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Friday, November 8, 2013
The Criminal Justice System Sucks
Today I was watching the show Jail and I saw a young lady
come in there charged with prostitution. The girl said that she had a drug
problem and had been selling her body to feed her addiction. She had a daughter
that the state had taken away from her and she had been in and out of jail
several times on drug related offenses. The girl said that she was caught in a
cycle of using drugs, selling her body to get drugs, getting arrested, getting
out and living on the streets, and then doing it all over again.
Looking at this girls story just plain confused me, if the
person keeps going to jail over and over again then at what point do we decide
that jail doesn’t cure addiction? First you say the drugs are illegal and she
goes to jail for that and then you say it’s illegal for her to sell her own
body so she goes to jail for that. The way I see it this girl hasn’t committed one
crime against another person or property but yet she is being carted off to
jail over and over again. What the justice system is saying is that they are
protecting this girl by not allowing her to sell her body or use drugs. The
government is claiming that they are doing her some service by placing her in
jail for months on end but in all of this service that the government is claiming
to be giving people why is a home not included?
I’m not saying that everyone should get a home or have their
needs taken care of by the government as a matter of fact I think that most
people can and should stand on their own two feet but the problem is that the
government feels the need to get involved in a person’s life to a certain point
then just leave them hanging. Do you think that this girl couldn’t sell her
body for a place to stay if you didn’t make it illegal? If prostitution was
like any other 9 to 5 just, would she have lost her child to the state? I have
to question if the state is putting people in a better or worse predicament by arresting
them for harming themselves. It just feels like they are saying “we care enough
to put you in jail but not enough to really help you when you get out.” I say
help them all the way or just leave people the hell alone.
Let me know what you think
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
What has become of the holidays?
Today, I was on Facebook reading other people’s pages and
wondering how much of what I was reading was true and how much was a ploy for
sympathy or attention. I looked at some pictures of friends and their kids and
read countless posts complaining about everything from traffic to deadbeat
dads. What actually caught my attention was something that wasn’t there,
something that I had gotten used to seeing around this time of year and had
grown to love to hate. Where was all of the blind, crippled, crazy holiday optimism?
Where were all of the ridiculous Halloween pictures of three year old dressed
as ladybugs and pumpkins? Normally, by this time most people would be talking
about going to visit family for Thanksgiving and some people would already be
working out their Christmas plans. I found myself torn between appreciation for
that fact that I don’t have to see how nice Little Billy looked in his Power
Ranger costume and the feeling that the world had changed.
The holiday season has changed from a time to be with family
members that you can’t really stand and give thanks for the fact that your many
hardships didn’t kill you to a time to isolate yourself and gain even more
distance from humanity. Why no pictures of Little Billy, because half of the
most people have stopped bothering to go trick or treating with their kids. Why
no Thanksgiving and Christmas plans with the family, because with the divorce
rate being what it is most people don’t even have a family left to go home to.
I used to dread the holidays because it was the only time of
the year that I felt nothing was good enough. The job I worked at was sub-par, someone’s
relationship status was always better, and hell even the kids became a
competition. Seeing family for the holidays can be like crossing the interstate
on foot and just trying not to get hit. Even with all of that, the holidays
always felt like a time to connect with family and even people that you didn’t
know. Hearing stories about another person’s Christmas or Thanksgiving disaster
made us all feel a little bit better about our own family. I enjoyed comparing
how much candy I got from trick or treat with other people and making fun of
how stupid everyone else’s costume was (because whatever I had on had to be
cool).
Now, look I’m not saying that I will ever be a holiday fanatic
but what I am saying is for all of the anxiety, inconvenience and depression
that the holidays bring, they also bring us together. Maybe your family does tap
dance on your last, hanging nerve and maybe it is easier to just spend the
holidays playing video games, watching YouTube and binge eating but what are
high calorie foods and mindless entertainment without the people you love to
share it with.
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