With one of the Manson killers, justice is finally served
Bookworm on Sep 25 2009 at 8:04 am | Filed under: Crime and punishment
Manson follower Susan Atkins died in prison. I mention this because there was a press from some liberals to get her out so that, like that Libyan dude (and he’s not dead yet, is he?), she could die in the arms of her family. Considering the violent, brutal, grotesque murders she committed, compassionate parole would have been the greatest crime of all. Fortunately, the California parole board, showing more sense than the British government (although I think bribery was more of a factor than sense when it came to the Brits), made sure that she truly got a life sentence.
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This is one of the continuous chains for why I say that the police are there to clean up the body bags.
Whether the body bag is you or the person you killed, however, rests upon some factors called training and capability.
If you are not capable of killing anyone in arm’s reach, then the equation must naturally end up with you being in the body bag, for there becomes no contest, no equality.
I like people like Manson.
Without them, I would lack the justification for training under TFT. If the world was a peaceful place with conscientious robbers and burglars, we wouldn’t need to know how to serially kill everybody in a room that we are in.
But those like Manson changes the crux of the view. Now it transforms from an abstract enemy that one has never faced, to being trained to target and destroy those like Manson.
Before, the argument of proportionality would always exist. Is it proportional to permanent destroy a person’s knee or eyes when he didn’t intend to kill and when he was not fighting without weapons? How then could you tell whether a person has a weapon in the dark, except when he pulls it out and uses it on you?
There’s all kinds of ‘what if’ scenarios that result when you start lawyering this stuff up and start placing limits on yourself.
But with those like Manson, I can take the limits off. The lack of mercy then becomes a virtue. A tribute and a gift to humanity.
If Manson had 10 people in his crew, I would only need a posse of 5, including myself, to smoke the rat-nest out. Less so, even, if I had some real experienced fighters and tactical surprise as a force magnifier. The criminal justice system exists to protect those like Manson from the rest of us. Because without such laws, I’d go get them, for self-preservation if nothing else. And I’d bring a large majority of the population in the area with me.
I’ve heard some people say that they don’t feel comfortable with being held responsible for the execution of anybody. I’ll do them a favor, then. i’ll do the execution for them. As a gift to humanity, of my own free will, not the dictates or orders of the state or of the law.
Let her memory be relegated to history’s ash heap!
There is no real justice here, just death delayed by 40 years.
The problem with the initial sentence is that it was life.
Atkins was breathing, being fed, clothed and I can assume receiving medical attention at the expense of taxpayers, which includes the grieving family and friends of all the victims.
The scales of justice stink like the rotting scales of fish.
I am in favor of the mourners determining how justice should be applied and if (they) favor a life sentence, they should pay for room and board in the prison.
If they opt for execution, they get to choose the method.
I am in favor of the mourners determining how justice should be applied and if (they) favor a life sentence, they should pay for room and board in the prison.
Ah, choice. Not something the totalitarians like to promote.
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Sadie: from what I have read about prison medical care, I doubt that she got top-dollar medical assistance, which is at least some compensation.
Sadie, I’d opt for a slow death, brought on by having the perp be forced to watch endless loops of Michael Moore “documentaries” and hilarious David Letterman riffs on the now long departed George W. Bush.
This would all be done from the confinement of the passenger cabin of a converted Prius, which, being “progressive,” would have no sharp edges, toxic materials or reactionary devices with which the condemned might off himself.
I’d say catatonia within three days and brain death within seven. Then, let the organ harvesting begin.
I say put them in a deathmatch with somebody.
Charles
Excellent suggestions, but I would reverse the order.
Harvest the organs slowly.
Death.
Burial in a Prius which has been set in front of a screen to watch ……