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Judge dismisses all charges in Panama Papers, Operation Car Wash cases

Judge dismisses all charges in Panama Papers, Operation Car Wash cases - UPI.com

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/06/29/panama-papers-acquitted-operation-car-wash/2571719690172/

A Panamanian court Friday acquitted all 28 people charged with money laundering connection with the Panama Papers and Operation Carwash scandals.

Judge dismisses all charges in Panama Papers, Operation Car Wash cases - UPI.com

Panama Papers and List of People Named in the Panama Papers on Wikipedia

29 comments

xmunk

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If justice isn't legally accessible it will be acquired by other means.

WhatAmLemmy

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The working class has been crushed by neoliberalism for 50+ years and there's still no justice in site. The oligarchs that control "democracy" know there's a high chance they'll remain insulated from all the suffering they cause. They are so confident in this their goal now is to remove the illusion of democracy.

LadyAutumn

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All they had to do was construct a society where the working class is exposed exclusively to neoliberal propaganda from birth until death. Several generations onwards, and here we are. Class consciousness is essentially none amongst large swaths of the working class population.

dactylotheca

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Nice phrase but that doesn't seem to be how things have worked for a while now

refurbishedrefurbisher

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We're not French, unfortunately.

xmunk

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Liberté, égalité, fraternité

We can have them too!

refurbishedrefurbisher

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For that, we need mass organization, which is extremely difficult both logisticly (due to the size of the US and how spread out the polulation is) and politicly (decades of neoliberal and red scare propoganda).

supersquirrel

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Do you understand that with a response like this the only thing you are accomplishing is making someone with the right idea and passion... less passionate about the thing?

refurbishedrefurbisher

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So give me a solution. How can America organize en masse?

Glytch

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If only we had some way to communicate easily over long distances, maybe a network that allows for computers to interact like some kind of "Internet".

supersquirrel

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Yes what a shame, that kind of technology would be perfect so long as it wasn’t full of condescending cynical people who constantly shutdown any positive momentum for change that required vision.

Maybe we could have a network of quadcopter drones that delivered notes between people?

Iheartcheese

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Lol no it won't.

AshMan85

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we need batman or the punisher lol

grue

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Super heroes will not save us from this shit. Not ever. (Even if they weren't fictional.)

Super heroes exist to defend the (neoliberal) status quo.

whotookkarl

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Or a general strike organized by labor and student unions

InevitableWaffles

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So a rich guy who can put on a mask and beat up the poor while advancing the arms race with criminals becoming more unhinged or a guy whose family was murdered and starts turning to vigilante justice and became what every cop wet dreams that they actually are?

....Sure. That'll help. /s

Quacksalber

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Here's a 'fun' math problem for the whole family:
Step 1) Find out what a life is worth: What was the amount of money awarded to relatives in the latest court case that had a payout for a death?
Step 2) Find out how much money was embezzled.
Step 3) Calculate the damage done by those fuckers in terms of people killed.

Drunemeton

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Last I read, online mind you, was that most insurance companies use 10 million in their equations.

If I remember correctly that’s the value an average person will earn companies they work for during their entire life. So the older you are the less you’re worth.

jpreston2005

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The defendants in that case were acquitted because the income of money from illicit sources could not be determined, according to a court statement.

Sounds like the judge did their level best to find some random way to weasel out of doing their job. "Oh, wait, you can't prove definitively that every single penny of the laundered money was from illegal sources? Guess that means everyone is innocent!"

It can't just be me and my perspective. The world is just legitimately getting worse, in almost every respect. WTF.

5gruel

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The world is getting better in the long run by almost every metric, don't get sucked into the doomer mentality.

Still fucked up ruling though.

DragonTypeWyvern

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Bro we're about to kill the whole fucking planet and America just legalized political assassination.

kandoh

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There's less people living in poverty today than ever before. We all carry around super computers that connect us with our loved ones at all times and contain all of human knowledge. If you're over 5'8 and weigh more than 145 pounds then you're physically better off than the average US soldier during WW2. Diseases that used to kill millions every year are now close to eradication.

Don't mistake your increased awareness of global issues as things getting worse. This is the best time in human history to be alive. Anyone telling you different is looking at a very specific aspect of the past with rose tinted glasses.

krazzyk

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Without doing any fact checking myself, I've heard this many times before, and I'm sure the stats are there to back it up, but it sure feels like the world is going to shit...

Don't think you deserved to be downvoted for stating facts though.

Linkerbaan

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The system still working as intended.

maxinstuff

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