Child Rape – The Supreme Court

Posted by Castel on June 25, 2008

Today the supreme court ruled that it is unconstitutional the execute anyone for child rape. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion that execution in the case of child rape would violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, citing “evolving standards of decency” in the United States.

Evolving Standards of Decency

I think that this is probably one of the most disturbing case results from the Supreme Court that I have heard in a long time. Justice Kennedy stated that since there had not been an execution in over 30 years, that the United Stated was evolving to a better standard of decency. I find that interesting that a judge who has seen a lot of cases thinks that the criminal element is evolving and that standards of decency apply to them. Then he stated that this is directly related to the 8th ammendment and that it would be cruel and unusual punishment to the child rapist to be executed. This stikes me in the face as ironic that the decency is given to those who prey upon our most valuable asset, and then distroy them in the worst possible way. Yet the victims of this crime have no recourse. The rapist will be in a prison that gives them 3 meals a day, an allowance, cable T.V., gym and outside privelleges, and a conjucal visit. The children get reconstructive surgeries, a life time of angst wondering what they had done to caused this, emotional damage, a mis-trust of personal contact, the worry of this aturocity happening again, and the understanding that these rapist can get out of jail at the whim of a judge.

The Supreme Courts then stated that “a willing act of murder,” is the justifiable reason that a person can receive the death penalty. With that line of logic a rapist can claim that they did not intend to kill the child and that it was an accident that happened while the child was being raped, and the rapist can get avoid the death penality. It even sounds like the Supreme Court is advocating an eye for an eye. Kill a person and get the death penality, but it is not the case, given time this ruling can be used for a refutal of all death penality cases in its entirety.

The court is ruling in an activist form. They have no concearn to the constitution or the belief that it is that document that has kept this nation great. It looks like the court has decided that they know better than the states and voters, and they have decided to restrict the state’s rights in the course of justice.

This is not the place to preach my religious beliefs, and I try to keep it to a minimuim since most of you know my beliefs already, and so I will keep this governmental in its entirety. The Supreme Court was erected so that it could help balance the power between the executive branch and the legislative branch. Up until the great depression the states had more power than the federal government, and the people had the most power of all. Then Roosevelt was elected and for three terms (look it up,) he was president. During that time the power shifted away from the citizen and into the pocket of the federal government. Roosevelt was a “progressive,” by his own deffinition as well as today’s. He used fear and threats to get the power from the private to the public. At one point in time Roosevelt even sent deligates to Mussolini’s government to figure out how he could change the United States to a Socialist government. Roosevelt even studied Hitler’s regime, and this is what he came up with: If a state can encourage a feeling of depenency upon it’s people then it can control them. Such things that help such a “progressive” movement is – youth worship, welfare, and distruction of religion.

Youth Worship

Youth worship is when a society begins to remove the importance of the information gained from the older part of society and starts to encourage the ignorance of youth. Such sayings as “Who are you to judge me?” and “This doesn’t hurt anyone else!” are a great example of such things. Another and more prevelant example is the distruction of the nuclear family. This can be seen in all forms of popular art, TV shows glamorize that there is no need for a father in the family, and asserts that the male figure has no need for the family. The mother is then shown as a party going woman who has control over her family life. If you don’t believe me take a look some night. The Simpsons has a father that is an alcoholic that can’t take care of his family as they live in the lower clase of society. (I chose the Simpsons since it is the number one series in Television history.) If you look at ER, Grey’s, Scrubs, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, or many of the others it shows the same thing, that the male subject is the one to cause the damage to family and that in many cases the children would be better off without him.

Welfare

I remember one of my grandfathers talking about a flood that happened in Kansas during the early 1900’s. He said that people were ripping their doors off of the hinges so that they could float out of the town and to safety. He then goes on to talk about how Katrina caused so much damage. Undebatably New Orleans is a progressive (democrat) ran city. The unemployment rate is stagering, and crime rules the cities with a violent bloodly fist. Welfare can be obtained easily with no thought of giving back to the society from which it takes. During Katrina people waited on their houses for someone to come rescue them. The never even thought that they could take care of it without someone else doing all the work. I know that this is a generalization, and not everyone was that way, but many were. Instead of taking whatever they could and floating to high ground, they instead demanded that the government take care of them. Even after the flood the people demanded that someone else rebuild their city and to give them a place to stay until it was done.

Welfare without recompense distroys the pride of a hard working man. No longer does a person feel the need to get out of a bad situation and make a better life for himself. There is no need to take care of a family when Uncle Sam does. When you give the power to the government to take care of your family that is exactly what they will do. Recently in the news there have been schools that have decided to give birth control pills to girls starting at the age of 11 and without having to notify the parent. They have decided that it is okay to give 11 year old children hormone treatment drugs, and it is because they think that they know better than the parents.

