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The list of the governments that have persecuted journalists

The Washington Post hails those reporters who face grave danger from the Taliban and the governments of Cuba, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the U.S.

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  • Saturday, November 22, 2008 02:24 PM

    I wrote about it here ... -- -Mona-

    Yes, indeed it was a good post.

    I would add that it only touches the surface. Bad judges, prosecutors, juries, cops, laws and so forth are the essence of the American law system. (I no longer care to write "justice system" when referring to it)

    As always, 'war is the health of the state'; and the 'war of drugs' has corrupted everything it has touched. If memory serves me, some asshole who was just elected vice president wrote into law (or was instrumental) the federal asset forfeiture law among other horrendous acts by Biden the horrible.

    If a man is sentenced for a crime he did not commit by the horrible law system we have today --- then his sentence is the cruelest torture that you could devise.

    God I hate prosecutors; I have researched their total lack of respect for the law. May they each one get just what they deserve.

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