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The Cost of Innocence By Alan Sorensen It has been my experience that the more we care about the world the more the world and all its people finds new ways to hurt us. With that said please let me share some personal observations about life in a man made hell on earth some generously call humane for nothing more than speaking inconvient and indisputable truths. Perhaps then you too may see the pointed questions we should all be asking ourselves. Why is it when we see people suffering from obvious delusions we are quick to call it mental illness, but when a civilized society suffers from the same things in the name of ' political correctness ' we allow our law makers to pass such laws that are nothing more than gossip, innuendo, and hearsay, to stack sentences that destroy freedoms and lives, and these delusions of justice we call normal. I must then ask how many of the very people we often trust and ture to ever take into consideration the legitimacy of such laws. Simply put the concept of proportionality dictates that the punishment should fit the crime and not the often barbaric punishments and sentences that are in total based on a rummor mill that is circumstantial at best by alleged victims that is never called into question. Dont take my word for it, the ' Bureau of Justice Statistics ' in Washington, D.C. states that at least fourty percent of all such convictions are wrong. How then can we ever truly address the elephant in the room of the wrongfully convicted. Until then we will never have real criminal justice reform. In such a society of this ' political correct thinking ' evil gossip and hearsay exceptions as ' the new type of evidence have become the new norm and foundations of what once was and is unconscionable laws of the good old boy thinking. Such people want repetition of old behaviors, not the ideas of real fairness, spontaneity of change, growth or progress. Such thinking is seen as dangerous to all those locked in a system of the status quo where outmoded values of a long dead past leaves our neighbors and their children to go hungry or without real health care. Lets face the truth, such thinking requires one thing, the ' unthinking obedience ' so the good old boys of the past can survive as it always has. Just ask any of us who have lived through it. Thank you 1
