Originally posted by bubI feel your pain and I'm sorry.
or someone like me whos dad was killed by a drunk driver
he was only sent down for 5 years and only served 2 and he had already had his licence taken away for 3 other drink offences
hows that justice
I certainly don't want to defend drunk driving.
The criminal justice system is strange and strained. There are far too many stories of individuals causing harm to someone and then getting away with it.
Good Luck to you. Love your neighbor and yourself.
Originally posted by dagsUnderstand yes. Condone no.
It just seems a little odd how you will jump up in defence of a drink driver but not a bully or someone who feels the need to talk about sex infront of minors.
Bullys bully people for a reason the same as people drive drunk but I don't recall seeing you say we should try to understand the bullys reason for being a bully or the sex talker.
Originally posted by Nordlysim glad to see someone understands these scum wreck peoples lives do their so called time and then get on with their lives.
I agree. Anyway, the subject was drunk driving, and you saying we shouldn't judge someone for doing that. I think you might see it differently if you had been working with kids who had suffered severe brain damage due to a car crash.
what about the victims that will never get over what they did
Originally posted by lexus4lthanks for that load of bulls**t. and yes life is to short with t**ts like that around and as for forgive...............................
have you ever tried to forgive this person. you sound so bitter about it lifes to short to get eaten up over someone whos done you wrong.
you will never move forward untill you find peace with yourself.🙂
tell my mum,my sisters,and all my dads grandchildren that i would'nt like to hear the response you would get!😠
Originally posted by bubwell, justice is big business, in the US and probably in the UK, too. think prison unions, bar associations, prison construction, small town economics (where prisons exist there), etc.
im glad to see someone understands these scum wreck peoples lives do their so called time and then get on with their lives.
what about the victims that will never get over what they did
this business needs to keep their feedstock rotating. suppose they just gave reasonable sentences (unlike the sentence that guy got), or mandatory sentences, or exiling a large proportion of inmates to a remote Alaskan island on temporary/permanent basis?
costs would drop way down, which means incomes would drop way down.
can't have that. or some people can't.
http://www.yourcongress.com/viewarticle.asp?article_id=39#Isnt%20Congress%20full%20of%20attorneys
"Isn't Congress full of attorneys?
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There are quite a few attorneys in Congress: 228 by one organization's count. Is 42% of America's population attorneys?
Is Washington as corrupt as everyone says?
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Yes and no. Here's the deal. The kind of traditional corruption that you think of with politics, where a guy drops an envelope of money into a Congressman's desk drawer for his vote just doesn't exist. Well, it might exist sometimes, but if it does, it's extremely, extremely rare. Every five years or so there's someone dumb enough to do it, and they usually get caught pretty easily.
However, under the current campaign finance system, anyone in Washington will admit that people who are financial contributors get better treatment than average citizens. It's not overt - most of the time - but that plain fact is that a Congressman/woman or Senator remembers the names of people who contribute to their campaign.
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