Presidents pardoning corporations is such a fucked precedent, I don't even
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Pardoning crimes is a fucked precedent. When someone is found guilty in a fair trail it can be overruled on the whims of a single person? The US has the strangest idea of justice.
Got to have some safety net in place in case the courts erroneously decide to rule in favor of the poors on occasion.
From what I've seen lately, those are not the people it seems to be helping.
I 100% agree that pardoning has its place, but it's clearly turned into another instance of abuse.
Well it’s a fucked president, so what can you expect.
On the other hand, if a future administration wants to get around that pardon, they can just snatch these people off the street and throw them on a plane to another country to be locked up in a hellish concentration camp. Then when lawyers point out that they were pardoned the government can just say "whoopsie" and ignore them.
Waste of money. If the bill of rights doesn't hold water then we might as well do the humane thing and slit their throats in a field. Leave their bodies for the vultures. Don't have to waste bullets or dig holes. No reason to kill the environment shipping people off.
Though I follow the spirit of your message, doing so would only validate the treasonous behavior and ratchet up the madness. There is nothing lawful about so many things happening today, but we must do better than to stoop to the same lawless tactics.
Unfortunately dealing with these people in a way that respects the law would not get anywhere. By then these people will be likely very rich and law has a bias towards under punishing (relatively) the rich.
Not to mention, when you hold back supreme court nominations, gerrymander the shit out of districts, face no punishment for doing these things, I mean, fuck the law. What is it doing? Who is it helping or representing? Then, to be told simply to work within that system is absurd.
But what alternative is there, to following the law?
General strikes and boycotts. Find ways to be less dependent on corporations so they don't receive as much of your money. Unfortunately I don't think there's much you can lawfully do as an individual to have a profound effect on the accountability of wealthy and connected people who can financially influence law enforcers.
Perhaps quietly prepare yourself through acquisition of skills and various implements for a time when equitable rule of law is so asymmetrical that it makes more sense to break the law in order to survive.
Or just be really really sneaky and hard to catch.
I don't know. Mental illness.
These people should hang out, maybe get to mordore or be head at something.