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But you're either astroturfing and not part of the community or you created a new account to post this... Why? I'm from Europe and, honestly, I can something d
by martinced 14y ago
But you're either astroturfing and not part of the community or you created a new account to post this... Why?
I'm from Europe and, honestly, I can something deeply rotten in the american legal system (not that the ones in Europe are perfect, far from it).
The person committed an act of civil disobedience. OK, fair enough. But was the law fair to qualify such an act as civil disobedience in the first place?
35 years or "recognize you're guilty and get 'only' 6-months" for a victimless crime?
And crazy high lawyers fee bringing you and potentially your family to bankruptcy.
Add to that a prosecutor obviously having long teeth and wanting to advance in her "career" and you have something which looks ugly.
There's one word in the dictionary to describe what this whole issue feels like.
UNJUST.
It's unjust because the whole point of the legal system should be to bring justice and, in this case, it brought death.
Death in the name of insane lawyer fees. Death in the name of careerism. Death in the name of unjust laws, created under pressure of powerful lobbies abusing the golden law (the one who has the gold makes the law) over and over again.
That's why this "community" --and many other communities-- are very very upset.
That's why the white house shall have to respond to tens of thousands of people who wants one thing: a legal system that is just.