Privilege: Now with established precedent!

[Bruno]

So the judge ruled that this kids pathological irresponsibility is due to the parents' neglect?

They better be getting ALL of the parents' money.

ALL OF IT!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So the judge ruled that this kids pathological irresponsibility is due to the parents' neglect?

They better be getting ALL of the parents' money.

ALL OF IT!

I gotta ask, what color is the sky in your world?   

Here's what's going to happen.  Relatives of victims will file a lawsuit.  Parents will offer a settlement.  If settlement is accepted, that's that.  If settlement is not accepted, parents will lawyer the relatives of the victims to death.  The end.

[Ben Shapiro]

Time to run over the wrong people because I don't know any better since I'm a bear.

[Bruno]

So the judge ruled that this kids pathological irresponsibility is due to the parents' neglect?

They better be getting ALL of the parents' money.

ALL OF IT!

I gotta ask, what color is the sky in your world?   

Here's what's going to happen.  Relatives of victims will file a lawsuit.  Parents will offer a settlement.  If settlement is accepted, that's that.  If settlement is not accepted, parents will lawyer the relatives of the victims to death.  The end.

1.) it depends primarily on what the flying unicorn-pegasi had for breakfast that day.

2.)That sounds about right, but having the judge blame the parents in the criminal case has to help some, right?

[Bruno]

Aaaaaaannnnddd... guess what just popped up in the ads on my facebook page mere seconds after making that last post.

[Junkenstein]

It even has a name now: "The Affluence Defense".

It's got more than a name now too, it's got precedent. This is going to be valuable as fuck for all sorts of people who could conceivably end up in courts in the next few years.

This:

WFAA ABC reported that Miller said the teen's parents gave him "freedoms no young person should have."

gets me thinking that it's a small step to justify "I'm so rich I have freedoms no person should have" as a last ditch get out of jail. The main thing it seems you need to prove is that wealth disconnects you from the law which is making me start to laugh.

[minuspace]

It even has a name now: "The Affluence Defense".

It's got more than a name now too, it's got precedent. This is going to be valuable as fuck for all sorts of people who could conceivably end up in courts in the next few years.

This:

WFAA ABC reported that Miller said the teen's parents gave him "freedoms no young person should have."

gets me thinking that it's a small step to justify "I'm so rich I have freedoms no person should have" as a last ditch get out of jail. The main thing it seems you need to prove is that wealth disconnects you from the law which is making me start to laugh.

So freedom != responsibility...  Act accordingly. 

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Step 1: Poor kid shoots this kid

Step 2: Hire shrink to invent "Povertunomia," the mental illness resulting from growing up in a poor environment and not being familiar with effective solutions other than violence

Step 3: No one goes to jail ever again





(lol, of course the poor kid will go to jail, nothing is fair ever)

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Step 1: Poor kid shoots this kid

Step 2: Hire shrink to invent "Povertunomia," the mental illness resulting from growing up in a poor environment and not being familiar with effective solutions other than violence

Step 3: No one goes to jail ever again





(lol, of course the poor kid will go to jail, nothing is fair ever)

Povertenza. http://ourlegaci.com/2013/12/13/please-excuse-davontaye-he-suffers-from-povertenza/

I was reading that going "Yes, yes..." until I got to this:

Instead of jumping to fill up prisons, let's start putting youth from disadvantaged backgrounds in treatment facilities.

Then I got the jimjams.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I still think the solution is to give Texas back to Mexico.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Or France.
That'd make them jump into the Gulf like lemmings.

[minuspace]

Or France.

Better because, you know, extradition proceedings rarely get rendered to US by France, on principle.

[The Johnny]

I still think the solution is to give Texas back to Mexico.

Give us the oil, keep the honkies.

OH WAIT not even oil in our land is ours due to the recent legislation. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I still think the solution is to give Texas back to Mexico.

Give us the oil, keep the honkies.

OH WAIT not even oil in our land is ours due to the recent legislation.

WE DON'T WANT THEM.

[minuspace]

I still think the solution is to give Texas back to Mexico.

Give us the oil, keep the honkies.

OH WAIT not even oil in our land is ours due to the recent legislation.

WE DON'T WANT THEM.

MINE-R-ALL RIGHTS!