Be Clean or Else

Posted by Ann Sattley on Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

“I don’t want to send anybody to jail, but I do like people to follow orders,” Howell said. “All I wanted to see was that you were working diligently to clean up the mess. Again, I tried to keep you out of jail.”

I believe one of the things this the judge said to a Korean War veteran who was ordered to clean up his property or go to jail. It’s possible that he really doesn’t want to send anybody to jail, but if that’s the case..don’t do it.
So, what’s the deal here? We, as a society, are more concerned with tidy neighborhoods than we are with the people living in them. So, this man, who sold junk to pay the bills, is going to be spending 30 days in jail.

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"but I do like people to follow orders,"

 

see there's the key quote from the judge, that judge is one of those if "I say jump, you'd better ask how high" types.  Land of the free...  or is it?