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Wait, the pardon can invalidate having to pay restitution too‽
Looks like it. So that guy just made a profit of 3.4 million (1 mil for the bribe out of 4.4 mil he had to pay back).
That's not even the part I'm shocked about. Cancelling prison or even fines for the perp is one thing, but it's fucking absurd that Trump can just unilaterally decide the victims don't get their money back!
The current system doesn't have more vigilante justice, because people still believe that it's better as a whole to have justice be impartial and not take things into their own hands. Acts like these destroy this illusion. These people who got screwed over now see there is no justice to be had by trusting the system, so why not go all green Mario to see justice done? Each of these acts is like a hammer to the dam of popular sentiment.
Yeah this is the reason there's so much violence in the drug trade. If someone robs a drug dealer, they can't go to the police. If someone encroaches on a gang's territory, they can't sue. If a cartel budges out a rival cartel through shady business practices, there's no legal recourse. So the result of all the situations is extreme violence.
That's the end road here if the justice system continues to be corrupted. There will eventually become a point where people see the rich getting richer off the suffering of others, and with no legal recourse, will resort to violence.
The 2nd Amendment exists as a remedy when all the other Amendments fail.
Yet I fear that the second amendment mostly exists as a pacifier to keep people clinging to the perceived security of "having the 2nd amendment after all".
Keeping something as a last resort is meaningless if you are never willing to actually tap it.
Then it is just comfort.
His pardon gets him off the hook for Federal criminal charges, but I wonder if he could still be found liable in a civil lawsuit.
It's a dangerous game tho.
It can very well invalidate the life of the pardoned as well, if one of the aggrieved party has nothing left to lose because of that wage theft.
I wonder how long Donvict can continue before he gets stopped for good.