String Them Up!

Perhaps I shouldn't be attempting to write sensible prose, having just seen the footage of the burning Jeep sticking out of the front of a British airport, but I can't help thinking ahead and wishing that my (ex) government would grow some fucking balls and execute the shitbags they caught. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen: not only would politicians in the UK not have enough spine to change the law, they would no longer even be allowed the choice. That's because the UK is a member of the European Union, run by a band of left-wing bureaucrats, pussies and embezzlers.

Just look at the whiny crap written by EU politicians on the subject of the death penalty, when instituting their "Day Against the Death Penalty":

"The death penalty is a violation of the most fundamental of human rights, namely the right to life," said European Commission Vice President Franco Frattini. "Nothing justifies the death penalty, whether it is considered effective in combating crime or not."

Oh really? Call me a radical, but I believe the people in that airport had a right to life too, and the people outside the nightclubs in London, and the 14 year-old boy stabbed to death in the street last week for looking the wrong way at a black gang. I'd happily execute all the perpetrators. Liberals will witter on about how the justice system doesn't decrease crime, but that reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert argues that there's no evidence that longer sentences for career criminals reduces crime levels. Dogbert asks if that means other criminals commit more crimes while they're in prison, to keep the average up? You want to know what's the biggest contributor to crime? It's not locking violent criminals up - it's letting them out again.

Two things make the death penalty clearly right: firstly it is 100% guaranteed to prevent reoffending, so that should help address the concern about putting people in prison not being effective at "rehabilitating" them. Secondly, it is what these people deserve. Justice isn't supposed to be about addressing the needs of the perpetrator; it's about making the punishment fit the crime, preventing them doing it again and sending a fucking strong deterrent signal to other people that maybe it isn't a good idea to kill someone. Plus, as an added bonus, we don't have to pay ridiculous taxes to feed, clothe and provide medical care for these scum so that they can sodomize each other in comfort.

One thing I never understood is why the penalty for murder can be death but the penalty for attempted murder is not. Once you try and kill someone, why should you get a lesser sentence just because you're crap at it? The people who set the nail bombs in London wanted to kill and maim hundreds of people. They tried their very best to make it happen. The fact that they failed does not make them one single bit less guilty, and they should be punished for what they tried to do. People who don't have the guts to face scum like this and deal with them are the reason that crime levels are so high.

I once had a statistics professor who explained why it was a perfectly rational decision for criminals to commit crime. If you multiply the chance of getting caught by the chance of getting charged by the chance of getting convicted by the chance of not getting freed on appeal by the pathetically short sentence you'll get, especially for a "first time" offender (meaning one who's probably been cautioned or let off twenty times already) then why not beat up the old man and steal his wallet? And if he dies? Well, it'll be pleaded down to involuntary manslaughter - you'll be out in a couple of years. Want to kill your husband? Make up some shit about spousal abuse and you'll go from cold-blooded killer to sobbing victim in the blink of an eye. It's almost a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, provided you're white and middle class.

What Signor Frattini and his fellow EU cocksuckers fail to realize is that not implementing the death penalty costs lives too. A recent study comparing crime in death penalty and non-death penalty states even managed to calculate the number of lives saved by executing killers, in reoffences avoided and other offences deterred. This misguided whiny protection of the worst scum on earth isn't just costing us money - it's causing more people to have to die, just so they can pat themselves on the back about how "morally superior" they are. Wankers.

Once you decide to kill innocent people in cold blood then you just pissed away any "right to life" you may have had, alright? Fuck what the pansies in the European Union say, and fuck worrying about the "rights" of these miserable, evil scumbags. Bring back hanging. And don't dick around with twenty years of government-funded appeals. Pull the lever now while it's fresh in everyone's mind. If you can get over killing an animal to eat it you should not have a hard time killing a violent murderer and making our world a little bit safer, OK?

Here endeth the lesson. More humor next time.


Copyright 2007 Edward Bison