[lbo-talk] Strauss Kahn

[// ravi]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:50 AM, SA wrote:
> I'll answer your question, but it's interesting to me how many leftists are willing to do a 180-degree U-turn on the basic principles of criminal justice the minute the issue has to do with rape. If this was some street kid facing life in prison for a liquor store robbery, and the case was plagued with holes and unreliable witnesses, I would expect only a right-winger to greet the news that the case was dismissed with the complaint: "hey, he was no angel."

I think you are missing something here. There is no 180-degree turn since the guiding bit is not (for me, and I would guess for many others) “the basic principles of criminal justice” but rather the “basic realities of criminal justice”. The reality is that the [criminal justice] system protects the rich and preys on the poor. From what I have seen (in general, not w.r.t DSK), principles seem to be for suckers.

	—ravi