[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Innocents pleading guilty

 

Sometimes your show is interesting, but I don't like listening to it because I know that at least once a show you are going to say something absolutely bone-headed, and you don't have an option for people to correct you with a posting on your webpage.

Increasingly, I avoid shows like that - a webpage (particularly for a radio or tv enterprise) that doesn't allow reader comments is like a book without an index or bibliography - if it isn't fiction, it might as well be.

The bone-headed thing you said this time was your astonishment to learn that one person in the US had plead guilty to a crime he didn't do.  There are a tremendous number of people in prison in the US that plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit. People plead guilty to things they didn't do for all kinds of psychological and sociological reasons. There was nothing unusual or unsurprising about anything your guest had to say about what was done to him, his internal processes, etc.

To act as if it only happens in the Soviet Union, or one person in the US is contemptible. By acting like you are so shocked by this one case, you make it appear that the system works in all other cases, which is far from true.  If you wanted to learn something about the subject (rather than just serving the cause of state propaganda), a good place to start might be "The psychology of interrogations and confessions: a handbook" By Gisli H. Gudjonsson

But you don't have to pursue the exotic notion of picking up a book, just use the google. A combination of words like "false, confession, wrongful, conviction" will lead you to a huge amount of resources. I don't think you even tried, which suggests to me that your interest is in serving the cause of state propaganda, so I don't believe I'll be listening to your show any more.

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