"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (And set up shop)
Ed sent me the link to this article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn
You guys have GOT to read this article. Just be prepared to be angry. Its about a 20 year old man that is in his second year of a ten year sentence. The reason? He received oral sex from a young lady of 15 when he was 17. Can you believe that crap? I don't want to offend anyone from down South, BUT, what the hell goes on down there that makes sense? No wonder the schools don't teach the theory of evolution down there. The people in charge haven't evolved! Bastardos!
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This is the kind of story that makes you angry at the legal system in this country and gives creedence to the argument that Prison Insdustrial Commplex (aka PrIC)is designed to get the black and latino man into prison and to keep him there.
On the same day, Genarlow Wilson went from prisoner, to free man, and back to prisoner. What's truely messed up is that a White judge free him and a black DA put Genarlow right back in jail, claiming the judge had not legal basis for letting the young man go. What about the moral basis for correcting an injustice that took place two years ago Mr. DA?
I have four words for that DA, it also the title of one of my favorite movies, "Do the Right Thing."
There is absolutely nothing surprising or remarkable about this case. One of the key incidents in my novel revolves around the true story of a high school friend of mine, convicted of statuary rape for having sex with a fifteen year old girl when he was nineteen. He is currently serving the 7th of his 10 year sentence, and when he is released he will have to register as a sex offender wherever he goes for the rest of his life. He, too, was a "cocky athlete". (The fact that that comes up in the article is insulting. Do cocky, rich, spoiled white kids get sent to prison?) The sad part is ESPN never wrote an article about my friend, Jimmy Carter never wrote a letter; he has sat in jail for something that happens causally all the time in America. I – and several others in this crew have agreed with me on this – have consistently said America’s prison industrial complex may be the grosses current violation of the human rights of a county's citizens by the country itself. Africa's genocides have ebbs and flows, but this system of locking of men of color has never subsided. Michael Moore needs to make a documentary about this. Shit, someone does, and stories like this no longer angry me as much as they confirm my underlying association with this country's justice system (not in word but in action) as striking similar to the wild, wild west, hypocritical mentality of a certain crew of Italian animals living in TV land New Jersey.
CRAZY LAWS
Georgia
• Acworth: All citizens must own a rake.
• A Kennesaw, Ga. law makes it illegal for every homeowner not to own a gun, unless you are a convicted felon, conscientious objector or disabled.
• Columbus: Can't cut off a chicken's head on Sunday; It is illegal to carry a chicken by it's feet down Broadway on Sunday.
• Donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
• Gainesville: Chicken must be eaten with the hands.
• Georgia has 75 laws on how to build rice paddies, even though the state has only one rice farm left. Rice was the state's No. 1 crop before the Civil War. But right after the war, a hurricane destroyed all the paddies and ponds. It was too expensive to replace them without slaves, so the Rice State began growing peaches, peanuts and other crops.
• Georgia officials were revising their state laws in 1981, and noticed they still allowed pensions for Confederate widows. That week the last widow died. Lawmakers bowed their heads, and deleted the law.
• In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
• In Columbus, Georgia it is illegal to sit on one's porch in an indecent position.
• In Georgia, movie houses that want to show films on Sunday must reserve one showing a month for religious material.
• It is illegal in Georgia to use profanity in the presence of a corpse.
• In Quitman, It is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
• It is illegal to change the clothes on a storefront mannequin unless the shades are down.
• It is illegal to say "Oh, Boy" in Jonesboro.
• It is illegal to take a bath of orange peel.
• Kennesaw: Every head of household must possess a firearm of some kind.
• Marietta: Though it is illegal to spit from a car or bus, citizens may spit from a truck.
• Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session.
• No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.
• One man may not be on another man's back.
• St. Mary's: No spitting on the sidewalk is permitted after dark.
• You have the right to commit simple battery if provoked by "fighting" words.
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