[The_Rorschach]

You know me Burbank, I don't believe in caging people and don't particularly view our correctional system as effective. I would sooner ascribe to a system based on fines, death or apologies with the added stigma of revoking citizenship for the conviction any Federal crime. Maybe when the Supreme Court revisits what was passed by Justice Felix Frankfurter we can start to institute some manner of true reciprocity, but until then none of us can do anything but watch as the civilized aspect of our society slowly slips away.

I know your heart is good Burbank, and I see where you're coming from, I really do. . .I wish I had the compassion within me to be a kindred spirit in this but I don't. All I see is the victim, and the potential for another one. I don't like to see the weak, the innocent and those without defense taken advantage of, and standing helplessly aside while the cycle repeats itself fills me with an anger born of frustration. I've seen too much to have any sympanthy for those who would willingly perpetrate such acts. The fact he spit on a cop doesn't bother me, its simply the outward manifestation of his contempt for his fellow man, but the fact he beat his wife. . .

Thats such a low and cowardly act, and I see people defending him by trivializing his case through equivocation; What if it was jay walking. Ridiculous. It wasn't jay walking, it wasn't something benign or inconsequential, he has had a violently adverse affect on someone who may continue to suffer for it years for now in subtle and sundry ways. Most would agree that a year is too little, but I ask you, based on this man's character, is life really too much?