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This article was taken from a police website to which I belong. A horrible day in the global battle for justice and another reason why democracy does not work.
New Jersey, a province in America, has decided not to execute any more people. This includes terrorists, serial killers, paedophiles, rapists, and the murderers of law enforcement officers. So, if Osama Bin laden is captured in Trenton, then he will spend a comfortable life in jail with food, clothing, unlimited medical dental and psychological care and cable tv until he dies of old age. Certainly a thought that inspires confidence in the spending of ones tax dollars, no?
It is sad that the United States as a whole cannot bind itself together on the model of Texas which is far more swift and thorough in its eradication of scum. While they too have their faults, they are leagues above the remaining 49 provinces. Truly sad. In some states you can shoot a hundred people, all helpless women in their twilight years, and still get the rest of your life in comfort.
Now, of course you will argue - prison is not comfort! I agree. However remember that before I became a patrol police officer in this nation I served inside the iron bars of a prison as a Correctional Officer. Is it picnick> Hardly. Is it easy if you know you're doing - - yes. Very. Oh yes, I have seen inside the murderers and rapists and theives getting three meals a day, heat, air conditioning, medicine, psychiatric treament, exercise, and of course they have access to the seedier side as well - drugs of all sorts. Yes there is violence in prison with the fights and the riots but that is only ebcause inside the officers have too little discretion, too little power - that is another topic for another time. The bottom line, I remember working December last at a prison in Pennsylvania, watching a veritable hoarde of homeless being incarcerated for petty crimes. Not all at ocne of course, but in ones and twos. I asked one why and his answer I could have guessed. He said it was better in here than out there. That should not be.
Is this not sad? A regression in the pursuit of Justice. Jusice should be blind to colour race and creed but should it be deaf as well to the cries of the victims from beyond, or louder still the cry of fatherless children, widows, and shattered families whose lives will ne'er return to normal now that a void has been cast by death or damage. And low though it is, under the crying and yelling is the cackling laughter of a sane and conscious killer who has just secured his room and board for the remainder of his days.
Justice? I think not
This article was taken from a police website to which I belong. A horrible day in the global battle for justice and another reason why democracy does not work.
New Jersey, a province in America, has decided not to execute any more people. This includes terrorists, serial killers, paedophiles, rapists, and the murderers of law enforcement officers. So, if Osama Bin laden is captured in Trenton, then he will spend a comfortable life in jail with food, clothing, unlimited medical dental and psychological care and cable tv until he dies of old age. Certainly a thought that inspires confidence in the spending of ones tax dollars, no?
It is sad that the United States as a whole cannot bind itself together on the model of Texas which is far more swift and thorough in its eradication of scum. While they too have their faults, they are leagues above the remaining 49 provinces. Truly sad. In some states you can shoot a hundred people, all helpless women in their twilight years, and still get the rest of your life in comfort.
Now, of course you will argue - prison is not comfort! I agree. However remember that before I became a patrol police officer in this nation I served inside the iron bars of a prison as a Correctional Officer. Is it picnick> Hardly. Is it easy if you know you're doing - - yes. Very. Oh yes, I have seen inside the murderers and rapists and theives getting three meals a day, heat, air conditioning, medicine, psychiatric treament, exercise, and of course they have access to the seedier side as well - drugs of all sorts. Yes there is violence in prison with the fights and the riots but that is only ebcause inside the officers have too little discretion, too little power - that is another topic for another time. The bottom line, I remember working December last at a prison in Pennsylvania, watching a veritable hoarde of homeless being incarcerated for petty crimes. Not all at ocne of course, but in ones and twos. I asked one why and his answer I could have guessed. He said it was better in here than out there. That should not be.
Is this not sad? A regression in the pursuit of Justice. Jusice should be blind to colour race and creed but should it be deaf as well to the cries of the victims from beyond, or louder still the cry of fatherless children, widows, and shattered families whose lives will ne'er return to normal now that a void has been cast by death or damage. And low though it is, under the crying and yelling is the cackling laughter of a sane and conscious killer who has just secured his room and board for the remainder of his days.
Justice? I think not
