If you know me then you know I have good knowledge of the Justice system and how it works.  I have watched things lately and have been floored by some stories recently.  I have been slacking on my posts lately but things are crazy in Reinhold Land.  I watched as former NY Giants WR Plaxico Burress was taking into jail the other day and watched his emotion on his face.  The guy is scared S**TLESS and has a good reason to be.

Let’s first start with why I think our Justice system is failing us.  Over the Spring of 2009 a football player, Cleveland Browns WR Donte Stallworth was driving his vehicle both drunk and stoned.  He then hit a pedestrian and killed him.  HE KILLED HIM!  He did this while being drunk and stoned.  Now knowing what you just heard, what do you think his punishment was?

1. 23 days of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license
2. 23 weeks of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license
3. 23 months of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license
4. 23 years of jail and a lifetime ban on getting a drivers license

If your answer was #1, you are correct.  He served 23 days in jail and cannot get a drivers license ever again.  WTF?!?  So let me get this straight, you kill someone with your vehicle while being stoned and drunk and you serve 23 days of jail and can no longer drive legal in the US.  *shrugs shoulders*

Now let’s move over to Plaxico Burress now.  He goes to a night club with some buddies and has a gun in his pants (save the gun in pants or happy to see me jokes for later).  The gun slips and while fumbling for the gun in his pants he shoots himself in the leg.  He shoots himself in the leg, not anyone else or anything else.  He shot himself folks…in his own damn leg.  Dumbass, yes…dangerous, yes…stupid as f**k, yes…funny, well yeah it is.  Anyways.  He now is going to serve 2 years in prison and will serve another 2 years of supervised release.  Granted he will serve about 20 months in jail but still.

So my rant today is that one person kills a man while being drunk and stoned serves 23 days in jail and another who shot himself will serve about 20 months in jail.  I am not the smartest man alive, I am not the lawyer type person and I am not a judge.  But I see a very clear case of “bad justice system” being played out here.  There is no way to explain this to me other than to say one guy got the shaft (save the prison shower jokes for later) and the other guy got the yellow brick road.

To me this is a very serious problem in our society today.  Yes we have other issues out there and other larger problems to deal with but our Justice system can become a very large problem sooner than we may think.  Do I feel that the President needs to address this, no.  I think this is a problem that the entire country needs to address.  I see way too many people buy their way out of trouble but yet the little guy with no green backs can get years and years of prison abuse for the exact same crime.  I know that is not what happened in these two cases, except that Stallworth bought his way out.

Simple fix to our crime rate and justice system.  Bring back public executions (hanging, stoning, burning, etc) and let the prison systems run as a private corporation.  Let the private companies do as they please to prisoners.  Once you become a prisoner, you lose all rights and are no longer a citizen.  If and when you get released, you have to earn your citizenship or face exile to an island.  On this island you will have savage beatings, raping and whatever else you can think of.  if every person knew this could happen to them, things would change quick…real quick!

I know this is rude and crude, but if you knew that these things could happen to you…I bet you would think twice about everything you ever did.

Cheers.