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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Truth Social going public?
Date: 03/24/24 10:24 AM
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Mike,

I am quite aware of problems in our justice system and instances of law enforcement/prosecutors taking their authority too far. Growing up in the Midwest in the late 1980's/early 1990's there were lots of stories about police torturing suspects in order to coerce a confession out of them. Particularly Officer Jon Burge of the Chicago police department:

en.wikipedia.org - Jon Burge

Right after that time there were lots action by various law schools around the country to take up the causes of innocent people who ended up on death row. The effort I was most aware of at the time was at Northwestern University where they fought for and freed numerous death row inmates. There was also the Innocence Project at the Cardozo School of Law in New York:

innocenceproject.org: Innocence Project

As someone who greatly respected the ideal of the judicial system in this country while also recognizing the resultant blatant unfairness embedded in it regarding poor and minority people, I have long tried to support efforts that would use the system to try and right the worst wrongs. I have made donations to the Innocence Project for at least the past 25 years.

If you truly care about abuses in our justice system, I would encourage you to do the same.

However, I don't think that is your cup of tea. They mostly help poor people on death row (which means mostly black and Latin people), furthermore, I am fairly sure you would have been one of the people supporting Jon Burge at the time as a heroic police officer who got things done, because let's face it, most of the people who were wrongly convicted may have been innocent of their crimes, but they were still likely to be low life scum. You seem the type who always take the side of a police officer over people like that no matter what especially when that victim is black (see George Floyd).

All of that said though, I am encouraged that you want to see justice. I would love it if this opened your eyes and you helped support stuff like the Innocence Project. If you are going to do that, perhaps you could refinance you house and take out the equity and donate it to a billionaire to help him pay the tens of millions in legal fees he generates from constantly defrauding people. After all, everyone deserves justice and a fair trial under the judicial system.
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