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On this subject of wrongful confinement, a bigger picture.

1. Two - thirds of people *currently* in Indian prisons have never been convicted of a crime. Innocent until proven guilty. Even when proven innocent rehabilitation of the victim & his / her family 1/
In terms of housing & jobs is an extraordinarily difficult task. No prizes for guessing the demographic of prison populations.

2. INDIA REFUSES TO SIGN THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE. You can Google what goes on in Indian prisons if you have the stomach for it. 2/
3.On average 5 detainees die in Indian jails *everyday*.There is little or no justice offered to families of the dead.

4. There are organztns that work to provide community specific legal aid & support to those falsely imprisond. Something to consider when you give charity next.
TADA - "but due to rampant misuse, it was allowed to lapse in 1995."

POTA - "However, reports of gross misuse of the Act by some state governments led to its repeal in 2004."

Must read.

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Okay, so. At about 2:00 PM I'm going to do a thread (continuing off this one if you want to like/bookmark/tab it) about Trump's AP interview from earlier this week.
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Innocent until proven guilty protects all of us bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/…
There are reasons our legal system requires proof of allegations. Conviction by accusation has a horrific pedigree. The terms “witch hunt” and “lynching” are not hyperbole: In Salem, in 1692-93, 20 people were hanged — most of them women.
Nearly 4,000 blacks were lynched in the U.S. between 1877 and 1950 — many for false accusations of sexual assault against white women.

People whipped into a fervor of righteous indignation, unconstrained by process and the rule of law, do unspeakably evil things.
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People are innocent until proven guilty. Period.

Kavanaugh shouldn’t be held criminally or civilly liable unless guilt is found via the legal process.

But appointments are not criminal or civil trials. The public, via its reps, can hold people to any standard they wish.
People often try to use the criminal presumption of innocence as a political argument, but it’s mostly silly. Just like you wouldn’t hire a teen babysitter that you heard wasn’t very responsible—despite your belief in a presumption of innocence—you might not appoint a judge.
None of this is to say Kavanaugh is guilty. Just that once a reasonably credible accusation is made, some of the burden may lie with him to respond to it, unlike in the criminal justice system.
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A while back, I tweeted that in case anyone isn't clear, we are well past the "first they came for" point.

This is a big story and I'm not sure it's possible for it to get enough attention.
I'm sure the "no need to panic" brigade would want us to point out that this affecting "only" hundreds or thousands of Latinx Americans living in a narrow region along the border.

But.

First of all, that's too many people.

Because...
Because here is the thing about due process.

Everybody gets it, or no one really has it.

And from the moment the Trump regime decided it just doesn't apply to "illegal" immigrants, we were always heading here.
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