Now seriously, the common law system is a joke, what makes the jury competent to give any opinion, you might as well roll the dice, it would probably be more accurate, statistically.

And on the other hand, even if he’s guilty, though he’d be stupid to admit it, I think we’d be better off if we at least allow him to continue his work. At least let him be on house arrest or something. I guess ok, lock him up for a couple of years to teach him a lesson, but this is getting too much already.

Now with his 25 year imprisonment, which in my country is the maximum you can possibly get for any crime, he’ll be out of prison at 65, when I don’t think he’ll still be the most effective software developer.

This is crazy, a guy like this could come up with something revolutionary, you never know, one we could all benefit from, and keeping him locked up will deprive man kind of his potential contribution.

On a footnote, the us govt is probably using him for some of their own secret shady stuff, which is something that we call exploitation.

And yea, I have ReiserFS on my boot partition, and it’s quite fast.

And myself, I originally thought that people are jumping to conclusions prematurely and felt that all evidence they had at the time was weak if they couldn’t find the body. Once they did I UPDATED the post, as you can see, saying I was wrong and clarifying my position.

Your reply to Kevin was to call him a “kook” and misrepresenting what he said (that murderers can go free). That’s not much of a rebuttal. It’s just a stupid ad hominem.

And your “rebuttal” of me was complete misrepresentation, as if I was advocating freedom to take another’s life or that killers should go free. You’re not refuting me there, but your own image of me based on what I never said.

As for “eye for an eye”, alright, I guess you’re not advocating that, which is good. I don’t advocate punishment either, but reparations, as Kevin described it. Justice isn’t about revenge (which is what punishment is), but about repairing the damage as far as it can be repaired.

Regards

Or, you can continue to put words in my mouth and call me “sad” and “pathetic”.

In my book, people who have crushes on murderers are sad and pathetic.

Nobody here defended murder? Let’s see:

Andrew Theo Says:

“Yes, I see : Hans did it.
But what jury in this or the other world could judge him ??
I mean, the women took his money, his children, his company, his life work, his dignity.
Who can realy put a blame on this man ?
I do not….and, maybe neither should you : look inside you, and try to put yourselves in his shoes.”

As far as your nonsense about “eye for an eye”, an “eye for an eye” in this case would have been a sentence of death by strangulation. Clearly, that didn’t happen. As a matter of fact, the murderer has a chance to leave prison if he lives long enough! Clearly not “eye for an eye”.

On the contrary, people here seem to be advocating the extreme opposite of an eye for an eye, which is that murderers should go free.

Disagree with anything I’ve said? Please let me know.

Nobody here defended murder. At the time this entry and many of subsequent comments were written it was NOT clear if it was a murder or not, as evidence was NOT yet conclusive, yet people were jumping to conclusions. This isn’t some sort of a betting game where you get to bet on one or the other outcome and then get paid in gloating rights. That’s pathetic. That you’re so quick to assume people here supported no sanctions for murder says more about you than them.

Also, regarding your put down of Kevin’s voluntaryism, it appears you are one of those who believe in “eye for an eye”, perpetual escalation of violence as the solution to violence. Nothing can bring back life, that’s for sure, but killing someone back and even life in prison wont do it either. It would indeed be nice if the murderer was thus offered an option to make it up to the family of the lost one as much as humanly possible (paying huge reparations) instead of costing tax payers, completely innocent people, for holding him and feeding him in some dumb jail cell.

Cheers