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    Walter Ogrod - Pennsylvania


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    Facts of the Crime:

    Walter Ogrod was convicted for sexually assaulting and bludgeoning to death four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, a neighbor. Ogrod killed Barbara Jean on July 12, 1988 by luring her into the basement of his home in Castor Gardens. The little girl, who lived across the street, thought she was going inside to get candy. Instead, Ogrod tried to sexually assault her. When she screamed, he hit her over the head with an iron bar from a weight-lifting set. Ogrod placed Barbara Jean’s lifeless body in a plastic bag, stuffed it into a cardboard television box and carried the box around the corner to be taken out with the trash.

    On November 8, 1996, Ogrod was sentenced to death in Philadelphia County.

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    On October 11, 2011, Ogrod filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/pen...v06366/443043/

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    Author insists death row inmate accused of killing four-year-old girl and hiding her body in a TV box is innocent and was set up by notorious jailhouse snitch 'The Monsignor'

    The author of a true-crime book is insisting a death-row inmate who was convicted of murder in the horrific death of a four-year-old Philadelphia girl, is innocent 25 years after the man's arrest.

    Walter Ogrod was sentenced to death row after a years-long murder trial, including one mistrial, in 1996. The Philadelphia man was arrested for the murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, whose body was found stuffed in a TV box in July 1988.

    Lowenstein found several discrepancies in the case from Ogrod's account, as well as gaps in the investigation from his own research.

    The case had originally gone cold as no arrests were made in the wake of the murder. But it was clear the crime shook the neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia where the streets were eventually lined with posters of the suspect who was seen with the box.

    But in his new book, The Trials of Walter Ogrod, Thomas Lowenstein reveals details of the case that raise doubts against the Philadelphia justice system and Ogrod's conviction.

    The New Orleans-based journalist initially planned to pen a tome about America's apparent obsession with the death penalty, but eventually found himself at the head of an investigation after meeting with Ogrod in Pennsylvania's state prison in 2003.

    Police had originally targeted Barbara Jean Horn's stepfather for the murder and had pushed him for a confession, before switching their focus to neighbor Walter Ogrod.

    Walter Ogrod was convicted after he signed a 16-page, detailed confession which was written by Detective Marty Devlin. The book's publication comes just as Philadelphia's disgraced district attorney, Seth Williams, is set to be replaced.

    The author said Ogrod was interrogated for 14 hours after the suspect had not slept the night before. He noticed things seemed 'off' after he spoke with Ogrod and realized his demeanor did not match the angsty confession which said the suspect wanted to commit suicide.

    In 1993, the jury was set to vote for acquittal until one juror changed his mind during the reading of the verdict.

    A retrial began in 1996 which focused on a jailhouse snitch, John Hall, who was notorious for getting inmates to confess. The so-called 'Monsignor' said Ogrod admitted to the murder and allegedly told him of his plans to kill the young girl.

    Hall's credibility was later tarnished after admitted to lying about another murder case and his plan to blame it on another inmate.

    But aside from Hall's flawed account, Ogrod's appearance also did not match the police sketch of the suspect, and there were other discrepancies in the investigation of the crime, Lowestein reported.

    Police allegedly did not search Ogrod's apartment at the time of the arrest and Lowenstein argues there is no physical evidence that actually linked him to the crime.

    In 2004, Lowenstein took his findings and wrote a piece about the inconsistencies in the case in the Philadelphia City paper. His work prompted lawyers from the American Bar Association, who were against the death penalty, to try and overturn Ogrod's conviction. However, efforts failed after reaching the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Philly.com reported.

    His doubts in the justice system may stem from his own experience. Lowenstein was only ten years old when his father was murdered by a gunman who was eventually freed.

    But the author's investigation of Horn's murder was during a time police officers and prosecutors resorted to high-pressure tactics to obtain confessions.

    'What I would like to see is the next DA in Philadelphia do a thorough review of death-penalty and life-imprisonment cases from the 1990s,' Lowenstein said.

