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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting –March 5, 2010 judge asked us if we had any problem with that. I said, “I’ve got a problem with it. If it’s true that you are innocent until you are proven guilty, why do you treat a person when you arrest them like they are guilty until proven innocent? He said, “Mr. Blake, I’m afraid we don’t have to give an answer to a question like that.” So, they kicked me out of the jury. I got excused. I figured I would. But, generally, when a guy gets a felony, he stays guilty and never gets proven innocent. Even after they do their time, they still continue to do time, except it’s in a different place. It’s in a different location. You’re not incarcerated inside, but you are incarcerated on the outside because of the difficulty you have getting a job. Being a felon is almost like being married, except you can’t get a divorce. It’s until death do you part. That’s what happens when you get a felony. Now there were some things I was going to read, but I’m not going to because I think these guys have done an excellent job. In Timothy’s correspondence one of the things I talked to him about is that we want to get full funding---the same as what we had last year, instead of half of what we had last year. The reason we would like to have that is because we have discovered that what we thought was the problem is nothing compared to what the real problem is and what it’s doing to our community. What it’s going to do to our community. We can put it on the side, but I can tell you this. What we are doing is worth much more than a million dollar building that you might build out here or anywhere else. It’s much more valuable than that. I’m saying it definitely is. One life. But we talk about economic development, but we forget about the human capital that is much more valuable, much more important. But we put 14