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Pete Buttigieg's avatar

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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wkenn's avatar

"Be patient."

Yes, it takes time and attention to detail when building a good case when operating under rule of law. This is made more difficult by significant magnitude when those holding the evidence and access to the chain of custody are the very ones the case is being made against regarding a broad spectrum of illegal activity.

It requires being 'very patient' as the wheels of justice have always been described as a slow-moving event.

Better to have as airtight a case as possible than rush the job a botch the effort.

Slugoon's avatar

How easy is it to destroy evidence? I mean, they’ve had enough time to neuter or obliterate it. Is there a chain of custody that sees multiple copies placed in multiple locations overseen by multiple people or is there a squalid storeroom somewhere with a few cardboard Storage King boxes of physical evidence known only to the few?

JohnAZ's avatar

Because of the culture of colonial America, the domination of Common Law from England and its ability to convict folks at will, the Constitution is designed to protect the perp, to make sure someone is guilty. Our judicial system is based on these principles. It has been so misused by today’s government.

Slugoon's avatar

This is interesting. I’m not a student of law so have never really stopped to think that other countries go about their justice in very different ways.

Although, we’ve got a two-tiered justice system now, and most likely certain areas are de-facto run by Sharia law.

JohnAZ's avatar

Yup, the “Great American Experiment” is that a nation can exist with any number of cultures in it. Are we creating another Tower of Babel challenging God?

Lugh's avatar

The Founders would have said to that, What the fuck are you talking about? That whole mindset is much later spin. They revolted against England for themselves and their progeny, not Blacks, American Indians, or Jews.

Blackbird's avatar

Yes, this "Great American Experiment" is a fanciful notion dreamed up by someone in an ivory tower, safely insulated from the mayhem that lifted him to his elevated position, and also safe from the mayhem he is propounding.

The "Founding Fathers" were concerned about the rate of German immigration as they didn't think that such a foreign culture could or would integrate into our English society. Were they dreaming of a rainbow utopia with endless flavors of ethnicity, culture, gender, and "life-…

Yes, the Irish and the Catholics were bad enough. But the Catholic colony, Maryland, got on board so they must be tolerated. But fucking Germans?

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