People Saying Go Easy with Rhavi Now saying “Travesty"

I would like to bring attention to two statements made by Steven Goldstein, chairman and chief executive of Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s largest LGBT organisation, which he said in a statement: “Dharun Ravi’s walk out of jail after only 20 days is practically a Monopoly game’s ‘get out of jail free’ card — a travesty of justice.” 

 Now that He walks and there is nothing wrong according to the law for someone’s sentence to be cut for good conduct in jail, I hear grumblings.  Now Goldstein says what he says but then, that is not what he said only a month ago: "Dharun Ravi has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. We have been public in taking a position of balance: We opposed throwing the book at Dharun Ravi. We have spoken out against giving him the maximum sentence of 10 years in jail and against deporting him. That would have been vengeance beyond punishment.”
Well if you are oppose to deporting, he is not, and did not get 10 years…What is the problem? He got what a judge with a lot of pressure from people like Goldstein to go easy….well he went easy! Now shut up.


The people that draw money from donations and the live off the community were afraid then to shake the tree too hard when this guy was found guilty or when he was about to be sentenced.  They were afraid of their connections to powerful people, because some straight people were saying to "go easy on this.”  Goldstein and other like him also did not know how the community really felt.  How would they know when they are too comfortable in their positions to find out. Now they should shut up!
Mr. Goldstein. The time to bang on the table was when this judge who apparently has no idea of gay bullying and has not been educated on the people that have lost their lives because of it, let him walk.
Now is no time for people to be seeing tittles like today’s headline on pink.co.uk saying:
Gay rights activists decry Dharun Ravi's early release from jail. and then it quotes Goldstein. Iam upset, was upset then but no body asked my opinion. This guy gave his opinion through the portal of gardenstateequality.org. A big megaphone. Now he comes with this statement. Please…..!

 

Posted by Steven Goldsten on  May 21, 2012:

"Dharun Ravi has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. We have been public in taking a position of balance: We opposed throwing the book at Dharun Ravi. We have spoken out against giving him the maximum sentence of 10 years in jail and against deporting him. That would have been vengeance beyond punishment.

Posted by Steven Goldstein on June 19, 2012

Dharun Ravi’s walk out of jail after only 20 days is practically a Monopoly game’s “get out of jail free” card – a travesty of justice".

Had Ravi gotten two years’ jail time, or a year – or heck, even six months –any of those would have better reflected a balance of crime and punishment without vengeance for the sake of vengeance. Instead, 20 days in jail was a fleeting and repugnant non-lesson for a young man who passed up nearly every chance to show remorse.
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