So Much for Proportionality, So Much for Justice

Here, however, for a handful of cheap rifle parts that may or may not have required a license, the prosecutors want to send Platt to jail for 60 years and, in the now inevitable forfeiture allegations, take away his house too. [More]

So much for the punishment fitting the "crime." And so much for cruel and unusual punishment.

The creepy oath-breaking persecutor playing the role of Javert in this reimagining of Les Miserables is both a Bush and an Obama appointee.

So much for ... well, here, Prof. Quigley says it better than I can.


[Via Michael R]