🔵 By Arness Richardson. Photo by lauragrafie.
The criminal justice system is not based on justice or fair play. It is predicated on lies, trickery and deceit. Whether one of us is innocent or guilty, we recognize that when we enter the courtroom we have entered a bloody arena, where the prize at stake is our lives. Anything goes, right violations, prosecutor misconduct, coercion, perjured testimony, falsified reports, witnesses are coached in what to say. The police intimidates your witness to not appear in court and life goes on and on. What the prosecutor seeks is that initial conviction because he knows that the appeal process will drag on for years, while you rot behind bars your appeal briefs will collect dust on some judge desk, hand signals are given and passwords are spoken, objections are overruled by the judge with a nod and a sly wink. You sit in the middle of some masonic ritual taking place.
Your silence is assured you are threatened with exposure of your criminal past (if you have one. If you dare to speak in your own defense the cards are well stacked against you and chances are you will end up in a place like this. Now to put your mind and curiosity to rest I know you are wondering why and how I ended up in such a negative environment which I will call freedom impaired. I coined the phrase of freedom impaired because I don’t like using the common, everyday terms which people use to paint unkind pictures and street members of our society who may have fallen at one time or another. I say fallen because most of the time a person gets up after a fall right? Therefore you can rest assured I am not one who is judgmental or to label anyone as bad just because of where they are or because of what kind of life they live. Sure and in all reality, there are some people who truly deserve to be in such a state of existence. And those are the ones who probably did not get enough penalty in the first place yet, others who are good at heart and fell because of need, association with the wrong people, law that are not up to date and/or over eager, law enforcement officials, being the wrong place at the right time, or simply because of a weakness that took over in an instant of time. In tell next time, Arness.