The American "justice" system operates as a de facto vengeance and punishment system. Thirty days in the alternative school for a student council president taki

The American "justice" system operates as a de facto vengeance and punishment system. Thirty days in the alternative school for a student council president taking a smoke break is a ludicrous exercise of discipline and punishment merely for the sake of it. Come on, mandatory minimum sentences for high schoolers? System of a Down was railing against this paradigm when I was a wee misanthrope and it wasn't even novel back then.