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We have this little tradition in our country called innocent until proven guilt<\/a>y. \u00a0Personally I have no opinion about Justice Thomas one way or another. \u00a0Apparently\u00a0a woman has said he groped her in 1999. \u00a0That\u2019s all. \u00a0Now it\u2019s time to do what works best, and that\u2019s investigate and, if the evidence suggests, take the issue to trial. \u00a0Then we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Of course us laypeople outside of the courtroom can convict in our own minds all we want, we don\u2019t have to wait for evidence. \u00a0We can continue a long and celebrated tradition of convicting or exonerating based on nothing other than convenience or personal opinion. \u00a0But thank goodness actual physical consequences\u00a0of an accusation must wait until more than a single accusation made without witnesses or evidence other than \u2018I say so.\u2019<\/p>\n

God help us if that becomes our standard for punishing individuals: a mere accusation by a particular person. \u00a0Since we know there are other societies that have taken things down to that level of justice over the years, I\u2019d say we should try learning from the experiences of others rather than assuming this time we can make it work.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"