Don't Blame Judges Because You Elect Dumbshits

Laws are reactive by nature. Nobody can dream up something like you can't carry goldfish on a bus unless some assholes cause problems carrying goldfish on buses and there are enough people with wet feet to elect someone who pledges to do something about the problem. Unfortunately, once that problem is solved, the guy who got elected has to pledge to fix other problems, or his worthlessness will be unveiled.

Often, these people pledge to make a law in honor of some dead person. These are the worst types of laws because they generally are an attempt to make something that is already illegal easier to prove, or to have more teeth.

Something happened recently that has the people up in arms at the Washington State Supreme Court, even though they decided the case correctly. The high court said that the law that allows for a conviction for second degree murder if a victim dies as the result of an assault is unconstitutional. The law was probably in honor of some kid who was shook to death, or some other equally worthy victim, that gave politicians a face to market in their attempt to get elected or re-elected.

It's a bunch of crap that they exploit crime victims, but if the opponent were to say he or she opposed the proposed law, one might get the impression that he or she were soft on crime. It doesn't matter if the opposition might be because the law would be unconstitutional or unenforceable. Any salesman can tell you that most sales are made on emotions, not logic. So, the average dipshit puts two scoops of stupid on his oatmeal and concludes from reading the paper that the guy who is against the law is somehow in favor of shaking babies to death! Then these dumbfucks vote, and guess which assholes they elect?

So, anyway, all these assholes from across the state gather at the state legislature and honor their pledges.

Prosecutors love these crap laws. They can get murder convictions by simply proving assault against those who they could likely prove are guilty of murder, and plea bargain out manslaughter for those they can't. The dumbshits in the state are happy that little Johnny died for a good cause, pointing to the increased prison population as proof.

But that happiness quickly fades when someone appeals his murder conviction, and the court decides that assault and murder are two different crimes, and proving assault is not the same as proving murder.

If your head is sufficiently dragged out of your ass to give your brain some air, I'll explain it to you.

When a person assaults another person, and that person dies, a crime has been committed. If they committed the assault with the intention of killing the victim, the crime is murder. If they didn't intend to kill the victim, the crime is manslaughter. It's all in the intent, and the intention to kill, in these cases, wasn't proven. And it's all because you dumbshits elected other dumbshits who didn't understand this or didn't care as long as it got them elected, and those stupid asses passed a law with a flaw!

Now we have a whole bunch of people about to be released from prison who might not have the chance except for prosecutors that used the law despite its obvious deficiency, rather than to take the extra step to prove things like this guy stabbed that guy 32 times, and this other guy dipped his baby in scalding water, because they intended to kill their victims!

It's not the judges' faults that prosecutors are lazy, and legislators are whores! It's your fault for being too stupid to see past the hype, and voting for dumbshits because they represent you better than thinking people do!

That's my take.