I think the executive involved in the fraud should have gotten a much much longer sentence then he did, but I dont think 15 years for robbing a bank is an excessive sentence.
Someone needs to make an animated GIF of this, with the wheels going around, little lasers coming out of the guns, and a "PEW PEW" caption blinking.Originally Posted by Ben Sones
Few countries can dream of being as democratic as the People's Republic of China...
Brett, it was $100. And he returned it the next day and turned himself in. I don't think a little leniency here would be out of place. People get into what seem like hopeless situations and do stupid things sometimes.
Unless there's more to the story, of course. If he's a repeat offender or something, that changes everything.
Pretending you have a gun and robbing a bank is more then just a stupid thing.
I wonder how Brett can take a typically conservative stance on pretty much everything and then claim he's being discriminated against as a conservative when he's not, and somehow do this without blowing his own fucking head off every day he wakes up.
Do you honestly think that a person who is hungry, homeless, "holds up a bank", refuses to take anything but a single hundred dollar bill, then returns that bill out of remorse, ought to go to jail for 15 years?
Here man let me handle this:
The rule of law is there and needed to be enforced. If the law says the rich white guy goes away for less time than the black guy, it's the way it is. If you want to change it, vote new people into office.
He'll deny it, but that's pretty much what he was going to say.
Isn't this the plot of Les Miserables?
He broke a window pane and stole a consumable, two things you can't restore to its former condition. I can't believe he only got five years for it.
Of course, threatening someone is a bad crime on its own, I just don't think it's 5-15 years bad. In Sweden, robbery is 1-6 years, 4-10 for aggravated (this wouldn't count as aggravated in a million years). Theft is 0-2, or 6mo-6 years.
American justice is anything but. The politically powerful are virtually immune, the rich are treated with kid gloves, the poor are given breathtakingly cruel sentences, innocents (the guilty too for that matter) are put to death, prisons overflow with drug users, enemies of the state such as 'terrorists' are barely given a pretense of human rights let alone justice, and so on and so forth. The system is an inhuman disgrace.
But we all know that, right.
Brett doesn't. That's the Power of Lolbertarian raging through his bloodstream, not pure bile. Once you've read Rand, nothing else will stand!
2004. Wow.
That child would be going into the second grade now if those prenatal jackhammers hadn't so badly messed him up.
Since nicotine is a depressant (at high dosages), I suspect that the prenatal effects of the jackhammering probably just cancels out the prenatal effects of the mother's smoking.
You know dude, I've been trying to give you the benefit of the doubt lately but seriously, fuck you with a metal roto-rooter pipe snake. What a fucking terrible thing to say about the treatment of that guy. It's pretty obvious you've never had to steal for food.
He's not fucking around.
Well, duh, Bill... because the sweat of his brow, etc, etc, he's never had to.
It sounds like...the Third Reich!
(Godwin alert)
Lovely:
Oh, that's charming.
Well, since god is allowing me to get shot in the face I'd wager that, no, I don't matter to him.
Nothing says morality like the crazy shit that goes in on the Old Testament.
What is that billboard saying to me? I'm confused and sleep-deprived.
"Atheists will shoot you in the face."
That's more or less what I get out of it. Not sure what the hell someone should think or do about it do... work harder at converting people?
Oh. I didn't think it was that obvious, and I was too lazy to go to the site there at the bottom.
I don't get it either.
The only way I can understand the statement is that "you" would be in a better position to help a thug change his life than god. But then I was confused because the billboard also mentions "www.answersingenesis.org".
"People who don't care about something as important as God aren't going to care about you (and therefore shoot you in the face)" is the message, but yeah, it's unclear who it's supposed to be aimed at. If the reader is one of those God-ignoring psychopaths, it's meaningless to them anyway by their alleged nature. And to the believers it's just preaching to the choir.
Standard "if there is no god, there's no morality" business.
I wonder if it will cause a lot of accidents as people try to re-read it and puzzle over its meaning at 65 MPH.
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