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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI love John Oliver...but this made me cry
because it's so heartbreakingly true:
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I love John Oliver...but this made me cry (Original Post)
Tsiyu
Sep 2015
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Jeroen
(1,061 posts)1. Better Call Saul n/t
Initech
(100,068 posts)2. Who can I sue?
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)3. I need to start watching this show
thanks for the chuckles, DU pals.
And thank you to the beloved John Oliver for doing these shows. You're one of the few brave souls willing to wade through the facts about these ugly, heinous conditions in our legal system, and the downtrodden appreciate it.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)7. Thanks, Solly
The abject cruelty of throwing a dying man in jail and not giving him oxygen, because he's too poor to pay fees is eye-opening, or should be, but too many middle class and upper class people don't give a shit about the poor.
They let their governments spend their tax money to incarcerate poor and sick people, and never think twice about it.
Our judicial system is engineered unmercifully to completely divest the poor of any dignity, rights or hope.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)6. 3 Cases per day - "That's Gerard Depardieu Wine Consumption Territory...
at Breakfast!" LOL!
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)8. Oliver has a gift, eh? n/t
Hotler
(11,420 posts)9. And Wall St. walked away free.
I have no hope. I see no future.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)10. There's always a future
and each one of us has the ability to make choices that lead to a better future or a sorrier one.
It's easy to turn away from the poor, but we're paying more to torment the poor than we'd pay to help them.
Our legislators need to go home, and we need a fresh set who don't get on their knees for the few, and then sell out the many.