[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

don't do wrong, if you don't want to face the punishment.

watch HBO's OZ sometime. pretty damn harsh. I know I wouldn't break the law.

[headsonpikes]

What a heartless perspective !

You should read 'Gulag Archipelago' and 'King Rat' to grasp the flavor of oppression you are condoning.

I do not know how anyone calling themself a conservative can be in favor of the brutalization of human beings.

[Teacher317]

I know I wouldn't break the law.

440 tax changes; broadened definitions of crimes; broadened definitions of hate crime, terrorist, and rape; ever-increasing crimes that qualify as felonies; thousands of new laws every year.

I know I don't want to break the law either, but it gets tougher every day to live within the law, and authoritarians LOVE it that way.

[Henrietta]

Many people are convicted on trumped-up charges based upon collusion between police and district attorneys. Many people in prison are truly innocent. I'm not a bleeding heart lib, but I do think that the "system" abuses people, and we need to take a good hard look at the behavior of police and prosecutors.

Flame away, I don't care!
I'm wearing asbestos underwear!

[A. Pole]

I know I wouldn't break the law.

Law is too complex, probably you already broke the law more than once.

[Jim Noble]

>>I know I wouldn't break the law<<

If you knew all the laws, I'm sure you wouldn't.

But knowing all the laws is an impossibility.

[mathurine]

judges are at fault here. Sentences should specify whether or not rape will prevail. If a judge says no rape, well, that's it. If the judge says go ahead, or doesn't specify no rape, well, let the games begin. Certainly no criminals would be doing what a judge doesn't approve of.