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Originally Posted by areyoushittin'me?
Ah...now we are getting to the problem with such a premise as your thread and the prior one of BadMutha's...that is to assume that the terms liberal and conservative actually provide quantifiable absolutes and that further, it is safe to assume that all parties agree on what they are.
Since I cannot speak for BD, I shall leave clarification to him.
All I will say at this time is that our justice system is a joke and much of it is based on who you know and that has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative.
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While I would agree that "who you know" is important in terms of the upper-class getting away with things, for those of us in the bottom 99% I think justice is still uneven for a few different horrible reasons.
For one thing, private prisons give well-funded lobbiests the ability to advocate for tougher, easier prison sentances on the behalf of that industry. Essentially the law changes to incarcerate more people because it is more profitable to do so.
Also the political cost of opposing anything that strengthens sentancing. If you don't want there to be a rediculous three strikes law, you must be soft on crime is the obvious attack. If punishments can only get harder and harder and harder, there's a problem.