• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    I feel like the safe bet is to just remove anyone that is named in the Epstein files from having the ability to hold public office or a high position in any company. Sure, some collateral damage, but really, it’s the only solution.

    I know that would literally take a revolution and a change of government to achieve. But, we just purge everyone named in it that wasn’t a clear victim.

    I’m even for the extreme position that if you were a person in a powerful position and your name is listed we just put you in prison for the rest of your life. Sorry. It’s my new revolutionary government and I’m making the rules. We’re not risking anything. The collateral damage of some “innocent” rich people is far less concerning to me than our new society letting rich pedophiles be free.

    We can be slightly unjust for a generation while we figure out our new revolutionary government.

    We’ll also reform prisons to not be complete shit holes where we let everyone get raped and treat them like animals. So, it won’t be so bad. We’ll let you read books and watch TV and shit.

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      2 hours ago

      Collateral damage by blunt force of law without trial is tyranny. I fully support trying all people named, but I don’t want to trade the restraints we hold on the government for an emotional attack on people who may or may not have participated in an evil conspiracy. When you surrender such protections you don’t get them back without a long and difficult fight

      We try people, by jury, with firm rules. And we accept that some guilty free are better than some innocent punished.