MySpace sociopath let off easy

In today's America, how do you guarantee yourself a life on Easy Street in which you're pampered like a monarch and protected from even mild criticism for the rest of your years?

By becoming a sociopath!

If you're an online predator or bully, everything comes easy to you. And you can forget ever being held fully accountable for your crimes. America since about the mid-'90s has worshiped sociopathy. Right and wrong are considered dirty words these days.

This point was underscored by the outcome of the criminal trial of a 49-year-old Missouri woman who abused MySpace to help lead a hateful hoax that led to the suicide of a 13-year-old girl. Today the defendant was let off easy for her role in the crime.

The federal jury failed to convict on the conspiracy charge or the 3 felony counts of accessing computers without authorization to inflict emotional harm. It's unclear whether this is because the jury wasn't allowed to hear all the evidence. (The Bush-appointed judge had threatened to bar jurors from hearing the fact that there was even a suicide.)

Instead, the defendant was convicted on only 3 misdemeanors and faces a maximum of only 3 years - a small price for killing an innocent teenager. The victim is dead, but the perpetrator will walk after 3 years at most.

That's BushAmerica's idea of "justice"?

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081126/ap_on_re_us/internet_suicide)