Fair And Balanced??????????????????

Hi, Bi, Would you provide a link to the incident?

yeah - huh?

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0803/97994.html I'm

sorry...you know these brain damaged rock musician types...and I wasn't that bright to start with....

Well, if your system puts people in prison for life for a few tabs of acid, or whatever, then that is seriously fucked indeed - whatever sentence these two women get. Assault is generally more serious when one is in a position of duty of care to the person assaulted, so I would guess this crime will be treated pretty seriously, if the two are convicted.

Sadly, this sort of crap will happen wherever people have power over others, since some people act badly in such situations. (That is why I do not think clergy and other church workers are generally worse than other people - they just get placed in powerful positions vis a vis a lot of vulnerable people...)

I would hope the staff culture - and the level of staff burnout and stres - are carefull loooked at, as well as the two individuals prosecuted.

Well, Bi. I agree with you on the inequities in our penal system, but I feel that I should point out that if the elderly lady dies, these two women who beat her will be charged with premeditated murder. In addition, the entire facility will probably be sued regardless.

Beat her up with brass knuckles, indeed!!!

The woman was "being disrespectful."

The god of the Bible tells us how to deal with people who are disrespectful (actually this deals with children who are being disrespectful, but very old people could be considered to be childlike!):


At Deuteronomy 22:18, the god of the Bible tells Moses:


Hah!

That puts the brass knuckle sandwich in a reasonable perspective.

The nurses should not be put in prision. They should be chastised for being too lenient.

The prospect of a sagging-pants, pierced-lip, pierced-nose, pierced eyebrow, pierced-nipple, pierced-_________ serving me pureed peas and pushing my wheelchair in my old age makes ME want to be stoned at the city gates.

Sheeeeeeeeze, Frank

BTW I hope no one thinks my post is minimizing what happened to this poor elderly woman in any way.....I think these women should have the **** beat out of them in the town square...If she lives.... death penalty otherwise.....I hate bullies worse than anything on earth.....

No one thinks that, Bi. We all know that rock musicians ain't all bad.

Whooda, the thought of anyone pushin me around in a wheelchair, pierced whatevers, gives me the grrrrrrrr's.

I think BPB's point is the disparity between the crime and the sentence. Assault is a very old and familiar problem and is viewed differently than drugs which is basically a means of escaping the depressing reality of our current culture. The later is the subject of the hysteria of those who both benefit from the present situation and fear those who are so despaired they feel they must escape. There is a trend in this country towards thought control. You must not question or despair of the world as it is, you must simply put up with it, like it or not.