Ethics and Torture

So the poor prosecutor Mike Nifong has been disbarred for daring to bring charges against rich white kids with insufficient evidence.

I was on a jury once on a felony assault case. The evidence was very poor, it took us very little time to acquit. But the defendent was a mechanic, not some entitled jock, so the prosecutor didn't suffer. The prosecutor asked me afterwards why we didn't convict. I just told him that we didn't think the evidence was very good. I should have asked him why he wasted the taxpayers money bringing such a lame case.

If Nifong had declared the lacrosse players to be 'enemy combatants', held them incommunicado for four years, and had them tortured, he would be considered a hero in the war on terra.