You have no credibility because of ignorant comments like the one you made stating that black men were routinely killed in the streets for crimes that they didn’t do.
At anyrate, following your line of thought, if I can avoid capture for some arbitrary number of years I should not have to pay for my acts. Incarceration has more than one point. Rehabilitation is one. Another is punishment. Yes, good old fashioned punishment for wrong deeds. Even for a poor oppressed minority. So I believe that if you commit armed robbery, murder, kidnapping, escape and extortion you should be hung, but failing that, as New Jersey clearly did, then you should serve more than seven years. Now I understand that people like you don’t believe that. Fine. Go to the next parole board hearing in your area and volunteer to let the rapists and murderers that want out a room in your house, providing of course, that they haven’t raped or murdered anyone for some arbitrary number of years.
I really hope that you aren’t ever allowed to serve on any jury. You, and your fellow travellers, are a policeman and prosecutor’s worst nightmare.
“You have no credibility because of ignorant comments like the one you made stating that black men were routinely killed in the streets for crimes that they didn’t do.”
Nearly 3,500 African Americans were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. That’s about one racially motivated murder per week for eighty six years.
Perhaps ‘routinely’ was the wrong word. Would you be happier with ‘frequently’?
“At anyrate, following your line of thought, if I can avoid capture for some arbitrary number of years I should not have to pay for my acts.”
That’s not my thought. It’s a legal principle called a ‘statute of limitations’ and in US law the principle is inherent in the Sixth Amendment which was apparently put together by a bunch of bleeding heart liberals from Columbia University.