There are thousands of people languishing in jails, many on death row, whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. These convictd people, whose innocence can be proven, with irrefutable DNA evidence, or other evidence illegally supppressed at their trials, shall be pardoned.

This activist pardon policy saves the prosecutor's face, and saves the taxpayer's tons of money which won't be spent on new trials to rehear these travesties of justice.

To insure these wrongly convicted citizens are released from prison, I will create, by Executive Order, an office in the White House dedicated to this issue. I will invite O.J. Simpson's DNA defense attorney, Barry Scheck, and former O.J. Simpson prosecutor, Marsha Clark to co-manage this office and charge them to bring for immediate presidential review, all those cases where it is clearly established a pardon is just and called for.

This office shall be named, The Willie J. Darden Office for Jurisprudence, to honor the memory of an innocent American man who was wrongly convicted and put to death.

These dramatic constitutional measures are required by the constitution, and by our next President, upon his taking the oath of our highest office. It goes with the territory! The President takes an oath to defend and protect our constitution and Bill of Rights, which guarantee our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the Constitution is trenched, and fails to protect the rights of the citizenry, as is the case today, the President must take immediate measures to uphold the Constitution and his oath of office, or suffer the consequence.

The willful failure to protect and defend our Constitution is an impeachable offense!

So to the terrorist, Tim McVeigh. McVeigh was rightly convicted. He caused the Oklahoma City bombing, where more than 160 innocent people unknown to him died for nothing.

So why did we coddle McVeigh with a place to stay, and movies to watch, with lights, and heat, and food to eat, while he languished rent free, on death row, for years.

But taking McVeigh's life, as retribution, instead of holding him, did not bring peace to the people whose souls passed through McVeigh's bombing rubble because a blast like that always forces the innocent souls up straight up to heaven where they be long, nd live forever.

Death penalty retribution is not the solution for any crime, though there are plenty of cases where swift justice is called for.

There are roughly three groups of people locked up in our jails: the first are non-violent people whose only crime was getting caught violating our soon-to-be repealed regressive drug laws; the 2nd are theives and felonious repeat robbers whose luck ran out, some too stupid not to have gotten caught after every attempted crime; and amidst these two groups, a transient prison repeating population of violent, malevolent, malicious prisoners who will rape, murder, or maim another creature at the drop of a hat, or an imagined look from behind the eye.

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As President I will, by Executive Order, set aside forty square miles of desolate federal land that qualifies as barren desert, in Arizona or New Mexico, and pay rent to the state for the land.

Imagine a barren sage brush desert, populated with rocks, sand, snakes and scorpions. We will surround that dry gulch patch with a constitutional trench forty feet deep and forty feet wide. On the outer perimeter, set back a quarter mile beyond the trench, every half mile, we will have set up bullet proof towers manned by military trained sharp shooters.

Inside the trenched perimeter, a quarter mile, all around, an electrified barbed wire fence will be installed. Anyone crossing that barbed wire fence is considered a potential escapee and food for the vultures! Whether the sharp shooter blows away an escapee with a full clip, or just blows off a couple knee caps for a slow gangerene death in the sun is up to the Trenchland shooters.

We will provide some army style barracks spread around the forty square miles, without any furniture inside to fight about. Just floor space. We will provide solar units so the prisoners can recharge their radio batteries and stay up as late as they want, listening to the radio. The Trenchland inhabitants can have their own cell phones to communicate with the outside world, too. And there will be a raised helicoptor pad where a coptor can hover to drop off mail bags every now and then.

The government will provide flour for baking bread in the sun and a couple humongous water towers we can replenish from above, and that is all we are providing, besides a permanent ankle bracelet. Minimal housing. Flour and water is what they get. Their relatives can send them canned goods and whatever else they want.

Freedom. Co-ed freedom in the desert to live amongst themselves with the snakes and scorpions, permanently separated from the rest of us. There are a lot of bad branches on the tree of life. Some die off on their own, given time. Does this plan sound like cruel and unusual punishment, which would violate our Constitution?

This prison reform will save the United States people at least 25 billion dollars every year that we currently waste, housing this human trash we don't need amongst us.

To draw attention to this needed prison reform, my first day in office, at the crack of dawn, I will be out on the White House lawn with my apron and Estwing hammer, ready, meeting with the carpenters who will be there with me to build a gallows. The government will sponsor billboards in the roughest sections of every town in our land: Wanted Teen Murderer for Public Hanging.

I will be known as the hanging prezzo.

Hmm. Would I actually hang a teenage killer and have a public televised hanging? Of course! Did you see the movie, Bonnie and Clyde? At the end Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway really got shot up by the FBI guys hiding in the bushes.

But after they were done shooting, Beatty and Dunaway got up from the dust and had a great lunch. But it looked sooooo real. So you will never know for sure whether the hanging was real, but I guarantee you will see me out there at dawn, my first day in office, building a gallows on the White House lawn. And you will see, a well advertised public hanging there.

I suspect every mugger and potential killer in the whole country, in jail or out, will be glued to their television sets. A sentence of life in Trenchland will be an excellent deterrent for anyone on the road to a life of theivery and violence, besides saving us billions of dollars every year from knot coddling the criminals.

Michael Stephen Levinson