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Originally Posted by mburbank
Well... Um, yeah, I guess. But where did I say that? And what exactly is it supposed to say about my character? There's all kinds of nonviolent crime. A guy who gets busted for smoking dope? I don't see the point of incarcerating him. White collar criminals who impact the entire economy, screw up peoples retirements, run the company into the ground and get paid millions to do it? It's not violent but it's malacious, greedy and it ruins lives. I say hard time, long time.
I think creating a special religion speciffic jail is creepy. Sue me.
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What's the difference between white collar criminal who uses a computer and an armed robber who uses a weapon?
About ten years! :RIMSHOT Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! Thank you ... I'll be here all week. It sounds like different means to the same end and the violent offender (unless he actually kills someone) has relatively little impact on society as a whole and usually the payoff (if he gets away with it) is a fraction of that of the white collar criminal. Yet the white collar criminal, more often than not, is probably a seemingly religious man whilst the heathen who robbed the gas station is the one that needs the baby Jesus. Figure that one out! I guess I'd be in need of religious consolation too if my punishment way exceeded the seriousness of my crime and the system is skewed in favor of the already rich or, at least, middle class.