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An unsurprising ruling from a fascist judge towards a man of integrity. Considering the blase response towards actual, hard-core corruption, the likes of which we see from Clinton or the DNC, there's an obvious double-standard at play here. Like with US whisteblowers, where the only people who face charges are those who've done the right thing, Blagojevich is only seeing prosecution because he loaded his language in a way that might call into question corrupt behavior of his colleagues - not because he's actually done something himself. For the judge to not recognize this would either mean he's stupid or that he's corrupt himself - something that's very believable considering that he's tied to the country's anti-Constitutional surveillance courts, and considering his pattern of misbehavior throughout the trial process. The strength of Blagojevich's case has been consistently underestimated from the start, and society and the political process has been left devastated as a result, so I'm willing to believe that this was nothing more than an ethnically-biased hit job. For something that's essentially just a political imprisonment, the punishment - forcing the man's daughters to grow up without their father - is excessively harsh. Blagojevich's admission of fault is a sign of a disgusting case of Stockholm syndrome.
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[–] cucumberslice 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
An unsurprising ruling from a fascist judge towards a man of integrity. Considering the blase response towards actual, hard-core corruption, the likes of which we see from Clinton or the DNC, there's an obvious double-standard at play here. Like with US whisteblowers, where the only people who face charges are those who've done the right thing, Blagojevich is only seeing prosecution because he loaded his language in a way that might call into question corrupt behavior of his colleagues - not because he's actually done something himself. For the judge to not recognize this would either mean he's stupid or that he's corrupt himself - something that's very believable considering that he's tied to the country's anti-Constitutional surveillance courts, and considering his pattern of misbehavior throughout the trial process. The strength of Blagojevich's case has been consistently underestimated from the start, and society and the political process has been left devastated as a result, so I'm willing to believe that this was nothing more than an ethnically-biased hit job. For something that's essentially just a political imprisonment, the punishment - forcing the man's daughters to grow up without their father - is excessively harsh. Blagojevich's admission of fault is a sign of a disgusting case of Stockholm syndrome.