Dear Jeff Schimpff, Your remarks say it all as far as your thoughts about serious problems of today. Just lock up everybody and throw away the key. In the original day of LIBERALISM, even in England at the time of Dickens, attitudes such as you have expressed appeared only on the street in the "third estate." In the days of true liberalism, there was Jeremy Bentham. As is so popular on American TV these days, the refrain--"Bad boys, bad boys,------. . . were coming for you." That must be your solution if one reads your reply to important questions and thoughts.
Eric Westhagen "Schimpff, Jeff A - DNR" wrote: > > > What other details are needed? - As the article states, the killer was > impaired by three times the legal limit of alcohol in her blood, and was > traveling at twice the legal speed limit for the roadway across the > bridge where she struck the cyclists. Would you like to know how many > of the victims' teeth were smashed out by contact with a bridge member > or the pavement? How many pints of warm blood gushed into the dead > man's chest cavity from internal injuries? If he was wearing a helmet, > did it contain the mess from his brain tissue bursting through fractures > of the skull? Maybe the coroner will send you an autopsy report. The > summary of legal details is pretty much there. > > The cost of housing these perpetual drunk drivers and killers is well > worth the return on the investment - The return being that they are > unable to inflict any additional death and misery upon innocent users of > the public way during the period of their incarceration. > > I'm happy to pay taxes for that ounce of prevention. Drinkers know > better. They just don't care about you or anyone else. I am sorry, but > not ashamed, to say that in return, I don't care about them rotting away > at Taychedah or Waupun. > > I do feel intensely sad for their families and for their victim's > families. > > Drunk drivers have the free will to choose either not to drink or not to > drive - or both. That they choose so poorly merits their removal from > the general population - to protect the rest of us. > > Jeff Schimpff > "Bus, Bike, Walk or Carpool to Work for Clean Air for Kids" > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Eric Westhagen > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:49 PM > To: BikiesSubmissions > Subject: [Bikies] motorist sentenced > > Dear Group, > > Conspicuously absent from the television news and the article just > posted on Bikies was the actual sentence which warranted fifteen years > from County Judge Karen Seifert? Was it vehicular manslaughter? Is > this the new sentence for such a crime or is this the sentence for this > crime? Certainly as a bike rider, I don't want to encourage autos in > running down bikes, but the actual details have not been made clear. > There is no excuse for an auto driver not seeing a bicycle, a walking > person or a dog on a bridge during daylight hours. If she were talking > on the phone, looking at children in the back seat or merely singing > joyously, there should be no excuse for reckless driving. > > I believe this case made all the television and print news because of > the long sentence. As this article points out, three times the sentence > expected was given. Certainly nobody wants Mrs. Burr behind the wheel > anytime soon. She is now forty seven. When she is released, she will > be collecting Social Security. That should sober up some would-be > drunks like----say, our former Attorney General? But will it? Do we > get confessions by torture, does it take fifteen years to "change > habits" rather than five? Maybe fifteen years would be appropriate if > we had an answer to such questions. What we do know is that her own > family will probably become wards of the State. And the warehousing of > Mrs. Burr will probably run twenty to fifty thousands or more per year. > > Have we ever handed out a fifteen year sentence for recklessly killing > a person in or out of a motor vehicle on a roadway? I didn't hear any > of that on the news. But, maybe I missed that? > > Eric Westhagen > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
