Yet another opportunity to reflect on the fact that if you're rich you live under an effectively different legal system. A legal defense fund wouldn't do much in a country where that wasn't true.
It's insane that the entire legal system treats you differently depending on race and class. Parts of it are literally rigged in order to suppress the vote from certain groups, or to coerce certain people into cheap labour. It imprisons more people than any other nation on earth. Yet Americans convince themselves this in any way approximates the abstract concept of "justice".
Yet another opportunity to reflect on the fact that if you're rich you live under an effectively different legal system. A legal defense fund wouldn't do much in a country where that wasn't true.
It's insane that the entire legal system treats you differently depending on race and class. Parts of it are literally rigged in order to suppress the vote from certain groups, or to coerce certain people into cheap labour. It imprisons more people than any other nation on earth. Yet Americans convince themselves this in any way approximates the abstract concept of "justice".
More people are rotting in private prisons in america than were ever sent to any russian gulag.