Affluenza? Isn't that the reason to absolutely punish the sweet holy living fuck out of the kid?

And in Texas, I think that lady's "hand of God" is probably the name of her shotgun.

I've been reading about this over and over, and I'm just fucking speechless. People keep saying there are two America's how could that be doubted at all, it's almost a Law of Nature at this point.

Yeah lady, the hand o' god will get em. Rest easy

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1741781

Well the prosecution should have been all over this "expert" witness psychologist. They should have gotten a psychiatrist and asked him "In your medical opinion does affluenza represent a psychiatric disorder?" He probably would have chuckled.

So, err, let me get this straight. He gets off being punished by virtue of the fact his parents never punished him?

And the parents. If they are indeed culpable should they not serve time instead of paying a half mil bribe?

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This boy, and his parents, are the worst type of human scum on this planet.

I'm from the DFW area and this is indeed a big deal here right now. For some perspective, this same judge sentenced a 14 year old poor, black kid to 10 years in prison for one count of manslaughter.

This is SOP in The Lone Star State.

On its face, it seems a good choice to give a 16-year-old rehab rather than imprisonment, which will almost certainly end all chances of him growing into a responsible contributing adult.

If rich white people get this treatment and poor black people get imprisoned for the same thing, then that's an issue, separate from this case or this defence.

Further, it's not clear that the judge based his/her decision on the affluenza defence or simply decided it was better for the kid to get help rather than prison.

@messenger
rational and reasonable as always my friend.

but here is the cold,hard and highly cynical interpretation on the situation,based solely on my own understandings and continuing dissection of the dying throes of a global empire.

and it is simply this:humans have become commodities.

this young rich elitist fuck has parents who can raise his value in the eyes of a more and more corporatized state.
they can purchase his ticket into the political class.
so he can walk the gilded halls in the ivory tower and participate solely on the virtue of his ability to pay.
he can pay to play.

conversely,
the young black mans future ability to participate is systematically blocked for a myriad of reasons:race,economic status,regional opportunities etc etc.
and therefore has more value as a commodity to participate as a prisoner in the private prison system.

so while your analysis is born from a humanistic and reasonable origin,it is mainly due to the fact that you are..well..human.you express empathy and compassion.

a corporation is not hindered by such non-productive emotions.
they seek profit by any and all means.
and if that means commodifying a human being,then that is what they shall do.
and they have done exactly that.

many humans find that reality repulsive and repugnant (because it is) and balk at even accepting the reality that stares at them in the face.

because if they actually ever DID accept that truth,they would have to do something about it.

so they spin some rather creative internal narratives to avoid seeing the slow degredation,dehumanizing and outright cruel practices and call the profit good.
and oftentimes blame the victims for their situation,conveniently ignoring the actual perpetrators.

because if they did,they would have to take responsibility.
cant have that can we?

I hope the victims families sue the parents into bankruptcy....

Not *murder.

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It won't happen... the people we're talking about are the kind of people who know how to move and hide money, and they know it very well. They may win in court but actually ever seeing any monetary 'justice' seems pretty hard to imagine.