    The author also pointed out that both prosecutors and the courts to this day, refuse to run DNA tests from Barbara Jean Horn's finger nails to match the suspect's nails.

    A hearing is tentatively set for July.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz4cjniy93k
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    Voices: Justice for Walter Ogrod may be finally at hand

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    One year ago, we wrote about the case of Walter Ogrod, a man whom many believe was wrongfully convicted of killing four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia in 1988. He was sent to death row in 1996, in spite of the fact it took four years for police to arrest him, there was no physical evidence or eyewitness identification, and that Ogrod, who is on the autism spectrum disorder, signed a 16-page confession after being interrogated for 14 hours without an attorney present.

    Our story centered on a book, The Trials of Walter Ogrod, by Thomas Lowenstein, who told us he was convinced of Ogrod’s innocence and that he would be exonerated some day. “We just need to bring this case into the sunlight,” he said at the time.

    Well, the sun has finally come out. The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News reports that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, under the recently-elected Philadelphia district attorney, Larry Krasner, “is now formally reviewing Ogrod’s conviction, which his current lawyers have been appealing for more than a decade.”

    And, the paper reports, prosecutors will no longer fight a defense request “to have key evidence in the case — including fingernail scrapings from the victim — undergo state-of-the-art DNA testing, which they believe could prove their client’s innocence.”

    In addition, on CNN’s Headline News Network, Ogrod’s case was featured in its “Death Row Stories” documentary series last weekend, and cast strong doubt on the credibility of the jailhouse snitch testimony prosecutors used to convict Ogrod.

    “Justice delayed is justice denied,” is a well-worn legal maxim, and justice has been denied Walter Ogrod for 22 years. But for the majority of those years, Lowenstein remained at the forefront of the efforts to obtain justice for Ogrod. He spent years writing “The Trials of Walter Ogrod,” and delivered a 348-page compelling look at how flawed this case is, with jailhouse snitches, false confessions, and a man who was tried twice, in Philadelphia, “a place so poisoned by police misconduct that it long ago lost its sense of shame,” as Rolling Stone once wrote. And in all that time, Lowenstein never lost faith in Ogrod’s innocence.

    https://deathpenalty.org/blog/the-fo...-finally-hand/
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    Philly DA asks judge to free Walter Ogrod for 1988 murder after new DNA evidence

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    Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has asked a judge to release Walter Ogrod, who has been serving nearly three decades on death row.

    The request comes after new DNA evidence was discovered in the case

    Ogrod was convicted in the July 1988 murder of Barbara Jean Horn.

    The 4-year-old's body was found stuffed in a television box on a curb in front of her Castor Gardens home.

    After years of dead-end leads, police arrested Ogrod in 1992, and he gave a confession.

    Ogrod went to trial twice-- the first was declared a mistrial.

    He was convicted in October of 1996, but Ogrod and his family maintained all along that his confession was coerced by police.

    In a court filing, Krasner said there exists no credible evidence to prove Ogrod was the person who murdered Barbara Jean.

    Krasner is asking a judge to release him without a hearing which is right now scheduled for later this month.

    https://6abc.com/5980676/
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    Philly DA said death-row inmate is ‘likely innocent.’ Now his case is delayed by the coronavirus.

    By Samantha Melamed
    The Inquirer

    Walter Ogrod, 55, has spent 23 years on death row for the 1988 murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn — but in February, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office filed briefs arguing that Ogrod is “likely innocent” and seeking his release from state prison. The filing documented falsified testimony and alleged misconduct by prosecutors and detectives that led to Ogrod’s conviction.

    Ogrod’s next scheduled court date on this matter, March 27, has been postponed at least until June. Now, both his defense team and the district attorney have filed emergency motions for Ogrod’s release and transportation to a hospital — citing symptoms of possible coronavirus, including a 106-degree fever, cough, and difficulty breathing.

