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Fugitive Deserves Hard Time
Right on neoconssuck. They do. They are all for 'law and order' except when it comes to punishing the guiltiest of the guilty - about 95% of the current administration in Washington, D.C. Ole' Pete is a classic example of pointing the finger away from the one who should be taking responsibility for the druggie deal - his offspring. Think about it Petey.
Waldmeirs column.
Hey Pete-must be nice to pontificate and take the high road. You ever been arrested for anything? Time for you to go back to the pasture and reflect on your own mistakes and life in the mirror.Give this woman community service for female addicts and convicted suppliers in her home town with court supervised probation. To separate her from her family does no good. What you want only punishes the innocent children she has had and raised.Community service she would be good at-she has been on both sides and turned her life around. And, like others have said-we are letting murders and rapists out due to over crowding. Get a grip Pete-you missed the boat on this one.
Hard Time already served
Put the lady on probation and send her home. This is crazy. If she married, had kids and lived each day with this secret on her conscious, she has been punished enough. Isn't the reason for sending folks to jail, to punish them and hope they learn from their mistakes and don't do the crime again? I think this lady has learned her leason and I doubt very much she will repeat her crime. 32 years of her life has been affected already. I doubt it would serve the public or her any good to put her in jail and pay for housing her when our prisons are already overcrowded and we are letting rapists, murderers, and such out early to free up space. Get your head out of your rear and tell me exactly what sending her to jail would accomplish! Nothing, absolutely NOTHING! What a waste of tax payer money....!
Hard Time
Personally, Pete, I think you should have stayed retired. Absurd? Had it not been for the fact she, as a kid, got caught, the statue of limitations on her crime would have expired ... decades ago. And do you really think the seller of drugs is responsible for the use by other people. Had your kids elected to buy and use drugs it would have been their own fault. You sound like the same fools today who look to someone else to blame for their own bad decisions. What she did was wrong then, to be sure, but it is in no one's interest at this late juncture (except perhaps to satisfy your need for what, revenge?) for this woman to spend even one more day in jail, let alone the hard time in a dank prison you suggest. You lack both common sense and compassion.
Column idea
Another great column, Pete! Did you see the story in the Freep this morning about Kwami's relatives and friends on the payroll? Bet you can't let that go by without comment!
Fugitive Deserves Hard Time
Given Michigans prison budget issues,her behavior since her escape and the idiocy of the drug war let her off with a big fine,probation and maybe a year in a minimum security prison. It's asinine to put people in jail for 10-20 years for selling/using drugs while those convicted of manslaughter get far less. Alcohol and tobacco is legal,but pot isn't? We've wasted how many millions of dollars on this misguided war on drugs and for what? To what end? To punish people for their addictions? Absurd.
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