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I believe anyone accused of a crime should have the right to a fair trial and a lawyer.

Until recently, I believed my opinion was mainstream.

It's not.

In Italy, a respected newspaper was attacked and vandalized by activists who claimed their coverage of the Middle East was biased. I find this extremely surprising. La Stampa has published many articles such as "Israel commits war crimes". Apparently that was not enough. There was just a wild claim on social media. That's it. Then people stormed the newspaper and vandalized it. Journalists received death threats. I think this is fucked.

Recently in France, a far-right activist was beaten to death on camera. He was on the ground and a crowd of 10/15 masked people kept beating him. The guy is far-right, but he has no criminal record. A crowd just decided that the death penalty was appropriate for him.

Never liked mob justice. Never will.

I believe anyone accused of a crime should have the right to a fair trial and a lawyer.

Apparently, that's no longer accepted.

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[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is the fair trial in the room with us? Because i’ve not seem him in a really long time

Everyone SHOULD have the right to a fair trial i’m with that but that not how it work politician ? Nothing will happen to you, billionaires? Nothing will happen to you, far right? If the politician are also far right ( and most are now ) something might happen to you but the punishement will be a joke compare to the same crime commited by someone on the left or god forbid a non white person

Also and that might be education from family members who have actually fought them in ww2 but the only good fascist is a dead one

[–] NomNom@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was accused of being anti-communism.

That was a lie. He was actually communist. It didn't matter. He was savagely beaten up by an angry mob and thrown in prison without any trial.

I don't like mob rule. I like having a court system.

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 1 points 3 hours ago

And court system are not fair they favor the rich and the regime friend

Sure mob justice is bad but thinking that “fair” trial is a thing if you don’t have connection with the powerful is living in a fantasy world