However, WTF "becominghorse"? What kind of non-thinking liberal minded crap are you posting? The guy broke the law, he knew what he had to do to make himself legal ($800 is a bunch of money - no shit there), and made the choice to evade the system. How the fuck is the system to blame? Should they fine him again for not paying his fines?
How about don't drive unless you're legally able to? Just take responsibility for yourself. Duh.
European countries do a lot more fining than jailing. 'Evading the system' as being relevant is what is non-thinking when it's a minor matter: The whole system itself evades all punishments at the highest levels, this is well-known. I see no reason why small-time crime wouldn't see itself as quite enabled in such an obviously law-scorning government. Congressional subpoenas are routinely ignored by now, governments do whatever they want, so it's just a matter of whether you get caught. I spent 5 weeks in Switzerland in 1997, there is almost nothing but fining (including if you can't pay, meaning if you can't they drop the fine if there is nothing but a misdemeanour). And you know what? Without even more than a 20-year prison sentence for pre-meditated murder, there is almost no crime in Switzerland. I dont' agree with that 20-year sentence myself, but it's a different kind of civilization entirely. This is all violence all the time. They can afford almost no serious heavy punishment, we can't, but what we do is punish everything. Even chatroom talk is mostly about being self-righteous and punitive. The Puritan consciousness of America pretends to want the law adhered to, but it really wants to choose who should be punished most or least. Huge American mobs wanted Paris Hilton to be sure and spend her full sentence in jail, but they didn't care if the more drug-addicted and mentally unwell ones had only to spend but 84 minutes or so. 1 in 100 Americans is in custody now. It's a waste of time to put stuff like this here, it evaporates in 3 seconds. Marley wasn't being smart, but what he did was not serious if drugs or alcohol were not involved. It's not a matter of 'breaking or not breaking the law' only, because the lawmakers themselves constantly break it, I am just saying that in a law-scorning society like this, it's stupid for the little people like Marley to be jumped on as though the society 'would fall apart' if the Pledge of Allegiance were not intoned.
Who the fuck cares about a little driving without a license? The second time could still have forced him to do some community service and pay a fine; that he didn't do so the first time is irrelevant, because the second time he could have been forced to somehow get it, and it sounds as though he could have done so. It's just not cut and dried.
I'm interested at all the amart-ass self-righteousness that internet boards attract, as though Marley would be become a hardened criminal if he were merely fined and made to do a couple of weekends of community service. It is not always so brilliant, however you may think it, to take Draconian measures on every goddam little thing. It breeds a culture of the stupid, and that is what definitely exists for the most part, as Americans are so half-educated it is not even to be believed sometimes. But they DO WANT to see all 'the little people' pay, even though it's the biggies who direct the crime. All the torture stories have pulled together only a few small-time nobodies like Lyndie England, for example. Rumsfeld is still allowed to go around delivering noxious and noisome farts, while waiting for his Great Reward, which will never again be to be a Secy. of Defense rock star jacking off to his own incompetence in providing armour, etc.'
But do Be Your Gurest at High Dudgeon over totally minor misdemeanours and worry about the horrible consequences of letting the totally wicked Marley go free for doing something about as frightening as finger-fucking somebody in public.
Anyway, I just had time to bullshit, I don't frankly give any more of a fuck about what you think than you do about what i think.
This is a very punitive country in many petty ways, that's why it thinks it has to have the death penalty and European countries don't. That's the same kind of bullshit argument for a chatroom, I mean the main point is that talking about it on the internet is altogether meaningless, I just didn't mind it right now because I've got the Schubert D Minor Quartet going on the phones, and that makes me a little more patient. I vaguely hope this has helped, but I think really what I want to do is worry all night 'what if Marley hadn't had to serve any more than that stupid cunt Nicole Richie or that other twat Lindsey Lohan, stupid bitch who terrorized her trainer's mother by car-chasing her, and had the dough to get out of serving more the 80 minutes herself, and make old-hag photos trying to be Marilyn and looking like a Hollywood Blvd. whore.
Okay, that oughta excite you, I usually don't let myself be virtual-sucked this long. You know why? I no like'ee.