As in the concept of evidence-based prosecution, jury trials, and reasonable sentencing. Not black-bagging people or assassinating them in the small hours of the night because of a presumed association.
If that’s how you want to treat Nazis I won’t try to disabuse you of the idea, but you definitely shouldn’t want or expect the State to hand that retribution out.
EDIT: more contextually, I’d like to believe that if they had the evidence and authority to keep indefinite custody of them, they would have. But they were released. With everything going on in the US it’s easy (at least for me) to forget that that’s how things work in a functioning democracy. Throwing them in a hole based on a whim and against what you have the legal authority to do is what would be arbitrary.
oh fair points - it is arbitrary in that context for sure. These assholes are doing asshole things. Just remember what the german ww2 era nazis did was “legal” then, too. I suspect our current fascists will claim “it’s legal” too. Thanks for your reply.
As in the concept of evidence-based prosecution, jury trials, and reasonable sentencing. Not black-bagging people or assassinating them in the small hours of the night because of a presumed association.
If that’s how you want to treat Nazis I won’t try to disabuse you of the idea, but you definitely shouldn’t want or expect the State to hand that retribution out.
EDIT: more contextually, I’d like to believe that if they had the evidence and authority to keep indefinite custody of them, they would have. But they were released. With everything going on in the US it’s easy (at least for me) to forget that that’s how things work in a functioning democracy. Throwing them in a hole based on a whim and against what you have the legal authority to do is what would be arbitrary.
oh fair points - it is arbitrary in that context for sure. These assholes are doing asshole things. Just remember what the german ww2 era nazis did was “legal” then, too. I suspect our current fascists will claim “it’s legal” too. Thanks for your reply.