Arkansas Blog

I don't want to speculate, but im going too, I facebook searched "Jeremy Gentry" the 25yo who was killed, and it certainly would be very believable that this was indeed drug related.

It was at a cheap motel, not a residence.

Blackberry:

That is a really crappy thing to say about someone who was murdered along with his family.

Here's another scenario: Perhaps the kid had been involved in drugs, quit, turned his life around, and his former drug buddies came back and wanted him to get involved again. He refused, they get angry and get even.

2 movies you should go and see this weekend: The Blind Side and Precious. Maybe you won't be so quick to judge based on appearance.

Statistics say drug use and or addiction rates are about the same in countries with lax laws as they are in countries with decades old very expensive wars on drugs.

We have got to quit pointing guns at and making felons out of each other.

Legalize it... all of it.

ES, as all can see your post makes sense. However, in ASA! Land what's a boy to do without a whipping boy? Whose gonna make headlines by closing down California medical mj growers and users?

Where would all those officers of the law find employment were it not for the employment offered by
drug users, dealers and producers. It's a indispensable industry. Druggies are a small hinge which swings a big door. So many people ride on that door it's catastrophic just to think they would have to find real work. How many elected "public servants" owe their livelihood to druggies? Too many to imagine.

Imagine that your home, small suv, a houseful of electronics, the two pets and a IRA all are provided by druggies.

And, there's hundreds of thousands of "public servants" keeping us safe from druggies. Public servants need druggies more than we need public servants. It's a mutual addiction you see, a co-dependency of sorts.
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750,000 arrests for cannabis alone in '08. Think of all the public servants that supports not to mention the growing, highly profitable prison industries.

Wag that dog.

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Dear CammackLife:

If the scenario you presented was true his death would still be drug related.

Maxie even stated "Drugs will be involved in the unraveling of this tale."

Yes I was quite possibly stereotyping but all stereotypes have a basis in reality.

Rationalize away, Blackberry. It was still a "crappy" comment as was the rationalization.

You'd be better of learning and taking Thumper's Father's Rule aka Thumper's rule to heart.

Blackberry:

Yes, I know my scenario was still drug-related, but it would seem that YOU based your assumption on the guy's photo on Facebook. You judged him because of his tattoos, I am guessing.

Regardless, it was a crappy and insensitive thing to post.

Dear Crackheadlife:

Im not rationalizing. I was pointing out a fact. And I didnt just make that assumption based upon the tattoos. I made it upon the things HE put on his facebook along with what other wrote.

And a heads up, a "crappy and insensitive thing to post" would be me saying the world is a better place today. That is crappy and insensitive.

I just looked at the suspects pictures. I am somewhat surprised they are black.

Apparently some of the rims that were stolen were found at a pawn shop in HS.

Note to self: Do NOT feed the trolls.

Legalizing marijuana and the psychedlics makes a lot of sense. Not a lot of money, mind you--too easy to grow if the tax gets too high--but quite a few gains for society with very few downsides. (Decriminalization and medical marijuana are worse policies.) I'm no longer convinced that the gains (and there are some) from legalizing, say, crystal meth outweigh the downside of making addictive, deadly drugs more easily available. (Legalizing simple possession for use, sure--why punish victims?)

Okay, source is not correct. No drugs, Jeremy Gentry did not have a record. All items checked out and were not stolen by Jeremy Gentry. According to court doc's: "Court documents outline a case of robbery gone horribly wrong. One court filing by police shows a confidential informant told investigators that Pickney offered the rims and televisions the day after the killings, saying they came from a lick or robbery they took part in."

Sometimes it is as simple as that. You are judging a person by a FB...Then almost everyone on FB would be crackheads and whores. FB is just a place for people to socialize and made for fun. Not a bio. This was a horrible crime that could have happened to anyone. These guys should still have been in Jail if the system was working. But, the Arkansas Jails can't hold all the prisoners so they are out on parole. Look up the rap sheets on the suspects and then judge. Why are you judging the victims? Are you saying they brought this on themselves? Even if these guys get the death penalty they will not suffer as this family did in the last moments of their lives.