CHRIS, this is SANDRA M. respoding:
>>”sandra: … if someone is so untrustworthy that society cannot trust them with a gun, why are they allowed out of prison?
>>”in addition, … many things are felonies that you would have no idea were even illegal… i can pretty well bet that given enough research into your past, a DA could turn anyone into a felon…
I agree. Last week, Bill O’Reilly printed an email of mine in which in response to lesbians kissing in public I cited Lady Nancy Astor’s principle that she didn’t care what people did so long as they didn’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.
If people want to binge drink or get stoned, I believe they should be urged not to, but it’s a free country and if they wish to commit slow suicide I have no objection until and unless they get in a car in which case they are armed with a deadly weapon and should pay huge fines and be sentenced to rehab. They should also have to put a bumper sticker on their car warning others: BEWARE!! DRUNK DRIVER ON BOARD. or BEWARE!! DRUG TAKER ON BOARD.
We have always been too lenient towards drunk drivers because so many WHITE pillars of the community drive drunk.
We are spending more on prisons than on universities. (Fine the hell out of white collar and non-violent criminals. Keep the cages for the violentl as we do with rabid dogs. And I agree that we have too many laws and our system makes little sense.
People are imprisoned for having kiddie porn on their computers. What happened to the 4th amendment laws againstgsearch and seizure? However, if a man commits an act of pedophilia or rape, which tend to be repeat crimes, imprisoning them for a few years, releasing them because “they’ve paid their debt to society” makes no sense. What “society” That’s a non-existent abstraction. And as with the Communist abstraction “the people” if you get in trouble you’re no longer one of “the people.”
Repeat rapists and pedophiles should live on islands away from women or families with children. Being told there’s a pedophile living in the neighborhood will just terrify parents. Worse, what if you’re not told the pedophile’s there to protect the miscreant’s “rights”. Commit a crime and your rights are abrogated.
Also, the criminal class is either evil or dumb. We can’t hope to teach the dummies more than 2 or 3 commandments at most. How about
Thou shalt not steal (and why, what it does to your “brothers” and the neighborhood), The Black underclass both IN and out of prison really needs to be taught the economic consequences of their thefts in driving small shops out of business etc. Most probably won’t give a damn, but at least perhaps they’d stop all this hypocritical “brother” malarkey.
Thou shalt not kill, which subsumes Thou shalt not mug or beat others up.
Sigh! We might take a crack at Thou shalt not bear false witness, i.e. thou shalt not lie, but who knows what luck we’d have with that.
There were devestating hurricanes in Texas and Orange County, California People took shelter in stadiums and within days the stadiums were hosting sports events.
In New Orleans, the Vietnamese-American community turned for help to their Roman Catholic priest who got the signatures the bureacracy demanded and the community got its homes rebuilt and is back in business. The houses Brad Pitt wanted to sell off are sitting there. And there are still Blacks wandering around and whining.
N.O.’s mayor and his staff weren’t around when Amtrak offered 2,000 seats on its trains. One enterprising Black teenager stole a bus, loaded it up with whoever wanted to high tail it out of townl, went to Houston and became a hero to many. The other buses just rusted out, Remember? The white woman governor, valiumed to the gills, and pissed at the mayor would not allow the Red Cross to enter. Brownie had made a disaster of the formerly effective FEMA, and it wasn’t until a tough Black officer started ignoring bureaucratic red tape, that anything good happened.
Indonesians watching the news were amazed at Black thugs shooting at the helicopters coming to rescue people.”What kind of people are these?” they asked. Yes, violent and out of control, prone to riot, and to prove how dumb they were, stealing TVs while the water was up to their thighs (Wal Mart had opened its doors and told people to take what they needed. But plasma TVs? Then, when they were given several hundred dollars in Houston, some bought Gucci handbags, some bought lap dances, some bought drugs. And then they needed more money. They always need more money. And for their compassion, the states that took them in had to cope with increased crime rates.
What happened to Blacks in New Orleans WAS a tragedy. I have great compassion for the elderly and the young children, but none for the thugs who went on “shopping” sprees.
A woman I knew who lived in a high rise in Los Angeles during the riots told me that it looked as if the attacks on Korean stores were planned. Korean shopkeepers took to the roofs with rifles. She moved to New Mexico.
When Blacks riot, they frequently burn the neighborhood down. An intelligent Black man said: “They burn down the neighborhood. They think that will make things better?”
I remember Liberals excusing black riots. “They have so little, no wonder they riot.” So with excuses came more riots.
Very politically incorrect of me to write this post, but Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation theology have knocked all the political correctness out of me.
