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On the problems of the justice system from Monster:
Monster, a crip named kody scott is being held in jail under murder charges and being held as an adult at the age of 17 for the inherent 'maturity' of the crime.
"It went without saying that most any [white] american youth captured for murder would never be tried as an adult. His crime was surely not "mature enough" to warrant such harsh treatment, even if the hard evidence surrounding the case clearly illustrated that. For example: a shotgun shell had been secured to a rattrap by a U-nail and deliberately left in Mrs. Goldberg's mailbox. When she opened the mailbox to retrieve the morning mail a wire was tripped letting loose the swing arm of the trap which in turn hit the primer of the low-base high-charge.12 gauge shell, killing mrs. Goldberg instantly. Or, while dropping hits of acid at a social gathering, a group of friends had uncovered an intruder from another planet who had somehow broken their circle and was surreptitiously plotting to execute the town fathers or, more important, the connection. So, based on a oija board identification of the intruder, he is sacrificed and eaten [by the group]. Sophisticated? Mature? Premeditated? Of course not. "This", the p.o and d.a will explain to the judge, "was simply a case of a good child destructively influenced by the violence of television." Or deeper still, "a victim of the drug plague, simply needing a psychiatric evaluation. But to try this young person -- our own future-- as an adult would be tantamount to treason!"
Awesome.
Monster, a crip named kody scott is being held in jail under murder charges and being held as an adult at the age of 17 for the inherent 'maturity' of the crime.
"It went without saying that most any [white] american youth captured for murder would never be tried as an adult. His crime was surely not "mature enough" to warrant such harsh treatment, even if the hard evidence surrounding the case clearly illustrated that. For example: a shotgun shell had been secured to a rattrap by a U-nail and deliberately left in Mrs. Goldberg's mailbox. When she opened the mailbox to retrieve the morning mail a wire was tripped letting loose the swing arm of the trap which in turn hit the primer of the low-base high-charge.12 gauge shell, killing mrs. Goldberg instantly. Or, while dropping hits of acid at a social gathering, a group of friends had uncovered an intruder from another planet who had somehow broken their circle and was surreptitiously plotting to execute the town fathers or, more important, the connection. So, based on a oija board identification of the intruder, he is sacrificed and eaten [by the group]. Sophisticated? Mature? Premeditated? Of course not. "This", the p.o and d.a will explain to the judge, "was simply a case of a good child destructively influenced by the violence of television." Or deeper still, "a victim of the drug plague, simply needing a psychiatric evaluation. But to try this young person -- our own future-- as an adult would be tantamount to treason!"
Awesome.