Editing Legal Matters (section)

==State vs. Reagan==
'''EXCERPTED''' from Maryland State court records:  Docket number 1542.23, State of Maryland vs. [[Thomas Reagan]], arraignment, January 28th 2005.  

Barry Levine[http://www.garrettcounty.org/st-attorney/, *], Assistant State's Attorney, for the Prosecution:

"Your Honor, altough the State has charged Mr. Reagan under Maryland Criminal Code Title 6, subtitle 3, section 01a with 2,000 counts of malicious destriction of private property[http://198.187.128.12/maryland/lpext.dll/Infobase/153ca/16439/16541/16542?f=templates&fn=document-frame.htm&2.0#JD_cr6-301, *], under Title 7, subtitle 1, section 05b with 2,000 counts of motor vehicle theft[http://198.187.128.12/maryland/lpext.dll/Infobase/153ca/16667/16695/16739?f=templates&fn=document-frame.htm&2.0#JD_cr7-105, *] and under Title 9, subtitle 7, section 02a with 500 counts of injury to public property[http://198.187.128.12/maryland/lpext.dll/Infobase/153ca/16d8f/17014/1702b?f=templates&fn=document-frame.htm&2.0#JD_cr9-702, *], the State's sole reason for these charges was to bring Mr. Reagan before this court today so that we could assert that he has no right to a trial at all."  <br>  "Thomas Reagan is of the group known to the media and the world at large as The Survivors.  It is the State's contention that these so-called Survivors are no longer human.  I hold here a document, ''A Mutation in the Variable Repeat Region of the Gene'', by Lindsay Gleghorn, Rajkumar Ramesar and Gillian Wallis, 3 of the world's leading genetic specialists.  The report is further signed and approved by 7 more.  They arrived at the conclusions in this report after examining the Survivors' genetic tissue.  Let me read a brief excerpt:  <blockquote>The genetic makeup of these subjects, I say subjects because their DNA no longer even remotely resembles human DNA, is unlike anything I have ever seen. If I were given this DNA without knowledge of the source of it I would not even assume that they were human.</blockquote>  "Would not even assume that they were human.  If the world's leading doctors wouldn't identify them as human, how can this court?  And if they are not human, how can we give them the same basic rights as humans?  When a tiger kills a man, do we put it on trial?  No.  We put it down, to stop it from killing again."  <br>  "Your honor, there are tigers in our midst, and it would only hurt us to pretend that they are men."

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