Justice Kennedy Screws the Children
Jun 25, 2008 General
Ronald Reagan’s second mistake, Justice Anthony Kennedy (the first was Sandra Day O’Connor), put the screws to children who are victims of rape. Kennedy, who is the swing vote in many close decisions, decided that the crime of raping a child is not worthy of the death penalty thereby ensuring that those who rape children will live their lives cared for in jails at taxpayer expense (and possibly be released) while the victims will live their lives with emotional and psychological damage.
To Kennedy and the other liberals on the court (he might as well be one, he acts like it) there are no crimes that warrant the death penalty except murder and many of them oppose it in that case as well. To them, raping a child is something that should be punished with jail time which means anything short of life without parole would allow the offender to gain freedom and rape again. Justice Alito wrote the dissenting opinion. Here is part of it and it makes the most sense:
“The Court today holds that the Eighth Amendment categorically prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for the crime of raping a child. This is so, according to the Court, no matter how young the child, no matter how many times the child is raped, no matter how many children the perpetrator rapes, no matter how sadistic the crime, no matter how much physical or psychological trauma is inflicted, and no matter how heinous the perpetrator’s prior criminal record may be. The Court provides two reasons for this sweeping conclusion: First, the Court claims to have identified “a national consensus” that the death penalty is never acceptable for the rape of a child;second, the Court concludes, based on its “independent judgment,” that imposing the death penalty for child rape is inconsistent with “‘the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.’” Ante, at 8, 15, 16 (citation omitted). Because neither of these justifications is sound, I respectfully dissent.”
If a person who rapes a child is released and rapes again I assume that the flawed opinion of Kennedy and the others will be little consolation to the victim and his parents. I think if a person who rapes a child (in a state that had the death penalty for the offense) is released and rapes another child, the members of the court who allowed it should be hanged in front of the Supreme Court building. The idea is for laws to protect the public and this ruling does nothing to accomplish that. If it were my child they might not make it to the hanging.
While I am disgusted with the ruling in this case I actually have no feeling one way or the other about putting a criminal to death for raping a child because that can be accomplished anywhere regardless of what the court says. When the animal is sent to jail put him in the general population and let them know what he is in for. He will be killed in jail and the problem will be solved and with no appeals.
I cannot imagine what children must go through after they are raped and it is just as hard on the families. It makes it even harder when the courts rule that the criminal somehow has more rights than the victim. The criminal must be afforded a stretch of the VIIIth Amendment to stay alive while a child, who was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment at the hands of the attacker, must go through life bearing the scars. If some person who raped a child were released I would not blame any victim’s father who decided to remove the trash from this Earth. If I were on that jury he would walk away a free man.
Kennedy and the others are worried about cruel and unusual punishment. The death penalty is too good for these scumbags. They should be hanged, drawn and quartered (the criminals, not the justices, though that might not be a bad idea).
America, these justices are no where as liberal as those Barack Obama will appoint if he becomes president. There will likely be a few openings in the next president’s term. It is important that those positions are filled with justices who will not use public sentiment and personal feelings when interpreting the Constitution. We need more like those who were in the minority on this vote.
Be careful how you vote. Your vote has many more consequences than just putting someone in office.
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Tags: anthony kennedy, child rapists, death penalty, rapists, scumbags, supreme court
Marxist, Obama Supporting Judge, Strikes Death Penalty
Jun 14, 2008 Political
Judge James Burge of Ohio has ruled that the state’s method of executing prisoners violates the Constitution because two of the three drugs used cause pain to the person getting them. I am no judge but the Constitution does not say that punishment should be pain free. It only says that it may not be cruel and unusual.
Amendment VIII:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. [emphasis mine]
Under this judge’s interpretation we would not be allowed to make criminals in jail do any strenuous work (like being on the chain gang) because they will have sore muscles when they are done and God forbid we cause them any pain. As far as someone being put to death, what does it matter? They have a few seconds of pain and they drift off to la la land and never wake up. I am pretty sure that for most of the murderers on death row, this is a hell of a lot more humane then how they took the lives of their victims.
We have established that the Constitution does not protect against pain, only against inflicting cruel and unusual punishment. Once pain is out of the equation we have the injection of drugs. We give needles every day and we inject medications every day. The people to whom we do this have not been convicted of anything so they are not being punished. No, we do this because it is the common way of giving certain kinds of medication and of starting IVs and drawing blood. Therefore, it is neither cruel nor is it unusual.
