2008 Soap Box Archives

Crime and Punishment

I remember years ago making a remark to my granddaddy that it seemed that people were more evil than they had ever been. His reply was that they had always been that way, there were just more of them now.

Then and now I consider my grandfather to be a wise man whose sage opinions I regarded as insightful and correct. Granddaddy has been gone for many years and I can't help but wonder if he was still alive if his feelings on evil would still be the same.

Granted there are many more people but it seems that the level of malevolent deeds they do get more frequent and bizarre as time goes by.

The murders of two young college coeds at Auburn Alabama and the University of North Carolina exemplify what I'm talking about. Two young girls murdered in the prime of their lives. Two people who would have been useful productive citizens cut down by scumbags who will never be anything to society but a danger and a drain.

There are people guilty of horrendous crimes who have been sitting on death row for thirty years because the society they violated lacks the will to carry out the sentence they have been given by a jury of their peers.

There are rapists, muggers, murderers, thieves, child molesters and all manner of predators walking the streets, lurking in the shadows just waiting for an opportunity to ruin somebody's life. The biggest percentage of which have been in trouble with the law for years and some milksop judge just keeps putting them back out on the street until they finally do something so terrible that even a flower child judge is not willing to release them back into society.

Parts of some big cities have become war zones where children can't even walk to school without fear of being shot. Just this fact alone is a national disgrace.

More people die violently on the streets of America than are killed in Iraq and Afghanistan put together.

The motivating factor in so much of our street crime is drugs. There is just too much money involved as generation after generation keeps the blood flowing in the street and the Columbian drug lords wealthy.

Even when they're busted, big time drug dealers can afford big time lawyers who have no qualms about defending these death merchants. The money gets passed around and the beat goes on.

What's the answer, some people say it's legalizing drugs and point to Holland as a shining example of legalization.

They call Las Vegas sin city but it doesn't hold a candle to Amsterdam where someone will walk up to a fourteen year old on the street and try to sell him cocaine. Where it's just as easy to get hooked on legal heroin as illegal heroin, where crack addicts suck their breakfast through the stem of a crack pipe. But all legal mind you.

We can't handle the problems we have now, why should we import more?

In the meantime don't forget, they're out there, they have no morals, they have no mercy and they're more than willing to hurt you. Keep a close eye on your kids.

And you want to take my guns away? Stuff it Ted Kennedy.

Pray for our troops

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

March 14, 2008