Dear Brock Turner, How Was Your Summer?

[babylonsister]

http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/09/02/dear-brock-turner-how-was-your-summer/


Dear Brock Turner, How Was Your Summer?
September 2, 2016 / John Pavlovitz

Dear Brock,

Man, these Summers fly by, don’t they?

A while ago I wrote a letter to your father. I’m not sure whether he mentioned it or not. He never did reply, so maybe it got lost in the mail somewhere.

Actually it wasn’t all that long ago—not nearly long enough in fact, and that’s the problem. It was in June, and he had just pleaded on your behalf for leniency from the judge, for raping a young woman. To say you received it, is the greatest understatement on the planet.

And here it is, just shy of Labor Day and you’re out. In the span of a single Summer you’ve apparently paid your debt and earned your freedom.

After three months of “good behavior”, you now get to leave prison.

It’s too bad that the young woman you raped is already serving a life sentence. She doesn’t get a reward for good behavior. She doesn’t get to have her slate wiped clean. She doesn’t get to walk away and leave this all behind. She gets more of the same.

I bet she’d had a dreadful Summer. I imagine whatever pain she was in yesterday—is still there today and will likely be there tomorrow. Whatever bars are around her heart, aren’t as easy to escape as yours have been.

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[roamer65]

1. He was from Ohio, if I am not mistaken.

If he is, I was reading he will be on the sex offender registry for at least 15 years...or longer.

There goes any meaningful career, buddy. Should of thought about that before you made that woman's life a living hell.

[TipTok]

3. Hell go work for daddy or one of his buddies...

No political office or anything but he'll be fine...

[LeftyMom]

5. The crime was in California. He will have to register for life.

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_30320828/brock-turner-sex-offender-life-he-faces-stringent

[Coal]

2. Kept in Solitary no doubt.

Or what he did to that young lady would have happen to him in lockup. He dodged Karma.

[msongs]

6. so you are in favor of prison rape then. how nice nt

[Coal]

9. Don't add your meaning to others post.

Just so we are crystal clear msongs I never "stated" I was in favor of prison rape. It is however a fact that people who's action causes them to go to prison for the rape of others who can't defend themselves like a defenseless young lady are the most despised.
And as a consequence they will have problems that a drug dealer would not have. Don't add "your thinking" to my post that is not there.

[Lunabell]

16. Wow he never said that

You owe an apology.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Prison rape is "karma?"

You actually don't know what "karma" means. In any case, I see you're a new poster, so, just to let you know, celebrating, approving of, or winking at RAPE is not acceptable on these forums. They can get your post hidden.

Wait, wait. I know. You're not "approving of it," that's just "what happens." Yes, well, that old hedge is considered flimsy and will also get your post hidden, and for good reason: it is a despicable and cowardly defense of RAPE.

Ethical people don't distinguish between rape and prison rape. They are all the same, of a piece.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. I know. I don't like it when people post that shit, either.

If I had my way, he would be treated humanely but serve a real long-ass sentence, with plenty of boring time to stare at walls and consider his life choices.

Instead, we let people like him out in a few months to make more room for folks doing 5 years for pot smoking.

[Coal]

15. ??

Who else in here is a pot head?

[Warren DeMontague]

18. I'm sorry, what?

I support legalizing, regulating, and taxing cannabis for consulting adult use, fucking A yeah I do.

[Coal]

11. You add your meaning to others post too?

kar·ma
ˈkärmə/Submit
noun
(in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
informal
destiny or fate, following as effect from cause.

Or to put it simpler, what goes around comes around!

He is the creator of his reality. I'm just an observer.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Predictable rape defense

Already anticipated in the post you're responding to.

Do you believe in rape as punishment? If you do, you're a terrible person.

[Coal]

13. Rape as punishment?

What are you talking about a_m?
Everyone is responsible their own actions, he put himself in the position to be violated by "his actions' of violating that young lady.
He created everything that is happening to him right now.
I'm not a terrible person, and to answer your question, I do not believe in rape as punishment. I think he should have had his ass kicked though.

[Coal]

14. I see now.

I see now why you are busting my balls, you are a Mets fan, everyone know the only NY baseball team that matters is The Yankes!

[Lunabell]

17. I didn't read that into your post

Some people can be such assholes.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. If only he was a medical marijuana patient w/a pot plant in his basement, he might be doing 10 years

http://www.wptv.com/news/region-martin-county/stuart/stuart-woman-faces-10-years-in-prison-in-medical-marijuana-case