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13 years in prison for scribbling stuff in chalk. Yeah. Just wondering who, exactly, will be going to jail, and how much time they'll be serving to account for
by hedonist 13y ago
13 years in prison for scribbling stuff in chalk.
Yeah.
Just wondering who, exactly, will be going to jail, and how much time they'll be serving to account for the various mortgage fraud & other abusive practices BoA has been engaged in systematically over the years, e.g.:
- http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/24/bank-of-america-mortgage-fraud/1654441/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/24/bank...
- http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-new-part-iii.html http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-forec...
The answer, of course, is almost certainly no one.
- ars 13y agoHe won't get 13 years. People need to stop this practice of listing the maximum possible under best (worst) possible conditions sentence. If he doesn't have a criminal history he'll get a month of probation and that's all.
- nazka 13y agoHo yes sure it's not too bad...
- nazka 13y agoAs I can see people are happy to get 1 month in prison. Great for them they don't know what it is. Anyway they forgot the heart of the US: the First Amendment, which is maybe even more terrible...
- emidln 13y agoWhy should criminal history matter? He wrote something in fucking CHALK. That he is being barred from mentioning anything related to free speech when his method of conveying speech was a temporary (comparable to holding a sign) and fleeting (from the rain, a hose, or a drunk on saturday night) is a travesty.
- CanSpice 13y agoUnfortunately that's the way the law works. If you write on some property that isn't yours, it doesn't matter if it disappears in a second or lasts forever, you've still written on some property that isn't yours and you've committed vandalism in California. The restriction to being able to exercise his freedom of speech is another issue entirely.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoDon't do it in Waco http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/theft-of-ribs-gets-five-time-felon-years-in-prison/article_8b90161d-9132-57cc-9a29-74d679015585.html http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/theft-of-ribs...
- hexis 13y agoTell it to Aaron Swartz.
- ars 13y agoExactly. Someone should have told him, and he should not have committed suicide. But probably someone did tell him, and his suicide was because of other things.
- hedonist 13y agoIt's the fact that he's being threatened with 13 years that's significant. Oh, and the fact some stuffed shirt from a major bank can basically order the local police department to go and arrest this guy. Like you or I might order a pizza.
- lettergram 13y agoYou can order the local police department to arrest the guy who writes on your wall too.
- jlgreco 13y agoYou can order them to deliver you pizza, the question that should be asked is if you can effectively order it. The last time I called the cops it was because a bum was in my backyard, next to my livingroom window, dumping out my trash and going through it. They never sent anybody. Am I to expect they will care when I complain about a hippie with chalk?
- hedonist 13y agoIt wasn't the banks walls he was accused of writing on; it was the sidewalks out in front.
- dlss 13y agoYou're forgetting that he's not plea bargaining (hence the judge barring arguments)