I don’t care what your job is, that’s insane. You could join at age 18 and be retired by 38 and we the taxpayers are supposed to pick up the tab for the next 45-ish years?! What other employer, other than the government, offers that kind of a sweetheart deal?

There really need to be some changes in public employee benefits packages, SEAL or not.

Also, no matter what we think because of Michigan’s fornication, prostitution and CSC law being so strict being caught with a hooker in a hotel room is serious business here. That can and has sent people to prison for life without parole many times — even in the past 30 years. That partially depends on who is the county prosecutor and his thoughts on the matter. In many counties the prosecutor would forgo the CSC one attached charge, in others you can literally kiss your free world life goodbye. There are some areas of the state where fornication law isn’t enforced nowadays but prostitution law is enforced everywhere in the state. I would bet it gives Toledo, Ohio (directly across the border from Michigan) a booming hotel room rental business as unmarried couples (and those fucking prostitutes as Ohio’s prostitution law is much less onerous) flock to there for their weekly/monthly/whatever suck and fuck where at least simple fornicators don’t have to worry about being sent to the five bubba club’s hellhole (prison) if caught.

Why do people always quote the maximum sentences…. they rarely, if ever happen, especially when most people plea out.

13 years ago I was charged with something that had a 20 near maximum, and I got 3 years probation as part of a guilty plea agreement and moved on with my life. So, it really annoys me when people make it like some guy is going to get thrown in the slammer for 2 decades… that rarely rarely happens unless the person is a multiple repeat offender and pleads not guilty and forces a trial. (I am of course not including very serious crimes, which being caught in a hotel with a hooker is not in spite of the rhetoric. The last thing most cops want to do is waste time and hours going after a guy who needs a blowjob).

The second is the mention of a (I assume pandering or prostitution) bust in Detroit by some unnamed porn performer. If that is Detroit, MI then this unnamed person and her prostitutes are in for some serious prison time. Due to a unique quirk in Michigan’s rape law fornication is double prosecuted as the underlying fornication offense plus CSC (rape) one using a clause allowing any sexually-based crime (which fornication is) to also be prosecuted as rape one. That is an automatic life without parole in prison. Prostitution and pandering are also prosecutable under this law. Fornication carries five years all by itself, prostitution and pandering carry 20 years (plus life without for rape one). The act of procuring a prostitute carries 15 years plus the in this case obligatory rape one life without charge. The fact that the sex was consensual doesn’t matter, any sexually-based crime not specifically mentioned in the CSC/rape statute is automatically rape one if the prosecutor decides to pursue it. This is the same penalty that someone that actually forcibly raped someone else would be prosecuted under plus whatever the underlying criminal law violation is. Ridiculous, I know but that is the God’s honest truth. Prosecutors are not likely to add a rape one charge to a prostitution or fornication charge if the encounter was consensual under normal circumstances (a life without case is highly scrutinized by the trial judge plus almost anyone sentenced to life without parole is going to appeal the sentence which costs the county $250K plus no matter what the outcome of the appeal, too many of those and the county is broke off of its ass so for a fornication or prostitution case the county administrator would strongly discourage a prosecuting attorney from pursuing rape one on this type of case — especially fully consensual fornication) but since this one is public if it isn’t added in this case and that makes its way to the newspapers there is a good chance the Wayne County Prosecutor won’t get re-elected (Detroit is in Wayne County, prosecuting attorneys are elected by the registered electorate in Michigan just like a mayor or city board member would be).

This escorting and porn stuff was not a secret and so to just bring it up this week when he is close to pensioning off is just bullshit in my eyes.

I hope it works out for him. While I didn’t like Jewels and her moaning and groaning about the porn industry (yet always coming back), they seemed like people I would enjoy a beer with and I really dislike how this might play out.