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No Justice
Earlier this week I posted some lyrics I wrote in a song called Supplication while I was in Strongarm:
There can be no justice
Where there is no truth
Those words speak very well to the issue that the Supreme Court ruled on this week. If you have been out of the loop, they ruled that a child molester cannot be sentenced to the Death Penalty.
Regardless of what you may feel about the ruling or the use of the Death Penalty, the details of the ruling are what really bother me. You really have to mine for these details, because the media doesn’t report on them too much. But the details reveal the premises behind the decision. That is more important than anything, if you ask me. It is a forecaster of things that may come.
Here are the phrases that bother me in the details that I was able to find. They are the reasons of the final votes against:
they made the vote considering the nations evolving standards of decency
This really bothers me. I don’t want leadership or law based on an evolving sense of decency. I want it based on the rule of law, Bill of Rights, and the Constitution. I want it predictable. This shows that they are ruling based on precedent (other rulings) rather than a set standard.
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there is a national consensus against capital punishment for the crime of child rape
What? Who cares! I don’t care about consensus when it comes to justice. Where does this end? What if one day the evolving consensus of society eventually views pedophilia as OK? Does this mean child rape will be even less severely punished?
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So what if they are related? A crime is a crime. Being related has nothing to do with the laws obligation to protecting the innocent. This is the biggest load of circular reasoning I’ve ever heard. I have to wonder if these judges and lawyers even have kids?
I know this, as a person and a citizen, I get disillusioned with government when I feel that there is no sense of justice to protect me and my family. This, in addition to increasing taxes, brings a sense of taxation without proper representation or justice.
Historically speaking, taxation without representation and no true justice are seminal to most revolutions.
Anyway, Jesus regarded offenses against the innocent, especially children, as the most vile of actions. I wonder what he would think?
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Please give me grace with my response. If anything, take it for what it’s worth, and hopefully it challenges your thinking constructively… Thanks Nathan.
Your statement is actually poor logic. A criminal doesn’t say to themselves “Well I just raped a kid, which means I can be put to death. So I’ll just kill them while I’m at it.” If both resulted in the consequency (the death penalty), I believe that would form more of a deterrent to either raping and/or killing a child.
“…Jesus regarded offenses against the innocent, especially children, as the most vile of actions. I wonder what he would think?”
also, according to an article wrtting by MARK SHERMAN, an Associated Press Writer,
“The author of the Louisiana law, former Republican state Rep. Pete Schneider. Rep. Schneider said even opponents of the death penalty told him they would kill anyone who raped their children. ‘When are you going to have the courage to stand up for what’s right for all of the people — but especially the children under 12 that have been brutally raped by monsters?’ Schneider said, directing his comments to the justices in Wednesday’s majority. …The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the sentence, saying that “short of first-degree murder, we can think of no other non-homicide crime more deserving” of the death penalty. State Chief Justice Pascal Calogero noted in dissent that the U.S. high court already had made clear that capital punishment could not be imposed without the death of the victim, except possibly for espionage or treason.”
A second Louisiana man, Richard Davis was sentenced to death in December for repeatedly raping a 5-year-old girl in Caddo Parish, which includes Shreveport.
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I love children. So much that aside from Cleveland Hardcore Church, I’ve devoted my time to building them up in Christ and next week I’m flying to Ukraine to continue the work the LORD has set before me. I totally agree that this is a sign of things to come. We live in an era where in cases like this, we value and consider the guilty over the innocent. I’m not saying the death penalty should be enacted for every case. That is for the jury to decide. But for the sake of our God, leave the option of that just consequence open! Who will stand with the innocent?! Because I love children so much, just “short of first-degree murder, we can think of no other non-homicide crime more deserving”.
“There can be no justice, where there is not truth…”
At least they got 1 right! http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWBT00928420080626?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true
I also saw an article today that said some states are moving forward with laws that allow for the death penalty despite the Supreme Court’s ruling. I don’t know how that will work out in the end, but more power to them.
I share you sentiments. Speaking of Louisiana, their new governor Bobby Jindal is introducing new legislation as a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
He wants to introduce chemical castration as a punishment for rape.
I like his thinking. He is using the Supreme Court’s decision and going with it by making the punishment fit the crime.
It’s extreme but it makes you think about true justice for the innocent, for those who have no voice.
To amend my last statement, one of them was not a serial rapist, he only raped his 8 year old daughter once. And I use the word “only” very sarcastically. Sick.
The other thing that bothers me about this judgement is that it all started because of 2 guys in Louisiana who face the death penalty. It’s not like they are first time offenders – they are SERIAL RAPISTS. However, I can think of more appropriate punishments for these guys that doesn’t involve death.
There is also a reasoning out there that says this is a good judgement because if rapists know they can face the death penalty, they will be more likely to kill their victims to keep them quiet.