Posted on 02/26/2006 3:53:57 PM PST by microgood
If my relatives are doing something they shouldn't and for some reason I am caught up in the investigation, then it is my duty to deal with it as openly and honestly as I can and pray for the same outcome as this woman.
Still, they found the drugs in HER bedroom. If my family member hid something in my house, I guess I still believe that I would be responsible for explaining how it got there. Saying that I had no idea and expecting everyone to believe it is just silly.
Like I said, one can only hope that in the end, justice is done.
I'll say the same thing of riding "friends" in your car. If you know someone uses cocaine or some other substance or you don't know them that well, you might consider not riding them in your car.
They may explain that they will claim ownership if you are ever stopped by police, but then you never know, do you? People can be fair weather friends.
Money spends better in Mexico. Cost of living is cheaper. May have always been his retirement plan, take his nest egg home with him.
I see women make AWFUL choics about men all the time. Can't count the number of attractive women I know who aren't interested in the nice, clean-cut, hard working types, but are also always complaining about the thugs with whom they hook up. I think part of it is an excitement thing. I don't get the rest of it.
Anymore, I just tune their complaining out.
And then when things go to crud, they are just shocked, SHOCKED. And sometimes "goes to crud" includes nightmares like this story. But in a little while they do the same thing and hook up with the same types of thugs.
Also know guys who do the flip side: Keep after the very attactive but whacked-out women, complain about them, all while ignoring the reasonably attractive nice ones.
What's driving this? Where did our culture go so wrong?
BUMP
I don't know for sure. I will tell you that I hang out with a pretty square bunch of people though, so my chances are pretty low. Call it risk management if you will.
But life is full of "taking chances." All we can do is live a good clean life and believe that justice will prevail.
Sometimes it doesn't. That is reality. I accept that as a small risk every morning when I get up. It is the cost of doing business, so to speak.
The old "innocent spouse" defense. I find it very, very hard to believe that a woman who has never done drugs is shacked up with a coke dealer. And I can be as starry eyed as anyone.
In the state of Washington? You've got to be kidding. Most corrupt government and courts in the country.
If truth be told,we could kick out every illegal Mexican in this country and we'd still have plenty of homegrown black and white trash doing the same destructive acts and pushing the same poison.
I've got the goods on the CJ of the state supreme court and Gregoire. They will not be in office at the end of the year.
Exactly!! The narcotics squad here are all misfits that couldn't pass a piss test if they studied for a week.
Their MO is to get a g/f or friend and threaten them with jail for a long time if they don't "roll" and will take them to jail even if they don't really know anything.
All they really want though, is to take cash money and drugs with no report...guns, which they can get a family member to sell thru the newspaper
In other words, they are much more crooked than whoever they are trying to catch for drugs.
Slut. And evil for bringing a child into this mess.
She chose him, she had to know his activities, she knew his character, she opened her legs to him, she DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO USE BIRTH CONTROL.
The state should take her child ASAP since she can't seem to keep from making decisions that hurt it.
These are the key words. In any case, not just drugs. Prosecutors are no better than defense attorneys. It's all about winning. The truth matters not.
Sir, if that is the case I will forever be in your debt.
So, when did all of this start? (I saw your profile page.)
There is a documented case from the early 90s where 12 people were arrested for distribution of cocaine. All received plea-bargains and served less than 2 years except for the least involved person, one of the dealer's wife.
She got a standard sentence of 15 years without possibility of parole for 7 years. The only reason she got the harshest sentence is that she didn't know anything and couldn't offer any information for a plea bargain like those directly involved were able to do.
Our system is broken, especially when it comes to the enforcement of drug laws. This lady will do a minimum of 7 years while child rapists do less than 2 and murderers get off in less than 20.
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