[Askel5]

But just take a look at these Freepers saying **eight years** in the slam is a fair sentence, for serving beer to minors in your own home. Can you imagine that happening, three or four years ago? Do you remember how much we used to collectively revile that kind of authoritarian goosestepping mindset? So, who's changed? Gladdened to see a few posters of principle have stepped up to the plate to call this outrage for what it is,

There's at least a handful still running around here.

Eight years is not so long as "Banning" goes.

[CharacterCounts]

It's amazing how many "Freepers" are always against the judiciary making up laws, then they wholeheartedly support a judge who does just that.

The legislature made this offense a misdemeanor. Misdemeanors carry sentences of one year or less. Here, a local judge clearly attempts to do an end run around the law by applying consecutive sentences and further does an end run around the Constitutuin by setting an excessive bail and we have Freepers cheering him on.

Littering is a misdemeanor in most states and carries a maximum of 90 days. Under this judge's logic, if you toss out an ashtray with 100 cigarrette butts in it, this judge could sentence you to 9,000 days (or about 25 years).