Posted on 12/15/2013 9:48:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Lawyer’s for 16-year-old Ethan Couch were able to pawn off on a doe-eyed court that “affluenza” was to blame for his stealing beer at WalMart, getting wasted and then plowing his out of control Ford F-350 into a group of folks, killing four.
Affluenza? Please.
For those who’re not hip to “affluenza“, allow me to help you add another word to that ever growing list of PC terms spun by blame-shifting therapists in order to explain away criminal behavior by little Ethans who need to go to prison instead of a luxury rehab in Newport Beach:
Affluenza is a portmanteau of “affluence” and “influenza“. It’s the malady of rich kids whose parents never let them suffer the consequences of their bad behavior. In my day we called them spoiled little bastards and the way we’d help them get healed from affluenza is by beating the crap out of them at school when mommy and daddy weren’t around.
According to a defense psychologist, this is what Ethan suffers from and we should feel sorry for this brat. Yep, these wizards postulated that little Ethan was unable to link his criminal/deadly behavior with its being bad due to his parents’ teaching him that wealth buys privilege. Therefore, to impart to him this hard lesson in reality, his parents hired out an expensive law firm that successfully convinced a court that numb-nuts needed rehab versus jail. Wow. Way to go. Lesson learned.
God knows this ain’t the last specious, bullet-dodging word we’re doomed to learn to let evil people off the hook. Mark my word, some redneck is going to die trying to ride one of T.Boone Pickens’ wind turbines after getting all liquored up at Hooters. His trailer trash parents, upon learning it was one of T. Boone’s turbines, smell blood in the water and sue Pickens for not taking into account their sons Dipshitzophrenia that disallows him to time his jump on to the moving blades. That would be the swiftly rotating unsafe blades, mind you.
Hey, losers. Two can play at that game. I say our conservative reps in the House should start getting more vociferous regarding their disdain for BHO and The RINOS. They could blame their new, aggressive outspokenness on a Stercore Tauri Disorder that makes ‘em scream “BS” uncontrollably when those twins trample upon our founding docs.
Silliness aside, we have four dead individuals who lost their life because this punk didn’t have a life; and now walks away unpunished because our land defines deviancy down.
Personally, as you can imagine, I feel no sympathy for Ethan’s made up ailment. No, my empathy begins and ends with the victims and their shattered families who, not only have to live with their loved one’s loss, but they have the additional pain of watching our justice system dole out a comfy sentence to a kid who should swing
Isn’t “affluenza” a joke from a Rush Limbaugh parody bit?
from many years ago
recall effort - big time on the “judge “ that allowed
this defense-
If they find a really ridiculously stupid judge it could work.
It doesn’t take money to spoil a kid.
Bad grades at school? Mom does your homework for you.
Neighbors broken window? Some other kid must done it because MINE n ever would.
Sent to the principal and given detention? Hey Buddy....let’s go skiing this weekend.
I watched in horror as this happened over the years to some middle-class white folks I know.
They kid now has multiple arrests and convictions, has spent probably 3 years in confinement, no diploma, no GED, no chance of rehabilitating.
And, he’s not even 21 yet
I should add....
Tens of thousands of Dads hard-earned dollars kept him from going to jail before he finally racked up enough convictions a judge couldn’t let it slide when he was found with several pounds of pot and a gun
“No, my empathy begins and ends with the victims and their shattered families”
And “poor iddle Eathan” is laughing at them.
Hopefully there will be a line of ambulance chasing lawyers 20 miles long chasing the family until they have been bankrupted.
No use. She's retiring at the end of her term.
What a wonderful judicial system!
Actually, the judge in this case is retiring --to a very comfortable pension, I suspect.
Stinking, spoiled brat should be in prison “married” to a 300 pound husband named Fang.
If the judge is going to accept that garbage, then she should put the parents in jail for killing those four people
I read that this judge is retiring very soon. Might not be a bad idea to check retirement status in a year or so - which luxury island she is retiring to as well as any offshore bank accounts she might have access to. In my opinion of course.
Same thing with a family friend’s son. He was allowed to do most anything he wanted, and escaped any blame or consequence due to his “condition”. He had been diagnosed with ADD so had cover to act any way he wanted.
There was about eight years of drugs, booze, stealing, assaults (he stabbed his mom because she told him he couldn’t stay in the house if he kept using drugs), car thefts, jail. He was living in a tent, which he had stolen from his friend, in whatever woods he was allowed. I talked to him often, and he would straighten up for a couple of weeks when I did. I spent money and time trying to find him a job and place to live.
Finally I guess he just couldn’t live with all the bad choices he had made. He stole his mom’s car and drove it, at about 90 mph, into a large light pole.
The problem with assuming wealth causes irresponsibility or bad behavior is that the solution is then wealth confiscation.
Little rich bastards have been getting away with murder as long as I can remember. When I was just a yute in the fifties and I would bring up things like this he would say...it’s always better to be rich than poor. Pretty damn simple logic and still just as true!!!
why does he even need rehab? plenty of people drink and drive, but are not alcoholics. I really don’t think rehab will fix his problem. He needed to feel the pain of a long jail sentence and not a posh resort.
If he killed one of my relatives, I would be happy with the sentence because then I would be able to kill him.
About equivalent to the “Twinkie” defense.
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