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Nihil

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2. OK, so is this the kind of American "justice" stupidity that ...
Tue May 14, 2013, 04:59 AM
May 2013

... is just intended to "send a message" and which will be overturned on appeal?

Or is it it the kind of American "justice" stupidity that actually locks up non-violent,
non-greedy pot smokers for decades whilst ignoring violent and/or rich and/or powerful
people who actually kill people?



If the former then it is stupid but not particularly unexpected (trespass and non-violence
are seen as grievious crimes when enacted against corporations rather than the public)
but if it is the latter, I truly pity the current inhabitants of the nation who are placidly
ignorant & implicitly supportive of such injustice.

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