128 points

Your daily reminder that we all live in capitalist oligarchies masquerading as democracies.

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After an extended period of deliberation, the judge said evidence collected from Mossack Fonseca’s servers had not been gathered in line with due process and dropped all criminal charges against the defendants.

“they are guilty but we shouldn’t have found out so we’ll let them off scot free”

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14 points

At that point shouldn’t they be out collecting more evidence they can use in court?

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are you serious?

They say a paper trail detailing every account is inadmissible and testimony from close to 30 people isn’t enough to convict and you think they should just dig around for more evidence?

So the trick to getting away with murder in panama is to make sure the smoking gun everyone saw you use is turned in to police by the person who calls in the crime without your permission.

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9 points

This is probably the right legal process as much as it sucks. If this wasn’t the rule, all needs for warrants would be unnecessary.

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48 points

Well well well… What a surprise…

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5 points

I shocked! Shocked I tell you! …well, not that shocked.

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45 points

“Rules for thee, not for mee”

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35 points

We need an IRL batman. Or some Boondock Saints.

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21 points

A billionaire spanking petty thiefs? No thanks. We need Ted Kaczynski

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4 points

Ted was bad at it though. Did he even kill a single billionaire?

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6 points

Season 1 Green Arrow…

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