Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
How far will we have to go before people realize that powers are being exceeded due to political motivation?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Police arrested a Charlotte activist Sunday for a traffic violation and sought to keep him in jail during the Democratic National Convention because an officer said he is an activist on a terrorist watch list, court documents show.
Chief District Judge Lisa Bell on Monday reduced the bond for James Ian Tyson, 27, from $10,000 – an unusually high amount for driving while license revoked – to $2,500.
He was released at about 8 p.m. Monday.
Tyson’s attorney, Derek Fletcher, said during a hearing Monday that officers wanted to keep Tyson in jail to restrict his speech, and that his $10,000 cash bond was excessive.
So an activist is held on excessive bond not because of their actual risk regarding the arresting offense. But because they are politically active?
Is this what we have come to? Blindly accepting the silencing of political dissent regardless of stripe?
This is not a new technique. Those that use it must envy the Tzar and his ability to stuff someone naked in a metal box and put the box on a wagon to
Siberia. A sort of low tech rendition.