All this does is strengthen my association of "ex-con" with living in a police state. It no longer has any automatic negative connotation.
Exactly. According to
this post of him, Roger apparently provoked the wrong people, and got sent to jail for a non-crime that normally is not actually punished.
It's
crypto-totalitarianism. Everyone is a potential "criminal". Provoke the wrong people, and they may
literally destroy your life.
This exact same thing happened to a friend of mine's dad. He ran for state political office and they threatened to destroy his life if he didn't quit the race. When he didn't, they trumped up some absolute garbage about how the insurance company he owned sent some business paperwork with mistakes in it through the mail, constituting mail fraud. He spent 10 years in jail. The case was complete nonsense, his business was the very clean, and everyone involved knew it. Our "justice" system is a joke.
What happened to your dad? What race? What mistakes? What court case? Who was your dad. You can pm me.
