Modern-day historians look back at the Soviet criminal system with a mixture of sorrow and disbelief. For example, Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin's secret police, often boasted, "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." Beria was bragging that he possessed a fearsome array of tools that could banish any political opponent to the gulag. An accusation became the legal equivalent of a conviction.
Decades later, a similar philosophy began to take hold on college campuses across the United States. For example, a lawsuit against Oberlin College in Ohio revealed that every male accused of a sexual peccadillo at that school was found responsible of the alleged offense.
These "kangaroo courts" were shut down in 2020, when a new due process regulation took
effect, thanks to the intrepid efforts of former Department of
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The regulation featured a variety of
commonsense due process procedures such as impartial investigations,
cross-examination, and the presumption of innocence............To Read More.....
