My Twitter Account Has Been Locked

I am now 20-hours into my 12-hour suspension from Twitter - which just goes to show that the folks at Twitter are about as good at math as they are fair in their application of penalties and interpretation of their own rules. What, you may ask, was my violation? "Violating our rules against illegal or certain regulated goods or services." That for telling @chrisjollyhale "I say this with respect - what a retarded thing to say." I'm now on my second appeal, having gotten nothing back from the first one except a colon and assurances that a real-live person reviewed my incident and determined that I did in fact violate their Twitter rules. "Specifically for..." Cue the crickets, but read that for what it is.  'We just don't like the cut of your jib.'