Originally Posted by
Superguy
It's not defending the crack head. It's defending the rights that should protect the crackhead and everyone else.
Indeed--a lot of people seem to get caught up in, "Why defend such bad people?" which is a variation of the "If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be afraid," doctrine.
It's similar to something I saw just this morning, a news story about a pedophile who'd been arrested for violating a restraining order. The court then found the order to be invalid on a technicality (the judge never scheduled a hearing to notify the sicko). The prosecutor is now trying to file civil contempt charges for violating the invalid order! As I told my wife, the guy is scum, but that's abuse of the legal system, and isn't right, and regardless of who he is or how awful a crook he is, what's happening isn't right. In that particular case, get a new, valid order in place, and catch him violating it.