>Toronto's mayor is on video smoking crack, is drunk and disorderly in public, shoves (assaults?) a grandmother, more, and isn't even removed from office, let alone arrested.
How can anyone have faith in such a system with such gross inequalities?
I couldn't agree with you more.
Every time I see a celebrity, or politician, or insanely rich person breaking the law it disgusts me.
Not only are they not arrested and punished for their crimes as everyone else would be, but the media actually celebrates their flouting the law.
I'm only 31 and I honestly think the system is too far broken. I personally believe we're heading for some massive, massive upheaval.
They are the often singled out for harsh punishment, actually.
See: Celebrities Lohan & Hilton & Martha Stewart, all singled out for harsher punishment than normal.
Politicians Cunningham, Spitzer both given harsher punishment (or more ink) than a typical person would get.
Rich people like the entire Enron board, telecom CEOs, numerous lawyers and execs you've never heard of charged with insider trading, trivial securities infractions, trivial tax infractions, and hounded.
And how many more rich people commit similar crimes and get away scot-free? How many poor minorities get the book thrown at them for far lesser crimes?
"Getting tough" on the rich and powerful is very much the exception rather than the rule, and we play right along with it by eating up headline after headline about Martha Stewart while ignoring the thousands and thousands of people who are rightfully afraid of the police on a day-to-day basis.
By the way, you mention "more ink" as if it's comparable. Being hounded by the media is certainly unpleasant, but it's not any part of the operation of the justice system, or shouldn't be.
>See: Celebrities Lohan & Hilton & Martha Stewart, all singled out for harsher punishment than normal.
Harsher punishment than normal? Than normal what? Black and latino persons, for one, have been shot or went to jail for decades (and/or life) for similar crimes.
How can anyone have faith in such a system with such gross inequalities?
I couldn't agree with you more.
Every time I see a celebrity, or politician, or insanely rich person breaking the law it disgusts me. Not only are they not arrested and punished for their crimes as everyone else would be, but the media actually celebrates their flouting the law.
I'm only 31 and I honestly think the system is too far broken. I personally believe we're heading for some massive, massive upheaval.