What They Say

Publisher’s Note: Kevin Cooper, despite having a dissent in the 9th Circuit stating “California may be about to execute an innocent man” remains on California’s Condemned row fighting for his freedom – and writing on behalf of his colleague, Troy Davis, who is also likely innocent and caught in the system in Georgia and faces a date with the Executioner, Friday, September 21, 2011

By Kevin Cooper

They say that they are the most trustworthy and justice-seeking people in the world today. They say that they are the most civilized people that there ever has been. They say that they have evolved from the dark ages and have become the most enlightened people that God has ever produced.

They say that they are the good in the good vs. evil mentality that is often spoken about, and that they are the very best human beings that have ever inhabited this earth that we all share.

Yet, it is these trustworthy people, these justice-seeking people, these civilized, evolved and enlightened people who have in the past and in the present committed some of the most barbaric and horrific crimes against humanity that this world has ever known.

In truth, there can be no doubt that these people are untrustworthy, they are unjust, they are not civilized nor have they evolved or become more enlightened. They aren’t good, and in many cases they act inhuman. These so-called good people do more things of an evil nature than the people who they claim they are better than!

I have to believe, if not stopped they will continue to commit these crimes against humanity in the future, just as they have always done. Our world history is full of people who have been unjustly executed by people and by governments, and on September 21, 2011, Mr. Troy Davis may be the next human being to suffer this fate.

We must stand together as a people to oppose this torture and murder of our fellow human being. Who will it be next? You? Me? Everyone but the rich and powerful have their lives at stake in this unjust and broken legal system that continues to kill poor people no matter what.