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1. 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘 (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 11:15:43 JST 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘

   • CEO of Monoeye Dating
   I think the problem is two fold.
   
   The first is that state courts tend to enforce state statutes unless they're found unconstitutional by SCOTUS on its face. This means that its a long game. Most people don't have the time or money (I note that to practice before SCOTUS, you have to be admitted to its bar. That requires another member to vouch for you, so 99.9% of lawyers available for hire couldn't take the case from the start to where it needs to go).
   
   The second is that the accused fold, including taking plea deals under pressure of imprisonment that waive their right to review, and sweetheart plea deals are more likely where the charges are bullshit. Look at Richard Golden. He folded.
   
   I hope one of these kids has a lawyer daddy or a big firm uncle, and they fucking crush this DA, personally, via all of the legal and political tools at hand.
   • 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘 (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 11:15:42 JST 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘

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     • CEO of Monoeye Dating
     • VaxxSabbath
     Don't you find it interesting that the higher up the ladder you go, the less liability and more immunity there is? Judges are immune from civil suits for act on the bench, even if competely illegal, politicians and administrators for acts in the course of their duties. Police, being closer to the plebians, only get qualified immunity, and us bottom feeders are absolutely liable even if we believed we were following the law.
     
     This is counter to the idea of duty. The higher the duty, the greater the liability. Without liability, duty is a sham. My position is, by way of example, that if a judge knowingly violates the constitution from the bench, that should be deemed a violation of the union, and ergo, treason, and the death penalty should be swiftly employed to deter other judges from doing the same, so on and so forth. The highest duty should entail the highest punishment for violation. This is the Roman way.
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   • VaxxSabbath (vaxxsabbath@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 11:15:43 JST VaxxSabbath

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     • CEO of Monoeye Dating

     @Humpleupagus @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Paulyfrog64 this is why I liken "law", in this age, to "fractional-reserve currency" (cc'ing @plotinus_enjoyer for this one), except that instead of gold specie underlying it, the reserve of law is "violence"

     these creatures - being far removed from even the most notional conceptions of violence except as a theoretical entity, and because they are so far removed from it - wantonly exercise raw power without constraint; as far as they're concerned, it's just a job, a game whose numbers they grind out and minmax until they have enough juice to springboard to a political career or a white-shoe law firm for big bucks

     not a single one of them, or so near as to make no difference, has a conception of the idea that there is a metaphysical duty, on their part, to participate in not just a legal system but a justice system, which requires the active connivance of all participants towards that goal; sort of like physicians and the Hippocratic Oath, the idea of a sacred duty has been devalued to the point of laughability (and they do laugh at the idea)

     in a better world, such men would at the very least be called out for trial by combat by the aggrieved victims of their malicious lawfare; the survivors would learn quickly that the tools they employ are not to be wielded with either lightness of heart or lightness of purpose, and would become far more reticent to engage in the blatant abortions of justice they now perpetrate on the regular

     in this world at the present time, the likelier outcome (soon) is that they will be called out for, uh, "surprise" trial by combat (involving L-shaped formations around geographic bottlenecks and that sort of thing)