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So let's pretend the sentence was reduced by a week instead. Would that still be the same thing?
by lqdc13 10y ago
So let's pretend the sentence was reduced by a week instead. Would that still be the same thing?
- Analemma_ 10y agoThen Obama's action would be the letter of clemency but not the spirit, and there would be room for disagreement about whether Assange should keep his word. But since that's not what happened and Obama's actual action honors both the letter and the spirit of clemency, there's nothing worth debating here.
- lqdc13 10y agoDidn't realize the sentence was reduced by so much. Apparently only a few months are left in the sentence.
- rad88 10y agoIt wouldn't be the same thing. But that didn't happen, her sentence was reduced by 2-3 decades and she'll be out in a few months. It's clearly clemency.
- _jordan_green 10y agoThat's a very interesting scenario, Mr Devil's Advocate