    “Ogrod has exhibited symptoms consistent with COVID-19, has not been tested for COVID-19, is vulnerable to it because of his age and medical conditions, and has not been given appropriate medical treatment,” the emergency motion reads.

    Philadelphia’s courts were closed on Monday through April 1, to retard the spread of the coronavirus. However, the First Judicial District issued an order permitting emergency proceedings for medical reasons.

    Ogrod’s brother, Greg, said he spoke with Walter and it sounded like his health was improving. However, without a test, he’s still anxious.

    “I’m concerned about my brother’s health. God forbid he dies in there after all this time," Ogrod said. "Let his family come get him, and we can quarantine him in our house.”

    The Department of Corrections did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding whether Ogrod or others are under quarantine or have been tested for the coronavirus. Ogrod is housed at State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County, which has Pennsylvania’s highest concentration of cases to date.

    James Rollins, one of Ogrod’s lawyers, said there’s no time to wait.

    “The prison is unable to provide the treatment that he needs,” he said in a statement. “Every day a decision and/or hearing is delayed is another day that Mr. Ogrod remains on death row for a crime he did not commit and at grave risk to his life. We are asking for an immediate ruling on already filed papers or a telephone hearing to get Mr. Ogrod released to treatment and safety.”

    https://www.inquirer.com/health/coro...-20200318.html

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    Philadelphia court orders COVID-19 testing, treatment for death row inmate

    By Danielle Haynes
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    A Pennsylvania court on Saturday ordered a condemned inmate be tested for coronavirus as he sits on death row despite prosecutors' statements that he's likely innocent.

    The Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas said the state's Department of Corrections must transport Walter Ogrod, 55, to a local hospital for testing and treatment.

    Ogrod has had symptoms consistent with COVID-19, including cough, difficulty breathing and a 106-degree fever. His lawyers asked the courts to allow him to be transported off death row for medical treatment.

    "We are grateful that the court has ordered the Department of Corrections to allow Walter Ogrod to receive testing and treatment for possible COVID-19 outside of the prison," his lawyer, James Rollins said. "To make an innocent man remain even one extra day on death row is unjust. To leave him on death row showing symptoms of COVID-19 without adequate medical treatment would be unconscionable."

    In February, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office filed briefs in court saying Ogrod is "likely innocent" of assaulting and killing a 4-year-old girl in 1988. They said he was convicted on flawed evidence, including a coerced confession and testimony from discredited jailhouse informants.

    The filings called Ogrod's conviction a "gross miscarriage of justice" and requested his 1996 conviction be vacated and he be released from prison. Ogrod has spent 23 years on death row for the conviction.

    Earlier this week, the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas rejected defense lawyers' request for an expedited hearing on his case in light of the prosecutors' filings and Ogrod's illness.

    "Every day a decision and/or hearing is delayed is another day that Mr. Ogrod remains on death row for a crime he did not commit and at grave risk to his life," Rollins said earlier this week.

    The court's order Saturday comes after a Texas appeals court issued stays of execution for two death row inmates, citing the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawyers for those inmates -- John Hummel and Tracy Beatty -- said the outbreak has limited their ability to conduct investigations in the days before their client's scheduled executions.
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    He spent 23 years on death row for a Philly murder he said he didn’t commit. On Friday, a judge overturned his conviction.

    by Chris Palmer
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Walter Ogrod spent more than 23 years on death row insisting he had been wrongfully convicted for killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Northeast Philadelphia in 1988.

    On Friday, the criminal justice system agreed.

    Common Pleas Court Judge Shelley Robins-New overturned Ogrod’s conviction months after prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed it was tainted by critical flaws, including key evidence withheld by police and the prosecutors who put him behind bars.

    During a virtual hearing conducted via Zoom, Assistant District Attorney Carrie Wood tearfully apologized to Ogrod and to Barbara Jean’s family, calling the case a “failure" for them and for the city.

