09-21-2005, 02:42 AM
Occhidiangela,Sep 20 2005, 09:30 PM Wrote:I'll argue that the criminal can, in the main, control his behaviour, but chooses not to due to either a weakness in character, a system that excuses the choice, and/or a set of odds that makes the risk/payoff equation appealing to him . . . or her.
"If my lawyer will get me off, no skin of my arse" and "it ain't stealing of I am just getting my reparations from Whitey by my own means" are themes often tied together in cases where the race card is played to its fullest benefit for a criminal defendant.
My two centavos
Occhi
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Well if the white folk would just willingly hand over what's rightfully owed, we wouldn't be in this mess...
Did I just go there?
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."