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Uponthegears

(1,499 posts)
4. Vacuum
Wed Jan 20, 2016, 03:45 PM
Jan 2016

Crimes like these never occur in a vacuum.

Their perpetrators are either brain damaged, or, more often, stripped of impulse control and empathy and taught on a very subliminal level by years of subjugation that power and dominance are the difference between victimhood and survival/success. We create them and then we pillory them as "all that is evil in the world."

Then we deny it.

So, I won't bother recounting the Carr's life stories, just to hear supposed liberals parrot the words of Antonin Scalia about who does or does not "deserve death." At the end, the argument about the death penalty will not be resolved by fighting over who is "deserving." Indeed, twenty-two years ago, in another 8-1 decision (that one denying cert.), it was a young girl gang raped, murdered, her underwear shoved down her throat that caused Justice Scalia to rail on about how a young, mentally disabled, black man, William Callins, should be grateful for the peaceful (a lie by the way) death of lethal injection in, dare I say, an opinion in which there is no doubt but that he would be joined by those here on DU who now can not look past the tragic end of a long journey on that cold Kansas day.

It will end when we can each say, "I will not kill."

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As horrific as these crimes were it sounds like... ButterflyBlood Jan 2016 #1
I read the Esquire article about this crime ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2016 #2
I'd be willing to pull the switch! atreides1 Jan 2016 #5
Can you give us a link? or tell us which issue it was in? nt raccoon Jan 2016 #16
Somehow, I knew they'd be black, else SCOTUS would have spared them. valerief Jan 2016 #3
SCOTUS doesn't seem to spare many people of the death penalty, black or white. Calista241 Jan 2016 #6
Actually SCOTUS overturned a black guy's death sentence a little over a week ago. Nye Bevan Jan 2016 #22
Vacuum Uponthegears Jan 2016 #4
Concomitantly, we also create the artist, the writer and the humble. LanternWaste Jan 2016 #7
And with that Uponthegears Jan 2016 #8
+1 Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2016 #9
What's this "We created them" -shit? Blue_Tires Jan 2016 #10
It's not about fault Uponthegears Jan 2016 #11
I already know their backstory, I was living in KS at the time Blue_Tires Jan 2016 #12
Let me say Uponthegears Jan 2016 #14
You act as if you care about people as human beings but then you deny their moral agency. Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2016 #18
It is not that black and white Uponthegears Jan 2016 #19
There are millions in similar circumstances who not only refrain from rape and murder but also Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2016 #21
Actually Uponthegears Jan 2016 #23
I'm pretty sure millions of people, even those who are poor, Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2016 #24
Ironic Uponthegears Jan 2016 #25
So did Tim McVeigh deserve death The Second Stone Jan 2016 #13
these are two thugs who just need to be put into a woodchipper bluestateguy Jan 2016 #15
Here is the actual opinion: happyslug Jan 2016 #17
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2016 #20
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