The three cases in the article all involved people who should have known they were doing something illegal (did the Rubashkins really believe that the large number of foreigners willing to do undesirable work at low pay all had immigration visas? didn’t those boys realize that if someone tells you not to tell the police about what they were carrying that it might be sign of illegality?). While the goyim’s laws for property crimes are harsh (Jews never imprisoned theives, at worst they would have been put to work to pay the damages), at least they don’t execute them which they did until recently. If there is a degree of discrimination in America against us, it is due to common belief that all Jews are unusually clever and frum Jews are especially holy, and therefore it is harder to convince a jury that we were to dumb to realize we were making a honest mistake (since mistake of fact is often an excuse or at least a mitigating circumstance).
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