Glenn Greenwald · @ggreenwald
12th Jan 2013 from Twitlonger
"Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind."
- Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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See e.g, Aaron Swartz, the Drug War, American justice generally
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