Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
Anubis Bard says:
"punishment for being outspoken and right". Not to mention black. Is the criminal justice system a mess? Yes, but that doesn't mean it's not doing what it is supposed to be doing. I used to study the Soviet Union, and one of the fascinating practices that the State settled on was a legal and criminal justice system that was so messed up and self-contradictory that everyone had to be something of a criminal just to get by. And that was certainly convenient for the State.
Croooow! says:
He broke THE LAW! Would you prefer Anarchy! I used to smoke too. I accuse my parents.
JD says:
So in addition to paying $100K per year to feed and house this nonviolent offender, taxpayers are now paying for monthly cross-country flights, just to make sure this guy doesn't set a certain plant on fire in their state? Someone should alert the Tea Party. But something about this case makes me think that they wouldn't protest this particular use of tax dollars.
Major Kong says:
He broke the law! We need to punish the law breaker!
I figure a $50 fine ought to cover it.
Heck, better throw the book at him, make it $100.
c u n d gulag says:
Oy.
And our Banksters gladly laundered money for the coke – not the soda – cartels, and look at how many of them are still in jail with long sentences.
ROFLMAO! *
Sorry…
I lied.
No one went to jail!
*Sometimes I even crack myself up!!!
Croooow! says:
I thought my state was better than this. I guess not. On behalf of Jersey, I'm sorry.
ladiesbane says:
This is where the low-church / right-wing / LiberTea faction of my family says, "These laws are too screwed up to fix. We need to dismantle the government and start over."
When asked how they would handle specific situations that involve true ethical dilemmas, the gross oversimplifications and fantasies begin. I don't like where they go with it, but I try to keep our shared bafflement at such news items in mind when I see them trying to grapple with the ideas and problems of law and policymaking.
Where do adults go to re-learn 8th grade Civics, by the way?
Robert says:
When I worked at the VA hospital in San Francisco, we had one patient who used MMJ quite a bit. We had an ongoing wrangle with him about smoking it IN the hospital; didn't matter what it was or why he was smoking it, we're a Federal facility so no smoking! That's something the SF writers didn't see coming.