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You are not acting as a devil's advocate but Pontius Pilate, willing to wash your hands and let the system be. Some of the jurors who convicted her were "disma
by dalke 11y ago
You are not acting as a devil's advocate but Pontius Pilate, willing to wash your hands and let the system be.
Some of the jurors who convicted her were "dismayed":
> “Life in prison? My God, that is too harsh,” said James J. Siwinski, a retired worker for a glass company. “That is too severe. There’s people killing people and getting less time than that. She wasn’t an angel. But enough is enough already.”
which means you have less sympathy than some of those who know the full facts of the case. Moreover,
> "The Justice Department announced last month that one of Colombia’s most notorious drug traffickers and a senior paramilitary leader will serve about 15 years in prison for leading an international drug trafficking conspiracy that imported more than 100,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States."
No matter how little you may cry over her imprisonment, no one else is crying over that either, but rather the injustice of the length. Why does a mid-level dealer get such drastically higher punishment than a high-level dealer? Is it because the international drug trafficker could afford "the right kind of help"?
If so, do you shed no tears over a justice system where the rich can easily buy freedom or leniency?