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I was thinking this morning about how the probability of the alleged snipers getting the death penalty was pretty high. Now, Maryland is much more of a liberal state when it comes to the death penalty, but Virginia is up there with Texas and Florida with nuking your ass if you kill someone. I'm assuming there will be a huge rally to get them tried and convicted in Virginia just for that reason. Anyway, this got me thinking that nowadays, being in prison is like being a celebrity. You are glamourized for killing someone, dealing drugs, joining gangs and you are simply just put in a different world and are praised for it by your peers in prison. Some gang member in LA killed someone the other day and the camera crew happened to be there when he was getting arrested. As he was being dragged away, he looked straight into the camera and said how he wasn't scared of prison or the "****ing" police. And I believed him.
So it got me thinking about what we could do to deter criminals from wanting to go to jail. They need to feel fear about going to jail. They need to feel that going to jail is way worse than not going to jail. I want them to think twice about it. What if we brought back a hard labor system. If the snipers new that they were going to spend the rest of there life doing manual, hard labor everyday for the next 30 years. I think they would re-consider. I also think prisoners have to many privileges. Take away their rights to meet with there families. Sure, they could write letters once a month, but no more face to face. Take away there interaction with other prisoners so they can no longer conspire, plan, etc... Basically, just minimize everything but hard. manual, back-breaking labor. Then video tape this and distribute to civics classses across the country. Educate children on what really happens when you go to jail. Show them the frost bitten hands of a prisoner who has been breaking his back up in alaska for the last 30 years. Show them the man he used to be and what he is like now. A mere ghost of a man that is tired and old and basically hates his life. A man that wants nothing more but to end his life and regrets everything wrong he has done. Teach our children that the alternative to a crime such as the sniper shootings is not worth the risk.
Sure, there are different kinds of crime and different kinds of punishment. For example, what about the crooked CEO's from Enron and Worldcom. Do they deserve the same penalty? No way. I can't lump them in the same category as the sniper. Do they deserve to be punished more than a couple years in jail and a slap on the wrist with 'relatively' small fine? Hell yes they do! They deserve 20 years in jail and basically all of there money taken away from them. My point is, there are different punishments for different crimes.
And while I am at it. I am tired of people living in America who are anti-americans such as the alleged snipers. We get called 'racial profilers' because we want to keep an eye on black muslims in our country who have done nothing but admit they are anti-american and have caused a lot of violence. I say, if you are anti-american, and that is your right, then it is our right to watch you like a hawk. Doesn't matter if you are yellow, white, black, brown. If you are an extremist muslim in our country and you are anti-american, then you should be watched. If you don't have anything to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.
And last, although this is my current view, I am open to hearing other people's views and why this may or may not work. I am simply tired of the crap we have now. It doesn't work and we need to change it.
Dave
So it got me thinking about what we could do to deter criminals from wanting to go to jail. They need to feel fear about going to jail. They need to feel that going to jail is way worse than not going to jail. I want them to think twice about it. What if we brought back a hard labor system. If the snipers new that they were going to spend the rest of there life doing manual, hard labor everyday for the next 30 years. I think they would re-consider. I also think prisoners have to many privileges. Take away their rights to meet with there families. Sure, they could write letters once a month, but no more face to face. Take away there interaction with other prisoners so they can no longer conspire, plan, etc... Basically, just minimize everything but hard. manual, back-breaking labor. Then video tape this and distribute to civics classses across the country. Educate children on what really happens when you go to jail. Show them the frost bitten hands of a prisoner who has been breaking his back up in alaska for the last 30 years. Show them the man he used to be and what he is like now. A mere ghost of a man that is tired and old and basically hates his life. A man that wants nothing more but to end his life and regrets everything wrong he has done. Teach our children that the alternative to a crime such as the sniper shootings is not worth the risk.
Sure, there are different kinds of crime and different kinds of punishment. For example, what about the crooked CEO's from Enron and Worldcom. Do they deserve the same penalty? No way. I can't lump them in the same category as the sniper. Do they deserve to be punished more than a couple years in jail and a slap on the wrist with 'relatively' small fine? Hell yes they do! They deserve 20 years in jail and basically all of there money taken away from them. My point is, there are different punishments for different crimes.
And while I am at it. I am tired of people living in America who are anti-americans such as the alleged snipers. We get called 'racial profilers' because we want to keep an eye on black muslims in our country who have done nothing but admit they are anti-american and have caused a lot of violence. I say, if you are anti-american, and that is your right, then it is our right to watch you like a hawk. Doesn't matter if you are yellow, white, black, brown. If you are an extremist muslim in our country and you are anti-american, then you should be watched. If you don't have anything to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.
And last, although this is my current view, I am open to hearing other people's views and why this may or may not work. I am simply tired of the crap we have now. It doesn't work and we need to change it.
Dave
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