What Life Is More Valuable?
When One Life is Deemed More Valuable Than Another...
Something is wrong with our world!
When did we place more value on one life than we do any other?
When did we decide that your job description makes your life worth more than someone who isn't in that vocation? Why do police officers lives mean more than say, an airline pilot or a janitor's?
It is in the eyes of our Justice system. And even though I am very much a fan of our justice system and a student in pursuit of my degree in Criminal Justice, it bothers me very much that the killing of a cop automatically qualifies one for death, yet any other life taken has options for various other punishments.
I live in the state of Kentucky and I hate the laws here, they are so unfair, it is a "commonwealth state" and they follow the ways of the original lawmakers in England, the ones who were just figuring out the way laws, crimes, and punishments should be handled. However, the subject I am talking about isn't just an issue in KY, it is within the entire nation! The example I will be using just so happens to have occurred in Kentucky.
Read the following article and then you will understand the blog post...
Kentucky seems to have one of the biggest tears in the very fabric of our Nation's Criminal Justice system. I'm not EVEN going to go into the many, many reasons I say that. It's a novel when I create a rough draft of the reasons why I feel that way. I can back it up with facts so that's not even a matter of opinion of one individual.
Where homicidal crimes are concerned, it's not just one state in particular.
There's something WAY wrong with the fact that this man has an extensive and violent rap sheet dating back over the span of TWO decades, truthfully, probably longer than that, but specifically violent, heinous crimes against humanity and the community and law enforcement TOO!?
Oh wait, he only recently started lashing out at law enforcement officials and what would you want to bet that FOR THAT alone, this man's fate, mistakenly but LEGALLY interrupted the FIRST time he took a life, will FINALLY be sealed. That clear and present danger he's poses is FINALLY removed and not only for the loss of THREE MORE, but because he attempted to end one that wears a star on his cloak and whose life is respectable without question, nonetheless, bears no more and no less value as a human being in the eyes of our Lord and Savior, nor the families and friends of the victims who, in my opinion, were failed miserably by a system that, without hesitation, granted a killer freedom to be the ultimate, untimely, & undeserved demise of yet several more innocent and obviously unprotected victims.
Had one of his original victims been a cop, this would have NEVER HAPPENED! I am still so misunderstood by a lot of people who see a cop hater or an activist for crimes against humanity and I don't intend to send that message at all.
I'm simply saying that I am in agreement with the way law enforcement is to be revered and I do believe that they are extremely important and they put their very lives on the line to protect and serve, I have no objection to the killing of police officers being treated as it is, but I don't understand why any killing of any human life wouldn't be given the same respect in the way it should reverberate throughout the rest of society. Part of the grand scheme of our justice system is to set examples.
Ones that are so influential they stand to gain reconsideration when a decision is made to end one because it's inevitably and certainly going to cost that murderer THEIR OWN to do it!
Criminals, especially ones that wear a jacket such as his, make crimes their careers, thus the aptly named "career criminal" and then you see also that he's been merely reprimanded for felonious activity that should have had his parole immediately revoked as well as his opportunities for the devastation he's now caused three times over! I get the sense that he was almost fueled by this display of injustices throughout his career as a homicidal, persistent felony offender.
The law was basically saying...
"Okay look, we're giving you a chance for redemption and to have a life YOU no longer deserve, so BE GOOD buddy, Okay!?"
And how they showed his infractions would affect his underserved privileges was by smacking him with a love tap.
"Okay look, we're giving you a chance for redemption and to have a life YOU no longer deserve, so BE GOOD buddy, Okay!?"
And how they showed his infractions would affect his underserved privileges was by smacking him with a love tap.
I've seen men and women do a helluva lot more bid time for committing substantially lower level crimes than homicide and if those crimes were messing with state funds or law enforcement, they WEREN'T so leniently viewed and there was no parole offered.
Think PAY OR STAY and Child Support.
When money, status, and power become more important than human lives, no matter what profession, color, creed, or otherwise specific characteristic we have a serious, serious problem in America.
I once believed in the death penalty for murderers and evil, malicious offenses, especially against humanity. But I thought it over again after the tragic murders of my own son and his family occurred just a short year ago and it makes absolutely no sense to me to kill people to show the example that, well, you shouldn't kill people! Believe when I say, I want to stick by the "eye for an eye" biblical passage (which is then followed by Jesus saying, no, that's not the way to solve your issues with others)
(Matthew 5:38-42) but I cannot in good conscience say that I believe our government has a right to "play God" and say when, why, where an how someone should die at the hands of mankind, it's just not right in my eyes. But I judge not those who are for the death penalty, as I see their side of things as well.
I feel all human lives should be treated with equal weight and importance. Every homicide should be treated as it is when a police officer is killed or almost killed. Killers should be hunted down like it is life or death because it literally is! And they should be thoroughly examined by doctors and other professionals in with extensive experience with the criminal justice field, especially homicides!
A parole board made a colossal mistake by granting this monster his freedom. Changes need to be made! It begins with the voices of America.
I welcome your thoughts and views. Be polite.
J. B.
I once believed in the death penalty for murderers and evil, malicious offenses, especially against humanity. But I thought it over again after the tragic murders of my own son and his family occurred just a short year ago and it makes absolutely no sense to me to kill people to show the example that, well, you shouldn't kill people! Believe when I say, I want to stick by the "eye for an eye" biblical passage (which is then followed by Jesus saying, no, that's not the way to solve your issues with others)
(Matthew 5:38-42) but I cannot in good conscience say that I believe our government has a right to "play God" and say when, why, where an how someone should die at the hands of mankind, it's just not right in my eyes. But I judge not those who are for the death penalty, as I see their side of things as well.
I feel all human lives should be treated with equal weight and importance. Every homicide should be treated as it is when a police officer is killed or almost killed. Killers should be hunted down like it is life or death because it literally is! And they should be thoroughly examined by doctors and other professionals in with extensive experience with the criminal justice field, especially homicides!
A parole board made a colossal mistake by granting this monster his freedom. Changes need to be made! It begins with the voices of America.
I welcome your thoughts and views. Be polite.
J. B.
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