Posted on 10/07/2007 3:14:59 PM PDT by macmedic892
Nope.Given his record he wouldn't have to commit a crime that's *nearly* as serious as murder or rape for me to agree with a 30 year sentence.But in order for him to get 30 years I would hope that any theft he committed would involve a sum that has at least two digits to the left of the decimal point and that any crime of violence he might commit would at least result in the victim suffering a bruise or losing,oooohhh,at least three drops of blood.
...which given his record, he eventually will.
How can you be sure of that? If anything the seriousness of his crimes seems to be diminishing if anything.He's gone from arson/insurance fraud (very serious crimes) to drug possession (very serious) to stealing a 60 cent donut and giving someone a light push.
That isn't a Christian attitude [which is not to type that you aren't a Christian].
Plus, sometimes a spanking works more effectively than being sent to a room or a corner.
The idea that a guy should be arrested for up to life because his track record suggests that he will do something more vicious is crazy. That's akin to people supporting abortion because they believe that the child's going to have a bad life.
You can't tell the future, and until this man does a crime worthy of life imprisonment, he should not receive a sentence for such.
40 years in prison = about $1,400,000 of the tax payers money for a doughnut and a push. Maybe there's a better idea.
They couldn’t just embarrass him, fine him, and tell him he was not allowed in any of their stores again? This happened to my dad over a pack of cigarettes once. We had been talking and without thinking about it put his cigarettes in his pocket. He had forgotten that he hadn’t paid for them. When it was pointed out to him by a security guard he was about to pay when all of the above happened. He left those cigarettes behind. He had been a customer in that store for years and had he not been so flustered by other things going on in his life at the time he probably would have just gone right up to the manager and told him of his mistake.
That's where it was. You knew I had no patience to read that far. ;-)
If, instead of throwing a petty thief or a drunk driver in jail, he were to get 10 lashes, he could be back to work the next day. A bit sore perhaps, but not totally incapacitated.
Furthermore, keeping him out of jail mean keeping him away from the career criminal class of bad guys, which might (hopefully) keep them from teaching him the kind of bad tricks that would turn HIM into a career criminal.
It’ll never happen, of course. The liberals would have total hysterics — except in San Francisco where the leather boys would be lining up to take their turns.
And, predictably, you'd be wrong. His name, according to the article, is "Scott A. Masters."
That is, I'll grant you, a very common choice of alias among those who don't wish their names to reveal their immigration status.
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