04 Apr '23 04:37>
@techsouth saidYeah… exactly how law works…
Every banana republic that has engaged in political prosecutions have substantial numbers of gullible people who believe it's nothing but dispassionate enforcement of law.
People in Venezuela have had to resort to eating zoo animals for food, yet even today there are plenty of gullible people who trust that Hugo Chavez was doing the right thing to prosecute his opponents ...[text shortened]... the Internet exists, there citizens are assured that they have the most prosperous country on Earth.
Dumb nuts.
The prosecution had to weigh up the odds of proving something beyond some form of doubt.
So, even if they know someone is guilty of X, if they don’t think they can prove it beyond reasonable doubt, they drop it.
It’s not about cherry picking which law is good or bad.