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Fox News Commenters React to Afghan Killings: 'A Dead Muslim Is a Good Muslim'

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)3/11/2012 7:29:55 pm PDT

re: #324 Martryr Cookie Monster

I’m judging the fairness of the system in regard to such trials by the summary outcome of such trials, yes - to me this indicates that the system is broken. Whether this produces more or less fair trials in other venues is a different question.

I don’t think there’s enough data points to draw such a conclusion.

To give an illustration, white juries in the South may have been entirely fair in some cases, and entirely biased when it came to blacks. If I see a chain of trials where a lot (though may be not all) of alleged criminals committing crimes against blacks are exonerated, I think there’s something fishy there.

A much, much broader set of data points.

And I’ve also already answered on the Afghani trials, so no point in asking again. But to repeat, no, I’m not suggesting giving him up to Afghanis. Obviously, their trial has many more chances to be unfair than the US trial.

I really doubt that this case will wind up with anything less than a conviction; cynically, this is because it doesn’t appear to involve any higher-ups or any orders, just one dude flipping out.