CIJS
damn, I hate being right about something like this. What was it, 20 years ago, you had the first of MANY chances to save your kid? And every fucking time, when one of those chances came up (and with depressing frequency lately, I might add) you do the same goddam thing. And the kid got worse, his fuck ups grew in magnitude and lately, in astonishing cruelty too.
When do you realize you're a party to his crimes, and another crime too: failing to correct your kid and therefore condemning him to prison? (assuming he doesn't OD first)
That last thing he did, I realize is just theft, in the eyes of the law. But consider what he stole, the pittance he took for it, what it was, and what it meant to the people he stole it from. And to what noble purpose did he put that pittance? Meth? A gun? H?
I was approached by a police officer the other day, imagine my surprise when I anticipated to the cop who I thought I was going to be asked about, and found I was wrong, but only because your kid was already incarcerated that occasion! The cop thought it was funny, and your kid would definitely have been a suspect had Sarpy county not already had him cooling his heels. If you had bailed him out a day earlier than you did, he'd be up for that charge too.
You know I'm pissed. You know where I'm at and have been for 20 years on these 'favors' you keep doing for your kid. Not one of them had the effect in straightening him out, in fact, it's all too clear every 'save' made him worse.
And here we are.
damn, I hate being right about something like this. What was it, 20 years ago, you had the first of MANY chances to save your kid? And every fucking time, when one of those chances came up (and with depressing frequency lately, I might add) you do the same goddam thing. And the kid got worse, his fuck ups grew in magnitude and lately, in astonishing cruelty too.
When do you realize you're a party to his crimes, and another crime too: failing to correct your kid and therefore condemning him to prison? (assuming he doesn't OD first)
That last thing he did, I realize is just theft, in the eyes of the law. But consider what he stole, the pittance he took for it, what it was, and what it meant to the people he stole it from. And to what noble purpose did he put that pittance? Meth? A gun? H?
I was approached by a police officer the other day, imagine my surprise when I anticipated to the cop who I thought I was going to be asked about, and found I was wrong, but only because your kid was already incarcerated that occasion! The cop thought it was funny, and your kid would definitely have been a suspect had Sarpy county not already had him cooling his heels. If you had bailed him out a day earlier than you did, he'd be up for that charge too.
You know I'm pissed. You know where I'm at and have been for 20 years on these 'favors' you keep doing for your kid. Not one of them had the effect in straightening him out, in fact, it's all too clear every 'save' made him worse.
And here we are.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.