tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post2464772667740792655..comments2024-03-27T17:52:09.889-04:00Comments on You Might Notice a Trend: Everything That's Wrong With Justice In America (w/Updates)Paul Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13092023794397583036noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-17313176689835816252019-03-13T13:57:57.486-04:002019-03-13T13:57:57.486-04:00When all participants of a "system" are ...When all participants of a "system" are psychopathic, feeding from the same nose-bag, free from competition -- and are allowed (by your neighbors and friends -- hopefully not you) to<br />• Make the laws, <br />• Enforce the laws,<br />• Prosecute the laws,<br />• Hire the prosecutors,<br />• License the “defense” attorneys,<br />• Pay the “judges”,<br />• Build the jails,<br />• Contract jails out to private entities,<br />• Employ and pay the wardens,<br />• Employ and pay the guards,<br />• Employ and pay the parole officers,<br />One can't honestly call it a "justice" system. It's a system of abject tyranny.<br />Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14658730069022837576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27554065.post-58928350981344431212019-03-11T17:58:43.224-04:002019-03-11T17:58:43.224-04:00A close friend of mine did 48 months in Soledad No... A close friend of mine did 48 months in Soledad North for possessing a half a pound of pot. The nice thing about that is that California is considering expunging the criminal records of folks like my friend who have already done their time. The not nice thing about it is all of the things my friend has had to live with now that he has a criminal record. He'll never get those missed opportunities back. He doesn't trip about it, he knew pot was illegal when he bought that half pound, and nobody twisted his arm to make him buy it, and he did not intend on smoking it all himself.<br /><br /> Whatever Paul Manafort ends up getting sentenced to will not be enough for a despicable creep like him, even if he never sees the light of day as a free man again, but a judge can't and shouldn't sentence him because of that.<br /><br />http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/02/suffer-and-die-alone-paul-manafort.html<br /><br /> He was a driving force behind some of the very worst US policy and politics in modern history, and all of the foreign lobbying and political work he did caused untold suffering, but our legal system is not supposed to be prejudiced against defendants for their prior behavior unless it is specifically germane to the crime they are being tried for.<br /><br /> Still I can only hope he gets enough time to keep him incarcerated for the rest of his miserable life. Part of how our system got broken is that none of the highest level offenders ever sees the inside of a jail cell. You can't punish rich people by fining them, no matter how large the fines. They just write those fines into their business model and graft up even more money to cover them, and if they don't get caught, that just means more for them.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.com