Man spits on cop, gets life in jail

[mburbank]

You seem to be missing that he got life for spitting on a policeman, not for beating his wife. Irony aside, doesn't your argument (and really it's far and away the silliest thing I've ever heard from you) argue for a swift and speedy execution for all crimes that endanger others in any way? Shouldn't someone get life in prison for speeding? Shouldn't bar brawlers be put to death?

What will it cost the tax payer to keep our spitter jailed for life? Frankly I'd rather keep our police force supplied with moist towlettes.

What kind of civil liberties message does life for spitting send do you think? And what standard of spit proof will be required? I think DNA evidence at very least, but what if the policeman simply forced a perpetrators jaws open and applied the spit? I mean, I dooubt that could happen, but with a life for spitting case on the books can we trust the Poletzai not to abuse their new found powers of being spit on?

I want to go on record as saying that I think spitting on people is not at all nice, and that this guy is obviously a very bad person. I might even argue that he should get a multi-year sentence for wife beating. But life for spitting seems like the sort of shit you read in a bad filler story in Asimov's.