1/2 years late, and it’s an absolute shame and disgrace that it did happen at all — one of the many things that makes me embarrassed and utterly unenthusiastic in being called an "American." This sort of thing is far worse even than the drug raids where innocent people get harmed and killed. That’s bad enough, but at the very least, that outcome is not explicitly intended. This was a brutal and premeditated evil conspiracy and I would be glad to know the names of every person involved directly in it, so that I may have future days to celebrate once they become worm food, or, hopefully, worse.
There’s a lot I can tolerate, but this zealous prosecutorial system we have, which, for the sake of prestige and promotion goes after people and businesses who haven’t harmed anyone, is the worst thing about America. There is no other place in the world that goes after their finest or most infirm, like we do: under the pretense of "justice." Frankly, I’d rather it be done in secret, like the commies do, or in a kangaroo court. Of course, "kangaroo court" is a matter of perspective. The average American can recognize it elsewhere. He just doesn’t recognize it here.
(Balko)
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"Frankly, I'd rather it be done in secret, like the commies do, or in a kangaroo court. "
Ha. They would just up our taxes to keep it hush hush, on top of the evils they commit. But the scary thing is, they know they can do this openly and no one can (or won't) do anything about it.
"The average American can recognize it elsewhere. He just doesn't recognize it here."
Hmmm… sometimes. I find too many people have mixed views, like this:
Most wouldn't approve of a man being imprisoned (with MS at that!) just for taking medicine "illegaly" to cope with is conditon. On the other hand, many Americans will attack anything that seems to them to be "unbriddled capitalism" and not see one being the consequence of the other.
They somehow can't see those things in the same light, so the monsters of course persist in the farce of a legal system we have; "well, it might not be right that innocent people can be jailed, but at least those inhuman monsters keep us safe from Big Evil Inc!", is the answer I tend to get when I point out that disparity.
Then when someone DOES right the wrong, "the system works!". I'm glad that poor man was released but sometimes I gotta wonder… do they only allow this kind of noble action just to keep people's feelings mixed up?!