• Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What is crazy to me is that everyone is making it out like there HAD to be a precedent set, as if the baseline of being a U.S. citizen was not enough to already imply that they could/should be held accountable for breaking the law. That heavily implies what 99% of us already believed, there are CLEARLY two different standards for the rule of law, one for those with money and power, and another one for everyone else.

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      1 year ago

      If he were a salary-slave like the rest of us (e.g. Snowden, Manning, Assange, …), there would be no case but definitely a verdict.