omnicide wrote...
Either assasinated or bribed. It's all just absured. And this whole guilty until proven innocent mentality is getting real old real fast. ...Alright I'm gonna mention something, and if anyone knows who I am because of it keep it to yourself, this is not something I need shared with everyone I know. I was arrested in '06 for posession of coke. The shit wasn't mine. my ex-roomate bought a quarter oz. of the shit, I knew he had it, but I wasn't going to say anything (I don't rat out my friends). Anyway, we get pulled over, and the cops searched my car, yes it was an illegal search, but the "Patriot" Act does away with due process. So my ass gets slammed on the ground with a gun to my head and put in cuffs. They take my roomate over to the other car and talk to him. Now you gotta understand this is a guy who would always preach "snitches get stitches" and shit like that. Well, they immediatley start questioning me about where it came from. Naturally, I couldn't answer that. So I got arrested, sat in jail for 3 days. Couldn't eat the pathetic excuse for food they had, couldn't sleep on those goddamn stainless steel benches. The waste of genetic material fuckin sighned an affadavit saying the coke was mine. The cops just went along with the setup, and played just the way he wanted them to. Guess what happened to him. NOTHING. He walked home. I'm still on probation for that shit. Fortunately I was able to get deffered adjudication, which means it only comes up as an arrest in a background check, and in 10 years it'll be off my record alltogether. So all and all it didn't fuck up my life completely, but It illustrates my whole guilty until proven innocent statement.
I feel for you. Honestly, I would probably want to hunt down my "friend" and cut his tongue out for lying. If anything in this world sets me off its people who lie for anything other than protecting a loved one. I used to have the mentality of taking a hit for my friends. I'll cover for them because my friends were my family but, I grew out of that after my best friend screwed me as well. Not as bad as what happened to you but, still pretty retarded.
I like the innocent until proven guilty idea since in theory we are suppose to believe someone is innocent until the cops prove them guilty but, in this day in age nobody follows that. Lets take O.J. for example he has been proven innocent by a jury of his peers and the idea is we just move on and accept the innocent decision. We don't do that, and even if someone is proven innocent (if we agree or not) we treat them as if they are guilty.
The thing that really pisses me off is the "patriot" act. Like throwing away ones rights is an act of Patriotism.