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by betterunix 4528 days ago
Compared to the other issues we face? We live in an age where teams of soldiers are sent in to execute routine search-and-arrest warrants. Most prisoners were never convicted by a jury, and we are now at a point where if every accused criminal were to exercise their right to a trial the court system would be unable to handle the case load -- we literally cannot afford to have people exercise one of their most fundamental rights. We have a military intelligence agency giving information to local law enforcement agencies, and then demanding that those agencies lie to judges and even to prosecutors about where their evidence originated.

We can talk about reproductive rights once we have restored basic civil rights and reined in the executive branch of government.