Mother of the Year went on the run with Affluenza Boy, Ethan Couch, who killed four people in a drunk-driving car crash a couple of years ago. There was public outrage because he was a minor at the time and got only probation for it. He went on-the-run with his mother after some evidence of probation violation and the two of them were caught in Mexico yesterday. He had dyed his hair, etc so they were obviously trying to go undercover. (CNN: 'Affluenza' teen Ethan Couch and his mother detained in Mexico, officials say)
People are licking their lips over destroying this kid and we're not going to get Doctor Spock with it since the need for some type of punishment is clear ... but ... that's when it gets obscure because people want to pay him back for four dead innocents and there's a difference between punishment and revenge.
America is grossly over-tolerant regarding drunk driving and the rich routinely get away with it. The latest numbers aren't memorized but it's ten or twenty thousand people a year are murdered by drunk drivers. The crashes are always dismissed as 'accidents' but it was no accident when the potential murderer drove to the bar to drink. We in no way dismiss the heinous crime of a killing by a drunk driver. There are no accidents and people get murdered by the wanton and willful behavior of drunks.
However, we don't believe using Ethan Couch as a scapegoat for the overall problems of mismanagement in handling the major sociological problem of drink driving any more than jailing Chelsea Manning for life addresses the institutional problems in the U.S. military. She spends the rest of her life in jail while George Bush lives out his miserable life in luxurious exile.
(Ed: exile?)
There are multiple reports neither he nor Cheney can go to Europe because they will be immediately arrested for international war crimes. This is in specific reference to Switzerland but we have not validated the truth of it.
If you put Ethan Couch in an adult prison for ten years, this boy will be somebody's prison bitch as soon as the door on the jailhouse closes. He will be ass-fucked into oblivion and will come out of there with no prospects, immense anger, and little to no chance of any life beyond that other than washing dishes ... and more crime.
(Ed: so what? He killed four people.)
Yes, in fact, he did. The specific punishment meted by the court is ten years in prison. That's not the same as taking the rest of his life and obliterating it and you know very well that's exactly what will happen.
(Ed: those four people are obliterated)
We do not minimize that in any way but it's also not the point. The punishment is specific. Whether it should be five years or twenty is something you can argue all day if you like but it's specifically not written he shall be punished every day for the rest of his life. You know the truth of it; after ten years in a state prison, he's done.
Frankly, we don't really know what to do with this kid. For Mother of the Year, we have no sympathy and hope she gets jailed for considerably longer than the four months suggested. The best thing which could happen toward turning this kid into a man is to get him the hell away from her. Father of the Year doesn't have much to do with it since he apparently split some while ago but it's not clear when that happened.
When there is such need for vengeance regarding Ethan Couch, we may believe the honest of it when there is the same lust for vengeance regarding what Bush and Cheney did.
People are licking their lips over destroying this kid and we're not going to get Doctor Spock with it since the need for some type of punishment is clear ... but ... that's when it gets obscure because people want to pay him back for four dead innocents and there's a difference between punishment and revenge.
America is grossly over-tolerant regarding drunk driving and the rich routinely get away with it. The latest numbers aren't memorized but it's ten or twenty thousand people a year are murdered by drunk drivers. The crashes are always dismissed as 'accidents' but it was no accident when the potential murderer drove to the bar to drink. We in no way dismiss the heinous crime of a killing by a drunk driver. There are no accidents and people get murdered by the wanton and willful behavior of drunks.
However, we don't believe using Ethan Couch as a scapegoat for the overall problems of mismanagement in handling the major sociological problem of drink driving any more than jailing Chelsea Manning for life addresses the institutional problems in the U.S. military. She spends the rest of her life in jail while George Bush lives out his miserable life in luxurious exile.
(Ed: exile?)
There are multiple reports neither he nor Cheney can go to Europe because they will be immediately arrested for international war crimes. This is in specific reference to Switzerland but we have not validated the truth of it.
If you put Ethan Couch in an adult prison for ten years, this boy will be somebody's prison bitch as soon as the door on the jailhouse closes. He will be ass-fucked into oblivion and will come out of there with no prospects, immense anger, and little to no chance of any life beyond that other than washing dishes ... and more crime.
(Ed: so what? He killed four people.)
Yes, in fact, he did. The specific punishment meted by the court is ten years in prison. That's not the same as taking the rest of his life and obliterating it and you know very well that's exactly what will happen.
(Ed: those four people are obliterated)
We do not minimize that in any way but it's also not the point. The punishment is specific. Whether it should be five years or twenty is something you can argue all day if you like but it's specifically not written he shall be punished every day for the rest of his life. You know the truth of it; after ten years in a state prison, he's done.
Frankly, we don't really know what to do with this kid. For Mother of the Year, we have no sympathy and hope she gets jailed for considerably longer than the four months suggested. The best thing which could happen toward turning this kid into a man is to get him the hell away from her. Father of the Year doesn't have much to do with it since he apparently split some while ago but it's not clear when that happened.
When there is such need for vengeance regarding Ethan Couch, we may believe the honest of it when there is the same lust for vengeance regarding what Bush and Cheney did.
5 comments:
He is just a product of society. Rich can do anything as long as they can pay.
Football players can beat thier wives as long as they score points
etc etc
He should go to jail but his Mom needs to be in thier longer.
He learned the no accountability from her.
It's a really tough problem when the best answer anyone found yet was in "A Clockwork Orange" and it didn't work worth a damn.
It's altogether chucked that prison will rehabilitate anyone and, fair enough, it hardly ever does. Many times they come out worse criminals than when they went in so the system is fundamentally weak.
As to what to do about making it a fair punishment and not a soul-destroying life wrecking ... whew ... really dunno.
There's no interest in absolving the kid but Mother of the Year is one destructive bit of work and she seriously needs to learn accountability too.
Prison is for punishment but they arent because we make them too comfortable
Maybe we have so many in there because they dont care about going there I am pretty sure I wont f
go to a foriegn prison but here uhh
The last place I would call comfortable is a prison! Comfort doesn't deter me too much but Charles Manson said, "There's plenty of sex in jail."
That deters me plenty. It's one hell of a bullshit punishment, tho. You know that kid will be somebody's bitch in no time. The Texas state pen is where the Aryan Brotherhood arose and they're housing some really, really bad people. Whether they're worse than anyone else I have no idea but they scare the living shit out of me.
His punishment is confinement and that doesn't include ass sex so I see an implicit torture in the sentence and I have a huge problem with that. No idea how the state could even deal with that, tho.
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