‘Did You Say ‘F**k Me?’ Judge Sentences Florida Teen To 30 Days In Jail For Cursing At Him

[Downtown Hound]

280. I never said it was the same as shoving people into ovens

I said the excuse, "I was only following orders" doesn't always cut it. And it doesn't.

Do you even know what one drug conviction can do to a person? Forget about the trauma that is jail for a moment. What about how it messes with one's life? How it severely limits employment opportunities? How that one little "mistake" as we often like to call it, can have permanent repercussions? And all over some shit that really should be legal anyways? And then do this on a massive scale, to millions of people, creating a permanent underclass of people who can no longer get good jobs, so they often have to turn to crime just to be able to live, and then creating a permanent class of prisoners that can be used for slave labor and to make corporations rich?

While that may not be as bad as shoving people into ovens, it's still a massive crime committed on a massive scale against a massive number of people.

And have you ever been to prison? I haven't but I have been to jail (protesting the Iraq War and prop 8). It's a scary and hard place. Racism rules. Gang mentality rules. Violence rules. It's a horrible place to send anybody, much less people for possessing a mere Xanax. Prison is even worse.

Knowing all this, I would NEVER participate in a system that brutalizes people to this extent for victimless crimes. And I don't think very highly of people that do. And I sure as hell am not going to condemn a young girl for losing her temper with a judge that perpetuates this cruel and vicious fraud known as the drug war. FUCK RESPECT. This judge and this system deserve none.