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PyroSphere 252 points ago +252 / -0

Any and everything on his record should be fully expunged as if he never had his honor and integrity questioned in the first place. Additionally, those responsible for his persecution should face prosecution. Suck it Deep State!

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alfredbester 180 points ago +180 / -0

There is no lower form of life than a government official who knowingly puts an innocent person in prison.

Ben Franklin wrote that it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.

These people railroading Flynn are scum. It isn't about politics. It's about pure fucking evil.

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Keiichi81 85 points ago +87 / -2

Ben Franklin wrote that it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.

The modern left espouse the opposite these days; that 100 innocent men should be jailed so long as even 1 guilty rapist doesn't "get away with it." I've seen articles published in "reputable" magazines advocating for this. It's terrifying to watch.

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Former_RM2 14 points ago +14 / -0

It should be clear now the real reason they say this. They want to lead the public away from what our judicial system has been traditionally about; that a man is innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Think about it, what better way would there be to silence dissenters than to be able to convict them unjustly of a crime and lock them away in prison? It makes a lot of sense. Franklin, and the rest of the founders, knew this, which is why they wrote the constitution the way they did.

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RenaissanceOfHope 6 points ago +6 / -0

Preponderance of evidence is 51-49. Proof beyond reasonable doubt is basically virtually infinity.

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NocturnalPatrol 34 points ago +35 / -1

Michael Flynn's one and only crime is working for President Donald Trump.

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NotProgCensored 29 points ago +30 / -1

While with the Obama administration Flynn disagreed with the illegal spying on political opposition, Congress, reporters, etc. Obama targeted Flynn then.

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VetforTrump 13 points ago +13 / -0

Except for the low life that murder their citizens. I.e. Seth rich, mlk, jfk, hubble, etc.....

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RexCollumSilvarum 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ben Franklin wrote that it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.

It was actually British jurist William Blackstone that originally wrote it (and it was ten guilty persons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_England

...though it would be no surprise if Franklin also subscribed to it, as would many of the Founding Fathers. Today's Left, in their zeal to punish people they dislike, seem to have the exact opposite view.

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alfredbester 5 points ago +5 / -0

I think we were both wrong. Voltaire.

"BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, letter to Benjamin Vaughan, March 14, 1785.—The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Albert H. Smyth, vol. 9, p. 293 (1906).

He was echoing Voltaire, “that generous Maxim, that ’tis much more Prudence to acquit two Persons, tho’ actually guilty, than to pass Sentence of Condemnation on one that is virtuous and innocent.—Zadig, chapter 6, p. 53 (1749, reprinted 1974).

Sir William Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., book 4, chapter 27, p. 358 (1783, reprinted 1978), says, “For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”

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mumblenuggets 3 points ago +3 / -0

Democrats put innocent people in prison continually.

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TrudopesEyebrow 55 points ago +55 / -0

Flynn’s lawyer, gives a powerhouse speech:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTV1Y_QuZOM&t=35m05s

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SemperFree 28 points ago +28 / -0

What about the money he spent? The years potentially removed from his life from stress.

The perpetrators of this hoax need to be punished

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Please_Clap 6 points ago +7 / -1

Bill Barr is Deep State. Now we know.

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coffee_grdr 7 points ago +7 / -0

this! i don't want flynn to get a pardon, he deserves to be exonerated in a court! he should sue the government for all lawyer fees, and then sue his former lawyers!!

then he should be re-hired by trump as his national security advisor!