[TomGuy]

"I cannot send out a message to the community that this is acceptable behavior," Judge Martin Marcus said before sentencing Vicenty. "Indeed, the message I must send out is the opposite."

The opposite message? That being, that good citizens who have no criminal record should succumb and allow crackheads, excons, and the like to rummage, steal, destroy, take over their possessions, etc.

Judge Marcus, where does it end? Where do the rights of the good citizens start, then? Just maybe, Your Honor, had you and others like you given tougher, longer sentences to those "ex"cons, they wouldn't be out on the streets committing additional crimes. Your Honor, the "system's" rehabilitation program sure hasn't worked. Now, you prohibit allowing the free citizens to defend their lives and property, and you protect the "ex"cons so they can continue to pillage, steal, rummage against the good citizens with no criminal records. Your Honor, your priorities have been skewed.

[Zeroisanumber]

The opposite message? That being, that good citizens who have no criminal record should succumb and allow crackheads, excons, and the like to rummage, steal, destroy, take over their possessions, etc.

The message is that you can't shoot someone for stealing your goddamn stereo, get it?!!

Vicenty's life wasn't in danger, the only things that were in danger were a stereo system and the change from his ashtray. You don't shoot people when they break into your car, you call the cops.

[Copernicus]

The opposite message? That being, that good citizens who have no criminal record should succumb and allow crackheads, excons, and the like to rummage, steal, destroy, take over their possessions, etc

Actually, the primary message here is redistribution of wealth through busywork bureaucracy and vote-buying.

Remember,as a prison guard you get all the benefits of salary,pension, medical care and benefits you would get in the real world with half the competency required in most jobs with equivalent pay.

Who would you rather guard? An ordinary docile civilized citizen who mostly obeys the rules and is unlikely to cause trouble or a vicious felon who is usually smarter, meaner and more capable than you even(or especially) when he/she is under the influence of mind altering drugs?

If you guard the docile civilized citizen you get all the benefits of taking on "a necessary societal task" without any of the danger of engaging in real work.

Naturally, you vote for the politician or party who can best confer these benefits upon you.

[Shooter 2.5]

I'll never understand the reasoning behind these crackhead thieves. Why go after such small pickings like breaking into a car when they can break into the dwelling of a liberal judge who you already know won't have a gun or the will to use it.
This judge's house should have a block long line of thieves waiting their turn to haul away his belongings.

[Stone Mountain]

Judge Marcus, where does it end? Where do the rights of the good citizens start, then?

You have no problem with a guy who shot someone to death for rifling through his car?