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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5985 on: February 20, 2019, 04:28:52 am »
Your honor, it is my opinion that my client Patrick Bateman has indeed killed many, many, MANY people, but we'd be better off not prosecuting him because would you just imagine how long it'd take?

This is of course why prosecutors will choose sometimes to carve off a few crimes where they're pretty sure they can get a conviction and will be enough to put the accused away for the rest of their life.

For instance, Robert Pickton, who was accused of murdering a few dozen prostitutes, was ultimately only found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder. (The Crown wanted first-degree but the jury only gave second-degree... but recommended the maximum penalty anyway, life without parole for 25 years, consecutively for all charges, which would have been mandatory for first-degree.) That got him in jail until he's dead, and the Crown stayed the other charges to save court time. (Over howls of protest from the families of the other women with whose murders he was charged.)

There's also at least rumours that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former President of Brazil and, at one point, leading contender for the Presidential election last year, was nailed on a relatively minor corruption charge (as opposed to more serious ones he was facing) shortly before the election because his political opponents could get a conviction on that one much more easily, and all they needed was a conviction on basically anything to stop him from running.
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« Reply #5986 on: February 20, 2019, 06:31:12 am »
There's also at least rumours that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former President of Brazil and, at one point, leading contender for the Presidential election last year, was nailed on a relatively minor corruption charge (as opposed to more serious ones he was facing) shortly before the election because his political opponents could get a conviction on that one much more easily, and all they needed was a conviction on basically anything to stop him from running.

Relatively minor = completely fabricated.

The prosecutor in his trial also acted as a judge and the final sentence was nine years of prison for undefined acts of corruption. The initial charge was for accepting renovations to a luxury apartment from a businessman. The only evidence was a statement from the said businessman (in exchange for a lighter sentence for his own crimes) and there was no evidence of Lula ever even setting a foot in the said apartment. To top it off Lula was sent to isolation for no reason other than fear of his political influence. UN Human Rights Committee demanded that Lula was allowed to participate in the election but that demand was ignored.

Whatever systematic corruption Lula may have actually participated in he has yet to stand trial for that and it's very clear that the justice system is rotten to the core. Sergio Moro, the corruption-fighting judge and prosecutor in Lula's case, later accepted a position in Bolsenaro's government and seems to be comfortable with Bolsenaro's family members' apparent connections to organized crime and money laundering.

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Three hundred academics and public intellectuals joined to launch a manifesto entitled “Lula da Silva is a political prisoner. #FreeLula!,” denouncing the detention of the former Brazilian president and current Presidential candidate Lula da Silva. The petition discusses in detail the arbitrary nature of the trial conducted by Judge Sergio Moro against Lula da Silva, stating that he is nothing less than a political prisoner. The document asserts that the international community should treat him as such and demands his immediate release.

The manifesto is supported by world-famous legal scholars, such as Karl Klare, Friedrich Müller, António José Avelãs Nunes and Jonathan Simon. Eminent researchers of law and lawfare, such as John Comaroff, Eve Darian-Smith, Tamar Herzog and Elizabeth Mertz, champion the manifesto. International labor lawyers and trade unionists, such as Stanley Gacek, also support it.

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Leading sociologists as Fred Block, Mark Blyth, Michael Burawoy, Peter Evans, Neil Fligstein, Marion Fourcade, Leo Panitch, Frances Fox Piven, Michael Heinrich, Michael Löwy, Laura Nader, Erik Olin Wright, Dylan Riley, Ananya Roy, Wolfgang Streeck, Göran Therborn, Michael J. Watts and Suzi Weissman also have signed the petition.

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Moreover, the petition is endorsed by distinguished economists like Dean Baker, Ha-Joon Chang, Giovanni Dosi, Gérard Duménil, Gary Dymski, Geoffrey Hodgson, Costas Lapavitsas, Marc Lavoie, Thomas Palley, Robert Pollin, Pierre Salama, Guy Standing, Robert H. Wade and Mark Weisbrot.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5987 on: February 27, 2019, 05:51:29 pm »

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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5988 on: February 27, 2019, 07:18:18 pm »
Is Trump farting on the earth?
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5989 on: February 27, 2019, 09:14:17 pm »
Yep, I think it's meant to represent global warming.

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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5990 on: February 27, 2019, 09:22:50 pm »
Trump: I am literally twice the dictator you will EVER be Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un: But I have a personality cult! You're only liked above 50% in 17 states!
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5991 on: February 28, 2019, 12:42:34 am »
Kim Jun Un: People have to like me, or I put them to death.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5992 on: March 06, 2019, 04:50:05 am »
This is a great cartoon, but not for the reason the author thinks:


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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5993 on: March 06, 2019, 06:17:30 pm »
This is a great cartoon, but not for the reason the author thinks:



I have a gut feeling that the author doesn't realize most of those are both illegal and very good reasons to impeach a President...

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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5994 on: March 14, 2019, 06:33:45 pm »
Fuck I love Garrison, also he draws a banging Kamala Harris:


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« Reply #5995 on: March 14, 2019, 08:41:13 pm »
That just makes Trump look like an old fuddy duddy that doesn't like fun.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5996 on: March 15, 2019, 04:43:07 am »
Also, again with the VENICE WHALERS. I swear, they hold up Venezuela like its the only left wing country in existence.
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« Reply #5997 on: March 15, 2019, 04:45:44 am »
Any attention drawn to Venezuela is attention drawn away from Norway and Sweden.

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« Reply #5998 on: March 15, 2019, 05:16:44 am »
Also, again with the VENICE WHALERS. I swear, they hold up Venezuela like its the only left wing country in existence.

Don't forget Cuba and North Korea (though a bit less on that last one now that Trump and Un are buddies).
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #5999 on: March 15, 2019, 10:01:16 pm »
Anti-authoritarian, anti-extremist, anti-bullshit.