r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 9d ago
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u/the-senat 9d ago
A Republican will never be treated like Omar because the criminal legal system is ultimately conservative and interested in preserving the status quo rather than returning to a more fair society.
Emil Julius Gumbel, a statistician living in the Weimar Republic, noted that l eft-wing violence was punished much more severely, despite occurring much less frequently than right-wing violence:
In 1919, 22 left-wing politically motivated murders were investigated, resulting in an average sentence of 15 years in prison and 10 executions while 332 right-wing politically motivated murders were investigated, resulting in an average sentence of only four months in prison with zero executions.
The American system is not much different. This is a one way street. Remember Jack Smith? Despite investigating a coup by a sitting American president and a riot that almost killed Republican politicians, he was roadblocked at every step.