We’ve posted bizarre stories like this before. No wonder the world thinks we’ve gone nuts. I can’t think of a single, useful justification for punishing someone who wasn’t directly involved in a crime. How does it deter anyone from facilitating a crime they don’t know is going to happen? It’s punishment for not being able to tell the future. ‘Facilitating’ can mean anything the prosecutor wants it to mean. Whoever made the sandwich the killer ate at lunch facilitated his having the energy to do the killing later, right?
To provide equal justice, I guess that means we should prosecute Bush when atrocities are committed by soldiers in Iraq since he sent them there, with guns no less.
Serving Life for Providing Car to Killers
Early in the morning of March 10, 2003, after a raucous party that lasted into the small hours, a groggy and hungover 20-year-old named Ryan Holle lent his Chevrolet Metro to a friend. That decision, prosecutors later said, was tantamount to murder.
The friend used the car to drive three men to the Pensacola home of a marijuana dealer, aiming to steal a safe. The burglary turned violent, and one of the men killed the dealer’s 18-year-old daughter by beating her head in with a shotgun he found in the home.
Mr. Holle was a mile and a half away, but that did not matter.
He was convicted of murder under a distinctively American legal doctrine that makes accomplices as liable as the actual killer for murders committed during felonies like burglaries, rapes and robberies.
Is there NO story you cannot turn into a diatribe against Bush? You’re turning into a boor.
I agree with both Phillep and OFTLO on this. He is guilty of facilitating a crime. But not first degree murder and life without parole. That part is pure vengance.
I am reasonably certain that he would have willingly smoked the pot if the others brought it back to his house, knowing where it came from.
Uncle Dave said:
‘Facilitating’ can mean anything the prosecutor wants it to mean. Whoever made the sandwich the killer ate at lunch facilitated his having the energy to do the killing later, right?
Not to mention the parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, his pastor and high school guidance counselor as well.
That’s the beauty of having a professional judge in attendance providing the guidance of his or her “judgement.” The same quality of judgement that people use in life & death situations every day: surgeons, rescue people, platoon commanders, engineers…
RBG
Notice his color. For all the whining white people do about “reverse racism,” the justice system still is stacked against blacks in a way few of us white guys have any clue about.
#33: Actually, you are right. It’s too easy. It’s just that Bush is such a bad president, pretty much any story about something bad can be related to him.
#38, Uncle Dave,
That is so very true. Although I don’t mention it much, Bush is responsible for my hemorrhoids.
The beauty of the System is that, even with anonymity, folks like #40 surely end up punishing themselves on the garbage heap of life.
RBG
#37 – Greg Allen
“Notice his color. For all the whining white people do about “reverse racism,” the justice system still is stacked against blacks in a way few of us white guys have any clue about.”
No, Greg, the justice system is stacked against those who commit crimes, and unfortunately, for whatever reason, blacks commit a tremendously disproportionate percentage of crimes in America, and particularly crimes of violence. Pretending it’s not so, and bleating “Racism! Racism!” does nothing to help find a solution to a problem that negatively impacts the lives of all of us, black, white, brown, red, yellow, you-name-it.
Keep the “racism” bullshit to yourself, please. In present-day America, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, male, female, straight and gay cops do the arresting. The attorneys on each side, the judges, the juries, the jail and prison guards, the parole and probation officers – ALL are thoroughly multicultural. Despite what the Rt. Revs. Jesse and Al tell you, it’s not racism. The statistics, from the thoroughly multicultural FBI and Justice Dept. make it quite clear. Black pundits and commentators from coast to coast have called upon the black community to stop beating the dead horse of “racism” and face up to the facts, as have America’s black police chiefs and mayors.
And as you demonstrate, that needing to accept reality and do something to work toward fixing it is something white people need to do too.
Quit parroting that tired old excuse. It prevents progress, for blacks more than any other group. Demonizing white people is the easy way out, but not the honest, moral way.
DIdn’t the lessons about automatically blaming white folks from the Tawana Brawley and Gail Mangum hoaxes teach you anything?