Josi (O-Josi-O) ([info]eris_devotee) wrote,
@ 2009-06-23 16:53:00
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According to the DEA's mandatory sentencing policies, 1-9 grams of LSD will send you to jail for not less than 5 years for a first offense.

Yet a 250 lb cop who beat up a 100 lb female bartender because she stopped serving him gets 150 hours of community service and probation. Chris Brown made Rihanna barely recognizable, and he gets community service and probation, too.

Yet there are peaceful deadheads rotting in jail because they got busted with a few unicorns.

This makes so much sense to me. This is justice in action, right?

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[info]andyh3000
2009-06-23 10:29 pm UTC (link)
You should be able to feel the wind from my head shaking across Lake Michigan. I hate our drug laws utterly and completely (not to mention the "law" as it applies to celebs and public figures).

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[info]eris_devotee
2009-06-23 10:47 pm UTC (link)
It's the juxtaposition of punishments - because it's not just cops and celebs who get tapped on the wrist for a violent offense if their records are otherwise clean. The sentences that the cop and Chris Brown received are par for the beating-up-women course.

I don't need the government to protect me from myself. I need the government to protect me from other people.

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[info]kelabration
2009-06-23 11:09 pm UTC (link)
Those two fuckers only got community service?!? That is completely fucked up.

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[info]eris_devotee
2009-06-24 12:47 am UTC (link)
A quote from the judge who sentenced that jackass of a cop:

"If I believed sentencing Anthony Abbate to prison would stop people from getting drunk and hitting people, I'd give him the maximum sentence," Fleming said.

And while I realize that deterring crime is one objective of the criminal justice system... somehow I think that judge forgot entirely about the "justice" part of it. I mean - that cop pled innocent by reason of SELF DEFENSE. Meaning he expressed no remorse and maintained, through sentencing, that his attack was justified.

And Chris Brown... besides just punching her in the face a few times, he choked Rihanna until she lost consciousness.

And there are potheads sitting in jail. Oh yeah. My tax dollars fight crime, they do.

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[info]browniegirl322
2009-06-24 02:03 pm UTC (link)
Awful!

It might not deter others, but it might stop this asshat from doing something so awful again.

Ugh, I don't get it.

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FUCK
[info]pipu
2009-06-23 11:34 pm UTC (link)
I can't even formulate a coherent reply.



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[info]eris_devotee
2009-06-24 12:54 am UTC (link)
I'm so pissed off about the Chicago cop. Not only did he beat the shit out of the bartender, a couple of other cops went back to the bar and offered her and the bar owner money to keep quiet. But those charges got thrown out.

Then, in addition to all of that - the guy said he was innocent due to self defense and maintained that he was justified. And even though he shows no remorse and admits no wrong... even though they have all of it on surveillance video... he gets probation. *and* that's not unusual, unfortunately. For a first time offender, it appears that statistics in my county support that sentence.

o.O

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[info]hoodcity
2009-06-24 02:53 am UTC (link)
Absolute fucking insanity. Not to mention the absolute, arbitrary insanity of weighing the paper on which micrograms of LSD are dropped to determine a sentence.

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[info]guirex
2009-06-24 07:51 am UTC (link)
Justice is a myth.

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