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  • He was photographed both at and near the scene and found with the gun. His innocent plea is pro forma because it is their job to defend him and there is always hope of creating reasonable doubt in the mind of the jury even when its not at all reasonable. There is no reason for us to be stupid about it. There are not in fact “plenty of reasons” there are no good reasons at all. Again we are bound by law to give him every benefit of the doubt AT TRIAL. We can entirely reasonably conclude amongst ourselves that he is guilty as sin and still let the trial play out properly.

    The liars in charge of our government keep saying this is the guy, and we should kill him. I find that super suss.

    It’s not suss at all. He killed an important person who made their living screwing us. If people copy him a lot of very important very rich, and very harmful people who count themselves the modern day nobility are in danger. They collectively own the fucking nation. It’s not weird to see societies moral immune system inflamed at all. If a liar tells you it’s raining the fact that they are dishonest doesn’t mean its dry out.


  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldFirst of all
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    It is different but do you expect a trial for person A saying person B should be locked up to first hold a mock trial for person B without access or standing to actually do so correctly before they can render a verdict on person A? Objectively unreasonable.

    This is also massively prone to abuse. Even creating a plausible context for prosecuting someone creates the potential for effectively punishing critics even if everyone one of them gets off. This is further assuming that they actually get off even if innocent by your standards and mine.

    Then there is the simple fact that based on US law this is sufficiently contrary to our laws that it would require a constitutional amendment which would be impossible to pass. It doesn’t matter if it could be passed in your country it certainly couldn’t be passed in this one.




  • You are owed a day in court and all due process before the government punishes you.

    You aren’t owed an unlimed presumption of innocence by the general public who can and do read and come to reasonable conclusions in their own time.

    Everyone knew that the Menendez brothers did it before the trial and everyone knew OJ did it after the trial even before he wrote a book about how he did it entitled “if I did it”

    It’s weird that you can’t distinguish between what you are owed morally in the court of public opinion and what you are owed legally in criminal court.



  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"We're totally different sides!"
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    Obama focused on recent unauthorized border crossers and people who were actually criminals whilst allowing lawful claims of asylum, protecting dreamers and those who would face harm at home and benignly ignoring long term people contributing. During his last year they spent $6B

    Trump

    • budgeted 200B this year alone to hire an army with the promise of imprisoning or deporting 25M people (more than actually exist)

    • Separated children whilst losing thousands of them to punish people for coming here with the intent that fear of losing their children might keep them out

    • Has armed gangs of anonymous thugs disappearing people off the streets with limited to zero due process.

    • States that due to an invasion we don’t need to give anyone due process

    • Has asserted in court that we can can send them abroad to areas where we know they will be tortured and killed

    • Has deported people to countries they are not from

    • Has deported people to a torturous hell hole based on false claims of criminality

    • When one person was singled out as innocent he had his justice department trump up charges to pretend the original claim was real

    • Is building the American Auschwitz

    • Has claimed that children of unlawful immigrants are not citizens despite the constitution states that he is the only authority his people should follow on the law not the courts

    • Punishes students for speaking out by yanking visas and imprisoning them in legal limbo

    • Has said that getting rid of legal immigrants who don’t belong here (non-whites) is the “next job”

    • Took out a full page ad in a major national paper calling for the lynching of black teens who turned out to be innocent

    • Discriminated against non-whites in both housing and employment

    • Has ice agents as we speak racial profiling and punishing people for being non-white see the 82 year old grandpa originally from Chile who was sent to die in Guatemala while keeping his family in the dark about his kidnapping. He a legal resident was kidnapped while at an office seeking a replacement green card for the one he had mislaid.

    As only around 12M actual illegal immigrants actually exist and its impossible in any reasonable length of time to deport even that number in any sane length of time we are going to fill concentration camps with millions of people more people than we have ever incarcerated. An operation of the size they contemplate run merely as slipshod as the one he is already running will inevitably snag innumerable American citizens who shall be sent to the camps alongside their immigrant neighbors.

    Many citizens and immigrants are going to die. Die of violence. Die of sickness. Die of privation.

    Does ANYTHING above sound like life under Obama? But by all means keep pushing the both sides narrative.












  • You can win actual damages and your lawyers fees in most instances. Because there is no meaningful payday in the offing you will have to spend ~100 in small claims or $5000-$50,000 in real big boy court and you will win for yourself… $500. Where on earth are you getting $5M. Large settlements are normally because lots and lots of people are damaged in small amounts, someone’s life was destroyed, or the case was uber complicated and ended up taking years of expensive lawyers.

    In case 1 and 3 only the lawyers make out like bandits. In the second case you earn a bunch of money because your life is ruined.


  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"We're totally different sides!"
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    The republicans just funded a gestapo force which is rounding up brown people (some of them citizens) to take them to concentration camps where some and probably soon all of them are going to start dying.

    Recently an 82 year old legal permanent resident originally from Chile where he fled the horror story we kick started decades ago was nabbed whilst replacing his lost green card and is now on deaths door in Gautama where we left him to die on the street whilst lying to his family so they couldn’t help him.

    Please tell me this is the same as life under Obama.