    “We not only stole 28 years of your life, but we threatened to execute you based on falsehoods,” Wood told Ogrod.

    Though the audience in the virtual courtroom had to watch a video call, several members of the gallery could be seen wiping tears from their faces as his conviction officially dissolved.

    Ogrod — who had fallen ill in prison as the coronavirus took hold in March but has since recovered — was expected to be released from State Correctional Institute Phoenix as soon as Friday afternoon.

    One of his attorneys, Andrew Gallo, said in court: “Until today, our society — our justice system — has failed Walter Ogrod and Barbara Jean’s family.”

    James Rollins, another attorney for Ogrod, called his case “impossibly tragic,” and said Ogrod “has been given the opportunity to put his unfair trial and harrowing incarceration behind him and begin to create a new, better life.”

    The District Attorney’s Office said in court documents earlier this year that Ogrod was “likely innocent,” calling his prosecution a “gross miscarriage of justice" tainted by "unreliable scientific evidence, prosecutorial misconduct ... and false testimony.”

    Among other things, prosecutors said Barbara Jean likely died of asphyxiation, and that police and trial prosecutors had suppressed that fact while asserting instead that Ogrod had fatally beaten the girl with a weight bar during a fit of sexual rage.

    District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office also said it believes two now-retired detectives — Martin Devlin and Paul Worrell — coerced Ogrod into a false confession. And prosecutors accused their predecessors of relying on false testimony from jailhouse informants, saying the two men had “colluded” on a bogus statement hoping for leniency in their own cases — and that trial prosecutors failed to disclose that one of them had severe mental health problems.

    The DA’s Office also said a new DNA test conducted during the appeal process did not show any link between Ogrod or his victim, and that "there exists no credible evidence to prove Ogrod was the person who murdered Barbara Jean.”

    The accusations angered Barbara Jean’s mother, who in April submitted a sworn statement supporting Ogrod’s release.

    “There is no question in my mind that Mr. Ogrod is innocent and that he should be released from prison immediately,” Sharon Fahy wrote.

    Fahy watched the Friday’s proceedings from the DA’s Office. Wood told her: “This office has not told you the truth about what happened to your little girl so many years ago. The truth is painful and terrible, but it is what you deserved to hear from this office and we did not do that. And I am so sorry.”


    Wood also said the true perpetrator has remained unidentified, and was left on the streets after Ogrod’s arrest. That, she said, “made the streets less safe.”

    “For that, this office must apologize,” Wood said. “And we must be better.”

    The case marks the 13th murder conviction that Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit has helped overturn since he was sworn into office in 2018. And it is the second case the unit has said was marred by coerced confessions secured by the detectives, Devlin and Worrell.

    Prosecutors said last year that they are reviewing an unspecified number of other cases tied to Devlin and Worrell, neither of whom has commented on the accusations of wrongdoing.

    Last year, Krasner’s office helped overturn a conviction against Willie Veasy, saying Devlin and Worrell had coerced a false confession from him. The two detectives were also involved in the convictions of two other men — Anthony Wright and Shaurn Thomas — whose cases had been overturned before Krasner took office.

    Despite Friday’s victory for Ogrod, his legal travails are not entirely over. Robins-New agreed to vacate his conviction but said she did not have the ability to toss his case out completely.

    Instead, she granted him a new trial — one prosecutors made clear they will not pursue. They will have to return to court at a future date to formally drop the charges.

    In the meantime, Robins-New agreed to downgrade Ogrod’s case to third-degree murder, making him eligible for bail and release at some point Friday.

    https://www.inquirer.com/news/walter...-20200605.html
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    This is a truly horrifying case. Hopefully Ogrod will be thoroughly compensated and they can retest the DNA to find out who was actually responsible. The fact it took so long to do the DNA test to begin with is shocking.

