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Your legal system exists to protect itself and the ruling class, it is not just, it is indefensible.
This person sacrificed themselves to bring to light one small part of the injustices you allow to perpetuate. They’re a hero, you’re a problem.
Well the obvious question. What system would you have it replaced with?
And this person has now also made it where everyone will ask, "if this person existed in the IRS, how do we know there are not more?" This is how distrust gets sown. This is how the IRS loses more funding. This is exactly how "ruling class" gets even less oversight. This is how these people, you want to go after, get away with it. This person didn't solve anything, they made it worse.
That person's is absolutely heading to jail on the 29th. Where's Trump at the moment? You think you got some sort of win?
They are going to jail and will likely never have the right to vote ever again in their life. I can still vote for a different world than the one we currently live in.
So if you think this "solved" something, then you didn't understand the problem. I'm just going to tell you, this kind of tit for tat stuff. We won't survive it. Every hero ultimately turns into a Robespierre. We don't solve this with a single person, we solve it together, otherwise we don't solve it period.
The kind of people who meaningfully distrust the IRS aren't interested in facts. The kind of people who want to defund the IRS also have a tenuous connection to truth, justice, and good ideas.
In general I agree that we shouldn't willy-nilly break the laws. But specific beats general in my mind. I don't think the costs of this will be very high.
Also like how do you feel about jury nullification?
You know what? I'll give you that. I'm hopeful enough this blows over without much ado. But IDK, I've seen smaller mole hills turn mountains.
The thing is, it isn't binary. It's a range of folks. And I would rather us not lose ranks. It's easier to indicate trust in something if there's not an actual reason to distrust.
Aw man! Complicated. Because you can really start going all kinds of dark places if you start thinking a Judge willingly could hand out bad instructions to the jury. A not guilty is a lot harder to have an appellate review and if you try to fix it that way, do you want to have not guilty become easier to appeal?
Like we could have a big old day about that topic. Wooo. That's a can and it is marked "Oops all worms".