Advocating For Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners And Social Justice Reform Can Be An Emotional RollerCoaster
I think that there should be a warning on the bottom of the screen of documentaries that are going to rip off the blindfold and open your eyes to how messed up the American justUS system is for the uninformed viewer.
Especially documentaries that are so well made that the viewer may make an emotional connection to an entire/or family-hell community. Families and communities that have suffered for decades under the reign of the likes of men and women who have been elected and/or hired and paid with citizens tax dollars to protect and serve and have instead deliberately stolen innocent peoples lives, freedom, families and much much worse.
We have from birth been ingrained ( definition of ingrained is -deeply embedded and thus difficult to remove) to believe that people with employed as teachers, doctors, judges, cops, prosecutors, pastors, government officials, social service workers, etc etc are the GOOD guys. They are there to HELP (exploit) people. They take oaths and have ethics boards to make sure that they only act in a citizens best interest. That if a person is in prison they belong there. That if a person is homeless they are lazy. If a person is addicted to opiates its because they chose to become that way. If a person doesn't graduate from high school it is not because the school is staffed with teachers and administrators that do not give a shit. I think you get my point.
Kathleen Zellner, Laura Nirider and Drizen are not working WITH wISconSIN to keep Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey wrongfully convicted and behind prison walls. They do not have a lot of options here. They are working in an INjustUS system that has judges, prosecutors and Attorney Generals that actually think that it does not matter if a person is clearly innocent and in prison that does not mean they should automatically be released. They are trying to free two men in a state where the Governor is such a weakling he will not even acknowledge Brendan Dassey exists for fear of the backlash from the political arena.
- the acronyms that refer to the massive 1996 legislation passed that made the task of reversing an unintentional wrongful conviction extremely difficult. Steven and Brendan were intentionally wrongfully convicted and everyone on the prosecutions side including Judge Willis and Fox and most if not all the AP/s reporters knew that this case was a complete fabrication. When one reads the transcripts and looks at the objections made by the two POS judges it is clear that they were not objecting because they were maintaining a fair and impartial trials or conducting honest and ethical proceedings for justice sake. The judges were doing what needed to be done to prevent a mistrial or an overturning of the verdict during the post conviction process. This case was never about finding out what happened to Teresa. Even the "unindicted co-conspirator" thinking was not an issue. This was a intentional wrongful prosecution for both Steven and Brendan.
Zellner, Nirider and Drizen are forced to maneuver a course through the legal inJUSTus system full of land mines and over destroyed bridges. Bobby is Zellners best chance unless she obtains irrefutable evidence of the crime or irrefutable evidence that Steven could not have committed the crime. Neither of these things has happened yet. The radio and dispatch calls Rookie finally obtained may help lead to the true perpetrator(s).
Now unfortunately Brendan IMO is worse off than Steven. Since the wISconSIN supreme stupid court has deemed that the confession was not illegally obtained even though anyone with a brain knows that it was- I mean why else do the two cops -Calumet County Sheriff Mark Weigert and retired Wisconsin DCI S/A Tom Fassbender kidnap Barb, Brendan and his brothers from their home and lock them up in a hotel for 24 hours and then set them free? Then the next day they kidnap Brendan from school and he starts telling a clearly fabricated convoluted impossible story of a murder that evidence does NOT corroborate. If Brendan's attorneys did not present Brendans case so that the judges could not deny that he was used by the officers and prosecutors to convict Steven then they blew it. I don't think that is the case though because Duffin and the lower courts sided with the defense.
Procedurally barred, procedurally barred. procedurally barred. How many time has the prosecution wrote that in their responses. It seems like at least twenty or more times I would wager.
It is hard to accept that journalists, politicians and the majority of society do not care about wrongful convictions. They also do not care about the human trafficking going on in the child welfare system. Nor does it bother them that POC and other marginalized humans are exploited every day for profit by everyone from big Pharma to the local, state and federal government.
ake a look at how much the government makes off of a prisoner they are warehousing in the course of a year. Then let us think about if the prisoner has an outside support system that can afford to provide for them- warehousing people is a profitable industry. This is also done with disabled people with no family as well. Unethical people will get a "group home" 501c and they will cram it full of people who can not advocate for themselves. They get their government check, their foodstampts and grant money.
These people will be stuck in a bed or chair rotting away while the "owners" of the facility are going on vacation, driving $90,000 cars and the social sevices people are either being paid off or they are overworked so they are not even checking on their "client"- people have become disposable for a vast majority of citizens. Even those who do not realize that they are contributing to this way of life help by being blissfully unaware.
Zellner, Drizen and Nirider are not the problem in this case. It is the fact that it is cheaper for the government to keep them in prison. They have been deemed disposable by the powers that be.
I am not writing all this because I think it is hopeless and I think there is no options. I believe that there is hope for Steven and Brendan (along with all other wrongfully convicted and marginalized individuals). We who are passionate about this case have to find a way to spread awareness. We should instead take our energy and desire for the truth and justice to find a way to help fix this broken inJUSTus system so that this does not continue to happen. I think we all know that the 3-5% of the prison population is innocent is not even close to being accurate and it is more like 25-30% (IMO).
There is a great podcast I stumbled across a few months ago sponsored by Harvard Law School.
There are discussions about everything from how to help the homeless to human trafficking. A good episode was discussing how the invention of the automobile changed the criminal justice system.
#peopleoverprofit
#disposablehumans
#alllivesmatter
#wakeupwisconsin
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