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In reply to the discussion: Anti-whalers Sea Shepherd are pirates, says US court [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)The same "law" that allowed banksters to get away with blatant fraud? The same "law" that states torture is illegal yet allowed W and Cheney to torture anyone they thought were POWs. How about those antitrust "laws" that prevent monopolies? How about those right to chose abortion "laws" or those Buy American "laws". Are those the "laws" you are referring to?
I find it amazing that the quaint idea that America is ruled by a system of laws is still thrown out as a reason to prosecute people. America is ruled by the whim of rich old men not "laws". When I can go to court against GE and get the same treatment as GE then we are ruled by laws.
Gee it's so sad that some property was damaged but that's what the "law" is there to protect - property, not people, not the environment, not whales that are quickly vanishing from the face of the earth. But hay, you got a "law" that says those protecting the whales are pirates and outlaws so maybe, just maybe, we will follow that law, this time only, but all the others we are just going to ignore.
And if by following that ONE "law" all the whales are wiped off the face of the earth, at least you know it was legal, not fair, not just, but legal.