Originally published at: Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as ‘International Outrage’
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I blame Joe Biden.
He could have stopped this bullshit 8 months ago. He could have issued, and still can issue, a full pardon. He could have brought to bare the full weight of the federal government against Chevron for this clearly Orwellian fascist attempt to intimidate any and all activists that speak out against Big Petroleum.
But Joe hasn’t. And he won’t. Guess we know who Joe works for.
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This is a case in point of why the phrase “the rule of law” rings hollow.
We want/need justice - not the rule of law.
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Hmmm I wonder if anyone is looking for a rail for that disgusting Kaplan judge, just so he can take a trip out of town. Maybe to Ecuador ? Perhaps Ecuador should demand that Kaplan be handed over to them and have a proper trial in the out in the woods and around the polluted land and water ? : )
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despicable ruling and Biden should do something about it asap but of course we know he won’t. on the side of the criminals as are they all in DC! ugly shit wherever my eyes fall these days. this is one of the worst pieces of injustice in a long time.
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This judge needs to be impeached and legally hounded 24/7.
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Unjust in the extreme!
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At the end of each session of my graduate business law class four decades ago the professor would reiterate: “Just remember that the question good managers need to ask is how much justice can you afford ?” That statement signaled that students were free to leave the room.
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Disgusting.
And par for the course.
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
— Anatole France
“What is immoral and unacceptable is not necessarily unlawful.”
― Lady Hale Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
March 2020 paragraph 2
Elgizouli (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)
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this my friends is fascism at it’s finest --rearing it’s ugly head in America once again
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The Judges who’ve touched this case are clearly corrupt. The appalling lack of honorable behavior on the judicial side of this matter further indicates that the only remedy for our ills may be revolution. There is no institution where ordinary citizens can reasonably expect redress for wrongs remaining in America.
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There hadn’t been any doubt for 35 years when Obama, the Bankers Buddy, picked him to help serve the finance industry. He’s been at the center of the right turn of the Democrat Party the whole time, he would have been one of the leaders had he been bright enough in his prime. Back when NBC reported news. he was exposed as a plagiarizer and unfit candidate. An informed public would never choose such a shill, so he had to wait until the media was controlled. And by then they wouldn’t even report on his sexual assaults on staff.
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We can see the power of a company like Chevron in the fact that this site is how I learned about Donziger’s sentence. Corporate media, including MSNBC and CNN have totally ignored this story, period. I’m sure that outside of a few independent sources, like The Hill, Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti’s Breaking Points, and DemocracyNOW!, it will be hard to find any general media outrage over this. Until we take away corporate political power and influence this crap will continue.
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Seems like a very good reason to BDS Chevron.
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Exactly! and the same with that scumbag Postmaster General.
Biden did show how rapidly his old bones could move, though, when he successfully lowered that $2K check he campaigned on…
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Poor little Ecuador can’t do much, Im afraid. Have we overthrown their government recently? Its so hard to keep up without a spreadsheet…
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This happens in Russia or China and the western media quick to report how this proves those Countries lack freedoms and liberties and their leaders thugs.
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What Biden chooses NOT to do is perhaps even more indicting than what he DOES do. Not counseling Hunter to stay away from the appearances of the Burisma sinecure speaks more than volumes: Whole libraries.
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- Abolish the limited-liability, investor-owned corporation;
- Constitutional amendment clarifying that “corporate persons” are not humans, and do not enjoy civil or constitutional rights as such;
- Consititutional amendment clarifying that money is not speech, and may be regulated for any legal purpose.
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