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I remember some Republican chud or another saying they'd rather have innocent people imprisoned than let a single criminal walk free. Absolutely cannot fathom that mindset. Completely ghoulish.
I mean i can imagine it, it's just patently anti-American. Benjamin Franklin is widely quoted as saying "I'd rather let 100 guilty persons go, than imprison one innocent person."
No, that was William Blackstone. Maybe Ben Franklin also quoted it, but he's not the one who was famous for it.
I feel like if someone quotes another person and then that quote becomes associated with them more thoroughly it would count as famously said. Doesn't stop the first person from being a thing just a matter of having less fame or relevance.
In principle, maybe, but I'm fairly well-read and I have literally never heard of that quote being attributed to Ben Franklin until the earlier comment so I don't think that's the case here.
Could be down to a bias of what you are exposed to, which can heavily influence what you hear. Anyways I think it was in one of his letters but I can't quite remember cause I just woke up.
What they mean is innocent people who don't look like them. The moment there'd be any danger of them being locked up, they'd fine-tune their opinion to find a reason why it doesn't apply to their case.
Guess who said they're fine having legal Hispanic citizens abducted from their homes and thrown in ~~SS~~ ICE camps if it means they're actually getting some illegal immigrants
concentration camps.