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11-23-2004, 10:06 AM | #31 |
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Well.......given that there are states in America where juveniles can be sentenced to death I dont really think you have a leg to stand on on that one Onyx. How many teenagers have Georgia and Texas sentenced to die in the last ten years?
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11-23-2004, 11:32 AM | #32 |
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You're barking up the wrong tree, Dana. Onyx wants to kill 'em all!
(Does this mean you have internet access again, I hope?) Last edited by marichiko; 11-23-2004 at 11:33 AM. Reason: even more stupid typing than usual |
11-23-2004, 12:25 PM | #33 |
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I just started Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran". So far its fascinating being brought into this woman's living room and hearing about the revolution all mixed in with her study of Western literature. Anyone share an interest in this book?
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11-23-2004, 01:27 PM | #34 | |
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Most of these "juveniles" were 17 years old. I strongly reccomend reading the listings describing the very adult crimes these legal "children" committed. These include multiple murder, rape and murder, robbery and murder. The list starts on page 24 of the linked .pdf document. It's a very adult list. And a 17 year old can be held criminally responsible for their actions. The juvenile court system in the United States is typically set up to deal with petty crimes, and the kid's record is expunged at age 18, and the newly minted adult released from juvenile incarceration. (In some jurisdictions I think you can be held in a juvie facility up to age 21. The US has some confusion over what legally constitutes and "adult." It's not clearly detailed in this brief study report but a lot of the crimes described are probably also drug-related.
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11-23-2004, 03:37 PM | #35 | |
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What leg were you presuming I was standing on?
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11-23-2004, 05:29 PM | #36 | |
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11-23-2004, 06:15 PM | #37 |
halve your cake and eat it too.
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ya know, I've been mulling this whole Iran thing over for quite some time, and overall my money for the next invasion is Syria... anyone want in on a bet? and I also wonder if bush has ever studied any military history... you it's almost impossible to fight a war on three fronts... okay world war two being the exception, but..
there's a post where someone said it much better than I can... lemme see if I can find it
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11-23-2004, 06:18 PM | #38 |
halve your cake and eat it too.
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oh well... it's gone.. in summation
if I were north korea or iran I would be rushing ahead as fast as possible with WMDs and nukes, 'cuz if america is going to invade me, I'm going to make it a bitter pill to swallow. the concept of mutually assured destruction works...
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11-26-2004, 09:57 PM | #39 | |
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11-27-2004, 12:56 AM | #40 | |
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But who cares about those kids, right? Their families are probably just a bunch of shiftless bums and deserve what they get. Let's get back to what's really important these days - finding excuses to invade sovereign third world nations. |
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11-27-2004, 12:39 PM | #41 | |
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11-27-2004, 02:27 PM | #42 | |
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11-27-2004, 02:35 PM | #43 |
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Treating addiction as a disease rather than a decision doesn't accomplish anything.
Face it, it's a decision. You CHOOSE to pick up the pipe, the needle, or the bottle. Nobody every forced me to smoke a joint or take a drink. Neither has any of the couple thousand drug users or alcoholics that I've seen. Telling a kid that he is "less than" and that he'll be living in poverty by providing a meager government handout doesn't serve him either.
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11-27-2004, 03:31 PM | #44 | |
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As far as legality, we tried to use Prohibition to solve alcoholism until we figure out how many people we would have to throw in jail if we strictly enforced the law. I'm moving to an alcohol/tobacco stance on many drugs - no public intoxication or DUI and limited to adults. Tax it to fund treatment. Strictly enforce prohibitions on sales to minors. From a common-sense conservative and liberal standpoint, spending $28,000 per year in taxpayer money times 10 years for some idiot with 3 grams of anything and no obvious intent to sell seems ridiculous. I still don't know if any of the founding fathers used the hemp they grew for anything other than making rope or paper , but it would be interesting to find out.
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11-27-2004, 10:19 PM | #45 | ||
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don't start to lecture me about addiction from the wealth of knowledge you haven't yet forgotten. i know about addiction in a very close and personal way. addiction can be physical or mental and it is extremely difficult to overcome. and yes, in many cases it is rightly called a disease, but let me ask you - how does an individual become addicted to a substance? is Joe Schmo walking down the street one day, never having tried heroin in his life and just get a craving for it? in every case i've ever known, Joe Schmo made a conscious decision to start a behavior. whether he becomes addicted or not, it is his choice to tempt fate. to say it is someone else's fault is ridiculous. to suggest that it is understandable that so many people in economic hardship become addicts is appalling. these are the very individuals who should know better - they see the consequences every day of their lives. here is an idea - if you look around you and all you see are people living shitty lives because of addictions and criminal actions... Don't follow in their footsteps! it is that effing simple. Quote:
but in the end, quit making excuses for people who make bad choices. it is called personal responsibility and we don't have enough of it in this country anymore.
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