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The Prosecution Of Daniel Penny Is A Soviet-Style Attack On The Right Of Self-Defense
The Federalist ^ | 11/27/2024 | Chuck DeVore

Posted on 11/27/2024 11:36:35 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

American justice has become politicized — a weapon against enemies with hall passes for favored groups. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and dozens of big city, George Soros-funded leftist district attorneys routinely prosecute innocent citizens while letting criminals walk free. ---SNIP--- In “The Gulag Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn wrote of the “Voroshilov Amnesty,” granted three weeks after Stalin’s death in 1953, which “flooded the whole country with a wave of murderers, bandits, and thieves, who had with great difficulty been rounded up after the war.” Communist authorities thought a general amnesty would endear them to the people — of course, many non-violent political prisoners weren’t eligible.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: crime; newyork; penny; persecution; politicalprisoners

1 posted on 11/27/2024 11:36:35 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

“American justice has become politicized”

Started with some previous Democratic Presidents and began anew in earnest in 2008 and moved to high gear in 2020.


2 posted on 11/27/2024 12:42:07 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Kid Shelleen

this prosecution never should have been filed, but in NYC every case is now viewed through a racial lens.


3 posted on 11/27/2024 1:25:43 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: Kid Shelleen

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4 posted on 11/27/2024 6:16:58 PM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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