If There is No Victim There is No Crime

[Keith Broaders]

In order tor a crime to take place there must first create a victim, The individual accused of a crime must violate the life, liberty or property of another individual. One of the rights mandated in our Bill of Rights is a person accused of a crime is the right to cross examine the witnesses against him. In other words the defendant has a right to confront the injured party.

If there is no injured party, and no one to cross examine the individual accused of the crime can not defend himself in a court of law.

An government is a legal fiction and has no rights and can not be an injured party. Only human beings have rights. Individuals can testify against an accused person but a legal fiction can not. When a unjust law is enforced the accused individual becomes a victim.

 Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

98% of the people in prison were never found guilty by a jury. In order to avoid the possibility of being convicted of a more serious crime the accused pleads guilty to a lesser crime. In many cases they have committed no crime at all. This practice is an enemy of justice and an great way to raise money for corrupt lawyer and judges.

In the land of the free, we more of our people in prison than an other country in the world. The biggest crime today is that we incarcerate people for committing victimless crimes.