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Originally Posted by BillCosby
~scratch head smiley here~ This concept or ideal is not unique in the USA but borrowed from England......... Where I don't think they view it's interpretation so narrowly......
There is an assumption here that punishment can only follow conviction......... When in fact punishment often times needs no qualification.......
For over 200 years in this country & I don't know how many in England the common understanding as well as the legal one has been a foundational prohibition against the use torture & related coercion......
Suddenly this is no more cause he said so.......
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Due process goes back to the Magna Carta and before. Uh that's 1215 AD. and this greasepile thinks he can subvert 800+ years of English tradition? Guess what? He has! and we've let him and them destroy this nation for their corporate fascism.