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BY CONRAD BLACK
It is distressing that a British court has agreed to extradite Navinder Sarao to the United States. The claim is that he contributed to the “flash crash” of 2010. In the US justice system, prosecutors are free to intimidate witnesses with threats of indictment and routinely extort perjured testimony in exchange for immunities (including from perjury). They win 99.5 per cent of their cases, 97 per cent without a trial. That is why the United States has ten times as many incarcerated people per capita as the UK and other prosperous democracies, and why it officially has 49 million felons (including me, I am proud to say), and why Bernie Sanders, in the best part of his almost endearing, camp quest for the presidency, is right to call it a fascist system. No serious country should have an extradition treaty with the US; its justice system is a conveyer belt to its bloated and corrupt prison industry.
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