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05-11-07 05:57 AM |
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Originally Posted by bradclark1
You can be a criminal here in Connecticut and if you have a lot of medical problems they will release you because they don't want to absorb the cost. I kid you not.
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The extreme at the other side of the spectrum. I believe you, or do you think we have no legal follies in Germany? What comes to my mind is Mehmet, that was the name I think - son or a turkish family who before the age of 18 already had collected over 40 (!) court penalties for shoplifting, braking up cars. He always smiled into the cameras and became a real media star, fooling everyone inclduing the courts (expect guys like me, of course :D ) After being sentenced, the penalty was suspended, and sometimes he even was sent on holidays to exotic places, toegther with his pedagogic therapist. Judges time and again said he deserves a second chance for integrating himself into society (it still was talked of a second chance ater trial 20, 30, and 40), and that he had given the impression of having finally understood that he has to change. It ended with him somehow being stripped of german nationality and sent to Turkey, where a distant uncle was agreeing to take care of him. There he started to keep the Turkish police busy who was not so stupid like the endlessly wellmeaning Germans were - they sent him back two years later. One year later he was arrested for having threatened his parents with murder if they don't give him money. Now he is in jail, for attempted murder. If the 14 year old boy that was caught the first time for shoplifting would have been dealt with more consequently - that maybe would have opened him the chance to chnage when he still had time. Instead they taught him the lesson of that the gets away with it when mocking at laws and courts. Needless, naive, and stupid - I mean the judges and experts.
Another example was that of a crash-kid, as we call them: small boys braking into a truck'S cockpit and racing through the night. I remember two cases whene again neither the kids nor the parents were held responsible, and the kids being given the chance to repeat their stunts several times, each time being arrested after their latest coup.
"Three strikes" can't be a fair solution, if not strcitly limited to high-violance crimes. Ultra-liberal follies like these two from Germany I described cannot be a solution, too.
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