Today's ridiculous Supreme Court decision reflects the Left's goals - logic and reason-free, they are entirely based on ideology. Here's a quick summary:
- The voters of Louisiana, and two juries of murderers' peers, have decided that child rape has grave enough consequences of the death penalty.
- The Supreme Court weighed in on a convicted [adult victim] rapist in the 70s, determining that such rapists deserve to have a long, meaningful life behind bars. Essentially, rape of a woman isn't destructive enough to pass their "cruel and unusual punishment" test.
- When these decisions happen, States follow with written laws reflecting the Supreme Court's stance. It's inevitable - if those laws don't get changed, then the State will waste tens of millions of dollars in prosecuting cases that will get slapped down by higher courts (who are only following the Supreme Court's guidance!). The point is that: Sure, 45 states have passed laws saying "No executions for any crime that manages to leave the victim alive." But the existence of these laws is not evidence of a trend in national sentiment. Herein is Justice Kennedy's (and the other 4 Justices siding with him) great dishonesty. He knows it, but he's been willing to use a house of cards to support many of his major decisions (such as leaving Roe v. Wade intact)
- A small handful of States decided, since the 70s case was based on an adult woman and child rape is even more abhorrent, we should be allowed to sentence child rapists to death. This makes sense, of course, because a child rapist effectively destroys a life - some such victims would rather be dead because their psyche has been utterly demolished.
- The Supreme Court majority, led by Anthony Kennedy, cited its own infinite wisdom and the inevitable results of its own 1970s decision (and the unavoidable slew of State laws following the Court's iron-fisted ruling). He said that there's been no trend toward executing felons for crimes other than first-degree murder, and there aren't a lot of laws on the books allowing executions for any such crimes.
There have been no such murders because Justice Kennedy's own Court outlawed it 30 years ago! We would have dozens of such laws if the Supreme Court would allow us to have them!

Really, it just makes me want to scream.

Quick! Before the Supreme Court disallows any executions, Execute Mumia Now! It's a close call, though. Any mental deficiencies would prevent the execution outright, thanks to more recent Supreme Court rulings. If I were Mumia's defense attorney, I'd just have him drool a little...

The result here is that child rape will increase - the offenders know there's a limited amount of punishment the State can pass down. The Court has just endangered all of our children a little bit more.

Supporting Mumia: Just Another Liberal Front

Whether or not Mumia should be executed is now beside the point in light of the fact that he has been found guilty in a court of law by a jury’s unanimous decision. The fact that he has been given chances to plead his case for a new trial and the decision has consistently been in the negative contributes to the needlessness of trying to establish whether he did it or not in hope that the judicial system will turn itself on its head to accommodate Mumia (who by the way has a reputation for being sooooo kind towards police and the U.S. judicial system in general.)

Mumia says he is the victim of a racist plot against him. You don’t say....

Now, before I am labeled as a xenophobic racist it should be understood that I am Black. Before I am labeled as a turncoat who was brainwashed by an evil conservative environment it should be understood that was raised and currently live in Hawaii, a state ruled by Democrats for over 40 years. The thoughts I write are my own- the result of a combination of study, experience and an interest in social and political issues.

So what is it that causes so many to take up the Mumia banner and parade him to the world as not only a hero but the real victim in the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner? The usual suspects of the Liberal star power heroes club are on board the free Mumia Express including Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oliver Stone to name a very few.

History has proven that liberals will jump on any emotional issue, claiming to stand up for the little guy, the voiceless, the defenseless. Mumia is far from any of these three designations, but he does have something that attracts the lefties... a disdain for our government and our legal system. Anyone who points the finger of scorn at the US for the world’s problems has won themselves the lefty patrol’s backing and protection. Extra kudos if you tear down President Bush. After all, President Bush planned 9-11, personally raised oil prices and single-handedly caused Hurricane Katrina.

Mumia has an interesting collection of liberal friendly traits. 1) He’s a minority. (To lefties, being a minority means you were born a victim. 2) He has written anti-government and anti-American literature. (Lefties call this “revolutionary” or “progressive” thinking.) 3) He stands accused, charged and convicted of a crime and has had the sentence of death pronounced on him. (Capital punishment is a liberal hot topic. To liberals, the death penalty is their anti-Christ. Yet most will tell us not to call Jihad or public executions in Muslim countries evil.)

The point here is that it is not and will never be Mumia that these lefties are standing up for. They are not standing for anything. They are, true to form, standing against something. They are standing against the death penalty, against law enforcement’s doing their job (precisely because the law doesn’t accommodate a murderer who just happens to be black) and against the judicial and executive branches of government as long as Bush is president. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are just holding out on the possibility of an Obama presidential pardon. We’ll keep our eyes open…

Thank you, Baby Boomers!

I strangely find myself agreeing with Brian Williams. The US is broken and needs fixing - and it's the Baby Boomers who broke it for us! One long, destructive generation did everything in its power to either break us outright, or to not get in the way of people bent on destroying us. A precious few Boomers had the chutzpah to stand in the path of the bulldozers.

We need fixing! Someone push all the Boomers out of power, please, and put my generation in charge. We at least have a lot of the common sense our parents lacked.

Here's my take:

1. The Boomers didn't want to offend illegals, so never actually deported them. Deport them now.
2. The Boomers didn't want to offend environmentalists, so we can't actually tap our own natural resources. Drill, dig, pluck, grow, and take any resource we need to put the US back on the top of the football pile.
3. The Boomers didn't want to offend the Democrats, so we have abortion unchecked. Please re-check it and let the States hash it out on a state-by-state basis.
4. The Boomers didn't want to offend the Gays, so now the Full Faith & Credit clause of Article IV of the US Constitution will transport this new institution across the borders of Vermont and California, into every other State. It's practically inevitable.
5. The Boomers didn't want to offend the insaniacs out there, so now our streets are flooded with homeless. Oh yeah, we're flooded with Boomers who don't want to work too (and unfortunate, moral-free people of my own generation as well), posing as homeless and feeding like leeches off the goodness of others.
6. The Boomers didn't want to feel they were excluding people for a little thing like culture or religion, so they instituted a general policy of placing every culture and religion ahead of those our country used for its foundation. Now, we have humanists, communists, socialists, terrorists, extremist Muslims, pagans and Jedi all in positions of superiority ahead of ourselves. All things are equal, but Jews and Christians are a little less equal than everyone else.
7. The Boomers want to feel cozy when they sleep at night, so they didn't want to kill bad people. "Let the poor convicts sleep in little beds with full workout gyms and nice cable TV on our children's dime," they said. "Executing capital punishment," pardon the pun, "...would make us feel bad." So now we're burdened with caring for people to live a natural life even though they deserve to die. Like Mumia! Stop dithering and EXECUTE MUMIA NOW.

There's plenty more, but the message is the same - the Boomers wanted to have their feel-good cake and eat it too, and stick my generation with the bill... sometimes literally.

Thank you, Boomers. You did a bang-up job.

(DISCLAIMER: about 30% of the Boomers stuck to their guns and managed to obstruct their way into completely handing my country over to tyranny. Thanks for standing out, you were truly Sicut lilium inter spinas, the lily among the thorns.