Re: Nov-L: Noelle Bush arrested with drugs (fwd)
On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 06:15 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote:
I wonder if she'll get 400 years in prison like the rest of us? Um, never mind...
This is something to watch. Many first-time offenders in the War on Some Drugs get rehab time...but she's been in rehab some number of times. If she were a street kid, she'd be facing X years in prison. But she's not. She's part of the First Extended Family. On the other hand, she's half-Mexican, so that may cancel out her FEF status. If there's justice, she'll face exactly the same 5 years in prison that civilians face. But there isn't, and she won't. --Tim May
Tim wrote:
If there's justice, she'll face exactly the same 5 years in prison that civilians face.
Justice would be no Draconian drug penalities at all, rather than subjecting the extended ruling aristocracy to the same unfair penalties as the proles. I mention this because it doesn't help the goal of getting rid of unfair laws at all, if people can be made to cheer every time someone they don't like runs afoul of one. Jimmy Carter once suggested that a law was unfair of more than 50% of the pain and suffering was caused by the law, and not by the act being punished. By this standard, we would have no laws at all against the casual use or sale of marijuana, and less stringent laws against the use or sale of almost everything else. Heroin is much less addictive than nicotine, and a good deal less poisonous too. I don't see many driveby shootings over cigarettes. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
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Tim May