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FTA: > "We're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoi
by haswell 1y ago
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> "We're working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities and operations," Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem said to press, "and we're going to actually go after them and prosecute them... because what they're doing, we believe, is illegal."
- epistasis 1y agoGuilty, until proven innocent, or until it's proven that there's no law that is being broken.
- bb88 1y agoThe defendant still has to pay for their defense, even if the charges were frivolous.
- epistasis 1y agoExactly, and defense of a federal prosecution is a multi-million dollar defense.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoFederal criminal prosecutions have a 91% conviction rate. 89% plead guilty, only 2.3% go to trial and most of those are convicted. A Just Us system.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoA crime will always be found.
- i80and 1y agoWhen I played Half-Life 2 for the first time as a teen, the dialogue of man 1: "They have no reason to come to our place." man 2: "Don't worry, they'll find one" felt so abstract