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Re:Attorney General: Aaron Swartz Case Was a ‘Good Use of Pr... by rayiner on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:45PM (#5335151)
Except you just made all that up, and also the sentences minorities get and the sentences white kids like Swartz get are (regrettably) two different conversations.
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Re:Attorney General: Aaron Swartz Case Was a ‘Good Use of Pr... by olefoo on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:48PM (#5335950)
The point I was making is that we have a two tiered system of justice in this country; and while it used to be the case that the tiers were divided exclusively by race; they are now divided along the lines of class, and political opinion.

The meta-point I am attempting to make is that despite the pieties and the nice heritage architecture of the buildings it lives in; our system of justice has become unutterably and unsustainably corrupt; almost as corrupt as our political system.

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