Posted on 02/29/2008 5:13:51 AM PST by Carbonsteel
Sure. Dead people are no longer considered "incarcerated".
In most cases, you don’t get sent to prison for selling a few grams on the 1st offense. Those locked up for that have already been through the WOD system maybe a half dozen times before the judge got tired of looking at them.
No smoking, seatbelt laws, helmets on tots, yada, yada, yada.
Seems that some people have nothing better to do than find ways to discourage the rights of others. We call ‘em Nanny Laws.
Of course, there are people too stupid for common sense, but IMHO, those are the ones creating new laws.
There is one fewer than there should be.
And we dont hang them as fast as we used to.
We wouldn’t nearly have the repeat offenders if we hung more of them.
“Begs the question: Why do do many people in such a wealthy country decide to break the law?”
Consequences of a failed welfare state and a popular culture that glorifies thugs and promotes unrealistic expectations of easy money?
“It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint. The warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that way, I was real naive. Six weeks I was up there and I talked to the brothers. I talked to ‘em, and ... thank God we got penitentiaries!” - Richard Pryor
In drug sane states it's true.
Here in Penn State, I knew several students sentenced to months for selling around 3 grams of weed. Many brilliant Engineering students that didn't realize how much sh** they could get into.
Over here, you must either do time for selling or rat somebody out.
An old buddy of mine was set-up by a "girlfriend" in this town. He sold her some of his Rx painkillers and she was an informant. The guy was highly regarded in the Business school and already had a job lined up for 200k after graduation.
He never sold anything before but the mandatory minimum was something like a year.
The whole thing ruined his life and he killed himself last year. A victim of the drug war that turns friends into "informants".
Amen!
that was funny—thanks! (I’ve had a rotten day)
What ever happened to "Honor Among Thieves?"
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