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It's little events like these that expose the inner workings of the system. For all of our lip service to due process and blind justice, governments are still made up of people and the people at the top have the ability to do whatever they want with the system when they are motivated.

The sad part is that recently everyone seems to be ok with this, as long as it's working in their favor in whatever particular instance.



> The sad part is that recently everyone seems to be ok with this

Or they feel like they can't do anything about it, because if they even try, they'll end up getting their lives either ruined or completely turned around, like Assange or Snowden.


Isn't that the whole point of ruining someone's life? To intimidate others.


Yes, and it's working.


I mean, this sort of shit happens in our court systems all the time. This just raises the visibility to where we all see it.




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