I know. I wasn't saying I think he deserves to go to jail for it. I was simply saying my growing and his growing were not for the same reasons.
I like you and was not trying to single you out or anything.
WEED! Same reason! LoL.
I didn't think you were singling me out! I'm kinda' dedicated to the whole "humanize prisoners" thing. all of 'em.
I knew a guy doing 40 years for "possession of crack cocaine in a school zone." The cops set him up, they gave him the money, drove him to buy it, drove him behind a building, gave him a pipe, gave him a lighter, and asked for theirs. They then arrested him, after they let him smoke it, for trafficking, possession and distribution in a school zone, and consumption of crack cocaine in a school zone.
I knew this one kid, turned 18, his girlfriend was almost 16. He got 15 years for it. Charged for a sex crime, when he hit the prison's intake, he was made a bitch. Last I saw him, he'd gotten out. And was on a wanted poster for violent rapes.
Met one fellow, really nice guy, handicapped veteran ... He got sentenced to 36 months in 1970 for "drunken assault." He was a Marine that had just come back from Vietnam, and got in a bar fight with a guy that called him a raping baby killer. When I met him, in '95, he had 360 years, and counting. All time he got in prison.
Met a guy in county, in '91. He was there for killing his "girlfriend" and eating part of her heart. Had he still been under his state/court ordered psychiatric care, he'd have been on his meds and fine. But, he was turned out of his halfway house and lost his state funding, because he got (and maintained) a job for over a year.
Used to go to Mosque with a nice family, there was the older sister, the younger sister, the mom, and the brother. They were Samoli. The dad was murdered in front of them, then the older brother. Both girls are handicapped, that's what happens when little kids get gang raped. The brother has no hands, and no junk. He was forced to partake in the raping of his family, and then "punished" for it. His dad was shot, his brother was beheaded. It's surprising that his cousin tried to go back to Somalia to join the freedom fighters, isn't it?
I could go on all day, just from personal experience/first hand knowledge. Yeah, there are straight monsters, but they are so rare as to be a statistical anomaly.
FDD is a great example of "more of the same." There are people that think he should be executed, that he should go to prison for life, and that he's personally responsible for every violent crime from the beginning of prohibition. If he's a shithead, we still need to stand behind him, the way WE treat the "lowest" is how THEY will treat our "best."
