The film Just Mercy opened this week. It is the story of Walter McMillan, who was wrongfully convicted in 1987.
The trial was a sham, all exculpatory evidence hidden, the one witness was a felon who traded his false testimony for a shorter sentence. This gross miscarriage of justice happened because those in power — the sheriff, law enforcement and the DA — all conspired to convict McMillan to bring closure to the community for a crime he had no part in.
As this continues, injustice will keep reaching lower and lower levels in society. Nobody will be safe. The parallels in history are frightening to think about.
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When you told me you cried, I couldn’t listen to it. Too sad the evil that goes on in the world. I just finished listening to The Grayzone’s Aaron Mate’s interview with Scott Ritter on Soleimani. FWIW, I believe Ritter. He was the only one who told us the truth about the WMDs. Also, what’s with AIM and their intense flood of Trump propaganda? I was a staunch supporter of Trump domestically but his warmongering for Israel is Just too obvious.
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