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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.
Can juries tame prosecutors gone wild?
By stacking charges as high as possible and wielding the threat of mandatory sentencing laws, the argument goes, prosecutors intimidate defendants and make it all but impossible to turn down their offers.
5 percent of cases brought by American prosecutors every year lead to an actual jury trial, while the rest play out in plea bargains
“What we really have is a plea bargain system with a thin froth of showy trials floating on top,” - Glenn Reynolds
http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/02/03/can-juries-tame-prosecutors-gone-wild-can-juries-tame-prosecutors-gone-wild/yAvVOZPmpm408lskfiMe3M/story.html
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Just not his.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jul 28, 2013 - 12:25am PT
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Thanks Froodish.
This stuff is flat out getting worse.
It is once again---I mean once again---holy mother whore as Roper used to say, all about simplest basic legal theory, civil rights and the conjecture of democracy. We have had this fight so many times now.
There might have been a point sometime hence where we would have been thanking these young guys ---e.g. Bradley Manning, Snowden, and Swartz----for their diligence and in fact ultimate sacrifice, but there probably won't be. Imagine what they REALLY knew.... We will be so buried by then....and have finally lost whatever voice we ever had had. It is like being on Acid. Everything is twisting and changing as in a hall of mirror and terrible peril is at our doorstep. I know the political process is a meandering and uncouth beast and as it whacks the heads off some it suckles as well. Just insane, all the time.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jul 28, 2013 - 01:18am PT
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TGT, that was a very informative video, and a good look at how that dude viewed life.
It's a shame that he left us so early.
He could have done so much more.
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jstan
climber
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Jul 28, 2013 - 01:41pm PT
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bump
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 28, 2013 - 02:27pm PT
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coulda...woulda...shoulda
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jan 11, 2014 - 11:11pm PT
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Breitbart??
And yeah flying jumbo jets into buildings that fall down afterwards clearly means explosives were planted ahead of time and the planes didn't disrupt them at all.
The Soviets helped Nixon cover up the fake moon landing.
The Matrix has you
Why use a plane to hit the pentagon when you can hijack a much more secure cruise missile with less potential damaging ability.. plus you then have to disappear the passengers and the plane too.
Sometimes the accepted version is just about 1000 times easier to accomplish than the idiotic tinfoil version of events.
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