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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Tollbooth") wrote:
While I don't want to gloat about mugshots, it's important that the Trump conspirators have one taken.
Treating them like any other criminal is a PR win for the justice system itself, because my biggest complaint has always been about two systems of justice.
Which still exists, clearly, criminals doing only a fraction of this shit wouldn't be facing bail at all, but mandatory imprisonment while awaiting trial.
But every indignity they suffer which is also faced by the rest of the people suddenly exposes the inhumanity of the system to those who formerly never saw themselves in people who were arrested and criminalized.
Now that they do, they are fucking terrified.
I'm 98% certain Trump has been delaying turning himself in because he does NOT want a mugshot taken.
The more the law is capable of prosecuting the powerful, the more the indignities it forces upon us can also be faced by the powerful, the better.
Sure, reform the system.
But we get this one first.
We get the old rules, of the old system, applied to one of the architects of the old system.
A man who increased the penalties for stolen classified documents just in time to be prosecuted for them himself.
You told us to wait for justice, and it was agonizingly fucking slow.
But we have. We have waited.
Now show us that we're not letting them slide, that they face the same degradations and disadvantages of anyone else who is on trial.
Or else admit the system is rigged in favor of the powerful, admit that there are two tiers of justice, and stop trying to tell us to wait for justice.
We waited. We had little other choice. History watches what you do next.
Your move, Justice.