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Nice Dissenting Opinion on the Fairness of the Criminal Justice System

   I was recently having a conversation with someone about the possibility for unreliability and/or unfairness in the criminal justice system. I was reminded of this quote from a Supreme Court case which is from Justice Harry Blackmun's dissenting opinion. The case was Darden v. Wainwright 477 U.S. 168 (1986). Obviously he's talking about the Supreme Court level, but if this could be said about their accuracy, then how shall we communicate about fairness at the trial court level? "JUSTICE BLACKMUN, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN, JUSTICE MARSHALL, and JUSTICE STEVENS join, dissenting. Although the Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant only "a fair trial [and] not a perfect one,"  Lutwak v. United States,   344 U. S. 604 ,  344 U. S. 619  (1953);  Bruton v. United States,   391 U. S. 123 ,  391 U. S. 135  (1968), this Court has stressed repeatedly in the decade since  Gregg v. Georgia,   428 U. S. 153  (1976), that ...

I have my 詩 , I have my intelligence

哥林多前书 15:56-58 Chinese New Version (Traditional) (CNVT) 56  死的毒刺就是罪,罪的權勢就是律法。   57  感謝 神,他藉著我們的主耶穌基督,把勝利賜給我們。   58  所以,我親愛的弟兄們,你們務要堅固,不可動搖,常常竭力多作主工,因為知道你們的勞苦,在主裡面不是徒然的。

"I had my headset on..."

   The moment people are waiting for is here. My book three years "in the making" will be ready for purchase online this week. The Poetry was a fictional novel which, after the first draft, became an editing and revision nightmare. The novella I'm letting out this week pays a great deal of respect to the original version. I'm sure that people will still appreciate the highly integrated stylistic/grammatical construct involved. Check on Amazon.com for it. The paperback will be inexpensive, but I'm not allowing a Kindle version because such a botch-job was done with Playing Saint Ditch . You can check out right here how the cover will look, and I've placed the back cover synopsis right below that.    [amazon has it now!  https://amzn.com/1537590227  ]

I'm not a dope fiend or user

   I'm not a dope fiend. I don't use or abuse street drugs or narcotics. Actually my commitment to staying sober is reverse from societal norms and what most people do, so that's part of why I'm different. My length of time staying sober is longer than other persons by many months in some cases.    [edited for content as we are under a bad regime and therefore do not have freedom of speech]

I'm not a communist or any kind of extremist

   I'm not a communist or any kind of extremist. I would red-bait others though, to identify communist/socialist pigs and thugs by their typical "mental hygiene rhetoric," and their advocating for vaccination. I'm not any kind of Nazi or neo-Nazi, and I oppose fascism, totalitarianism and/or authoritarian dictatorships. So that covers the fact that I'm not too far left-wing or too far right-wing.    I'm not any kind of a Muslim or any kind of religious extremist wackjob like those who bomb federal buildings and so forth. I'm a follower of Jesus Christ, who gave the Sermon on the Mount, so I am actually not allowed to be that type of extremist.