It is a great quality of the Law that it allows both rich and poor alike to pay a lot of money to avoid jail time when caught committing a crime.

Everyone has the freedom to pay.

Everyone can pay their freedom, but inexplicably only certain people do.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

I wish I knew.

FWIW, the film Law Abiding Citizen examines a similar topic: plea bargains in criminal cases against individuals. For me, it was a great thought-experiment about how one's anger about plea-bargaining could play out. But just a warning, it has some pretty horrific scenes that you might regret watching.

The end result in the real world is killdozer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer

That’s an incredible read!

Who would go to jail? Corporations are built specifically to shield the employees/owners of the corporation from liability.

Like, I know the sovereign citizen stuff is all nonsense, but this is kind of their point. They're trying to get away with the same things corporations get away with on the regular.

> Corporations are built specifically to shield the employees/owners of the corporation from liability.

But that shield is not all-encompassing. The corporate veil can be pierced, and one of the things that can bring that result is lawbreaking on the part of a corporation.

This is a complex topic. A reasonable explanation can be found here: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/03/27/the-three-justifi...

Because they don't actually want to stop them from doing these things. It's just a show to make it look like this 3 letter agency is actually doing something.

Because (at least in the US), money is power.

Just another form of bribing.