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Imagine a society where those in charge, all the way up to the President, were just as afraid of prosecution and life sentences for violating the law/Constituti
by crusso 13y ago
Imagine a society where those in charge, all the way up to the President, were just as afraid of prosecution and life sentences for violating the law/Constitution as peons at the bottom like Snowden.
- lukeschlather 13y agoThat probably means the judiciary is just as corrupt as the executive and legislative branches, so it's not so much a matter of whether or not they're violating the law, as how much they and their political opponents are paying the judges. Several failed Latin American democracies come to mind as concrete examples.
- crusso 13y agoNo political model succeeds in the face of unaddressed corruption.