Paul's Comments

Geraldo Rivera had on his show - and stop looking at me that way for actually watching him, or for putting on the Fox News Channel - a report on how some police department interrogated an 8-year-old boy who apparently killed his father. They videotaped his confession, and not only that, he was interrogated without either a parent (well, kind of hard to do if he killed one of them) or a lawyer or any form of advocate on his side.

As Geraldo pointed out, there was a case of a 14-year-old who was coerced into confessing by the police a few years ago. And more than that, there is talk that the prosecutor wants to charge this 8-year-old kid as an adult.

That's not what shocked me. What shocked me was Geraldo's guest, Catherine "Hang 'em High" Crier, who was also upset at how the police treated this 8-year-old boy. You kind of have to have seen Catherine Crier in action on Court TV before to get why this is shocking. Her general opinion is that if you're arrested by the police you're automatically guilty. I don't think I've ever once heard her offer any form of sympathy or understanding toward anyone being arrested or tried for anything. She always has this black and white mentality of: arrest=guilt; trial=conviction; anything less than death penalty for jaywalking = courts are too lenient. I heard she used to be a judge. Probably for the republic of Draco. No, probably not; she'd probably consider the Draconian system too sympathetic.

For her to actually have sympathy for the accused in this case either means that Western Civilization has finally collapsed or that I've actually misjudged her as someone who had no consideration for humanity. Well, now that this has happened I guess it will be another 20 years before she offers something other than a lack of the concept of error in the so-called justice system we have in this country.