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Something's missing. Setting aside the 1 person who was violent. A jury of their peers convicted of others for what amounts to minor vandalism, and the sentence was decades in prison? Has the system completely failed citizens standing up for what's right?
It’s completely insane. I know that prison terms are decided by the judges (within the windows of their charges), but I cannot for the life of me believe that 8 or however many ‘impartial’ jurors decided that terrorism charges for 50, 70, and 100 years were OK. There’s just no fucking way.
A murder charge gets you at max 99 years in Texas. The guy who shot the officer didn’t even kill him. There’s evidence that was withheld from the court that the officer drew first.
I cannot believe so many people in this country and around the world are OK with outright tyranny. I might as well be a separate species than them
Last time I served on a jury they didn’t tell us what the sentence would be and also said we can’t take sentencing or sympathy into account.
They try real fucking hard to make sure the Jury doesn't actually do anything
Stuff like that is why not not avoiding jury duty is so important.
Aren't you an imperial project since you settled in 1416?
What?
What country are you talking about, the Spanish colonization, or the British one?
I'm not seeing 1416 being referenced in either of those.
Settlements started prior to colonization. Which is why I am asking for precision on “OK with outright tyranny.”
Need to know Upvoters’ flavors.
What are you talking about, shut up dude. Yeah, the Americas were colonized and shouldn’t have. What does that have to do with fucking anything about this
#Landback. Are Texans ready to return their colonized land back to the natives that have been exiled in Arizona & Mexico?
Thanks for another irrelevant Wikipedia article.
Oh shut the fuck up.
Just block the dumb fuck. There are a few accounts that I'm not convinced aren't the same person. Every post they spam dumbass shit like this that's not at all relevant to the discussion. They use the forum to just talk shit about stuff that happened hundreds of years ago. Best to just not engage and block.
Honestly, when they're this open and stupid about it, I prefer that because it's easier to pick out bad actors for the blocking.
You genuinely sound like a clown, even if your anti colonialist stance is correct. Please for the good of the species, just stop talking.
Your solution is clownish. Your assessment of Texas is not.
According to the moderator, it seem “fit.”
It's Texas...
That requires enough of the citizens to not be absolute sheep. The loudest most confident people are often some of the dumbest and unfortunately most influential. Even on juries.
People who think for themselves don't make it through the jury selection process.
This is why I won't go to Texas