Payback is a B@!*#

I would bet the majority of the people in the United States have at least technically committed some type of felony they were never charged for -- maybe a tax thing or traffic infraction.


What was the "head shot" in The Wire that the feds could have used? Taking out a mortgage with money borrowed from a parent or someone without telling the bank.

 

Tough shit, tough shit, tough shit.

CDTT, DDTC.

 

He was found guilty on invasion of privacy and it looks like at least one jury question relating to bias intimidation (not guilty on some others):

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/justice/new-jersey-rutgers-trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Edit: To be clear, it seems he was found not guilty on some subparts of some of the charges, but guilty on all 15 counts.

 

Rush Limbaugh would watch that video.

 

So how much prison time do you deserve the next time you advocate Starman justice on someone? You know, threatening bodily harm?

 

You don't want to be convicted of a felony? Don't do it. Pretty simple. Do not rely on the "everyone is doing it" argument. Empty.

The foundation of our society is that everyone is presumed to know the law and you are bound by it.

Is there selective prosecution? Yes, no doubt. But when you commit the crime you subject yourself to the prosecutor's discretion. That's the rule we live by, unless you want to go to a discretion-less system; um not me. Then you get the war chambers of Star Trek (oh you blew up my city on the computer, okay next 50,000 people step into the chamber.)

 

Asking whether things would have been different had Mr. Clementi been having sex with a chick (which as Ace pointed out, it wouldn't be had the result been the same) is really just another way of playing the "blame the victim" game.

 

I don't have to choose between being outraged about this and outraged about the war on drugs.

 

Yup. Couldn't say it any better.

 

We'll see when the cases go to court. They'll need evidence of a direct threat of bodily harm, rather than consistent advocacy of dramatically increased penalties for criminal convictions.

 

Selective prosecution isn't bad because of how it treats the perpetrator. It's bad because we're better than that as a society.