Judge Burge has this entirely wrong but being wrong about the Constitution should not surprise anyone when one views the picture of the judge. The judge looks like Satan without the horns and the wall behind him has a picture of Ernesto “Che” Guevara an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who was a brutal killer and who has become the icon for leftist movements. On the wall next to Che is a picture of Barack Hopey Obama. This is the second published photo I have seen where an Obambi supporter placed it next to Che which seems to be the common thread among his supporters. One was at an Obama campaign office and now this one in the judge’s office. [The picture can be viewed at the linked source]
To Socialists (Marxism is a form of Socialism) like Burge, Che, and Obama, the Constitution is a living document that can be bent and reshaped to fit just about any need. They have no concern for the basis of the law or the idea that the Constitution lays out a solid foundation rather than a flexible platform. They do not concern themselves with these things because they know that they can bend and shape the Constitution to fit their whims, like not executing someone because of a little pain. I guess he found pain in the Constitution where the SCOTUS found abortion.
Speaking of abortion, ever notice how so many leftist twits will work their butts off to keep a convicted murderer from being executed but will do anything they can to help murder unborn children? An unborn child feels pain but that does not stop the left from worshiping abortion in the church of liberalism. They take great pride in allowing a doctor to snip open a kid’s head and suck his brains out just seconds before he is born. Obama even agrees with allowing them to be born and then left alone so they can die, simply because their mothers did not want them.
The world would be a better place if these liberals had been aborted by their mothers.
Source:
USA Today
Tags: abortion, che, death penalty, marxism, Obama, pain, socialism
But Don’t Hang Bad Guys
Nov 21, 2007 General
Stephen King’s Mist has been made into a movie and the ending was changed. King likes the ending so much he thinks anyone who reveals it should be killed:
Frank wrote a new ending that I loved. It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last 5 minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead. First Showing
It is too bad these Hollywood types don’t feel the death penalty is warranted for actual criminals. They all cried about Hussein, they cried about Tookie Williams and they protest every time some murderous thug is set to be executed.
No, they will protest killing a murderer and will protest the “right” to murder an unborn child. And now, God forbid anyone discloses the ending to a King movie.
Tags: criminals, death penalty, hollywood types, murderer, protest, stephen king, tookie williams, unborn child
Mexican Murderer’s Fate Obscured by Bush
Oct 7, 2007 Immigration
An interesting twist has developed in the death penalty fast lane known as Texas. The former Governor of Texas, George Bush, is trying to block the execution of a Mexican who was sentenced to death for raping and brutally murdering two girls. This is the same Bush who had an express lane to the executioner and who presided over a lot of executions. Not that I think there is anything wrong with a fast lane to ole Sparky. I believe that waiting 20 or 25 years to execute a murderer is way too long so I applaud the Texas method.
What I am amazed at is that George Bush would try to halt the execution of a Mexican killer. Can someone tell me what it is the Mexicans have over George Bush. Do they have pictures of him in a brothel, or smoking crack? He constantly looks out for their interests at the expense of Amercian interests. One only needs to remember the Amnesty fiasco he tried to shove down our throats to know where his allegiance is. Now he is trying to stop the execution of a murderer.
First of all, this is a state matter and the federal folks need to back off. Secondly, the US needs to tell Mexico to take an aeronautical intercourse at a revolving pastry. Mexico has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the murderer and 50 other Mexicans on death row. Why is it the Mexican government gets involved with its citizens who come here and murder but wants nothing to do with them otherwise? So long as Mexico can send these leeches up here to suck the lifeblood out of our economy they are happy. As soon as they commit a crime and are sentenced, the Mexicans want to file a lawsuit. It is amazing that the same people who use our laws to their advantage want to ignore our laws when they get punished.
I have a few ideas that will help out. First of all, instead of voting on the condemnation of Rush Limbaugh, the Congress can vote to condemn Mexico. Then, we can answer Mexico’s lawsuit by filing one of our own for all the money that their citizens have syphoned out of our economy by breaking the law. We can sue them for the money plus interest. That should keep them picking fruit for a very long time to pay the bill.
Another thing we can do is take the Mexicans who have been convicted of murder and execute them. If there is a doubt about evidence in any case they can let that go through appeal but for the ones where there is irrefutable evidence, I say line the bastards up and shoot them. It is not cruel and unusual punishment, they will have died of lead poisoning.
I am getting a little tired of the Mexicans and their candy assed government and its attitude that somehow America owes them something. They should be happy we did not wipe them out and take their country after the Alamo. They should also be happy we are not air dropping Mexican ILLEGALS from airplanes back whence they came.
As for the Mexican consulate and the government officials of Mexico, if one of these girls were my daughter and you helped the murderer, I would hunt you down, chain you to my bumper, and drag you until there was not enough left to fill a taco shell.
I am surprised the people of Texas have not told their former governor to mind his own damned business and then executed these murderers.
Source:
Fox
Tags: Commentary, death penalty, immigrants, Mexican, murder