A MagiQal Life

Druid in Jail

Love Sky Dancer (yes, that’s his real name) pleaded guilty to smuggling ecstasy in some chocolate powder into the Kennedy Airport for a friend and got three years in Metropolitan Detention Center. Now he wants nothing but the finest foods in prison because he will only partake of organic/open range animals as his religion (Druidry) dictates. He is asking that if they will not allow for his religious freedoms in jail that they send him back to the United Kingdom (where he is from) because they are more suited to deal with his vegan needs. It goes a bit farther in that he is even refusing the veggies served because he claims pesticides have been used on them.

“We do not mean to diminish the charge to which Mr. Dancer has pleaded guilty, but the Bureau of Prisons must allow inmates who follow a recognized religion to have available the dietary requirements of that religion,” lawyer Robert Simels told the Daily News.

I’m all for him having his religion and all, I’m even ecstatic that the prison system does its best to bend the rules for religious reasons. Though I do have concerns for the validity of his faith. If he can not eat the processed meats that are served in jail, then why on earth was he munching chocolate laced with synthetic drugs? Even if he was not a user of what he was smuggling, why was he fraternizing and condoning the use of such things for others? I’m pretty sure if he was a stickler of faith he’d not be hauling around processed candies filled with drugs.

If he can have such double standards, then so be it… but then, if he was willing to do the crime, by the gods he should be willing to do the time. As far as I’m concerned his ‘free range’ days are over, and he should sit in the prison cafeteria pondering just what he’s done while he nibbles on his cloned beef.

I’d have more sympathy for him had his crime been more organic, or at least more in line with his faith, but as it stands, he should not have his way.

Druid in Jail

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