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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Anyhow, my Kanuk friend launched into along speech about how we Americans just didn't understand how our justice system was viewed in the rest of the world, as a great forum for ensuring fairness etc., and the manipulation of evidence & jurors racial sentiment was just a crushing blow to people who admired the model of free government the US represented, and they were crushed, just crushed at this failure, and it seemed to the rest of the world that the whole US legal system was entirely corrupted by money and race. And she and her whole office broke down in tears and wept when the verdict came down because it was such a failure that the court system couldn't withstand money and racial hatred.
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To me, this is the only MAJOR drawback of capitalism. In a capitalist society, you can never, ever have a pure (just?) legal system. Throwing money into the legal mix guarantees that the truth, if it's out there, will rarely, if ever, come to light.
That being said, it's a price I'm willing to pay. I would rather take my chances with an imperfect legal system than with an economy based on Marxism.
