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
are you freakin kidding me? yes indeed that negligent homicide is too a gray area
you cannot make up for your idiot comment that you hope he kills my child
go away and never speak to me again unless you apologize
I don't want anything to happen to your kid but what would your argument be if the same thing happened to little yldstrk jr. 
No man...I'm not freakin kidding you....It's in English and plenty of people have gone to prison for drunk driving when no one was killed!!!
If you think letting drunks out without any sort of punishment is a great idea, YOU should have to bear the consequences of that action.
Unfortunately it’ll be some innocent that does.
The kid I went to high school with? He killed the first victim himself. Impaired? Sure. His parents, the judge and ENABLERS like yourself are the ones who killed that innocent family.
That ‘therapy and treatment’ the kid got instead of real punishment? Worked great! He and a buddy of his were on the way back from spring break in FL. Decided that the hair of the dog was a great way to drive back to USM in Hattiesburg. Unfortunately the innocent family who was on their way to CHURCH is dead. And has been for ~30 years now.
But, Karma works in mysterious ways. The DUI kid? Had a way younger little brother. Same drinking problem. (see a pattern here? permissive parents maybe?) Drinking with buddies of his at FOURTEEN (guess where he got the booze???, if you guessed from his PARENTS you’d WIN, seems the only lesson they learned from his older brothers experience was that $$$ buys justice!) fell backward off an embankment and broke his neck. He’s been a quadriplegic since.
Enable drunk driving kilers? Get what you deserve!
I hope I would live out my Catholic faith and forgive the person
I of course would be heartbroken and my life would be ruined more than it already is; I would miss my child and grieve that he had not outlived me
but I know that revenge is not what the law is all about
I also know I am human and I could not guarantee my reaction, I can only say what I hope it would be.
now, once again, you are personalizing the argument which is something we are taught not to do in law school, so I assume you are not a lawyer
And Black Agnes beat you to it, actually wishing that the juvenile here would kill my kid
so the two of you have a lot in common
neither of you need ever address me again unless you apologize first
” guess you are all too thick to get it”
I’m keeping my opinion on this matter to myself but how on earth can you call people “thick” just because they don’t share your viewpoint?
Very middle-schoolish.
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I don't know you are a lawyer!!! Secondly I made no such statement about your son..as a matter of fact I specifically said just the opposite...thirdly your argument is with out merit and you seem to be taking the easy way out....I certainly can see why! as to an apology...I don't think so!!!
It’s good etiquette to ping someone when you talk about them.
I don’t wish anyone’s kid dead.
You’re the one who wants to release drunk driving killers with a promise they won’t do it again.
So they can do it again.
Any victim of a repeat drunk driving offender is YOUR fault.
Enablers like yourself are the most dangerous thing in the world to a substance abuser like this kid. And YOU are the ones responsible for any subsequent victime.
YOU are just as guilty of any subsequent deaths as the perp.
What kind of apology do you have for the parents of the 4 people this kid killed?
What about the innocent family on the way to church the repeat offender I went to high school killed?
Do you want to apologize to them too?
Oops! To late, they’re dead!
In my high school graduating class there were SIX drunk driving caused deaths by the time we were graduating from college. The ONLY repeat offender was the rich kid whose mom and dad got him off. The OTHER five, who couldn’t afford ‘special justice’ are just NOW getting out of prison ~30 years later.
Forgive the DUI killer? Sure. Let them do it again? Heck no.
That POS needs a terminal case of road rash.
I hope the victims families sue the parents for everything they have and slap liens on every car, boat, and house these POS’s own.
Colorado school shooting? not the gun, affluenza.... see where this is going at? like the established wanting to be allowed to abuse... the money and gun made me do it.
Pure unadulterated Islamo Marxism.
Future university school shooter. Bush, the gun and money made me do it. Please instore communism against others to save me from myself.
‘Special justice’ afforded only to the wealthy is one of the reasons behind the French Revolution. Punishment for the same exact crime differed greatly between the different classes. Eventually the peasantry got tired of it.
It’s one reason I despise the Kennedy family. Any OTHER drunk driving killer would have done time for his crime. REGARDLESS of whether the victim’s family ‘forgave’ him or not. The point isn’t to forgive or not forgive, it’s to prevent him from doing it again. Innocent people are depending on you to do the right thing.
That was certainly true of me, but then my son attended a private Christian school which was a 45 minute drive from our home. But then, I am not one of those lefties who are always trying to get people out of their cars and onto public transportation.
Our local plastic bag ban was started by a guy who owned an organic food store and wanted to encourage people to make daily trips to the store on foot. The plastic bag ban went through, but his store went out of business and Trader Joes came in.
Funny thing is plastic bags were originally supported by the left to keep from killing so many trees for paper bags!!!
likewise
Maybe you should apologize to the mother of this dead girl too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWXGNONp-YE
This what drunk drivers do when they’re not in prison:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/03/justice/mississippi-pardon-dui/index.html
“When Barbour pardoned Bostick in January, the convicted DUI felon was sitting in an Oxford, Mississippi, jail cell for violating the terms of a previous DUI sentence and was awaiting formal charges from yet another drunken driving accident in October that ended in the tragic death of 18-year-old Charity Smith. Who’s at fault in that accident has yet to be determined.
The teenage girl from Okolona, Mississippi, had big dreams of saving money and going to college to pursue a business degree. The young woman’s death and the controversy surrounding the case have devastated Linda Smith, Charity’s mother.
“She should still be here with me. She should still be here with me. This should not have happened,” Linda Smith told CNN during an emotional two-hour interview.
Bostick was given a full pardon for a felony drunken driving offense dating from March 2009. That offense was Bostick’s third drunken driving arrest in a little more than year.
The Mississippi Parole Board and Barbour have issued statements saying they didn’t know Bostick had another DUI arrest in October. It came after his pardon case had already been reviewed.
Oxford Police Sgt. Hildon Sessums arrested Bostick twice over a span of a year for DUI.
“Right before I put the cuffs on him he said, ‘Don’t do this to me.’ And my comment to that usually is, you did it to yourself,” Sessums told CNN as he recounted details of the two arrests.
For the third DUI, Bostick had been sentenced in March 2010 to a year of house arrest and four years in Mississippi’s drug court program, an intense drug-and-alcohol-abuse treatment program with strict guidelines that convicted felons like Bostick must follow.
Bostick was still going through the drug court program when he started applying for a pardon last summer. High-profile friends wrote letters to Barbour touting what they called Bostick’s genuine lifestyle change.”
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