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50 Shots vs Unpaid Taxes

Posted under: law, politics

Ladies and gentleman, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the American legal system has proven once again to be one of the biggest jokes in history. I’m pretty sure other countries have had a good laugh at us in regards to last weeks most popular court verdicts.

First we have Wesley Snipes standing before the courts in Florida, with $5 million dollars in hand, as a good faith gesture for his delinquent tax bill.

Now, let me be the first to say, I AM NOT A FAN of Mr. Snipes and I also believe that if I have to pay taxes, so should he. Every time I see the amount of taxes taken out of my paycheck I want to cringe, but it’s one of those necessary evils that the government will not let go and never will.

In any event, Wesley Snipes received the maximum sentence that the courts could impose on him, which was 36 months. Even with the money presented to the courts, he wasn’t able to buy his way out of the sentencing. Of course, he was made an example of. In the eyes of the court he purposefully evaded paying Uncle Sam, and on top of being famous and *gasp* dare I say, ‘black’, what else did you expect?

But on the flip side, you have the Sean Bell case. I waited on CNN’s website practically all day to read what I expected to be a guilty verdict across the board. But of course, the scales of justice were not balanced as usual.

I was shocked to say the least. I was more pissed than anything. I could feel my face turning red and a wave of nausea hit me. Fifty shots were being justified. Witnesses were not credible to the judge because of their own backgrounds.

I’ve never been the one to label police officers as ‘pigs’, even after my own questionable traffic stops and tickets that I eventually went to court for and had them tossed out. But after reading the verdict, the only word that I could think of was ‘pigs’.

I’ve always tried to instill in my son and nephew that police officers are there to help, but now what do I tell them? In writing this, I remember a time a few months ago the three of use were at Popeyes restaurant in Laurel, on Rt. 198 (the Anne Arundel section of Laurel). There were three uniformed officers sitting there having lunch and my son looks over to them and waves. To my astonishment, not one of the police officers offered a wave back. I looked at them and gave them one of the most evil glares I could muster and they knew the reason why. Before we left, I approached the female officer and asked her if it would have been so hard to return a wave to a kid. She looked at me as if I was crazy and then I walked away.

So this week in American History, we’ve learned that if you don’t pay your taxes, you go to jail, but, if you’re protected by the shield of blue and you shoot a man 50times you’re allowed to roam the streets freely. It definitely puts a different spin on the whole “Protect & Serve” motto.

As a sidenote, I happened to be flicking through cable channels Friday evening and came across BET’s 106 & Park. The show included a few journalists and was centered around the Sean Bell verdict. I came in on the tail end of a phone call with Mos Def, but of course at the height of his ‘call for community action’ and not for people to take this verdict lightly, his call was disconnected. Tsk, tsk on BET. I’m quite sure the call was disconnected on purpose. Also, may I offer a bigger “TSK TSK & FUCK YOU” to BET in regards to the disclaimer I noticed at the end of the show, “The views expressed on today’s show were not those of BET”, is how it went. Now, I remember why I stopped watching that channel years ago.

WWB(Walking While Black)- Mumia Abu Jamal’s reaction to the verdict:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/111246732c5d053c/

It Takes A Village

Posted under: law, sex

…to come together to stone a man as vicious as this person pictured to the right. Michael Chaffer, who is 40 years old, is accused of raping and impregnating his girlfriend’s 10, YES, you read correctly, 10 year old daughter!! When I initially read the news article a wave of nausea hit me. Oh, let me not forget about the mother who failed to protect her little girl from this animal. It seems as though she knew what was going on, and even after there was an order for him not to be around her daughter, she continued to let him in her house! Let me guess, because she LOVED him.

For the record, I am an advocate for the death penalty. Yes, that’s my only conservative stance. I have come across so many cases of child molestation that I feel certain people shouldn’t be allowed to even have a chance to live and pedophiles are one of those groups. This case also brings up the fact that some people should not be allowed to procreate. This mother should be thrown behind bars for allowing such atrocities to happen to her child and felt the need not to do anything about it!

In Michael Chaffer’s case, the maximum sentence he could possibly receive depends on a variety of issues. If he’s only charged for a crime of rap, the term would be 10 years, but if he’s charged with sex with a child under 13 it is considered statutory rape, a crime punishable with a life prison term.

Yes, I’m sure everyone has their own reasons in opposing the death penalty, but I definitely have mine in being an advocate. Of course, everyone in prison says they’re innocent. Sure, there are types of people who can be reformed, but in my opinion, some don’t deserve the access to oxygen. Of course Chaffer probably denied even touching the child, but DNA results proved otherwise.

So now we have an 11 year old who was ripped of her innocence, a new born baby who is now a product of the ’system’, but on the bright side, if Michael Chaffer is released from his 10 yr prison term, he can go back to being a productive member of society. How about that for irony.

The video below is a court case in Fulton County, GA. A man was sentenced to a life prison term for molesting his girlfriend’s children. My friend was the prosecutor in this case and I think the judge rightfully went after the mother as well.

To Catch A Predator: