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2000 Soap Box Archives Law And Order When we repeat the phrase law and order we tend to think of it almost as one word, but it's not. It's two distinct words, though being closely related having different meanings. Law is as we all know what separates the civilized from the uncivilized, the streets from the jungle. Order on the other hand is the result of law administered properly. We have a lot of law but little order. Since law is supposed to produce order surely something is wrong. We have enough gun laws on the books to control every situation imaginable, yet they are not being enforced, hence no order as far as guns are concerned. And I'm not laying this at the feet of our much maligned police. No this is a political problem. There are plenty of laws against illegal drugs but we are still inundated with them. While the high priced lawyers and the Clinton-Gore administration target tobacco companies, the streets are awash in a river of crack cocaine and heroin. Could you imagine what would happen if the government and these high priced ambulance chasers would pursue the drug trade with the same zeal and wrath which they expend on the tobacco trade? There are a lot of people clamoring about the death penalty, how it is cruel and unusual punishment, without considering the cruel and unusual punishment of the victims. How can you defend the life of a scum bag who has raped, mutilated and murdered a nine year old child? That's what the laws is for, to rid society of a monster who has proven themselves unfit to live among civilized people. When the law is enforced there will be order in so far as one murderer is concerned. He'll never harm another child. Most all the crime is committed by the same handful of people. They're in and out of jail constantly molesting the population in one way or the other destroying the order of society. When people continue to commit the same crimes over and over they should be put away from society for good. Then there will be order. I believe in peaceful demonstration but what happened recently at the the world trade organization meeting in Seattle is nothing short of an uprising, by a mob of unruly radicals who destroyed the property of innocent people. This is against the laws but the law officers practically had their hands tied by political considerations. I think a situation such as this merits the use of the National Guard to bring order. Civil unrest in the face of injustice is not a bad thing but when it is used for an excuse for burning and looting it becomes, in many cases, worse than the wrong that is being protested. We live in a silly and strange society. Where God is mocked, where homosexuality is touted as being normal, where our elected officials are controlled by special interests and whoever can afford the biggest campaign contribution, where there is plenty of law but precious little order. What do you think? God
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