RE: Drunk Driver, Content May Upset Some
September 30, 2015 at 4:17 am
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2015 at 4:19 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
It's a good thing he didn't do something really dangerous, worthy of serious prison time, like growing marijuana for cancer and AIDS patients in the United States. That'll get you 30 years, and you don't even actually have to do it, only have someone say you did it. 
The reason DUI is not more heavily punished is that it's the one crime that every (alcoholic) member of congress/parliament knows that one day they may be arrested for... it's a crime-of-the-wealthy, and not just/mainly of the poor. Hard to vote for harsh sentences for something you, personally, do every day. When not riding in your limousine, of course.
Same reason even in "Drug War" USA, we penalized crack cocaine at literally ten times the rate we punished powder cocaine. Wall Street and other wealthy white Americans do coke, while only poor black Americans do crack.
The reason DUI is not more heavily punished is that it's the one crime that every (alcoholic) member of congress/parliament knows that one day they may be arrested for... it's a crime-of-the-wealthy, and not just/mainly of the poor. Hard to vote for harsh sentences for something you, personally, do every day. When not riding in your limousine, of course.
Same reason even in "Drug War" USA, we penalized crack cocaine at literally ten times the rate we punished powder cocaine. Wall Street and other wealthy white Americans do coke, while only poor black Americans do crack.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
