Comments on: Funding Security http://scottsafetyshop.com/blog/2007/11/11/funding-security/ I use this blog to provide safety, self-defense, and security information, addressing topics such as domestic abuse, teen violence, and violent crime prevention. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:55:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joanne Factor http://scottsafetyshop.com/blog/2007/11/11/funding-security/#comment-7080 Joanne Factor Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:27:48 +0000 http://scottsafetyshop.com/blog/?p=252#comment-7080 I very much agree with the first and third points (especially the third). Not so keen on the second. I think we in the US don't have a clear and uniform idea on what we want incarceration to achieve. Punishment, yes. But sooner or later the VAST majority of convicts have done their time and are freed. Then what? We need better ways of re-absorbing ex-cons as productive members of society. And I really don't trust the fairness of the current criminal system to carry out long-term financial sanctions. Who will be affected most? The poor and minorities, not the Enron types who have better legal resources to fight. I very much agree with the first and third points (especially the third).

Not so keen on the second. I think we in the US don’t have a clear and uniform idea on what we want incarceration to achieve. Punishment, yes. But sooner or later the VAST majority of convicts have done their time and are freed. Then what? We need better ways of re-absorbing ex-cons as productive members of society.

And I really don’t trust the fairness of the current criminal system to carry out long-term financial sanctions. Who will be affected most? The poor and minorities, not the Enron types who have better legal resources to fight.

]]> By: Aristocutionor http://scottsafetyshop.com/blog/2007/11/11/funding-security/#comment-7055 Aristocutionor Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:24:00 +0000 http://scottsafetyshop.com/blog/?p=252#comment-7055 Item 1 has been successfully initiated in Europe and Mexico. US manufacturing was sold out to a service economy, and the war on drugs. It's all about the money. Criminality is a cross market sector. It is a bogus money churn, but a massive churn of employment in non-productive "services". Item 2 is a bad idea. Most criminals could do much better in life with education and mentoring. The "sentence" was served by incarceration. The punitive sentence suggested is counter-productive. Also, upon serving a sentence a convict should have all Rights. Otherwise they are ostracized. Fact - No society has survived where more than 20% of the male population were felons, or, where the citizenry saw the justice system as unjust. Item 3 was addressed by Sen. Gordon Smith, R-OR succinctly - "The War in Iraq is illegal". It's not about fixing blame - it's about fixing the problem. In a word, Constitutionality. This war would not exist if the majority of members of Congress had not betrayed us by not even reading legislation ("Acts"). All it takes is for them to uphold the Constitution. They each took an Oath of Office to do so, and to not do so by action or inaction, is by definition in the US Code of Law, treason. Also, the Constitution mandates to each Citizen the responsibility to see to it that the Government is operated Constitutionally. That why, the 2nd Amendment - read the Federalist Papers (notes of the meetings of Congress to draft a Constitution by our Founding Fathers). Overall, the issue is a common moral standard. The Founding Fathers had a common moral standard - The Ten Commandments, and the Common Law. That was intentionally removed from education and has had a deleterious effect. Good talking points - Aristocutionor Item 1 has been successfully initiated in Europe and Mexico. US manufacturing was sold out to a service economy, and the war on drugs.
It’s all about the money. Criminality is a cross market sector. It is a bogus money churn, but a massive churn of employment in non-productive “services”.
Item 2 is a bad idea. Most criminals could do much better in life with education and mentoring. The “sentence” was served by incarceration. The punitive sentence suggested is counter-productive.
Also, upon serving a sentence a convict should have all Rights. Otherwise they are ostracized. Fact – No society has survived where more than 20% of the male population were felons, or, where the citizenry saw the justice system as unjust.
Item 3 was addressed by Sen. Gordon Smith, R-OR succinctly – “The War in Iraq is illegal”. It’s not about fixing blame – it’s about fixing the problem. In a word, Constitutionality.
This war would not exist if the majority of members of Congress had not betrayed us by not even reading legislation (“Acts”). All it takes is for them to uphold the Constitution. They each took an Oath of Office to do so, and to not do so by action or inaction, is by definition in the US Code of Law, treason.
Also, the Constitution mandates to each Citizen the responsibility to see to it that the Government is operated Constitutionally. That why, the 2nd Amendment – read the Federalist Papers (notes of the meetings of Congress to draft a Constitution by our Founding Fathers).

Overall, the issue is a common moral standard. The Founding Fathers had a common moral standard – The Ten Commandments, and the Common Law. That was intentionally removed from education and has had a deleterious effect.

Good talking points – Aristocutionor

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