Reply #18: Lyndie

[90-percent]

I use her prosecution all the time when I want to make a point about our dual justice system.

She did the time so Bush and Cheney DON'T HAVE TO!

If you're a "little person", it's off to jail for you for 'just following orders'.

If you're an elite, you can effectively do the same thing on a massive scale and end up with a Congressional Medal of Freedom!

We seem to be a Nation of unjust, selectively enforced laws these days!

Frank Zappa discussed 'mass criminalization' a long time ago. Basically, there are so many laws that at any given time we are all breaking some law somewhere. (think of driving completely legally all the time - you'd get run off the road!)

So if the elites don't like somebody, they can prosecute them for breaking the same goddamned laws we all break while we live our lives.

Nice system we got here, huh?

-90% jimmy

my recent rant about this very subject, on another thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5502717&mesg_id=5503214