Capital punishment

I am blown away when I see how many people post to stories about the murders and homicides reported in the papers (I sully my grey matter with such trash because it is linked to my email; mea culpa).  All of the back-and-forth about, "how can you be so insensitive!" and, "let the bastards rot!" is enough to make one sick, especially when one considers how socially and politically spineless most of these poster are.


You just watch them in the comments, crying and harping and ranting about the injustice of it all.  Then bring up the idea - the painfully, amazingly simple idea - of returning to public hangings, and sit back and watch the crowd suffer collective apoplexy.  There is not one other person willing to stand up before the whole group and agree with the idea that a quick, relatively-painless, time-tested, and fairly clean method of execution - practiced in the most public venue possible for as many people as can be brought to watch - is a great solution.  It is NOT a return to bread-and-circuses - as so many would have you believe; it is not an attempt to distract the people while the government goes its merry way subverting the peoples' rights.  In case you had missed it, that would be the media - with its crap programming, sensationalist (and often misleading) reporting of current events, and plain desinformatzia.


Look, I know we are human and frequently wrong.  I am quite aware of how prescient we are NOT.  I can also confidently state that people are people and that, as such, they can be depended upon - quite reliably - to respond to certain stimuli in predictable ways.  When children are raised with love - a first-principle compass - they learn to use that same compass.  When children are raised without love, they learn to use whatever compass - greed, wrath, sloth, lust, gluttony, pride, envy - they are given.  If they are unable to grow past the evil of their youth and become productive and constructive members of society, they become part of the problems plaguing society.  As such they must be excised, cut off from their people, by being hanged or fed to a firing squad - these destructive influences are eliminated from the otherwise functioning society which their continued presence would only serve to damage; the future of the society is protected, defended, and ensured.


Thomas Jefferson made a valid point when he wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that "mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves..." by standing up to make changes for improving the general lot of society.  He followed this with a clear statement that men also meet the insufferable head-on, taking up the gage of Injustice and - with manly fortitude - overcoming or dying in the attempt.  In either case, they show that they are unwilling to remain slaves to circumstance and fear, but are to be masters of their own lives, submitting only to God and to that authority that they have seen fit to place over their social interactions.

There is no good reason to permit the unjust to remain a terror to the just.  It shows a faith in providence, rather than in the wisdom of men, to commend the destructive nature to the destruction they so willingly court.  It is only just that the law-abiding, upright, and respectful should live free from fear of those who have nothing but contempt for all around them.

To that end, we should not hesitate to employ Capital punishment as the reward for those who have shown, by pattern or a single explosive burst, that they possess only contempt for God's majesty, society's law, and man's rights to life, liberty, and property.

Deus Patria Sic!