Posted on 05/02/2008 9:46:50 AM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
If this current situation “causes” her to turn to drugs again, then I would say she has learned nothing since her teenage heartbreak and the method she used to cope then. But to say she hasn’t learned anything in the intervening years just because she recalls the emotional circumstance she was in decades ago is a big stretch.
The way she blames her desire to use drugs on something other than herself is a clue that she's been indoctrinated by a 12 step program. Spilling the beans about past drug crimes is one of the 12 steps. Big mistake. 12 step programs are full of stupid advice.
And since YOU seem incapable of understanding the point I was trying to make, I shall leave YOU in your abject ignorance. Have a nice day! Perhaps some day someone can use small words to assist you.
Okay what is your point - since I am so simple try and be clear. And if you have time answer my question, instead of asking me to go away.
If so, that was a bad strategy.
Most judges have heard a million sob stories - they don't often hear the defendant admit that it was all her own fault.
Regardless, I don't see any legal reason why she should get out of serving the remainder of her sentence - I'm not sure what her lawyer can do except try to appeal the original conviction and ask that she be released on her own recognizance while the appeal is pending.
That's probably a tall order.
And she is white. How times have changed.
You are correct. AA does a real number on people, especially court ordered attendance for people who are not alcoholics. I know a couple of people who have been helped, but often it is driven by guilt feelings that have people searching their pasts for offenses they may or may not have committed until they are just miserable. It’s almost like coaching confused witnesses so an eager prosecutor can try someone for a sensational crime - only you testify against yourself.
Why don’t you shut up and slink away, now. You have embarrassed yourself enough.
SHHHHH - he’s wants more rope.
Whattaya mean she’s learned zero life lessons? You may not like the excuse she’s giving for her crime, but she seems to have stopped committing crimes and to have successfully married and raised three children. Would that all felons could be rehabilitated so well.
She’s not going to have the same judge this time. I can only imagine that the new judge is gonna look at this old case and say, “What the hell am I supposed to do with this crap?”
I say let her go. If she had committed murder, then that would be different; a drug charge, though, isn’t worth ruining her family’s lives over. Her husband and kids don’t deserve the suffering such a belated imprisonment would create.
You’ve nailed it, AT.
I believe in rule of law, but I also don't believe there is any such thing as a "victimless crime" and I don't believe possession and use hurts anyone besides the idiot killing their own brain cells.
Flame away
Thanks for that great Law And Order photo-montage.
I note (speaking for myself) one negative and one positive:
1. A negative: unless I missed it, no image of Steven Hill that played
the old, cranky, but likable DA.
2. A true positive: No Diane Wiest (DA Nora Lewin?), the soft-on-crime
weepy liberal. For me, she made for what I’d call the dark years
of Law And Order. It certainly brightened my days when Fred Thompson
replaced her!
Me either, especially considering the fact that she was 19 at the time. I don't know about you, but I was pretty stupid at 19. I wouldn't have been dealing drugs but, considering the way I used to drive, I'm fortunate that I never killed anyone accidentally.
A few years of community service should suffice.
....so long as she has kept her nose clean during her time on the run (which it seems she has), I can not see what good it does to send her to jail. I do not see this woman as any danger to society, nor do I see how punishing her helps anyone. Give her community service and let it go from there. I am sure there are a lot more dangerous people out there who law enforcement should attempt to deal with.
I heard that she “confided” in a previous fiance’ who then chose to not marry her....
she’s now qualified to run for Congress as a dem.
The article says she claims that the fake Social Security number she was using is one that she made up - and it just apparently happened to match the SSN of a woman her approximately her age who conveniently died in 1981.
The reality is that SSN's are not random numbers that you can make up.
They are three separate numbers with a billion possible combinations - yet all three separate numbers are keyed to one another according the the SSA's coding system.
The chances of her randomly inventing a number out of thin air that just happened to be properly coded and which also just happened to match a real individual who was conveniently no longer able to use it is astronomical.
People spend lots of cash on getting SSNs - why? Because made-up numbers are readily identifiable as made-up numbers.
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