Because "He's rich": how a judge mishandled a horrific crime

[Tekania]

He should be banned from ever being in a vehicle of any kind again.

I'd sympathize with this, if we extended it to a punishment for any type of distracted/impaired driving charge, deaths or not.

[Thafoo]

He took a life. He should at least spend the rest of his life in jail, or to make it simple, why can't we just kill him? We don't need anymore of his kind in the world.

Sounds like someone needs a visit from the spirits of Past, Present, and Future.

[Tekania]

He took a life. He should at least spend the rest of his life in jail, or to make it simple, why can't we just kill him? We don't need anymore of his kind in the world.

Sounds like someone needs a visit from the spirits of Past, Present, and Future.

Don't you know, no one can be be rehabilitated.... real justice is the villagers running around with pitchforks and torches like we're living in some sort of Frankenstein movie.

[Thafoo]

Sounds like someone needs a visit from the spirits of Past, Present, and Future.

Don't you know, no one can be be rehabilitated.... real justice is the villagers running around with pitchforks and torches like we're living in some sort of Frankenstein movie.

People who have seen Tiny Tim die can be rehabilitated.

[European Socialist Republic]

He took a life. He should at least spend the rest of his life in jail, or to make it simple, why can't we just kill him? We don't need anymore of his kind in the world.

Sounds like someone needs a visit from the spirits of Past, Present, and Future.

Humbug! Are there no prisons? No workhouses?
Let them die and decrease the surplus population!

[European Socialist Republic]

Don't you know, no one can be be rehabilitated.... real justice is the villagers running around with pitchforks and torches like we're living in some sort of Frankenstein movie.

People who have seen Tiny Tim die can be rehabilitated.

No! You should stay away from Tiny Tim and his corrupting socialist influences!
He managed to turn a respectable job creator like Ebenezer Scrooge into a Pinko Commie.
And the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future are obviously Marxists.

[Thafoo]

People who have seen Tiny Tim die can be rehabilitated.

No! You should stay away from Tiny Tim and his corrupting socialist influences!
He managed to turn a respectable job creator like Ebenezer Scrooge into a Pinko Commie.
And the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future are obviously Marxists.

Your mom's a Marxist.

[Tekania]

No! You should stay away from Tiny Tim and his corrupting socialist influences!
He managed to turn a respectable job creator like Ebenezer Scrooge into a Pinko Commie.
And the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future are obviously Marxists.

Your mom's a Marxist.

Your momma's so Marxist she believes the development of the industrial proletariat is conditioned upon the development of the industrial bourgeoisie.

[European Socialist Republic]

No! You should stay away from Tiny Tim and his corrupting socialist influences!
He managed to turn a respectable job creator like Ebenezer Scrooge into a Pinko Commie.
And the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future are obviously Marxists.

Your mom's a Marxist.

Your mom is like Karl Marx's theory on social economics: every worker gets a share!

[Thafoo]

Your mom's a Marxist.

Your mom is like Karl Marx's theory on social economics: every worker gets a share!

There's enough stored energy in your mom to provide free electricity to 30,000 homes.

[European Socialist Republic]

Your mom is like Karl Marx's theory on social economics: every worker gets a share!

There's enough stored energy in your mom to provide free electricity to 30,000 homes.

Your mom's so fat she has to wear two watches: one for every timezone she's in!

[Thafoo]

There's enough stored energy in your mom to provide free electricity to 30,000 homes.

Your mom's so fat she has to wear two watches: one for every timezone she's in!

Your mom's so fat, we are all very concerned for her health.

[European Socialist Republic]

Your mom's so fat she has to wear two watches: one for every timezone she's in!

Your mom's so fat, we are all very concerned for her health.

Your mom's so fat it has lead to a threadjack!

[Gig em Aggies]

Your mom's a Marxist.

Your mom is like Karl Marx's theory on social economics: every worker gets a share!

All I can say is I laughed very well with that one.

[Nordengrund]

Rich people.

[Gig em Aggies]

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2022486668_couchdriverxml.html

The DA is now trying to get the kid 3 years for 2 counts of intoxication assault. so what do you think bout it now is it worth it?

[Vettrera]

Check your privilege...

I'm in favor of the 3 year sentence, any year + jail time will make me happy, making sure this kid finally pays for one of his actions.
You know what the cure for affluenza is? A dose of reality.

[Treneria]

Can someone explain what affluenza is? I think I have a good idea, but am not totally sure. Thank you.

[Gig em Aggies]

Can someone explain what affluenza is? I think I have a good idea, but am not totally sure. Thank you.

Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. The book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic defines it as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more". A potential criticism of the idea of affluenza is that it presents subjective social critique as an objective, inevitable and debilitating illness.

[Gauthier]

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2022486668_couchdriverxml.html

The DA is now trying to get the kid 3 years for 2 counts of intoxication assault. so what do you think bout it now is it worth it?

As long as they have a different judge it might actually get through. Paltry compared to the 20 years the DA wanted but better than 10 years cushy probation in a country club rehab center.

[New Chalcedon]

Can someone explain what affluenza is? I think I have a good idea, but am not totally sure. Thank you.

Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. The book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic defines it as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more". A potential criticism of the idea of affluenza is that it presents subjective social critique as an objective, inevitable and debilitating illness.

Not in this context. In the context of this case, "affluenza" refers to the notion that being rich places you above the requirement(s) to follow the law, adhere to basic human decency or otherwise not be a total waste of oxygen.

[UED]

Let us talk some more!

[Unitaristic Regions]

Your mom's a Marxist.

Your mom is like Karl Marx's theory on social economics: every worker gets a share!

[Ostroeuropa]

(From my youtoobz.)
We should be nodding along and agreeing with this ruling then when they let it get enough precedent, BAM. We argue excessive wealth is a hazard to mental health and can be confiscated under that rationale, since the wealth is causing them to become a danger to others from being too messed up by it, and who cares if they complain, they are too fucked up by cash to know any better. As soon as it becomes a legitimate point of law that excessive cash = disconnection from reality (Something we all know to be probably true), then it becomes a matter of protecting the public, health and safety, and law enforcement to confiscate money from rich people.

Do you seriously think that say, if there was this pink goop that made people turn fucking crazy and a threat to society (IE, commiting crimes against others and being completely unaware they were doing anything wrong), that the government wouldn't be well within it's rights to confiscate it from people hording it?
If they want to argue that money is akin to that, then let them. They'll dig their own grave.
(End of youtoobz.)


We all know that being that affluent probably does fuck you up in the manner described.
So great.
Awesome verdict.
Thanks for the precedent.

[Themiclesia]

I reject popular sentiment intervening in the process of law, and this is indeed a representative case where I will profess my distain for it.

It is lamentable that four innocent people died because of some drunken driver, but that is what the case is: inebriated. No person should ever pay full penalty for what he has done when having a clouded mind, because the criminal law does not exist for this reason. It exists to punish intent.

And the driver was underaged, wasn't he/she? The driver's parent(s) should be fined for his/her/their inability to raise his/her/their child(ren) properly, but the driver should suffer no criminal punishment.