PeonForHer
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ORIGINAL: Arturas . . . . because I am letting the authorities deal with this. I think therein lies the problem, Arturas. The 'authorities' don't have the automatic trust of large numbers of the people in this case. People aren't assuming, as they might in other circumstances, that these authorities have been honest and competent with this issue. The authorities - in that neck of the US woods particularly - haven't been reliably unbiased and disinterested in relatively recent history when it comes to issues where race might be a factor, particularly, and people are questioning their reliability again now. These agents of the State - the police, the lawyers, the officials involved - are the servants of the people. If they look as though those servants are screwing up, the people have to pull them back into line. That's what's happening here. On the one hand it could turn into a nasty witch-hunt, true, but on the other, it's democracy in action. Ugly, but the sometimes unavoidable result when the people's servants don't do the job properly that they're paid by the people to do.
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