As Motherboard noted and a quick search by Gizmodo confirmed

“Former Vet,” unless he has also been a once-but-no-longer-practicing-Veterinarian, is an oxymoron- veteran means someone who has done something in the past; you can never stop being a veteran of something you were a veteran in the past. If you want two words you could say Military/Army veteran, or “Former US Army…

I don’t really get why this is bothering people. This article was about the sentencing. It’s newsworthy (to me) because she was tried as an adult when she committed the crime at 12. As a lawyer, I think that’s fucked.

You can do both. This girl suffered from schizophrenia. That’s not something be brushed aside.

Hyperbole doesn’t add much to the discussion. She’ll have to be evaluated to be released.

I did some research on the juvenile justice system in Germany (in comparison to the U.S.) in law school last semester. Juveniles (up to age 21) are never tried as adults in Germany. Most serve less than 10 years. I believe the maximum is 10 maybe 15.

There’s a really, really sad article about Morgan on Hazlitt.

It always bothered me that they tried these two girls as adults.

“I know we are a nation of laws, and this is a very serious and almost sacred process of deciding how to mete out punishment...but what the guy did was bad, so YOLO, you know? Free shots for everybody.”- No judge who wants to keep their job.

Man, Sessions is going to be PISSED.

If Israel deems itself a western-style democracy and deserving of our immense support, it has to do better. Can’t have it both ways.

This lawsuit is so backwards that it is an palindrome. It will effectively ensure that artist do not perform in Isreal to avoid lawsuits ultimately enabling the boycott.

I think it’d be pretty easy to judge them.

Definitely. If they don’t think that Israel has done some horrendous things, then they need to look beyond the end of their nose

I don’t think these girls were ever planning on visiting Israel anyway.

It’s the height of entitlement to think you are entitled to a Lorde concert, and not having to be exposed to a celebrity’s political opinion (only their entertainment).

We got Peak Special Snowflake here folks.  

Having seen some of the stuff the Israeli army gets up to, maybe they should feel a little ashamed of it. Jehovah knows I feel ashamed of our own military often enough.

I mean, objectively yes, we would be, but in reality she’s just another neoliberal piece of shit like the rest of the Dems. Ugh

I had a hearty laugh at that one.