May 30
Death or Life, now there is a question …..
Trawling through the Blogosphere I came across something written by the Gray Monk in reply to a friend who had in turn forwarded an appeal for a petition against the release of the Jamie Bulger killers. As the Monk has evidently put some considerable thought to this, I shall not attempt to improve it, May I suggest a visit to his pages and his post entitled “The evil in our time” by clicking here.
Should any of our seemingly innumerable adornments to that well known house of destruction and calumny in Westminster be reading this, may I suggest that you take careful note of what he says about the wisdom of turning loose, among an unsuspecting populace, murderers provided with new names and faces when you cannot even manage the mentally ill properly in the community, may be worthy of further thought. Before you all rush off on your summer hols at the tax payers expense please?
While I agree in principle (I would wouldn’t I? After all my own departure was a trifle messy!) that the death penalty does have its draw backs, I would have to say that in some cases it is not only deserved, but an essential defence of society. How you manage to balance that is another question …...
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
