QUADRIPLEGIC DIES AFTER BEING JAILED FOR FIRST-OFFENSE MARIJUANA POSSESSION

Republican law-and-order fanatics are killing people to prove a point. Can you imagine Christopher Reeve in a similar position? A 27-year-old quadriplegic (paralyzed from the neck down) is sentenced to 10 days in jail for a first-offense marijuana possession and then dies because he's denied the medical equipment and medicine he needs to stay alive?

And let's get real here. How does someone who's paralyzed from the neck down acquire, possess, or use marijuana without the help of someone else? How does he become the offender? Is marijuana so scary to the hyper-righteous, as opposed to chronic misuse of OxyContin (unlike marijuana, which is less troubling to an individual than alcohol, a truly dangerous addictive drug)?

These people have no pity or heart. They're ideologues, dangerous to you, dangerous to me, and dangerous to our (American) historically acclaimed sense of goodness and compassion. They zero in on the helpless and powerless and ignore or excuse the chronic drug use of illegal drugs by the rich and powerful. How can Christians countenance this?