I normally stay away from crime as a blog topic since I am one of I think many in the country that feels the legal system no longer works to put the guilty away for deserving sentences but looks for ways to release the guilty back into society without regard for the outcome. The murders in Seattle are a perfect example of a system in chaos. Maurice Clemmons, the murderer was originally sentenced to a very long sentence in Arkansas for a series of violent crimes when he was sixteen, then Governor Mike Huckabee commuted his sentence based on recommendations he received and what also appears to be his own rather liberal approach to crime and punishment. Mr. Clemmons went on to violate his parole and was sent back for what appears to be a slap on the wrist sentence and the rest is recent history.
There has been much made of politicians commuting sentences in recent years and not necessarily in a good sense. Our presidents do it on their way out of office to show their magnanimity, when much of what they do is based on how much they were paid off, to let some of those whose sentences were commuted hit the streets. Bill Clinton had Marc Rich a scumbag of the highest order whose commutation led to an investigation into payoffs by his wife to the Clinton's to get him freed and was subsequently let go by our current Attorney General Eric Holder, who admits that he exercised extremely bad judgment. George Bush wouldn't give Louis 'Scooter' Libby a complete pardon though which shows what disdain he must have for his 'not born to the manor' former Veep. Governors also get into the commuting game as evidenced by former Governor Huckabee and in many ways with similar results but less publicity which moves me to today's point.
If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, my father would say that to me when he was really pissed at me, it's time to throw prison reform, prison reformers, anti death sentence advocates and any other goofs with liberal attitudes towards crime and punishment, out with the bath water. This so called noble experiment taking a soft approach toward crime is a complete failure and it you don't believe it look at today's headlines. There have been more people released that go right back to their old ways than you can shake a bloody caning rod at. Which is one of the forms of punishment we should adopt from our Asian neighbors. What's wrong with the electric chair, I'll bet it scared the living daylights out of many a potential murderer and kept them from doing the crime for fear they would fry. What's wrong with the gas chamber or the the single bullet to the back of the head Russian style. And in the spirit of going green what about the gallows, it's re-usable and if the rope is hemp fully recyclable. Sentence someone to prison for ten years and they should serve ten years, life means just that, LIFE, which to the uninformed means you leave feet first. Sex offenders, hand them their package in a jar of formaldehyde.
There is a way to make this happen and it starts at the ballot box. We as a people are for the most part quite law abiding and as such should not have to live under the spectre of violent criminals being given soft treatment at our expense.
Thanks for reading,
"Punishment is justice for the unjust"
St. Augustine
354 - 430 Theologian
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