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Wow, it sounds like you actually condone the spirit of what happened. As an American it's strange to imagine celebrating rule of force over rule of law. The US
by ellyagg 17y ago
Wow, it sounds like you actually condone the spirit of what happened. As an American it's strange to imagine celebrating rule of force over rule of law. The US falls woefully short at times, but I can't imagine anyone cheering fraudulent theft of tax money to pander to voters.
I also find it hard to believe someone would behave as the lawyer in this story did merely over ill-intentioned greed.
- osipov 17y ago>>As an American it's strange to imagine celebrating rule of force over rule of law What about Al Capone? The guy was caught on tax evasion charges, was US government's rule of force justified in his case?
- astine 17y agoWhat does that have to do with anything? He was in fact guilty of tax evasion, which was in fact against the law.
- andreyf 17y agoHe was clearly guilty of much more than tax evasion. The rule of law failed in regard to most of his misdeeds.
- prewett 17y agoI think what usually happens is the government can prove tax evasion, but they cannot prove "by a preponderance of evidence" (or "beyond a reasonable doubt," whichever is applicable here) so easily. Sure, everyone knew that Capone was guilty of more than tax evasion, but could they prove it in a way that his high-priced lawyer could not convince a jury of his peers otherwise?