Shaka Senghor spent seven years in solitary. Everything of his that I've watched / read / listened to is extremely thought provoking. Check out his recent appearance on Conversations with Tyler:
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/shaka-senghor/
I haven't followed the case closely, are they really just holding her because she won't testify? Is she legally compelled to? What's the other side here? It's hard to believe that the US government is this blatantly tyrannical.
Whoever is downvoting the parent would you share why you feel they are wrong?
One example of US tyranny is that it has the highest incarceration rate in the world (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-prison-populatio...). Other countries with high incarceration rates are developing countries, often with struggling democracies. Just one of many examples I can think of.
> The true tyranny is if you let crime go unchecked.
First of all, you contradict accepted legal principles, which demands that a false negative is better than a false positive. The more the number of people in prison, more the chances that there are innocent people in there.
> That rate is because we have a high crime rate, combined with functioning law enforcement.
Second, the state's goal is to reduce crime. Catching criminals is one of the many ways to do so, and punishing criminals after catching them is only one of the things the state can do. The state can alternatively spend money on reducing the root causes of crime (like poverty), and it can spend money on rehabilitation instead of punishment. These are among the wide variety of strategies a modern state can pursue to reduce crime.
Government has all sorts of feedback loops that affect how the individual decision makers make their individually unimportant decisions and once things start moving in the "we're really gonna screw this person" direction it's very hard and incredibly rare for it to change course even if no individual involved likes the course they're on. The incentives are simply not favorable to reversing course.
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It's very disturbing. Nobody deserves such a treatment.
You are not paying attention. This is normal for the US gov.
One example of US tyranny is that it has the highest incarceration rate in the world (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-prison-populatio...). Other countries with high incarceration rates are developing countries, often with struggling democracies. Just one of many examples I can think of.
First of all, you contradict accepted legal principles, which demands that a false negative is better than a false positive. The more the number of people in prison, more the chances that there are innocent people in there.
> That rate is because we have a high crime rate, combined with functioning law enforcement.
Second, the state's goal is to reduce crime. Catching criminals is one of the many ways to do so, and punishing criminals after catching them is only one of the things the state can do. The state can alternatively spend money on reducing the root causes of crime (like poverty), and it can spend money on rehabilitation instead of punishment. These are among the wide variety of strategies a modern state can pursue to reduce crime.