The law has to be applied uniformly. If we prosecute one individual for a particular act, we have to prosecute all individuals who perform such acts. We clearly have, as a society, the means to make this happen, so then, why don't we? It seems that we are abandoning the principles that guide the rule of law here.
The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life
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#192The Comal County District Attorney's Office did not intend for Carter to suffer what happened next, Flanary says, but it was reasonably foreseeable: He was sexually assaulted. The fact that prisoners are commonly subject to sexual assault, and that this consequence is trotted out as an acceptable deterrent to crime, illustrates just how uncivilized the US prison-industrial-complex is in this, the year 2014. Failure t…
Prison in the US isn't about rehabilitation it's about punishment. No one goes to prison thinking they're going to come out as a better person with a new outlook on life. They're going to come out war-torn and barely above functional with little to no prospects.
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#193Well nobody today thinks twice about posting something on the internet, especially youth, and while they should, it's still OK, because it's the way social messaging and posting works, and everybody else should be more or less OK with that too. 10 years for trolling is way over the top, just fine him already and let him go.
He's already been raped in prison. The case should be thrown out, and he should be awarded compensation. No fines.
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#194The Comal County District Attorney's Office did not intend for Carter to suffer what happened next, Flanary says, but it was reasonably foreseeable: He was sexually assaulted. The fact that prisoners are commonly subject to sexual assault, and that this consequence is trotted out as an acceptable deterrent to crime, illustrates just how uncivilized the US prison-industrial-complex is in this, the year 2014. Failure t…
Prison in the US isn't about rehabilitation it's about punishment. No one goes to prison thinking they're going to come out as a better person with a new outlook on life. They're going to come out war-torn and barely above functional with little to no prospects.
This is exactly why the stories of people that do come out a better person (got a degree, found religion, etc) make the "news". No body talks much about the other 99% that just come out more pissed at the world than before they went in.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
they aren't typical but they aren't uncommon. you could say the same thing about europe, though. especially in the 20th century, but there's time yet for the 21st to catch up!
I am afraid you don't know what you're talking about. Genocide is not common in Africa. It's happened, but it's not common.
that depends on what your interpretation of 'common' is. my measuring stick is europe. it's common there. 3 times in one century is common.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." I find the actions taken here infinitely more scary than facebook comment bullshit.
The average person does not make a cost-benefit analysis for things like this because that would require admitting that the question is complicated, or must result in some risk of death. Instead they silently drop the cost half of the equation by telling themselves that 0% risk of death must be possible, and rationalize away the costs of such a delusion by ignoring cases like this, or figuring that the victim must ha…
More to the point, it seems that the police must skew towards that attempted 0% risk, which is what starts snowballs like this.
I find it ironic that with all of the talk flying around about nothing being private, a facebook conversation that would potentially exonerate this guy can't be dredged up.
It's hard for me to crystallize my thoughts on what needs to happen here, because the details, have up until this article, been incredibly confusing and contradictory. At the last report, this conversation took place within League of Legends itself. Apparently that wasn't the case. What other details about the information the jury had access to do we not know?
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't heard good things about foreigners in north (alps) though.
things are way exaggerated. We (and almost everyone I know here in South) usually go visit the beautiful north every year or two.
Seconding this. The north is one of the safest areas for foreigners. I would give Chitral, Swat and especially Peshawar a miss right now, but Neelum Valley, Skardu, etc, and north are all fine.
http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/tnb-is-pakistan-safe-fo...
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
> America is pretty good -- don't anecdotes from the internet says deter you. It's not merely anecdotes; there's plenty of hard data. The US locks up more people in absolute numbers than any country in the world, including China, which has 4 times the population and a totalitarian government. Per capita, the only countries with more inmates are a handful of tiny Carribean islands, I believe. Law enforcement is struct…
Fun fact: the USSR under Stalin and the gulag incarcerated fewer people than does the contemporary United States. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2109777...
This is simply not true! Could you please provide a quote from where you got this in the article, because there seems to be no mention of it.
My grandparents were lucky enough to survive the Stalinist regime but many of our family didn't. There's no reliable numbers of how many where imprisoned by Stalin and, even worse, how many died in prison camps. For the latter, even the most conservative estimates are in the millions.
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#199> Until that point, his only brush with the law was a temporary restraining order two years earlier. > "He started threatening me, saying that he would kill me. ... I told the school officers, [and] they started watching him really closely. He would say that he would shoot up the school." So I'll start by playing Devil's Advocate very briefly. It's interesting how facts can be shaped with different language ("his onl…
Well, people have children. The protection they feel must be absolute, and here is someone who threatening them.
If someone came up to me on the street and screamed I'm going to fucking kill you, I wouldn't argue for his freedom of speech.
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#200I think anyone agrees that this whole situation has been blown out of proportion on a massive scale. But threatening to shoot up a school, in the light of recent events... really? What if he actually DID shoot up a school, and afterwards people discovered that authorities WERE warned? People need to realize that what you post on the internet can be interpreted different than what you actually meant. Besides, threaten…
> But threatening to shoot up a school, in the light of recent events... really? What if he actually DID shoot up a school, and afterwards people discovered that authorities WERE warned?
I'm not sure why this part matters. The prosecutor might be fired, but at least an innocent boy is not raped while waiting for trial? The boy had no means to carry out the threat -- they searched his home. Your scenario works fine for Minority Report, but not in real life.