>Guilt by association is much more a social construct, than a legal one.

Turning this sentence up and down, and still fail to get what it tries to convey. Law is social construct per definition, isn’t it?

>It has never been perfect, nor uniformly applied in all circumstances, but it is and should remain a nominal goal of the justice system.

No? Like, at best it is just going to pretend to be so. Then it’s actually all ruled by ambitious sociopath manipulators that take The Prince as bedtime reading, either right from the start or as soon as they can unleash their master plan.

Can anyone point to any jurisdiction in the world which puts equal duties and rights with actual associated material/logistical means on every single citizen? If no, we might be free to conclude that justice and equality are words on frontispiece of the theater, not how the leviathan is planning to actually process.

All that said, not everyone is Aaron Schwartz. Even supposing it’s only to maintain the façade, institutions do also have to act against some criminal outside of their own ruling castes.