3 Years for Dixie

[Albert Hidel]

The fact that they were right didn't stop a determined prosecutor from ignoring the law and going for the conviction.

That's why the feds had what they considered a difficult time prosecuting, because there weren't any crimes being committed.

In the past cases the "fraud" was the representation that the degrees being sold were "accredited." Even that is a stretch, because the representation wasn't "regionally accredited" but just a plain vanilla "accredited." In SRU's case the degrees really were accredited, at least at first, until our own government queered the deal.

Virtually every aspect of this prosecution was bogus, from the government's theft of records to the judge sitting on an RA board of trustees. Considering we are celebrating Independence Day in this country, this is a harsh reminder that we still have a long way to go.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security....A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm