Point of view is an interesting thing. So is lying. And the problem is we can't always weed out the liars. I guess three years ago there was an incident with an African American young lady at a WalMart in a highly racist Missouri town. The kind of town who still finds messages like "You have been paid a social visit by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The next visit will not be social." It's hard to imagine that those sort of backwoodsy racial problems still occur in such an advanced nation as the United States. It's ludicrous. And now a young woman with her whole future still ahead of her faces 15 years in prison perhaps due to these racial tensions. Her voice against about ten others does not seem very promising and may lead us to believe she has to be the guilty party. Yet why would this woman choose not to take a deal for two year probation in exchange for dropping the charges if she were lying? Goes to show, even with a just judicial system, it's hard to tell the innocent from the guilty.
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