How to shut down the US Federal criminal "Justice" System, for $10-15 million per year.

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Thu Oct 19 03:25:53 PDT 2017



> On Oct 19, 2017, at 5:02 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> At fed / felony level, a commissary bonus might have
> to flex to cover expected length of guilty time,
> same for a "pay me for any private lawyer instead
> of overloaded public defender on indigent".
> Maybe there is a buy in price threshold that would
> result in significantly more trials than some marginally
> lesser price. You'd have to research that among
> pre / pending / current / post offenders.
> 
> A similar fun scheme...
> Minor traffic tickets, like speed / equipment / heed traffic
> control / paper, may average $150, even if pleading not guilty
> just for sake of standing your day in court and losing for fun.
> These are essentially fixed cost fixed maximum penalty trivial
> offenses, so unlike fed / felony cases there is literally zero
> additional risk to pleading not guilty and losing, compared
> to pleading guilty. No matter the outcome, it's $150 or less.
> So a gift of $10M is 66k tickets worth of "full coverage" repayment
> regardless of outcome, or 33+k worth if also covering the average
> lost wages of the two half days it takes to arraign and have a laugh
> trial. That's enough to saturate even the largest of jurisdictions for years.
> Include education pamphlet about possible lower cost outcomes...
> dismissed lack of witness, negotiated down, jury nullification, etc
> and a well heeled $10M protester could have a lot of laughs.
> And reaches far more people with your message in their hands
> than the same $10M would at the fed level.
> 

That's a great idea ;)

I cant stand judges, prosecutors, and most especially 
their foot soldiers - the fucking cops.

 
> Or blend it... $3M for traffic, $7M to any of those offenders
> that ever end up committing a fed later on.
> 
> With unused fed funds pending are to be invested for growth,
> income peeled off and sent to the traffic / education fund, etc.



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