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celtics23

(890 posts) Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:30 AM Mar 2013

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Gay Teen Dies After Being Set on Fire, Killer Gets 3.5 Years. Aaron Swartz Was Facing 35 Years.

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Gay Teen Dies After Being Set on Fire, Killer Gets 3.5 Years. Aaron Swartz Was Facing 35 Years. (Original Post) celtics23 Mar 2013 OP

Three and a half? Really? What's wrong with us? Scuba Mar 2013 #1

This happened in the UK I believe MynameisBlarney Mar 2013 #2

We're British? SpartanDem Mar 2013 #3

We're humans. Scuba Mar 2013 #5

+100 lunasun Mar 2013 #6

Some of us aren't, apparently /nt demwing Mar 2013 #8

Yeah, let me get right on fixing a foreign country's laws. AtheistCrusader Mar 2013 #7

Less than four years for a murder. Ilsa Mar 2013 #4

The heavy hand of the Federal Government magic59 Mar 2013 #9

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. Three and a half? Really? What's wrong with us?

Reply to celtics23 (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:37 AM

Mar 2013

MynameisBlarney

(2,979 posts)

2. This happened in the UK I believe

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:06 AM

Mar 2013

though it is an outrageously light sentence for what amounts to a hate crime.

SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)

3. We're British?

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:18 AM

Mar 2013

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

5. We're humans.

Reply to SpartanDem (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:56 AM

Mar 2013

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

6. +100

Reply to Scuba (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:28 AM

Mar 2013

demwing

(16,916 posts)

8. Some of us aren't, apparently /nt

Reply to Scuba (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:46 PM

Mar 2013

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

7. Yeah, let me get right on fixing a foreign country's laws.

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:55 AM

Mar 2013

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)

4. Less than four years for a murder.

Reply to celtics23 (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:23 AM

Mar 2013

I know, the perp said "I didn't mean for him to die." but I'm sure he intended to scar him and maybe disabled him for the rest of his life. This sentence isn't long enough.

magic59

(429 posts)

9. The heavy hand of the Federal Government

Reply to celtics23 (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 02:54 PM

Mar 2013

They just nabbed a pro-union demonstrator who helped shut down one of the Koch Brothers websites during the Wisconsin attack on workers rights in 2011. He is facing 15 years in prison for messing with the Koch Brothers. Yet, they let the wall street banksters go with a big tax break for screwing up the economy with their greed.
Again, who the president is doesn't matter, the fascist government is owned & controlled buy corporate pigs and only a revolution will set things straight.

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