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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]Uncle Joe
(59,676 posts)38. The American legal system is so f*!$ed up as to be beyond belief, we don't have a legal system.
We have a draconian, class and race based, political retribution system posing as a legal system.
Thanks for the thread, xchrom.
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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