The Appropriate Penalty

Dear Daddy:

Well, you bloodthirsty jerk -- bet the delay of the McVeigh execution really bothers you, doesn't it?

Peace and Love for All

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Dear Peace:

Nah, I am extremely disinterested in the fate of McVeigh. I have, however, found it rather delicious to see the hypocrisy of many -- maybe most -- liberals unmasked during all this.

I am, of course, referring to the nearly wholesale abandonment of "anti-death penalty" sentiment in this case. Where are the "candlelight vigils" and marches for McVeigh?

"Kill him, kill him -- his crimes are so great," they cry. They "agonize" over it -- but must demand his head -- the crime is so great....

It would be hard to find one person out of ten on the street -- or in Hollywood, for that matter -- who wouldn't admit to wanting McVeigh fried (er, injected).

Fascinating to watch folks abandon their "principles" so readily. Fact is, only real principles survive hard times ... and difficult situations.

What this really points out is how cheap life has become now in America.

It takes mass murder -- big body counts -- to get the government and the people riled up enough to apply the appropriate penalty to a murderer.

You might say that if it takes 168 people (or 4 or 10) being murdered to get a death penalty application -- that is the amount of reduction in value of human life, from where it always was in the not-too-distant past, and where the Bible puts it.

As a side issue -- whatever "deterrent effect" there is with capital punishment is diluted by that same ratio.

Those unfortunate enough to get killed one at a time -- their lives are now usually only worth a fraction of what a life used to be worth.

And that's how most of us get murdered -- one at a time.

But, knock off a lot of folks, especially government workers, and some children, and add to the crime that it was an attack on a government building ... why, now, we got us a capital crime, folks!

Think I am off base, you libs -- and others? Test me -- see how little interest in applying the death penalty there is surrounding your next local murder -- of non-important people.

Makes me sick.

This inconsistency exposes the bankrupt and untrustworthy emotional component of "justice" in America.

Everything else here is group oriented now -- guess you have to kill a group too, to get a proper sentence.

Daddy