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    Exoneree Walter Ogrod, in his own words


    Walter Ogrod walked out of prison on June 5. Ogrod, 56, spent nearly a quarter-century on death row for the 1988 killing of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, which remains unsolved. His trial involved a false confession, jailhouse informants and evidence withheld from his defense attorney.

    Ogrod was one of 25 people profiled in Injustice Watch’s “Unrequited Innocence” series, which examined cases where people who were likely innocent were sentenced to death and have not been exonerated. Ogrod is so far the only subject of that series to be exonerated. In one of his first interviews since he was released, he spoke with Injustice Watch about his interrogation, his experience in prison, and his new life as a free man.

    [Editor’s note: Ogrod’s comments have been condensed and edited for clarity. This article contains some graphic language.]

    On the police interrogation that ended in a false confession

    I had been up since 8 [a.m.] that Saturday. Maybe just before noon on Sunday I called the detectives–see they came to my house a few days earlier. The landlord got the card from them.

    They said it was only going to take an hour. I got there at 1:30 [p.m.], they told me to sit in the little waiting area. I must have been waiting there at least an hour. I start drifting off. I say I’m going, that I’m sleepy and I don’t want to crash on my way home.

    They put me in the interrogation room, detectives Martin Devlin and Paul Worrell. They start, at least for the next hour, asking for basic information. Where I live, why’d you move.

    They asked me what did I remember about the case, what did I remember happening that day. [This was almost four years after Barbara Jean’s body was found.] I told them I came back from work, I didn’t see no kids. I see Mrs. Green who lived there. I asked why it was so quiet. She said the older kids, they took all the young kids to the local rec center for the pool out there, which they usually do.

    4 years after the naked and battered body of Barbara Jean Horn was found in a trash bag in Philadelphia, the police had made no arrests despite having a series of suspects.

    I told them I went to the store, came back. Some time later, I seen Mr. Fahy come to the door asking if I’d seen Barbara Jean. He was in a panic. He said maybe she was at a friend’s house.

    They asked a lot about her stepfather, how he was to the mother and the child. I thought he was her actual father, I didn’t know. They said they heard she didn’t want her daughter coming to the house. The Greens were like vagabonds, they were unkempt, they were selling drugs.

    They asked what did we hear. I told them we heard about the box being found, but they’re not sure if the child was her. Later on that night we heard it was her.

    Then they start asking what do you remember reading in papers and on TV. Something seemed unusual, but then again, they wanted to know what was going on, what I had known. I got a weird feeling, but it wasn’t until after they said the interview was done, I go for the door, and they slam it shut on me.

    They said, “We believe you done it. We’re keeping you here all night.” They kept locking the door. They handcuffed me to the chair. I asked for a phone call for a lawyer. I said I have a right to a phone call, they said no, no, we’ll get to it later. It went all night like that.

    They started putting pictures of her body in front of my face. They didn’t go like in order, they kept skipping from one part to another. Devlin, he was the creative one. Worrell was sometimes making suggestions, like “How could this happen when you said this earlier?”

    I’m dozing off all the time. They shake me awake, give me coffee. They made a sketch of the alley to my house [near where Barbara Jean’s body was found.] “The person was supposed to go this way,” he said. He takes my hand, goes straight down the alley and makes a right. “This is the way.”

    If they’d seen me, why not arrest my ass earlier?

    Devlin was getting mad. “Then you went down this way.” I was so dead tired I didn’t know what was going on. Then they were asking questions about the body, or how I got it in the house. Mrs. Green was in the house, then she wasn’t. “You can’t decide whether someone’s in the house or not,” they said. They asked me what’d I do with the blood. There was no blood spatter in that house.

    They claimed I wanted to take her downstairs and wanted to play doctor with her. In those homes out there, you could easily hear everything. You could hear every sound through the vents. They said I made her kneel so she could give me a blowjob. They said she started crying so I took this weight bar and swung it. Impossible. If you put your arm up, you’d hit the rafters an inch above your wrist. There’s no way I could have swung a bar going down the way they have it. No possible way. Even if I’m on the first floor, I still couldn’t do it there.

