My Father's Outrageous Prison Sentence!

[HOLLYWOOD]

he passed it up...that's the risk you take.

People have taken the lives of others or even premeditated murdered/homicides and received much lesser sentences. The worse part is, the taxpayers are forking over the money for the profiteers in government judicial system as well as the Prison Industrial Complex.

The state authorities have become the tyrants of turning the proletariat against one another by use of; threat, force, and imprisonment.

The other is the state selecting/screening the best brainwashed Americans citizens as jurors. The whole government game is rigged and they have built an effective distrust between citizens.

How many times has Paris Hilton or Lindsey Lohan been busted with COKE? What were their sentences again?

 

[donnay]

This is typical of the kind of [in]justice and tyranny that occurs all over the country. However, the prison industrial complex doesn't like competition. Therefore they put their competitors away for a long time to work for them for a $0.25 a day.

 

[Inkblots]

Cases like this are daily reminders of the insanity of our justice system and the bizarre travesties wrought in the name of the war on (some) drugs. I pray that your father receives his freedom before his life is over.

 

[Tpoints]

People have taken the lives of others or even premeditated murdered/homicides and received much lesser sentences.

And I didn't say they shouldn't receive either life in prison or death penalty.

 

[paulbot24]

I recently lost my father to cancer which has devastated me. Yet, in some respects, I feel for you and your father more than if you lost him in death. He is not at rest. He is alive, but plagued by demons of regret, which we ALL have, and now his worse enemy is the thing we usually value most in this life, time. This breaks my heart. Print this entire thread (leaving out one prick's remark) and send it to him along with letter after letter after letter. Letters mean more than you can imagine. They're a small reminder that at least one person in the world you remember, still remembers you exist. Don't give up and appeal appeal appeal this draconian sentence. I look forward to you posting a picture of your father walking out of prison with his hands in the air, a free man.

 

[krhedwards]

Unfortunately your dad is one of thousands.

My sympathies!

Really? We have looked into it and his sentence has been hard to beat for a nonviolent drug offense.

 

[krhedwards]

15 years was 15 years too much as well.

Exactly.

 

[krhedwards]

I recently lost my father to cancer which has devastated me. Yet, in some respects, I feel for you and your father more than if you lost him in death. He is not at rest. He is alive, but plagued by demons of regret, which we ALL have, and now his worse enemy is the thing we usually value most in this life, time. This breaks my heart. Print this entire thread (leaving out one prick's remark) and send it to him along with letter after letter after letter. Letters mean more than you can imagine. They're a small reminder that at least one person in the world you remember, still remembers you exist. Don't give up and appeal appeal appeal this draconian sentence. I look forward to you posting a picture of your father walking out of prison with his hands in the air, a free man.

Thank you for your support! I hope one day I can walk freely with him as well.

 

[krhedwards]

You should submit this to Reddit with a similar title. They'll eat this up in http://reddit.com/r/politics

Doing this now. Thanks for the tip!

 

[krhedwards]

Please consider signing this petition for his release! http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitio...chael-s-60-year-sentence-to-time-served#share

 

[krhedwards]

have you filled out the paperwork for a presidential pardon?

http://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon_instructions.htm

Obama hardly pardons anyone but he has commuted a woman in a crack cocaine case who got some ridiculous sentence. The chances are very low though.

Thanks for the link!

 

[krhedwards]

Please upvote on reddit! http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/14gqgq/my_fathers_outrageous_prison_sentence/

 

[Lindsey]

I didn't say people are sadistic, but people are incredibly cruel as long as they don't have to inflict the cruelty themselves.

Even if they inflict the cruelty themselves, if there is distance between them and their victims, people can do incredibly cruel things - i.e. drone pilots.

 

[The Free Hornet]

From the article, they can't even win the drug war in prison:

The moment inmate Edwards felt he might die, he changed. It was about five years into his sentence and he ingested so much cocaine on this day his heart began to surge. He crumpled to his bed and asked a fellow inmate to push on his chest.

And this is a great example of how people are punished for exercising their right to a trial:

His legal options were running out. He had filed a flurry of motions. In one, he cited 15 claims, including receiving an unusually harsh sentence for exercising his right to trial and the 14 ways in which his lawyer had failed him.

Good luck and please post updates if we can help or if their is a legal defense fund. *I* happen to support freedom beyond just my local area.

 

[SpreadOfLiberty]

dammit, sorry about that