What country are YOU living in? Here in America (by which I mean the USA and Canada), punishment rarely fits the crime. If you steal a billion dollars from investors, you'll be asked to retire and pay a fine. Steal a hundred dollars from a liquour store, and you'll get twenty years in jail.
Pirating films isn't white-collar enough to warrant a light sentence. The only crimes that have stiff sentences are the ones that wealthy people don't commit.
Here in America (by which I mean the USA and Canada), punishment rarely fits the crime. If you steal a billion dollars from investors, you'll be asked to retire and pay a fine. Steal a hundred dollars from a liquour store, and you'll get twenty years in jail.
Ah yes, but most people who steal from liquor stores have commited many other crimes, and are likely to commit a lot more, whereas white collar criminals tend to only commit one crime.
Well actually it's they tend to only get caught in one (or one related set of) crime(s) then wise up and become a professional crook by running for office.
Fighting? what fight... oh you mean the dog and pony show they distract us with.
Trust me, the minute it even begins to look like a three party system they close ranks so fast it'll make your head spin.
Just look at the 'presidential debates' in 1992.
They let in one guy to rich to ignore, while refusing to let in a candidate that repeatedly met thier ever moving 'requirements' to join untill they simply refused point blank to even say what the new 'requirements' were.
Mycroft
The amount of weight an evangelist carries with the almighty is measured
in billigrahams.
You'd get less time... (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not standing up for the crime, but isn't the punishment supposed to match it?
Sickening...
What Country are YOU living in? (Score:5, Insightful)
Pirating films isn't white-collar enough to warrant a light sentence. The only crimes that have stiff sentences are the ones that wealthy people don't commit.
Re:What Country are YOU living in? (Score:0, Troll)
Ah yes, but most people who steal from liquor stores have commited many other crimes, and are likely to commit a lot more, whereas white collar criminals tend to only commit one crime.
Re:What Country are YOU living in? (Score:5, Funny)
Mycroft
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Trust me, the minute it even begins to look like a three party system they close ranks so fast it'll make your head spin.
Just look at the 'presidential debates' in 1992.
They let in one guy to rich to ignore, while refusing to let in a candidate that repeatedly met thier ever moving 'requirements' to join untill they simply refused point blank to even say what the new 'requirements' were.
Mycroft