Let me be clear.
It seriously stinks.
At the federal level some 98% of accused are convicted – a laughably embarrassing figure for any democracy.
Almost all of those are convictions without trial where the Feds have basically threatened you with 500 years in jail or you cut a deal, plead guilty and take a tolerably low sentence.
- (And for all those who say “well, you should never plead guilty if you didn’t do it” I point out that they also cut deals with all sorts of others who have to testify against you and fighting the charges will bankrupt you and your family even if you win and only the uber brave can withstand this treatment.)
...Take the recent defamation case against the legendarily funny columnist Mark Steyn in Washington D.C. brought by the climate change alarmist Michael Mann – yes, the hockey stick guy who laughably claimed to be a Nobel laureate for years.
This trial and verdict makes a mockery of the idea that any politically conservative person could get a remotely fair trial in Washington D.C. (where some 93% vote Democrat year in and year out)...
In addition to Steyn the justice system has pretty clearly been weaponised in the U.S. against Trump and his former advisors...
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