Just as a quick push-back to this title: “Martin Shkreli Says Drug-Price Hikes Led to Arrest.” …Sort of. The drug-price hikes in question led people to take a good, long look at Martin Shkreli, in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, he did something that people could legitimately arrest him over. And, hey! Sometimes you roll the dice and you get a crit, just when you need it most.
Moral of the story? Thou art mortal.
Background here.
On the other side, we have been told that the average American commits three felonies a day. Should we be applauding this? Looks to me kind of like “Sentence first, trial second”……
Nonsense, Comrade! If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!
The drug-price hikes in question led people to take a good, long look at Martin Shkreli, in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, he did something that people could legitimately arrest him over.
On the other hand, sometimes I approve of this. Ward Churchill comes to mind — would anyone have looked into his background as a “Native American activist” if he hadn’t been a contemptible, self-aggrandizing jerk?
That the “everybody’s guilty, most aren’t charged” system has merit is very much a curate’s egg argument.
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Mew
I’m not nearly as sanguine about this.
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve deliberately violated a law, but I’m pretty sure that a sufficiently motivated prosecutor could come up with multiple felonies to charge me with.
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Also, I remember CenturyLink refusing to cooperate with the federal government’s data collection scheme, and the CEO being tried for multiple felonies shortly thereafter.
His successor very quickly reversed the policy