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Will Barack Obama support reform of the American justice system.

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The American Criminal Justice system is in dire need of reformation.  Police, Prosecutors and Judges are entirely unaccountable and cover up the misconduct of each other.  Police perjury/corruption/shootings/planting evidence/taserings and crimes are out of control.  Prosecutors use any technique, unethical/illegal or corrupt, to convict the innocent.  Judges preside over proceedings tainted with the obvious aforementioned civil rights violations and blindly allow the misconduct, thereby encouraging such brazen affronts to the Bill of Rights. 

One only need look at the highest profile case in the 20th century and one finds a racist police officer willing to lie under oath and engage in questionable handling of evidence.  Police are so arrogant (supported by their unaccountability) that in what was bound to be the case of the century (O.J. Simpson), racist police engaged in dubious conduct with the confidence that they were above the law.  Unfortunately, a great majority of law enforcement in the United States share the morals, opinions and techniques of Mark Fuhrman.

 

There are prosecutors out there right now accepting bribes, extorting benefits in plea agreements and using the power of their offices to obstruct federal civil litigation and worse.  All blessed by judges.

 

In the most serious cases of all, death penalty cases, hundreds have been exonerated by DNA evidence.  How many hundreds have been murdered by the government prior to DNA testing?  How many serious cases are circumstantial and the accused is put to death solely based on the techniques of bad police, prosecutors and judges.  In the first 74 death row DNA exonerations by the Innocence Project police misconduct occurred in 37 cases and prosecutorial misconduct occurred in 33 cases.  Those police and prosecutors should be in jail for federal civil rights violations and conspiracy to commit murder.

 

President Obama, this country needs the appointment of a special U.S. Attorney or other similar entity to address federal civil rights crimes enacted by police, prosecutors and judges under 18 U.S.C. § 241,242.  This entity needs to be entirely transparent from the complaint process onward as currently prosecutorial and judicial misconduct are handled by secret proceedings, of which, 99% of the time end with no action and no public awareness of the problems with the U.S. justice system.


Please read this petition and sign it and pass it along.  Thanks Scott Huminski
 
http://www.petitiononline.com/obama12/petition.html

 

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LONG OVERDUE-JUSTICE FOR ALL by Knightgale LaCross on Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:00:45 PM
"Obama Justice Reform" by Pat Dazis on Sunday, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:39:00 AM
Statistics in question... by dudleysharp on Sunday, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:05:18 PM