Starvin Larry

Engineers and architects just ain’t as smart as they used be,and/or lack basic understanding of the realities of having to actually build some of the crap they design.
Used to be every engineer had worked in the field,as a machinist/tool and die maker/electrician/welder,pipefitter,plumber,etc-and every architect had spent a few summers cutting lumber and pounding nails.
Since at least the early to mid 1990’s-very few in either field had any freakin clue how to actually build /fabricate so much as a model airplane.
The SJW’s/leftists/marxists have dragged the entire “higher education system right down the toilet-combined with the K-12 publik skool sistum-they’ve created a nation of morons.
At least out of those who took part in publik educayshun.

By John Malcolm

One of the greatest safeguards against overcriminalization—the misuse and overuse of criminal laws and penalties to address societal problems—is ensuring that there is an adequate mens rea requirement in criminal laws. Sentencing reform addresses how long people should serve once convicted, but mens rea reform addresses those who never should have been convicted in the first place: morally blameless people who unwittingly commit acts that turn out to be crimes and are prosecuted for those offenses rather than having the harms they caused addressed through the civil justice system. Not only are their lives adversely affected, perhaps irreparably, but the public’s respect for the fairness and integrity of our criminal justice system is diminished. That is something that should concern everyone.

A number of criminal justice reform proposals have been introduced and are being actively discussed and debated on Capitol Hill these days. Most[1] (but not all[2]) of these proposals involve reforming criminal sentencing practices and prison reform. Notably absent, at least so far, have been any proposals to address mens rea (Latin for a “guilty mind”) reform.

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“You don’t see many drug traffickers retire,” gloated Bill Furay, head of the DEA’s office in Beaumont, Texas, following the arrest of a wealthy couple from a tiny neighborhood in Pearland. “Either they end up in prison, or they end up dead.”

Furay apparently never had time to give that lecture to his teenage daughter, Sarah — who was arrested earlier this month on drug-trafficking charges that could result in decades behind bars.

For many years, Furay has styled himself the implacable scourge of drug dealers, becoming a familiar presence at triumphant DEA press conferences announcing mass arrests and seizures of contraband and proceeds.

“Basically, we’re targeting criminal organizations, gangs, trying to hit them where they live and breathe,” Furay boasted following a large-scale bust following “Operation Blood Loss” in 2009. “Operation Agent Orange” in June 2010 propelled Furay into the spotlight yet again: A multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force staged a massive operation spanning several counties to arrest 60 people allegedly involved in a drug-trafficking ring tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa narcotics cartel. US Attorney Malcolm Bates described the narcotics operation as the “United Nations of drug trafficking.” Like most initiatives of its kind, Agent Orange began with information sweated out of low-level dealers seeking a “downward departure” in sentencing in exchange for leniency.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/adorable-drug-kingpin-turns-daughter-texas-dea-head-honcho-bill-furay/#81aoHuArdBq5Qptp.99

Have a great day,spend time with family and friends,relax,enjoy good food.

Think of the things you have to be thankful for this year.