...Joe, i dont really have any personal problems with extreme punishment
including torture even for people that commit truly merciless,protracted and
pre-meditated acts of violence or abuse on others. but the issue is that
across-the-board treatment of this sort cannot be done since it is very
possible that the wrong guy may be convicted.
...prison rape is another issue. if we knowingly endorse and laugh about
innocent people getting repeatedly ass-raped and often times infected with
HIV over the course of years, then any claims as to sympathy for a little
girl seems pretty much like insinsere bullshit. it sounds more like people
dont really give a fuck at all, they just want to be seen standing up and
pumping their fist into the air in support of the good and noble cause of
the day - and certainly a cute 5yr old is gonna score them some brownie
points while some blue collar ex-con isnt very likely to.
...imagine this, your neighbor resents your dog pooping on his lawn, so he
calls the feds reporting that you are growing pot plants...they come, bust
you for that, or perhaps find all sorts of pirated software on your
computer, or on burned cd's....the judge is a hard ass and you end up with
2yrs in prison....where you get forcibly sodomized on a weekly basis...and
then contract HIV. youre released from prison, your health care wont cover
the hiv meds, your wife has to leave you, and you have all the sweet
memories of jailhouse rape in your mind while you wait around to die for the
next several years. last i checked, our penal system wasnt supposed to
issue sentences of repeated rape and infection with deadly diseases. if we
close our eyes to this, we are supporting it...which makes any brownie
points you mightve got from the little girl, pretty much vanish.
drsebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
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