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>...young lawyers are less concerned with right and wrong than with chasing dollars... Based, of course, on the corrupt system created and sustained and protec
by oldmanjay 11y ago
>...young lawyers are less concerned with right and wrong than with chasing dollars...
Based, of course, on the corrupt system created and sustained and protected by the old lawyers who can't see far enough past their own biases to realize that they are the same horrible people.
- rayiner 11y agoUltimately it's the citizens that are to blame. It's elected police chiefs or sheriffs, elected mayors, and (usually) elected judges that create and perpetuate these systems. I mean, look at Woodsworth. There's no lobbyists, SuperPAC funding, Koch Brothers money. There's no excuses. The people could vote every wrongdoer in this story out of office tomorrow. They choose not to.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoThey don't treat Woodsworth voters like that.
- tsotha 11y agoThis is the key to running cities based on ticket revenue. Residents would would never tolerate it if they were plundered like this. Heck, most of them probably don't realize what's going on until they've been there awhile.
- gohrt 11y agoDemocracy is tyranny of the majority.