Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Who are the real criminals?

From The Intercept

"A trove of hacked documents has revealed that a network of right-wing health care providers has made millions of dollars selling unproven treatments for Covid-19 like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

"The data, shared with The Intercept by an anonymous hacker, includes hundreds of thousands of records and shows how a network of sites including a pro-Trump group called America’s Frontline Doctors is both fueling and profiting from misinformation about Covid-19."

I'm in a study group on modern abolition and we are reading Mariame Kaba's book, We Do This 'til We Free Us. There's a wonderful one-line observation that sums up the criminal injustice system and can be directly applied here: "All that is criminal isn’t harmful and all that is harmful isn’t necessarily criminal.”

In fact, the greatest purveyors of harm in our upside down world are rewarded with unimaginable wealth and privilege. The ninth circle of hell would be too good for these folks. 

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