[Peace-discuss] Government of law?

[C. G. Estabrook]

	US Finally Wins Bogus Conviction in Miami ‘Plot’
	Posted: 12 May 2009 02:27 PM PDT

After two juries refused to convict or acquit 6 of the so-called “Miami 7″ 
(which then became the “Liberty City Six” after one was acquitted in the first 
trial but then deported anyway), five were convicted today of involvement in an 
al Qaeda plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago.

 From the very beginning it has been known to the general public that this 
entire case was cooked up by the cops, that the idiots they entrapped were just 
that and that said idiots were simply (they thought) playing the pretend 
terrorist informant for money when he was really playing them for a conviction 
and some hard taxpayer cash of his own.

The jurors who went along with this ought to be in prison themselves along with 
the judge who allowed this sham to proceed and everyone in the US attorney’s 
office who participated in this conspiracy to deny these Americans their liberty 
under the color of law.

But as every single one of us knows, that will never happen because there is no 
such thing as “the law.” It is simply the excuse for those who run the state to 
do what they want with us, while it never applies to them.

Facing decades in prison, I guess they should be thankful Obama hasn’t invoked 
the Military Commissions Act on them.

	Another mega-thief walks free in the US
	Tue, 12 May 2009 21:48:26 GMT

While the US criminal justice system is notoriously punitive and heavy-handed 
when it comes to crimes of theft and trespass, its collective heart melts when 
it comes up against a mega-criminal.

Witness the ability of self-confessed fraud, thief, and confidence trickster 
Marc S. Dreier, who pled guilty on Monday in a New York court to selling $400 
million worth of fake promissory notes and running an illegal Ponzi scheme, yet 
managed to walk free from the courthouse.

This echoes another US court's compassion toward Mr. Bernard Madoff, who was 
allowed bail, despite being charged with the biggest fraud in the history of 
mankind, near $50 billion, and who, while under 'house arrest' in his mansion 
apartment in New York, was busy dispensing his private possessions to relatives 
to avoid being forced to provide even meager restitution to his countless 
creditors.

Not so lucky was Mr. Jerry Williams, 27, who in 1995 was sentenced to 25 years 
to life for stealing a slice of pizza. Admittedly, it could have been his third 
offense, which put him at the wrong end of California's "three strikes" law, but 
in all likelihood, all that Mr. Williams ever stole in his life would not amount 
to Harvard Law School graduate Marc Dreier's gasoline costs for his Aston Martin 
and Mercedes.

Welcome to the US of A.

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