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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 10:24 PM Mar 2022

We, the people, are ENTITLED to justice. We don't expect perfection. We understand that even

the best systems occasionally fail. And just like money buys better cars and houses, it also buys better lawyers and inevitably, wealthy folks are better represented in our courts. We may not like that, but we can live with it.

But, what we cannot accept is the relatively recent default attitude that political power companies plus wealth is not just an advantage, it is an unwritten sort of absolute immunity which prevents prosecution for any criminal conduct, no matter how despicable it may be. This would mean that some people ARE "above the law". That cannot be allowed to stand.

We, the people, have delegated our natural right to punish those who do us harm to our government. The government needs to understand that, sooner or later, we MUST be shown that it will render justice to us.

The alternative is vigilanteism, and none of us want that.

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