Originally Posted by Snowolf

Phenom, did you read any of that article I posted at all?

What you are not seeming to want to accept is that while some people do deserve what they get as you suggest, too many people are being used to line the pockets of these people. This kind of thing goes against the very fundamentals of western democracy not just America's Constitution. Have you ever read the Magna Carta???

Who said anything about starting a revolution??? As citizens in a democracy it is our right and our responsibility to ensure that democracy is upheld and that seek redress for wrongs. The first step in that process is bringing things like this to the attention of our fellow citizens so there is public outcry and a push to make our elected representatives uphold their duties to us and our Constitutional Republic. Sometimes bitching amongst ourselves IS a solution.

Your passivity and acceptance of tyrrany is alarming.

Originally Posted by Snowolf

whoa there.... I never said America is tyrrany so don't put words in my mouth. I am talking about TRENDS that are concerning. Try to think outside of the black and white box for a second. What you do not seem to understand is lessons from history. Most people in 1930's Germany did not see tyranny until it was too late to do anything about it. I see you as the typical American who has forgotten that freedom and democracy is not something you can take for granted; to maintain it we must always be vigilant and take action when it becomes threatened. Tyranny almost never comes crashing through the gates of democracy, it is usually a cancer that erodes it from within.

You express the belief that you have nothing to be concerned about because it won't happen to you. I think 6 million Jews might have once shared this false belief. If we ignore little abuses to our democracy now, there won't be anyone left when they finally get around to you. A violation against one of us is a violation against all of us.

You also said it is a really small percentage. Not really so. I suggest you do some research about our penal system. Due to mandatory sentencing laws for drug crime, we are letting murderers, rapists and pedophiles out onto the streets to make room fir these new inmates. This case is simply one of the more outrageous ones that got media attention. Stories like this are prevelent throughout the land on smaller scales. Police shootings and civil rights abuses are at an historic level and the trend is getting worse. I lived in Arizona and that state's largest economic engine is private prisons; surpassing mining and agriculture combined. Laws and policies are enacted to increase incarceration rates due to heavy lobbying. In Citizens United Case, the US Supreme Court has now opened the flood gates of lobbyist money to further buy our government from We The People. Sorry bro but you are living in a bubble.

Understand the difference between saying we ARE in tyranny from warning against BECOMING one!

Originally Posted by Snowolf

Due to mandatory sentencing laws for drug crime, we are letting murderers, rapists and pedophiles out onto the streets to make room fir these new inmates.

Originally Posted by Phenom

Comparing a girl who went to juvie for making a fake myspace account to the Holocaust? YA OK BRAH

You didn't answer the one simple question I asked by the way. I'll continue to live in my bubble, while you continue to lose sleep over every single social and legal injustice that takes place in america until everything is running just the way you like it.

Originally Posted by Snowolf

Originally Posted by Clayton Bigsby

It never gets old, if you're in it for the passion, and not the fashion

Originally Posted by Snowolf

I don't know if you are being deliberately obtuse or if you are just incapable of abstract logic. In either case, I will make yet another attempt to explain myself.

I am not comparing or attempting to equate the Holocaust with this girl's situation. I was trying to get you to try to understand that the road to tyranny starts out very subtle. It's like the proverbial frog in the pot of boiling water. My point that obviously escaped you was that the tyranny in Germany that became the holocaust started out very benignly and the people did not recognize it until too late.

Again you seem to be unable to grasp the concept of variance; with you it's all or nothing. If I say to be vigilant and exercise our rights under democracy, you take that as " loosing sleep over every legal and social injustice" honestly, you seem to lazy to uphold your responsibities as a citizen in a democracy. You are living in a self delusional bubble, refusing to see the world for what it is and too lazy to put forth the effort to preserve it.

Originally Posted by HoboMaster

So let's keep just doing nothing about everything, because that's what we do best. By the time the volcano erupts we will all be dead anyways. Fuck the future, let's all just cover ourselves in oil and have a giant electric orgy, "because nothing really matters",(Queen)

Not my problem, I'm just getting my own, Jack.

I guess this is what Americans want?

Maybe we deserve to have our society crumble... I like to think differently, but when no one wants to do a fucking thing until mercenaries come to their door demanding "protection fees from ProtectoCorp, or else", I guess this is what you get.

Originally Posted by NWBoarder28

After reading this entire thread, all I can say is that this is by far the best solution for our shitty penal system in America. Snowolf has hit the proverbial nail on the head. If this solution was implemented, the people of America would have a fair chance if they ever found their way into the penal system. As for Phenom, since you can't see the flaws in our system and feel that the laws are so easy to not break, good luck to you if you ever run down a pedestrian in your car because you were distracted by your Big Mac or Frappuccino. I can guarantee that your eyes would open a little more to the injustice of our so called justice system.