| Onyxmeth said: It's not all that black and white. My own moral standards say to lock his ass up. However, the case he got convicted in was kinda a sham, the judge that convicted him turned out to be an anti-semite, and the laws back in the 1970's were not as harsh as they are now. In California back when this happened, no one had been locked up for the charges he faced in over two years. He was getting special treatment in this case, but not in a good way. I think the only fair thing is to retry the case and see what happens. |
He got a 13 year old girl drunk and drugged her with qualudes, then raped her. Not stautatory rape either, but girl was unwilling rape.
I'm sure the judge was an anti-semite, because he threw out the ridiculous plea bargain that he'd only have to serve the roughly forty days in jail he already served.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
