Jonathan Bailey
Well-Known Member
I once knew a poor man who took some wholesome food, not candy bars, from a Walmart in a Red state that had a total retail value of $97 and some change. He got caught by loss-prevention personnel and the police came and cited him for petty theft. This was in the spring of 2017. In this Red state it may as well had been in 1817 given their backward mentality.
He subsequently made a plea deal with his public defender. His lawyer told him that in the eyes of the judge that he (a poor person) had DEPRIVED Walmart (only the richest business entity in the world).
Deprived.
Deprived.
Deprived.
Deprived.
Deprivation.
Good Lord!
No, deprivation is stealing a poor old woman's social security check out of the mail.
Deprivation is stealing some man's car or horse while leaving him to die in the desert,
for goodness sake.
How dare the legal system use terms like deprivation against the poor in regards to taking a crumb
from a "rich man's floor", so to speak!
Taking unpaid groceries might be against man's penal code law or even the Ten
Commandments, but it is hardy a heinous crime.
Stealing from the poor whatever little they posses materially is indeed evil and heinous!
My poor aching heart just totally bleeds for Walmart...
...like a TURNIP!!
How many Americans has Walmart made poor to date due to job loss?
This poor man had to do five days in a weekend jail which served the most ungodly "food". He also had to pay close to $600 in combined court costs, fines and for "rent" in that weekend jail in spite of his limited VA pension income. The man was disabled and could not bag sand for five days as a jail alternative. Idaho is not California. They have no compassion for the disabled as well. If you have medical issues in California, the jail alternatives there might be office work or filing papers. The man wasn't offered house arrest (the ANKLE BRACELET) as an alternative either in this medieval state. The older Ada County sheriff deputy also spoke some unkind words to this pitiful man, age 53, when he was released. "Get out of here and don't ever come back again!" Not a simple goodbye. Or, farewell and have better luck in life. Verbal insult (just like the word DEPRIVED) on top of financial injury and being tormented a few days by jail cuisine.
This Red state is the state of Idaho, of course. I know full well that those in authority and those with means in the state of Idaho have no mercy or compunction for the poor. But they are generous, still, as generous as a turnip (or should I say Idaho potato or sugar beet?) you are trying to squeeze blood from.
The Idaho judge must have thought he was being
"charitable" and "kind hearted" for reducing this man's fine from "the standard $500" to $250 and suspending 85 days of 90 days jail in the sentence.
The moral of the story: don't you poor dare get caught taking so much as a crumb from the rich in any Red state. Their cuisine is not as nice as the cuisine in many California jails.
He subsequently made a plea deal with his public defender. His lawyer told him that in the eyes of the judge that he (a poor person) had DEPRIVED Walmart (only the richest business entity in the world).
Deprived.
Deprived.
Deprived.
Deprived.
Deprivation.
Good Lord!
No, deprivation is stealing a poor old woman's social security check out of the mail.
Deprivation is stealing some man's car or horse while leaving him to die in the desert,
for goodness sake.
How dare the legal system use terms like deprivation against the poor in regards to taking a crumb
from a "rich man's floor", so to speak!
Taking unpaid groceries might be against man's penal code law or even the Ten
Commandments, but it is hardy a heinous crime.
Stealing from the poor whatever little they posses materially is indeed evil and heinous!
My poor aching heart just totally bleeds for Walmart...
...like a TURNIP!!
How many Americans has Walmart made poor to date due to job loss?
This poor man had to do five days in a weekend jail which served the most ungodly "food". He also had to pay close to $600 in combined court costs, fines and for "rent" in that weekend jail in spite of his limited VA pension income. The man was disabled and could not bag sand for five days as a jail alternative. Idaho is not California. They have no compassion for the disabled as well. If you have medical issues in California, the jail alternatives there might be office work or filing papers. The man wasn't offered house arrest (the ANKLE BRACELET) as an alternative either in this medieval state. The older Ada County sheriff deputy also spoke some unkind words to this pitiful man, age 53, when he was released. "Get out of here and don't ever come back again!" Not a simple goodbye. Or, farewell and have better luck in life. Verbal insult (just like the word DEPRIVED) on top of financial injury and being tormented a few days by jail cuisine.
This Red state is the state of Idaho, of course. I know full well that those in authority and those with means in the state of Idaho have no mercy or compunction for the poor. But they are generous, still, as generous as a turnip (or should I say Idaho potato or sugar beet?) you are trying to squeeze blood from.
The Idaho judge must have thought he was being
"charitable" and "kind hearted" for reducing this man's fine from "the standard $500" to $250 and suspending 85 days of 90 days jail in the sentence.
The moral of the story: don't you poor dare get caught taking so much as a crumb from the rich in any Red state. Their cuisine is not as nice as the cuisine in many California jails.
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