1. Worth asking why the judge was so hard-ass against Flynn. https://newrepublic.com/minutes/152746/judge-michael-flynn-arguably-sold-country-out …
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2. Flynn & his lawyers have been playing a double game: to keep out of prison he's been co-operating with Mueller & pled guilty but to keep wing-nut donations coming in (to pay legal bill) he's pretended he's victim of Deep State conspiracy.
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3. Thing is you can't play the game of pleading guilty while also suggesting you are innocent to your supporters. Justice system wants not just conviction but something more: an admission of guilt that is bone-deep.
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4. This is something Foucault was good on: that pre-modern justice extracted an external price (lashes, torture) but modern justice wants an internal levy: the defendant has to show contrition and full acceptance of the justice of the system.
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Pre-modern (as well as many modern, sadly) justice systems were centered on retribution, even vengeance. More civilised (arguably) want 'rehabilitation' - otherside whats the frigging point? - hence the focus on 'remorse' (ie, internal levy)
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That's Foucault in a nutshell.
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