The liberal sob sisters seem to be having their way, don’t they? Lots of states and many European nations have outlawed the death penalty. Why? I haven’t the slightest idea. I’m all for it, just like if someone attempted to rob me, I’d empty the gun on him, saving a lot of hospital and court time. Why mess with the bastards? Why not just gas ’em, electrocute them, or shoot them. Who cares about being cruel to someone who’s going to die anyway? The needle didn’t get into the right place? He suffered for a few minutes? Who cares? What has happened to the formerly sane people in the world, when they would moan and groan about someone being put to death for a heinous crime?
OK, I know, let me tell you. With modern DNA blood tests, some innocents have been put to death. Very few, and chances are they were at the scene and had big police records anyway, so the world isn’t any the worse without them. Cruel? I think not, when America loves to invade foreign lands and kill hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq alone! How many millions of innocents were killed in Korea and Vietnam, which wars we never should have fought? How many hundred thousand American innocent soldiers have been killed by those we fought against in those absurd wars? And now we are all but invading Libya! How many innocents have been killed in Libya from the bombings and strafing of barracks?
Over 30,000 innocents are killed each year in traffic accidents, and thousands from medical mistakes, wrong prescriptions, robbers, rapists, and criminals never caught. A dozen maybe executed when they didn’t do it? So we wreck the whole thing because of that, and spend a Harvard tuition each year keeping the vermin alive? Keep the jails full of vile criminals because a bunch of sick humanists, liberals, and cry babies think it is inhuman to fry a murder. Even the Bible is for capital punishment. Genesis 9:6 says, “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”
According to a 2003 study, every execution deters 18 murders, so capital punishment does indeed act as a deterrent. The late Mike Royko wrote, “When I think of the thousands of occupants of death rows in the hundreds of prisons in this country…my reaction is: What’s taking us so long? Let’s get that electrical current flowing. Drop those pellets (of poison gas) now. Whenever I argue with friends who have opposite views, they say that I don’t have enough regard for that most marvelous of miracles – the human life. Just the opposite. It’s because I have so much regard for human life that I favor capital punishment. Murder is the most terrible crime there is. Anything less than the death penalty is an insult to the victim and society. It says that we don’t value the victim’s life enough to punish the killer fully.”
Endless court trials to save the murder’s life? Then stop all appeals, and let’s get on with it! I just don’t understand what is going on in this nation. We subsidize the poor and punish the rich, which gives us lots of poor. We won’t kill the killers, and now have three wars going, none of which were approved by Congress, and which cost hundreds of billions of printing press money. I am ashamed of America and its politicos who got us here.
P.S. With auto makers shut down for lack of parts made in Japan, maybe it’s time for industrious Americans to bring manufacturing home! Let America make those parts! The Japs aren’t going to have enough electricity for years to run those factories. My heart goes out to Japan, but only for the earthquake-nuclear thing. Otherwise, I won’t own anything with a Japanese label on it. No Toyotas for me. I still remember their treatment of prisoners and raping of Korean women in WWII, the rape of Nanking, and all the patents they stole from us and never paid a dime in royalties. I don’t think they’re basically nice people. Only my opinion.
P.S. to P.S. I am now 77 years old, and have changed my hours. I now will be open from 10 to 4, rather than 8 to 4. Six hours a day is enough. Am I sick? Hell no. Blood pressure is 112 over 72, and everything else is normal and works well. I’ve been doing this for 35 years, and I’m just easing up a bit. Let my kids have the business for those two hours. Maybe I’ll take long walks with the dogs. Yes, I’ll still write columns. We’re going to England and Scotland for a couple of weeks in late April, so there’ll be no columns then. Also I’m closing half day Friday. Going to the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs for some great food, shows and fun.