A Bad Precedent
June 16, 2017
Judge rules that a girl who told her boyfriend to kill himself is responsible for him committing suicide. She faces 20 years in prison. Just what we need, more non-violent criminals in prison who have not committed actual crimes. The judge said that what she did was “not only immoral but illegal.” I say send the judge to prison for his ignorance of the two. And also every judge who sentences someone to prison solely for possessing drugs. If I tell you to step in front of a train and you do it, then I am not a criminal, but you are an idiot.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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