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Originally Posted by finnbow
Look up the definition of the term complicit (when used in a legal context). You'll see for yourself that they were not.
I'm far less willing than you to implicate Joe and Josephine Sixpack relaxing on their couch watching the Dallas Cowboys for not having personally investigated every detail of every drug arrest in their town. Chances are they've heard of the ravages of cocaine/narcotic abuse and they supported the arrest of (what a crooked cop made to appear as) drug dealers. That doesn't make them complicit or racist. It makes them normal.
Do you dig deeply into the details of every drug arrest made in your hometown? Are you personally responsible for each and every bad cop busted in your town?
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Fine. You defend the most defensible persons available, Mr & Mrs Sixpack. Well, even the Sixpacks served as good citizens and true on all those juries that convicted all those coke dealers, wrongly. But they believed the heroic police, the professional prosecutors, and the honorable judges. Do you defend each and all of the latter, too?
Ask yourself why you rush to defend Mr. and Mrs Sixpack, while not even SEEING that you are avoiding the culpability of the criminal justice system in the Tulia cases?
Not to mention the criminal justice system everywhere else. Like, could it be that Tulia isn't a wild outlier, totally untypical of the rest of our civilization?
12-28-2014, 12:08 PM
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