Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
There are a few stupid ones who were piss poor capitalists, obviously.
Didn't spend enough money.
And your beloved system was better because it took all the Leaders, Senior Military Officers, Scientists, Jews, Doctors and sundry other famous or important people, put on a show trial, then, executed most of them and sentenced their families to the Gulag?
I'd rather live under a system where a certain few buy amnesty and the rest of us have a fighting chance at a fair trial, than live under a system that falsely tries then executes it's people to keep up quotas and protect it's elite.
Yes, Soviet jurisprudence, is not what those of us in the west would call a good system. Stalin's judicial philosophy was better that 1000 innocent people get killed than one guilty get away.
We have a fairly good system, not perfect but good.
We just need to close the legal loopholes so that the laws apply to everybody and end "Celebrity Justice".