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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
My objection to criminal justice abuses reaches back to my earlier point about punching down. The man in the dock, even if he's rich, is up against the most amoral and vicious adversary in the world when the govt comes after him. He often barely stands a chance. A system that allows that isn't deserving of comparison to a game. It's more predatory... something else. Something really rotten, and deserving of being discredited.
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You have this real, principled concern about the way the criminal justice system is rigged to favor the government, "the most amoral and vicious adversary in the world," and at the same time, in the same post, you repeat utter bullshit that the head of the government, the President, is spreading to corrupt the criminal justice system to serve his ends. You say the criminal justice system is predatory and rotten -- does that moral concern just shut off when the President tries to arrange special treatment for this own supporters? I think your instinct is to just take the side of almost any defendant, even Roger Stone, but you don't seem to get that the moronic attacks on this judge are aimed at making the system more predatory and more rotten.
