No jail for "affluenza" fuckwad who killed 4- again.

[Ken Burch]

38. Nobody here believes that prison is a magic bullet.

What we are saying is that it's only the rich that ever get away with things like this.

If it had just been not sending him to prison...that might have been acceptable IF

1)He'd been given a lengthy(say, ten-to-twelve year)community service sentence...possibly involving tending the graves of his dead victims or working in the hospitals and physical therapy centers where his surviving-but-severely-maimed victims will spend years in treatment(possibly also he could have been made to do clean-up work the morgue);

2)He and his family had been asked to pay for the funerals of the dead and ALL the medical expenses of the living;

3)He'd been required to actually ADMIT HE'D DONE WRONG and to apologize to those of his victims who survived and the next of kin of those who didn't.

But NOTHING was asked of this kid at all. And it goes without saying that he feels no remorse and doesn't even care about the people he killed.

And it also goes without saying that, whatever one's feelings about prison, this young man ONLY avoided a lengthy prison term(or even perhaps execution)because he was rich. I know it. You know it.

This thread is not the place to discuss how people feel about the correctional system. The only issues here are class and, probably, race.

Does that clarify why you're getting the blow-back you're receiving here?