re: #283 Kryptik: Just Done With It.

Seeing how little the ideal of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is cherished when convenient (and especially when the subject in question isn’t white) shows just how stunted we still are since 9/11. Our rights must be preserved for those who we deem least worth it because otherwise the temptation to compromise them when convenient will remain a spectre over everything. Remember ‘they came for the ____’? Yeah, that. Think about how it might be on the other side of things, if you’re erroneously accused of terrorism.

This goddamn temptation to shuck our humanity simply because someone seems obviously guilty will always eventually damn someone who got the raw deal instead of being actually ‘obviously guilty.’ But I forget, empathy is a sin in politics, and all those calling for no mercy are perfect fucking angels that would NEVER end up on the wrong side of the law ever…

CNN got the question inside out. It is not that the bomber deserves due process. It is that the nation deserves due process as a part of it’s foundation.