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Silent3

(15,200 posts)
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 01:05 AM Feb 2022

If I were caught with a couple of kilos of cocaine, the police wouldn't simply confiscate...

...the drugs and get back to me some time a year or so later after pondering long and hard about what charges, if any, to bring against me. I'd immediately be going on a little ride down to the police station -- either that, or possibly a ride to a hospital or the morgue if, you know, I twitched slightly the wrong way after the police bashed down my door, shooting first and asking questions later.

So why doesn't it work that way when you're in illegal possession of stolen government documents, some of which are apparently classified?

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If I were caught with a couple of kilos of cocaine, the police wouldn't simply confiscate... (Original Post) Silent3 Feb 2022 OP
Nation of PRIVILEGE Dirty Socialist Feb 2022 #1
Send the Minneapolis Police Mr.Bill Feb 2022 #2
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2022 #4
+1000! n/t Silent3 Feb 2022 #5
K&R, uponit7771 Feb 2022 #3
Because as Bryan Stevenson so rightly points out hippywife Feb 2022 #6
Ain't that the truth! n/t Silent3 Feb 2022 #7

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)
1. Nation of PRIVILEGE
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 02:09 AM
Feb 2022

This country is becoming a nation where you get by on privilege, and not just white privilege. You want justice? How much justice can you afford?

hippywife

(22,767 posts)
6. Because as Bryan Stevenson so rightly points out
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:31 PM
Feb 2022

"We have a justice system that treats you better if you're rich and guilty, than if you're poor and innocent."

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