Bernie Madoff thinks he's suffered enough

Bernie Madoff got 150 years in jail for screwing thousands of people, many of them permanently, with his Ponzi scheme.  He's spent less than 10% of that sentence in the slam but now he wants to be let free on humanitarian reasons.  His excuse: he has terminal kidney disease and would like to die a free man with his family.

Many don't know it but Peter Schiff's father, Irwin Schiff, died in jail.  His crime?  He had convinced himself that the government had no legal basis for collection of taxes.  And since they could not provide actual laws to prove they had the right, he stopped paying.  And so at the age of 78 they slapped him with a 12 year 7 month jail sentence.  Well of course that was a death sentence.  Schiff's only real crime was telling big government to fuck off.  Loudly.  And repeatedly.  And unabashedly in print.  Schiff didn't sneak around about anything.  He didn't hurt anyone.  He just told the government to fuck off and the government responded by sending armed men to escort him to jail.  Had he not complied they would have killed him.  So Schiff got to die in jail for not paying his taxes.

When you are 78, you are already terminally ill regardless.  If your heart gives out first then you died of heart disease and if your liver gave out first then liver disease.  But the real issue is old age.  And so by Madoff's logic, anyone who is old should be able to do whatever crime they want to and then get out of jail as they get old on "humanitarian reasons".

I'm sorry Madoff, the answer is no.  No you do not get better treatment than Irwin Schiff.  No we don't care that you have kidney disease because that is what is expected of old people.  You are going to die because you are old.  And you are going to die in prison because letting you out would not only send the wrong message but you wouldn't live 2 months anyhow because one of those thousands that you fucked out of their life savings would take a baseball bat to you.

And that would be no less than you deserve.  So rot in jail, but thanks for begging for your life like that because it reminds others that there will be no mercy for them if they do a similar crime.  Now shut up and take it like a man because when you were running your Ponzi you took it like a thief.