[clue-talk] The War On...?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:49:40 -0700
Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> I saw this in the midst of some java blog entries. Being the cynic I am,
> I can't help but think this is another War on Some Drugs in the making
> (there aren't enough "criminals", so the gov't declares a new sort of
> "criminal", and it's never the really big fish that need incarceration,
> of course).

The guy is facing a possible maximum sentence of 15 years. To compare that
to actual sentences given in actual cases is a bit disengenuous. Now I
agree that 15 years for $200,000 (estimated) in damages is excessive. But
do you think he'll get that on a first offense? Well, maybe. What would
have been a valid comparison in that entry would have been the current
max. sentences for violent crime, as of 2004, instead of actual sentences
from 1995.

jed
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