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4. Even England stopped its 18th Century practice of sentencing criminals to

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sat May 3, 2025, 08:31 AM

May 3

"transportation." In those days, prostitutes, pick-pockets, grifters, and other relatively minor criminals were shipped out to the penal colonies of Australia and the U.S. -- but first they had to be sentenced by a judge.

Trump/Bondi refuse to make even the slightest effort to ensure that innocent people aren't being mistakenly transported to penal colonies.

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