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Comment Here in Illinois... (Score 1) 871

Here in Illinois, Bennett....your argument falls apart. Completely. I will also say this: you really don't know what you're talking about. Your opinion amounts to a fart in a wind tunnel to me, a resident of the State of Illinois, land of John Burge.

Here in Illinois, police have a long and storied history of bending the evidence to fit their theory of the crime, rather than let facts alone lead them to the truth of the matter.

Here in Illinois, police, prosecutors, and the criminal justice system have their finger on the needle.

Kevin Fox, Jerry Hobbes, Rolando Cruz. These are people who, in good faith....spoke to the police. These are *just* a few. Each of them had to fight to clear their names in the face of police and prosecutors who were bound and determined to make sure they could make a case against who they focused on. Why, the prosecutor in the Hobbes case, when confronted with DNA Evidence that someone else raped and murdered a child....rather than admit Hobbes was innocent, claimed the girl (aged 8) had sex with someone else before she was raped and murdered. Michael Waller (who was the Lake Co. Prosecutor) had reams of cases where he behaved like this. Illinois prosecutors and police enjoy an overly broad immunity from the damage they do.

So spare me your "insight", Bennett, because you are woefully ignorant on this topic. Try living in a State where "shortcuts to indictment and trial" are policy number one for the Criminal Justice system.

We abolished the death penalty in this state. Why? Because our system has been so corrupted, so polluted with people who sit in seats of inscrutable power they have nothing to fear in the destruction of a member of the general citizenry. Your "opinion" is offensive, insofar as it fails to weigh the stark reality of life. Police want to clear cases. Their procedure for doing so has become tainted, and through that have tainted the adversarial nature of the justice system. When the police think your guilty, whether you are or not....framing the evidence to fit their theory of what happened becomes the way to get that person on trial. Facts start to matter less, as they become twisted...or even denied in the race to put people in prison.

I suggest if you want to navel gaze, you actually do some research into this topic. As a resident of Chicago I am absolutely appalled that we can't properly fund our school system but the city has paid out a total of 80 million dollars to settle cases *just* for John Burge alone.

The Fifth Amendment was a wise one. The police are *not* your friends in a criminal investigation, especially if they don't have all the facts, or have half the facts and want to drill for more. Kevin Fox wound up arrested, and charged for the murder of his own daughter, despite the fact police had EVIDENCE that pointed to another person, BEFORE they even ran the DNA which eventually cleared him. When police and prosecutors do this, it's the rest of us innocent taxpayers who have to foot the bill.

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Submission + - Adobe Calls Out Apple with Ads in NY Times, WSJ 3

Hugh Pickens writes: "Businessweek reports that Adobe has taken out newspaper advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times today and posted an open letter to call out the tablet-computer maker for stifling competition. "We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs," the letter states. "No company — no matter how big or how creative — should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web." The letter is part of a widening rift between Apple and Adobe. Two weeks ago, Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs wrote a 29-paragraph public missive panning Adobe’s Flash as having “major technical drawbacks.” U.S. antitrust enforcers also may investigate Apple following a complaint from Adobe, people familiar with the matter said this month. Adobe has also launched a banner ad campaign to let you know that they love Apple. The two-piece banner ads are composed of a 720 x 90 pixel “We [heart] Apple” design, followed by a 300 x 250 pixel medium rectangle that reads: “What we don’t love is anybody taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the web.”"

Submission + - EU Parliament Rejects ACTA in a 663 to 13 vote (euractiv.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Seems like the EU Parliament had an epiphany:
"The European Parliament defied the EU executive today (10 March), casting a vote against an agreement between the EU, the US and other major powers on combating online piracy and threatening to take legal action at the European Court of Justice."

Comment These two are favs of my GF and me. (Score 2, Informative) 452

These two are free, and socially interactive.

Gunbound: kinda like worms, but, online. There are some lamers, but, overall, it can be fun.

You can find info for gunbound at:

http://www.gunbound.net/

Then, there is fairyland. This is where her and I currently reside. Its a nice free MMORPG.

http://www.fairyland.com.my/

Enjoy.

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