Posted on 02/02/2002 6:41:50 AM PST by codebreaker
Around here violent sex offenders, rapists, and murderers are not sent to prison for long. Neither are drug addicts rich or poor.
Not exactly right.
Have you considered that a prison term or this girl would have been a possible death sentance?
The plain fact is that there are those in prison who would love to "payback" the Governor by sticking a shive in his daughters guts.
I hope she finds the motivation and the support she needs to clean up her act.
I agree. I just can't stand people who moan about it on the one hand, and dismiss it on the other. But mostly its turned into "They do it, so we can to". Two wrongs don't make a right. And the reason they don't come down hard on the wealthy and connected, is because then they'd lose the opportunity to crack down on the poor and disenfranchised.
Congressional Family Drug Offenders Escape Mandatory Sentences, Get Favorable Treatment
You do realize that Noelle is only half caucasian, don't you? She is a minority. So, what was the point again?
Her lawyer is going to go through quite some gymnastics to get her off.
Oh... well... that explains it. *g*
Very good. LOL
I agree with you 100%. My brother go into drugs (pot) when he was about 11. Our mother died when he was 14, I was amost 13. My brother was shot and killed by the police in Hollywood, California in a major drug deal. Headline news, broadcast all the way to Maine that he died. (Friends who'd moved to Maine from LA area called us, telling us how sorry they were---we were shocked to learn it made national news.) At the funeral, one of my brother's friends (my friend's cousin) came up to me and said "I don't know if you know this, but your brother kinda went berzerk after your mom died---he really couldn't deal with it." I never knew how much pain he'd felt after her death because he hid it. I also remember begging him to stop doing drugs when I was about 15, he 16. My tears and pleas didn't persuade him. He told me to stop crying, he's not going to stop, he likes getting high. I told him he's going to end up dying......I don't want him to die. I know my pleas and tears touched his heart, but he was already too far gone into drugs. He was sick and needed help, but he had to want the help and accept it. I'm not excusing my brother's drug behavior. But it's not easy to quit it. And he wasn't a bad person. His heart was good and kind. He got messed up. I wished he would have wanted to stop, he'd probably be alive now. These people need help. And yes, they may need to be punished for committing crimes. But, the drugs also make them do things they wouldn't otherwise do---it alters their brains. That is the real crime--how the drug wrecks them. Drug prevention is critical; drug rehabilitation in imperative----the trick is founding out how to do this and get through to people who are so drugged out that they can no longer think rationally and normally.
I hope that Noelle wakes up, that she's "hit bottom" and will take advantage of the help out there. I could care less if she's gotten preferential treatment. I won't agree that she has or disagree that she hasn't. I care about her getting better. Who's to say that if she does, she may be able to help others out of their drug problems because she understands them. Maybe God can use this in her life and her heart to help others. That would be a wonderful outcome.
Ooh... what an interesting question for a libertarian to field. *g*
"Where's the pre trial"? Apparently where it should be - OVER at the request of the defendant and not hijacked by lowlifes for political gain. Being that there's no evidence of wrong doing yet you don't give them the benefit to the doubt, this must really eat you up. {smile}
I, especially because I am a conservative, do not appreciate double standards. This easy "out" for Ms. Bush is going to haunt Jeb Bush for a long time.
Must be this compassionate conservatism we hear so much about?
Her family couldn't control her so now we have to pay for it.
First of all, she IS a person of color. Second of all sending her to prison serves neither the community or her. I wish more drug sentences were that sensible.
Of course not. I don't think it's ever the approach for non-violent drug offenders. But it happens. There are countless less fortunate people who would not be so lucky as Noelle. It's the hypocrisy.
She is not just a drug offender - she commited felony fraud. Fraud is a real crime. People get stiff sentences for mere possession of a drug, she gets "treatment" for felony prescription fraud.
There is no equal treatment under the law. That's the problem. The bottom line is that if the elites were subject to our drug laws there would be no drug war. So they have to let them off, time after time. Right in front of the American public and nobody seems to think it's a problem.
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