In the ostensible land of the free, we are told that all people are presumed innocent until proven guilty by their peers. To those who’ve been paying attention however, we know that “innocent until proven guilty” is a farce into today’s police state. If you doubt this assertion, you need only look at the data to see that a whopping 74% of people in jails across the country – have not been convicted of a crime.
While it is true that many of these folks are awaiting trial for crimes they did commit, there are innocent people behind bars for the sole reason that they cannot afford bail. A free country — who claims to protect the rights of citizens — should not be keeping hundreds of thousands of presumed innocent people in cages, yet this is the status quo.
A recent report from the Tampa Bay Times shows just how determined the American police state is to guarantee an assembly line of otherwise entirely innocent people to continue this process. Police in Florida are targeting children in an attempt to label them as criminals at a young age — despite the children being entirely innocent.
This is the first step towards the Chinese model of keeping a social score card.
Communism that would make Lenin proud.
The author did say that the majority of the people being held are awaiting trial. What the author isn’t saying is that those who are being held is because of bail refusal. There is a reason the Judge refuses bail. Because the “State” is trying to get you? No, more than likely the person is a habitual criminal and has proven to not to show up to court. Do I agree with police keeping a list of kids with bad grades? No, but I’d like to see the WHOLE story behind that as well. As we all know, there are three sides of the story. Your’s, mine, and the truth.