    We took a break around midnight. They gave me some food. We took a couple flights upstairs to the room equipped to take fingerprints. They take five, six sets of fingerprints. They kept throwing pictures of her body in my face. “You’re sick, we want to get you help,” they said.

    Toward the end, toward the signing, I say I want an attorney. They were trying to get me to sign a paper waiving my rights. They said they’d get me an attorney but you gotta sign this first. They were messing with my head real bad. They said, “If you don’t sign this confession, we’re going to take you downstairs and put you with a bunch of n****** and say you killed a bunch of n***** children, and see what happens.”

    A few times I had managed to try to get out to try to use the phone but they grabbed me. I’m so out of it and all, I’m just, by that time I must have been up 48 hours straight. They kept on badgering, badgering. They kinda had me believing it. My autism, my Asperger’s, I had no sleep. I did not get out until 7 the next morning. I was thrown in the holding cells.

    On hearing the jury sentence him to death

    When they said death I kind of like, just froze there holding the table, thinking I was going to fall over. It hit me, but I didn’t feel nothing. It took me awhile. Then I thought, just get it over with. I don’t feel like waiting 20-something years like some of these people who lose their appeal.

    On life on death row at State Correctional Institution – Greene

    Over the years, different superintendents always take out their frustrations on us. In ’98 we called it ‘the massacre of ourselves.’ One superintendent had us strip ourselves of everything. All our legal work was shipped off or destroyed.

    You’re in your cell 22 hours a day. You get two hours out Monday through Friday. A dog kennel gets more space than what we got for exercise.

    The guards were complete assholes. There were some decent ones, but mostly complete assholes. Charles Graner, [who was convicted of war crimes at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq] he was a guard at Greene. He beat prisoners.

    On the long wait of his appeal

    I thought, if anything is going to happen, I thought I was going to get life. Some attorneys, they just want to get you life and that’s it, for their resume.

    In an emotional hearing Friday, a Philadelphia judge vacated Ogrod’s death sentence and convictions for the 1996 murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn. He walked free after 28 years behind bars.

    It’s too slow. You sit in your cell doing nothing. You just go nuts. It feels like the walls are closing in on you. At the time making a phone call, the charge was outrageous and to reverse charges it’s double that. My friend had a $5,000 phone bill.

    On the June 5 hearing that led to his release and exoneration

    When [assistant district attorney Carrie Wood] started crying, that kind of got to me. She got my case the day she was hired there and she’s been on it since day one. To hear it like that… When she was continuing to cry it just felt weird. I can’t even really describe it, to hear a DA crying to any exoneree. I don’t think any DA has ever done anything like that. That wasn’t some phony thing. She was really, it was getting to her, all the stuff she’s seen. How dare they do this to an innocent man, how dare they do this to this mother. I just wanted to talk to her and tell her to calm down and all.

    On walking out of prison

    I loved it. I loved it. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. I just had to get out of there. After the hearing, I went back to my cell on my block. The superintendent had called down and told them to get me the fuck out of there. I had an hour and a half. I had to rush. I tried to leave some stuff for someone to use, a typewriter.

    On his new life


    I’m still getting used to this iPhone, that’s for sure. I’m way behind putting stuff on my Facebook. I’m behind. I got a bum leg. If I walk for a while the pain goes into the other leg. A lot of the pain went away when I got the bed I’m sleeping on. I want to get rid of [the pain] so I can enjoy what’s left of the summer.

    I want to do advocacy, to abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. It needs to be done, especially in Pennsylvania.

    After 28 years, you have no idea how much is still burning in me. I want to see everyone connected to my case, the detectives, especially the DAs and the coroner, I want to see them punished. I want to go after everyone that had a part in this. I want to make it so expensive for the city that this has to change.

    It’s painful, but I gotta use this pain to help other people.

    (source: injusticewatch.org)
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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