“Hurricane”
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell
That’s the story of the Hurricane
But it won’t be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he’s done
Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world. Bob Dylan 1975 Rolling Thunder Tour
Bob Dylan and Hurricane Carter collaborated on this song about Hurricane Carter who was wrongfully convicted for murder with the testimonies of two other thieves by an all white jury. In 1976, he was released briefly, then convicted again, and returned to prison for another 9 years. U.S. District Judge H. Lee Sarokin, who wrote that Carter’s prosecution had been “predicated upon an appeal to racism rather than reason, and concealment rather than disclosure” released Carter permanently from prison November 1985. Former boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter dies at age 76
After his final release, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter “became the first executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, serving in the post between 1993 and 2004. He became highly respected as an activist for the wrongly convicted, and his work personally impacted many attorneys.”
Hurricane died at 76 years of age.
You don’t understand, run. It’s called “freedom!” Defined by Justice Kennedy, et al., as the right of state courts to trampel even the most basic of constitutional rights in order to wrongly deprive people of their freedom. Kennedy says it’s part of the structure of American government as established in the first three Articles of the Constitution, which, he said, trump the Amendments, including the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth. But, again, this structure applies only to what happens in state courts, not to what state legislatures enact.
Oh, wait. You DO understand. You’re one of the few who do. And you also know that because of a truly evil federal statute enacted in 1996 and signed by Bill Clinton when he was running for reelection, federal judges like Lee Sarokin lost their “jurisdiction” to throw out state-court criminal convictions, as a practical matter no matter what. And that the Supreme Court, led by Kennedy and now apparently Alito, have gotten the Court to effectively rewrite was already an onerous law into one that actually was not intended by congress and that Clinton would not have signed and that is patently unconstitutional. It’s called “freedom,” run. Freedom.
Then again, there aren’t any judges on the bench like Lee Sarokin anymore anyway.
You know how I feel about this issue.
Bev:
I wish I did not know what I know. I have paid with the loss of a son.
RACISM IS THE POLITICS OF AMERICA AND BIGOTRY HER SOUL, (article 1 section 2 , U.S. Constitution)
“Innocence is a highly over-rated commodity. ” Hurricane
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Einstein
abynormal:
Court is never about seeking the truth, it is about the conviction by any means and the notch on the gun or broomstick. When we lost, Reba was singing “the night the lights went out in Georgia. The electricity was out that year and stayed out for almost a week in Summer. Hurricane lost twice in a similar manner. The court was not willing to admit it made a mistake.
That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia
That’s the night that they hung an innocent man
Well Don’t trust your soul to no back woods Southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the town’s got bloodstains on his hands.
We had a crack-head attorney who had an exparte conversation with the judge in chambers. The town was the former headquarters for the Klan and the Militia was not much further away.
Great eulogy to a man who was wronged to the tune of 1/4 of his life, yet steadfastly refused to be dragged down by the system.
Patrick:
One young person has had 1/3 of his life taken through lies and deceit. Still fighting that battle as Beverly knows. While not having been imprisoned, I am very familiar with the system.