🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:57:39 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>Right- there was a case recently at Walter Reed Army Medical where they 
>killed a 16yo girl by mistaking an antibiotic for anesthetic and killed 
>her before the operation even got started. Then the cowardly civil 
>service doctors were caught falsifying the records to make it look more 
>like a freak accident- such as the dose of antibiotic administered. 
>This is the kind of thing the Bush supporters will encourage with their 
>liability limits. People mean nothing to them- they are very similar to 
>the AlQaeda terrorists that way-actually worse- because the terrorist 
>are fighting for ideals and the Bush crowd are fighting for money, 
>exploitation, and cruel domination.

It's symptomatic of the state's distrust of the people. Electioneering
politicians go on and on about "earning the people's trust" and try to
show they're worthy of it (like hell they are) then they spend the
next 4 years dismantling our basic rights and protections (*ancient*
rights and protections here in the UK) because the truth is *they*
don't trust *us*! UK governments have, over the last 15 years, been
insidiously meddling with the 'right to a fair trial' and the
'presumption of innocence' which have existed here as cornerstones of
law for nearly 800 years. We are clearly moving from a position where
the state had to establish your guilt, to one where *you* have to
prove yourself innocent! Jury trial is being systematically tampered
with even as I write. Make sure the same thing doesn't start to happen
in the US...

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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.