[Under the Radar]

An 8 year sentence, which is by law a legal prison term for the offense, is too harsh for people endangering children not their own in your opinion.

Let me see if I understand this position. We want the State to make sure that other people treat our children a certain way, and we will enforce that desire with jail time, if need be. Oh, and we call ourselves Conservatives today, because it suits us.

What, pray tell, has happened to the concept of individual, personal responsibility? I don't want the state cracking skulls for me, thank you very much. If I have a problem with the way that some guy handled a party that my children were invited to, I would deal with the matter directly, not call the cops.

I had better go lie down now; it makes me feel queasy when I agree with Libertarians.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I think the sentence was too harsh myself, but that wasn't the point of my post.

There is a regular poster calling for the

DEATH OF A JUDGE

and no one is responding to that. Before I posted my first message on this thread, he twice said that the judge needed to be hanged. For what? For passing a sentence the poster thought was too harsh. Capital punishment for using bad, but legal, judgement.