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In reply to the discussion: 24-Year-Old Gets 3 Life Terms in Prison for Witnessing a Drug Deal: The Ugly Truth of Mandatory Drug [View all]Dawgs
(14,755 posts)21. What you mean? DU doesn't accept alternative opinions now?
The poster doesn't have sympathy for someone who was involved in a drug deal and you're chastising them because the title of the OP says he should be sympathetic to them.
This place is not what it used to be, and that's sad.
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24-Year-Old Gets 3 Life Terms in Prison for Witnessing a Drug Deal: The Ugly Truth of Mandatory Drug [View all]
xchrom
Jun 2012
OP
I'm not saying he wasn't in the wrong BUT this country is Fucked up! Life in Prison for DRUGS AND
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
#1
I didn't see why he wouldn't turn snitch to save himself, supposedly, some jail time or
jp11
Jun 2012
#2
Yes one was a cold blooded murder and the other was a victimless crime.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jun 2012
#57
Drug dealing isn't a victimless crime. Let's see a link to your supposed "murderer" of a child
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#62
THIS is why I reject "the big tent". I can't find ANY common ground with this sort of thinking. nt
Romulox
Jun 2012
#29
You think it's a bad thing to cooperate with the law, when you're caught red handed?
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#41
Why not just execute the kid? It would be far more "compassionate" than caging him like an animal
Romulox
Jun 2012
#60
Yes, it's sad to think that you're in my tent. Someone who judges w/o the facts.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#43
I am sitting here wondering why we clash so often when we agree on so much. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#54
LOL! How could a couple of milquetoast's like us be considered abrasive? n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#61
Our legal system has become completely insane with these outrageous mandatory sentencing guidelines
spicegal
Jun 2012
#4
Why is it I can assume he's Black? Why can't these laws be overthrown on grounds of racism?
marble falls
Jun 2012
#6
I agree. The drug policy is whats whack. And so are the people who support it.
marble falls
Jun 2012
#49
victim? What victim? I don't see a victim anywhere in that transaction.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2012
#51
What I am saying is "Where is the empathy for a obvious extreme miscarriage of justice."
RC
Jun 2012
#27
Private prisons love these types of laws. But then they wrote them for maximum
midnight
Jun 2012
#23
If he had only "cooperated"--identified which of his neighbors were jews--then maybe
Romulox
Jun 2012
#31
The American legal system is so f*!$ed up as to be beyond belief, we don't have a legal system.
Uncle Joe
Jun 2012
#38
If there was a serial killer who murdered joggers and pissed on their corpses
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Jun 2012
#56