If an accused is held incommunicado until he "confesses?"
If the phones available to those incarcerated just happen to be "out of order?"
If a judge has the appearance of being a rubber stamp for the public prosecutor?
If bails for non-capital crimes are routinely very excessive?
If the local newspaper has access to an exclusive "confession" when friends and family can get no information from authorities?
If the public assumes an accused must be guilty or he/she wouldn’t be harassed by the law?
If the police force has numerous brand new huge vehicles while day care in the community sadly lacks money for running expenses in order to include all the children who need care while parents work?
If citizens are reluctant to speak up because they will be next on the list of those "investigated?"
If these things happened in some other state or country one would quickly assume, "they live in a police state?"
Joanna Taylor
Buffalo, Wyo.
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Letter to the Editor: Do we live in a police state?
Posted by
Meg Lanker
on 7.27.2009
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