I remember when I was in jail. There were these two brothers, nineteen and twenty, I think. They were sent down the river for sixteen or eighteen years for selling heroin to someone who took too much of it and died. Perhaps it was our own judge who played a role in that travesty.
So we have a victimless crime involving a commercial transaction between adults.
Ah, but see, since there was a death involved, now they're murderers.
Well, then, one of my best friends is a murderer, a serial murderer at that. He's a licensed pharmacist. People O.D. on his dangerous narcotics all the time. Does he care? No. Nor should he. He had nothing to do with it. His moral obligation to the customer ended at delivering the product as advertised, delivered to a consenting adult.
So the difference between my murderer of a friend and those murderers in that heroin sale is that one party possessed a license. The others did not.
The only difference between the cases is that my friend is smart enough to "pay his cut."
The two kids were stupid enough to enter the drug trade without the proper paperwork, essentially. That's what it boils down to.
So now Idiot Jurisdiction United States is going to piss away over a million dollars to warehouse those two kids for their collective thirty-odd-year sentence, all for a non-crime.
And then everyone gets to bellyache about sequestration and how there's no money to hire public defenders who know when to stand and when to sit.
What you have over there does not constitute a criminal justice system, and everyone involved in it should be ashamed of themselves.
The United States, essentially, is a fraternity of parasites who get raises and promotions based on how many lives they can ruin for non-crimes. And I bet that's not quite what you had in mind when you entered law school, is it?
