Cancer Patient Pays $5 Fine, Still Jailed (Video)

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAEarly last month legal adviser to Edward Snowden and director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project Ben Wizner told Moyers & Company that it is not Orwell and Big Brother citizens should fear, but Kafka.

Bureaucracy and red tape can choke the life and efficiency out of most any institution. Take a look and see how a Massachusetts woman battling ovarian cancer ends up in jail for failing to renew a $5 dog license (even after the fine had been paid.) Wizner may be on to something, here…

 

Edited/Published by: SB