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Justice
July 23, 2011 at 10:19 pm
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RE: Justice
July 23, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Point taken, Miles.

Corporate criminals do have their fans around here, though.
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RE: Justice
July 23, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Never been a fan of big businesses, nor the government.

Long story short I'm a conspiracist.
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RE: Justice
July 23, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Not only that, but the homeless dude will due is time in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison while the other guy will stay in something more akin to a country club than a prison.
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RE: Justice
July 24, 2011 at 12:12 am
One wonders how much of the $3B the convicted CEO used to hire top dollar lawyers, and how much the homeless man had to pay for one, presuming he did not use a public defender?

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RE: Justice
July 24, 2011 at 12:57 am
Well, the homeless gentleman is no longer homeless nor hungry. And shant be for 15 years. While the suit, who probably still has a huge portion of that 3 billion, most likely could be let out of the country club before his sentence is up due to overcrowding.

Welcome to the Corporate States of America. Where you are free. As long as you can pay for it, one way or the other.
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RE: Justice
July 24, 2011 at 1:18 am
Is it just me, or has some poor innocent done gone and conflated 'the law" with 'justice'? They two concepts are mutually exclusive except through occasional happy accident. The purpose of the law is to maintain the status quo,period.

I'm aware of no county on earth which has a justice system. There are only legal systems with varying degrees of incompetence,indifference and corruption.

We ( say the US,Australia and the UK) have an adversarial system. The opposing sides allegedly have access to the same evidence, yet argue opposite conclusions. Court case are debates,with no interest in truth or justice, but only that which can be proved under often absurd rules of evidence. (look up 'probable cause' and 'poisonous fruit')

It is completely unsurprising to me that the wealthy are often acquitted or receive grossly reduced sentences. Most of the poor take plea bargains. If they did not,and opted for trials, our entire legal system would stop functioning.

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RE: Justice
July 24, 2011 at 1:19 am (This post was last modified: July 24, 2011 at 1:20 am by kriskiran.)
15 years for robbing $100? Even after he surrendered himself feeling remorse? An old homeless guy? I can't believe the judges.

United States of Assholes.
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