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Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
7. Mindboggling!
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 12:03 AM
Feb 2012

Five years in prison for a homeless woman into educating her child?!

Surely this is something out of a Dickens' novel, not a real thing that the 21st century U.S.A. did to a real woman and her child!

Really, it's just jaw-dropping! The long, vulture fingers of Bushwhackism reach into the future and everywhere. Stomp on the homeless! Put them in stocks! Strip Iraqis of their clothes and pile their naked bodies one upon another into pyramids of humiliated flesh for a prison guard joke! Snuff a few of them out--what does it matter? Where will Bushwhackism end?

We are on a bad, bad road, friends. I am sickened by this and by a long list of atrocities--to our own people and to others. It is beyond my comprehension how we got here--though I saw it all happen, like we all did. We leave our people to rot and die in hurricane flooding? We slaughter a hundred thousand people in the first week of bombing alone, to steal their oil? We torture prisoners? We JAIL a homeless woman for trying to get a good education for her child?!

What bloodsucking disease is rotting the souls of this judge, this prosecutor, this school district and whoever else is responsible for this? Have we arrived in Hell? Are we going to put up with this? Are we going to let our country become our worst nightmare of cruelty and sadism?

I am APPALLED!

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I hope a real smart attorney sees this and steps in... midnight Feb 2012 #1
Me too Catherina Feb 2012 #2
Yeah, because her son is going to be in truly desperate shape if she's sitting in prison Warpy Feb 2012 #3
She had a smart attorney who got her a pretty good deal on 5 crack msanthrope Feb 2012 #19
Our priorities are almost fully inverted. If she'd gambled the economy into DirkGently Feb 2012 #4
This ^ n/t Catherina Feb 2012 #5
Does anyone know if any Women's Organizations are fighting such cases? Catherina Feb 2012 #6
Mindboggling! Peace Patriot Feb 2012 #7
I was watching this when I read your post. Sunera Thobani: "War on Women" Catherina Feb 2012 #8
What the article doesn't mention is she was also dealing drugs. TheWraith Feb 2012 #10
I thought so too, at first. But now I think she was actually given time for the "larceny" pnwmom Feb 2012 #12
She has five drug charges--three she was sentenced on, and the two she wll be sentenced on. msanthrope Feb 2012 #15
This sentence was for the out of district schooling and 3 counts of selling drugs. TheWraith Feb 2012 #21
This is appalling. Neoma Feb 2012 #9
So would they let her live in her van in the place she sent her kid to school? saras Feb 2012 #11
Whenever some big time war monger mentions how we need tobring our "Style of truedelphi Feb 2012 #13
Five separate charges of drug dealing out of the van where her son resided???? msanthrope Feb 2012 #14
While I see that she was also dealing drugs... kdmorris Feb 2012 #16
Five years?? Starry Messenger Feb 2012 #17
She was selling crack out of the van she claims was msanthrope Feb 2012 #18
Tanya McDowell Sentenced to 12 Years for Stealing Education Starry Messenger Feb 2012 #20
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