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Prosecutors recommend 30 days for woman who called in bomb threat to Children's Hospital; say her remorse is 'genuine and heartfelt,' but she still needs to pay a price (www.universalhub.com)

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[–] Ashyr 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

From where I stand, the major problem with the far right is that they're constantly being handled with kid gloves.

This was just bigotry and hatred on display and it escalates to this point because no one is ever putting a firm stop to it.

I don't think it's sufficient to allow someone who is willing to let children die in order to satiate their bigotry and hatred of queer people get off with some cleaning trash off the side of the road.

This very easily could have been manslaughter.

Honestly, 30 days is too low from where I'm standing.

While incarcerated, I'm fine with regular therapy and anything else to improve her as a person, but she shouldn't be walking free in 30 days. She may not call any more bomb threats, but she's hardly done making life hell for minorities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I agree more than 30 days to repay society is needed. Plus therapy is a great idea to try to prevent her from causing this kind of harm in the future.

I don’t think confinement itself will heal what she’s done nor get her on a better track in life.

[–] Ashyr 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It will prevent her from actively harming the rest of society. I'm fine with prison reform and I'm generally about restorative justice, let's make the best of a bad situation.

But she demonstrated a callous disregard for the health, safety, and lives of children. I do not trust her to be a part of polite society at this time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I’m all for protecting society by restricting her movement. If that’s being called “punishment” then I’m just disagreeing with the term being used. The point of the restriction shouldn’t be to cause her harm.

[–] Ashyr 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, then there were agree. I'm never okay with justice that's looking for its pound of flesh.

There can and should be consequences for breaking the social contract, but only to make the best of a bad situation, not to arbitrarily worsen the situation of another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Exactly :)