Friday, August 5, 2005
Punishment fit the crime
Neil Cavuto ranted yesterday about Martha Stewart being made to wear her ankle bracelet longer:
I feel safer now: Martha Stewart has to keep her ankle bracelet on another few weeks. That’ll show her! I guess we’re all better off knowing that bracelet isn’t coming off so soon. But not a word about all those sex offenders out there whose whereabouts none of us knows. Where are their ankle bracelets? Where’s the fuss over their comings and goings? No, Martha takes a four-wheeler out of her house and authorities clamp down to make sure she stays “in” her house.Is there just so much punishment to go around? Does meting out some to Martha mean too little left for people who harm children? With that logic, since Stalin tortured and annihilated millions of people we should just slap robbers. Martha doesn't remotely compare to a child molester but she was found guilty and has thumbed her nose at her conviction (yoga classes, driving around and showing how she takes the bracelet off). Maybe she shouldn't have been convicted in the first place but she knew what she was doing about the bracelet and it was wrong.
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