Wrongfully Jailed men awarded 101 Million Dollars

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Rino
I just feel all warm and fuzzy that the judge decided we needed to pay
these guys millions...sigh, lawyers suck..period.

Damn right the Govenment should pay millions for what they did.

Personally I think it shoudl have been more.
They stole these guys lives.
And in two of the cases they died in prison.

How can you put a just price on that?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Maverick
Since this situation happened well before the patriot act was conceived I don't see the connection. Could you clarify how the patriot act was involved?

I'm glad to see that they were exonerated, albeit too late for 2 of them. It also seems that one of the agents also died in custody, I didn't see any info on how many agents were involved or if they are still alive.

The award would have greater impact if it were to come from the agencies funds rather than general tax revenues for the govt. but I doubt that will happen.

It wasnt in volved
But the connection is simple.
 
If they can do that without the patriot act. Imagine what the clowns in government can do with it in place.

[Maverick]

Do you really think a "what if" was necessary here? Like you said, it wasn't involved.

[Shamus]

Originally posted by RAIDER14
then a year after their sentence is carried out find out they were innocent and the families sue the government and the media riding the government for years after?...

When was the last time a lawsuit was filed and successfully prosecuted on behalf of a dead, innocent inmate?

I would be interested in knowing.

shamus

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by AWMac
Curval did you ever recover your Moped that was stolen?

Mac

Holy **** Curval, you were right!

[AWMac]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Holy **** Curval, you were right!

What? What????

Noooo not me...

I don't even own bolt cutters..

opps dammm...

Besides  who would want to steal a Pink Moped anyways?



Mac

[Rino]

I realize this is rocket science for most of you, but government money
comes from the people..ie you and I.  I know it's liberal dogma to
dogpile the government on every possible opportunity, but my money is
being awarded willy nilly for a decision I never made.

     I know nothing about this case, nor do I care.  I do think the amount
awarded is excessive, especially as I feel absolutely no guilt for the
mistake.  If this offends you...too bad.

[Trell]

So asking for accountability is liberal dogma,   Glad we got that cleared up.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Rino
I realize this is rocket science for most of you, but government money
comes from the people..ie you and I.  I know it's liberal dogma to
dogpile the government on every possible opportunity, but my money is
being awarded willy nilly for a decision I never made.

     I know nothing about this case, nor do I care.  I do think the amount
awarded is excessive, especially as I feel absolutely no guilt for the
mistake.  If this offends you...too bad.

your money gets awarded willy nilly for decisions you never made every day.

As often as not poor ones at that.

Why arent you complaining about those?

And btw its not YOUR money. its OUR money.
Unless of course you shelled out all 101mil  all by yourself.

Personally Im glad for the award.
Should have been more. Alot more

Its nice to see OUR money going for something just for a change

[lazs2]

hell...  I know where government money comes from and I say that I would rather it went to wars and lawsuits than to grow the government and add social programs...

If the government went broke they might have to cut back spending.

I would rather 1,000 wrongfully jailed Americans sue the government than one new social program be started.  

rather a thousand victims of a police state sue than one illegal alien get housing food and schooling and be able to "press two for espanol".

lazs