I posted earlier how people (directly or indirectly) tied to our government are getting away with murder. Here’s a story about how the common, law-abiding citizen is treated.

Question: What do you call a government that uses religion to maintain power and control, writes law that favors the wealthy over the poor, blatantly ignores the wishes of the majority, spies on it’s citizens, awards sizable contracts to close friends and shields said friends and peers from litigation and possible prison time?

Man’s arrest made in error

James Russell Kitts, 44, of Seymour, was arrested June 25 on a presentment from a Sevier County grand jury that accused him of trafficking in morphine, but the charges were dropped five days later by prosecutors who learned the police weren’t certain they’d gotten the right man. [...]

“It was a nightmare,” Kitts said. “The worst part of it was the uncertainty. I had no idea what was going on or even what the charges meant. To be put in jail with no explanation and no idea whether I was going to get out of it, that was the worst of it. You watch TV shows and movies, you hear about this all the time, and it happened to me.

“I can tell you one thing - those 20 hours in jail felt like 20 days.”

“They simply did not do their homework,” Delius said. “They have yet to apologize to him.”

Kitts is now back at work but is still out the $2,000 it took to get him released from jail plus attorney’s fees.

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