Lincoln, Luther, and King

Injustice in America takes many forms. Often it takes the form of when justice is not administered by the legal system. "Don't be corrupt when administering justice. Never give special favors to poor people, and never show preference to important people. Judge your neighbor fairly." - The Bible Sometimes crime pays handsome dividends due to ridiculously light court sentencing. This is the story of how Anthony (Tony) Shaw, an Army acquisition manager at the US Army Tank Automotive Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC) in Michigan, used kickbacks from an Army contractor to bail himself out of personal debt. Tony ends up being the winner, despite being ordered to pay restitution and serve almost 4 years in prison. In an episode that reminds us of the government bailout of AIG, Shaw personally benefited from taxpayer funds that bailed him out of over-leveraged real estate investments in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Thanks to Tony's light court sentence, ...

I think this is an interesting article. The tack that our country has taken, to privatize profits yet socialize losses , puts the burden for someone else's mistakes squarely on the shoulders of you the taxpayer. Now that bank CEOs can no longer pay for their plush offices with remote-controlled La-Z-Boy, now I must make the La-Z-Boy payments myself. But I'm still not allowed to sit in the chair and enjoy its benefits. Yet when that CEO makes a good decision and makes a profit, he doesn't have to share it with me - he gets to keep it all to himself and his company. So at its core, this is Middle-Ages Feudalism, where us peasants (American Middle Class) have no choice but to pay to insure the lifestyles of the rich and famous. I agree that it is difficult to gauge the proper balance of government regulation of economic industries. But on the other token, I'm against socialized welfare to cover other people's bad decisions. It just perpetuates ...

The case of Richard Cooey is ludicrous. The man claims he's too fat to execute. That they wouldn't be able to find his veins easily. That his migraine headache drug may prevent him from fully losing consciousness when injected with thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep prior to administering the actual lethal drugs.  His attorneys say that his resulting execution could be excruciating. Haven't we missed the entire point? Where is the justice? How is this guy getting what he deserves? How does this circus provide a deterrent to rape and murder? How does it strike fear into the heart of the evildoer?

The case of Mary Winkler  sends a very interesting message. Mary, after serving 12 days in jail and 2 months in a mental health facility, was put on probation for the remainder of her 3-year voluntary manslaughter sentence. So a year and a half after murdering her husband, she was living her life with all the freedom afforded the rest of us, except she couldn't travel or spend time with her kids.  And now, less than 2 and a half years after pulling the deadly trigger, she has custody of her kids! It's home sweet home for Mary Winkler - sans a troublesome husband, of course. Wow! That was less painful than going through a divorce and having to sell the house, split the assets, fight over the 401k, and spend sleepless nights battling bitterness and resentment. Disciples of Mary Winkler now have a new approach: take action and get it over with...permanently. Then blame it on the heat of passion. Passion over...finances???

In the article Would Immortality be Ethical, it is stated, "...in the United States, the right to life is considered something that every person is entitled to..." This statement is incorrect because the United States judiciary (no, not the legislature) has declared an entire class of persons to be non-citizens, and therefore not protected under the constitutional rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The cumulative number of these non-citizen persons whose lives we have collectively murdered in the U.S. exceeds 33 million. UPDATE: 50 million. This makes the holocaust look like a walk in the park. I am speaking of the unborn - killed not to save the life of a mother, but killed for the sake of convenience. It is another example of using the exception (saving a handful of women who would die from illegal abortions) to justify the rule (abortion for convenience). No wonder the wrath of God, prophesied in...