Criminal Justice

 Always Room for Improvment

 The United States system of justice is supposedly one of the best in the world, but I question it in practice. We decry the terrible crime in our country. People feel they must threaten certain freedoms in our nation to correct the problem. The problem does not exist within the exercise of our freedoms. The vast majority of people use their freedom without breaking any laws. We have sufficient laws within this country to deal with crime. Why pass more laws to restrict more freedom, to create more criminals? A criminal's "profession" is breaking the law as it exists, as it will exist. We need no more laws. We need enforcement; we need a justice system that caters more to the offended not the offender.

 I am writing primarily of violent offenders, offenders whose parole back into society all too often leads back to crime. I have heard the terms "mandatory parole", if a person has committed a violent crime there should be no such term as mandatory parole. A violent offender should serve his time, not repeat his crime.

 As for younger offenders, I understand the concern of people when it comes to jailing younger offenders with adults. Perhaps more facilities should be created for young offenders. The time has come when lessons must be learned. When any offender knows that he has committed a crime, he must pay a price, perhaps probation is enough but not always. Parent's sympathy toward a child is understandable, but a parent may not always be objective. All too often a youth uses their age as an escape route. An escape thus given is often seen as a sign to other youths that they can get away with it to.

 Justice is not an exact science and is skewed by laws that are not always fair or just. The system is sometimes weak and sometimes to harsh. It seems with the violent offender it is the weakest. What is clear is that our system needs an overhaul that the abundance of laws needs to be trimmed and clarified. It is also clear that the honest citizens should not lose any freedoms for a system too weak to deal with the real criminals.

Standards

A Final Word

 Freedom, Honor and Justice, if we begin to fail these things, we begin to fail ourselves. If we fail ourselves, we may be truly lost. Therefore we must hold true to these concepts whenever possible, to find in ourselves what we can be, to be our best, for all.

Unjust Laws II

Freedom is Justice - Injustice is Tyranny

 Good enforcement can stop crime but enforcement of unjust law only leads to less freedom and more tyranny. Honest and just people should not be subject to the continual onslaught of new law when enforcement of existing law is sufficient and needed. Freedom once given to honest people should not be sacrificed to laws created through injustice and fear. In Nazi Germany freedom became the illusion to those willing to live within the confines of the tyrants laws. No one but another tyrant would consider Nazi Germany free.

 Fear is a tool by which tyrants take freedom, by which freedom may be sacrificed through unjust laws. Our forefathers fought the Revolution for freedom; they set forth in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights the tenets of the People's freedom and the power of the people to protect that freedom. The Revolution freed us from a tyrannical government, two documents declared the nature of that freedom for the people. If first consideration is not to be given to the freedom of the people, then these documents have begun to lose their value to the people, if they can being manipulated to the powers of the government, they can be used for the power of future tyrants and our forefathers plan for freedom fails. Government must uphold and enhance the freedom of the people.

 It is the governments who allows slavery, and engage in multinational wars and who can engage in the wholesale oppression of their citizens. If governments will not trust the people with the rights given to the people, then why should those governments be trusted?

Red Zone II

Fear from the Left

 Brady Center vice president accuses NRA of fear peddling. What hypocrisy is this? The Left of which this V.P. is an apparent member has been fear mongering, firearms, the NRA, Conservatives, the 2nd Amendment and any freedom they are afraid of for more than 40 years. Fear is a terrible thing to waste especially for Liberals. For Liberals if you want control of it or to destroy it make people afraid of it, induce fear of it and then pass a law to "protect the people" from it. Liberals love control and fear is a good tool to obtain control with, be afraid of the Liberals they are out of your control.

Standards III

Honor

 Honor should pervade not only justice and freedom but our lives. What is honorable in damaging freedom or justice? What is honorable about treating citizens that exercise certain freedoms, as doing something wrong? What is honorable about degrading those individuals for the freedoms they have chosen to exercise? These questions may seem unnecessary to ask but they are not. Honor can be hard to define. Actions of honor are actions that uphold freedom and justice. Actions of honor should be actions that the world would see as reasonable and fair. If in an action you feel ashamed or wrong in its commission perhaps you should question the honor in it. The protection and the upholding of freedom and justice will always be honorable.