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A worthy lasting legacy would be for Mr. Swartz's story to shed an undeniable and transforming light upon the farce that our "adversarial" justice system has be
by pasbesoin 14y ago
A worthy lasting legacy would be for Mr. Swartz's story to shed an undeniable and transforming light upon the farce that our "adversarial" justice system has become.
It is all too seldom about "justice" and all too often about "career".
And... these prosecutors are public employees. Our employees. We cannot and should not divorce ourselves from their malicious malfeasance, when and as it occurs.
Nor can we nor should we divorce ourselves from the system that creates it.
Swartz's case gains publicity through his prominence. But similar oppression, often combined with a grinding and defining lack of opportunity, plays out thousands of times every day, on the streets and in the families of this country.
We can't make it perfect. But we should be trying a damned sight more to make it better. If we are sincere about this.
- regnum 14y agoCheck out Errol Morris' documentary The Thin Blue Line. It really makes evident the "career" climbers in the justice system and how they can spoil freedom for those who they target. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Thin_Blue_Line/60034937?locale=en-US http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Thin_Blue_Line/6003493...
- rprasad 14y ago4 black teens in NY went to prison for 2 decades after a white woman mistakenly identified them as her attackers. Texas has executed several innocent men. The South had a history of lynching black men without a trial, and letting whites who murdered colored folk (black or otherwise) free. People of Japanese descent were forcibly interned during WWII and SCOTUS upheld internment. The American justice system survived all of this, and you think that Mr. Swartz is a "transforming light"? I'm sorry, but compared to these other miscarriages of justice, the Swartz case isn't even a drop in a bucket.