© Adrees Latif / Reuters
Our so-called justice system makes a mockery of due process, couldn't care less about integrity, and
victimizes those guilty of nonviolent crime — while releasing violent criminals to create actual victims in order to free up space to cage those who sell or possess a plant, even for medical reasons.
In perhaps the most striking example of justice upended, convicted rapist Brock Turner — who
claimed of his victim in a police interview, "She seemed to enjoy it" —
now walks free after serving just three of an abhorrently paltry six-month sentence for the violent crime.Meanwhile, accounts like that of
Jeff Mizanskey, who had been slated to die in jail after three exceedingly
minor cannabis-related offenses earned a life sentence, top the
headlines with alarming frequency.
Although outrage over Mizanskey's court-induced punishment ultimately earned a commutation by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon,
21 years of his life spent behind bars cannot be justified — no matter what erroneous propaganda the government shoves down our throats.
Mizanskey's automatically earned the life sentence as dictated by Missouri's three strikes law — the controversial penalty system whereby anyone convicted of a third felony reflexively earns an arbitrarily harsh sentence, generally a life term, depending on the state. His three offenses,
according to Reason, "included selling a small amount of pot to a relative, possessing less than three ounces in his home, and driving a friend to a hotel to buy pot from an undercover officer."
Hardly the stuff of a career criminal hell-bent on violently victimizing the public.
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