{"id":2028,"date":"2009-12-05T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2009-12-05T13:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:46:30","slug":"speaking-of-disproportional-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/05\/speaking-of-disproportional-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of disproportional punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/12\/04\/woman-jailed-charged.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:%20boingboing\/iBag%20%28Boing%20Boing%29&#038;utm_content=Google%20Reader\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a> reports on yet another vastly disproportional punishment for a victimless crime:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The movie industry has turned into an alcoholic dad who beats up his family at the slightest transgression while ignoring his own gross failures &mdash; blaming everything on external forces and refusing to confront its own problems.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 22-year-old Samantha Tumpach spent two nights in jail for recording her friends singing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; at a movie theater, for capturing less than four minutes of a feature film. She is charged with a felony and if convicted, could lose the right to vote, to work with children, to hold office, and to partake in full civil life.<\/p>\n<p>And the movie industry&#8217;s pitch to us remains, &#8220;Please stop pirating our discs, because if you don&#8217;t stop, we may be driven out of business and then society would suffer from our absence.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoingBoing reports on yet another vastly disproportional punishment for a victimless crime: The movie industry has turned into an alcoholic dad who beats up his family at the slightest transgression while ignoring his own gross failures &mdash; blaming everything on external forces and refusing to confront its own problems. Meanwhile, 22-year-old Samantha Tumpach spent two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,13],"tags":[52,135,343,417],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-copyright","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-wI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}