Whatever happened to Innocent until proven guilty? (And getting uncomfortably personal for a minute...It'll pass, I hope.)
Whatever happened to Innocent until Proven Guilty? (Some of my rants are a bit like going to war – you won’t all be here at the end. This is one of those.) In our lifestyle, I see a frightening trend. I see it coming out of a good place, and (mostly) good hearts – but all I can think of is the adage about the road paved with good intentions. I’m sure Joe McCarthy had good intentions too. We live in a society (in the US) where we’re presumed innocent, until proven guilty. Yes, that does mean that sometimes the guilty go free, or unpunished. The system isn’t perfect. And what of the victims? And future victims? Why do we let these criminals go free when we could keep them all locked up? Because it’s better a dozen bad men go free than one innocent man languishing in prison. That’s the whole point of the Innocence Project and Amnesty International. Aren’t those wrongly accused also victims? If you’ve ever been in a prison, or seen the damage from