Apr 1, 2009

Really?


Really John McCain? Really? A posthumous pardon of an erstwhile turn of the century boxer? I guess. Not that the conviction of Jack Johnson wasn't flat our wrong in 1913, but this would have meant a lot more coming from you say back in 1980. It just seems like grandstanding now, but I digress (not really, I don't really digress, I just say that to seem more effacing.)

On another note, if we spent time pardoning all the wrongful convictions from 1865 through say 1965 and retrying the wrongful acquittals we would literally waste hundreds of millions of dollars. Probably not the smartest use of funds during a Repression.

Read more in the hometown Strib.