Hitler had a saying that I am going to paraphrase, he said that an adult can try all he can to keep the Nazi movement from taking control, all Hilter needed was the young to carry out his plans. Hitler knew that if you could trap the young you could control the future. He developed the Hitler youth, and other “programs” that indoctrinated the children. The progressive movement is doing the same thing. In this campaign season we have heard both progressive parties talk about youth organization that they would begin when/if they are elected. One of them wanted to start the GreenEarth Youth party. The other talked about the village raising the child (not the parents).

Distruction of Religion

“Whatever we once were, we’re no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers,” Obama said during a June 2007 speech available on YouTube. We are a nation that is based upon Christian beliefs, we were never a nation of Christians, yet if you ask the progressive platform and they would say that it is naive, foolish, or hateful to be a Christian/Jewish/Muslim/Hindu or whatever. The need to destroy the belief that there is something bigger than man, and that we must answer to it is the final stage of the progressive push to socialism. My wife spent sometime in an Eastern Bloc country. She was told by the people that when the children were in school the teachers would teach against religion. They would seperate the children that believed in God and those that didn’t. One of the tactics that they would use to further distroy the beliefs of the young is to have the children pray. They would have the children put their heads down on the desk and have the religious children pray to their god, and the communist children pray to stalin for candy. The teacher would then go around and place candy upon the desk of the communist children only. When the children were done the teacher would say something along the lines of “Why doesn’t your God give you candy? Stalin does.”

By distroying the religion you have distroyed the accountability of society. I have heard that “religion is the opiate of the masses,” from many people, and it is a catchy phrase, yet it is 180 degrees off. Free religion is the liberating force of the universe. If you can chose which moraise and dogmas that you choice to live, you can choose the direction of live you shall have. A person can not choose to not pay the consiquence, that is what justice is all about. When justice is denighed then the it is the righteous that suffers.

Humor in Print

Posted by Castel on June 25, 2008

Here is some fun things I have found, Thanks to Natalie Dee, Ebuams World, and all others

Tractor 360

Posted by Castel on June 25, 2008

This weekend has been one that I will not forget. We are currently living in a four-plex. Our friends live in a house just behind us. All of the housing around here is about 115 years old. On Thursday of this last week I was “volun-told” that I was to help out my friends pull apart their back yard with a Bobcat tractor since my friend Nick did not know how to work the vehicle.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining, I am like most men, I love working with my hands and power tools, especially power tools that are about 2.5 tons and 50,000 dollars. They are also great friends and they have helped us often, so I have no problem helping the drive their 2.5 ton, 50,000 dollar power tool around their back yard.

After putting in half a dozen hours of overtime at work, I went home, grabbed a snack and went over to Nick’s house. We immediately started pulling the tractor off of the trailor and digging up about 58 tons of dirt. (NO JOKE.) I placed the dirt on the tractor trailer so that it can be hauled off and “deposited,” in the proper location.

Our first load of dirt was headed to the dump in a town just down the freeway. . . Until we started to go up hill. That is when we noticed that his truck was not strong enough for the drop. (His truck is a V8 1 ton.) So we turned around and began the trek down to the bottom of town, looking for a good place to drop this dirt.

If we had lived in a town that was bigger we would have at least received a ticket for driving with an uncovered load, at the worst we could have been arrested for trespassing and illegal dumping. However none of that happened. We had a cop follow us for most of Main St. without him even noticing us. At this time I have to thank every red neck and hick that paved the way for us.

Once we found a spot to drop the dirt (behind Nick’s work, in the Hobo field,) we began shoveling all of the dirt off of the sides of the trailer. Now I can shovel all day, not that I am fit, but spending a childhood playing in dirt, and most of my life in the Marine Corps shoveling or digging I have gained muscle memory that just seems to have a natural movement when it comes to digging enormous holes quickly. After an hour of shoveling we decide that it will be better if we tilt the trailer and let the dirt slide off while Nick drives the truck forward.

Well that is what was supposed to happen. After doing that three or four times, we realized that the law of physics has not yet been invented in this small town and downward pressure with forward momentum will not work. So we go back to shoveling and sweating in the “sweltering” 75 degrees. After we finally cleared the trailer we head back home.

On the second load of dirt we decided that it would be better to drive the tractor down to a new drop site. (We decided to not push our luck by returning to the scene of the crime, and to just pick another spot in hopes that it will confuse the local law enforcement.) We agreed that I would drive the tractor to the gas station across the street and then wait for Nick to go through the alley and meet with me, then we will find a new spot to drop the dirt.

While I am sitting at the gas station looking in the direction of the house I see one of the telephone poles start to shake by the apartment. If it had been earlier in the morning I would have realized that Nick had hit the pole with the trailer, however at that point (6 p.m.) I was so tired that I didn’t even think twice about it. I finished filling the tractor and my wife shows up and said, “Nick hit the telephone pole and is having a hard time getting it out of the alley way, what do you want to do?” I thought, “I want to go to a hot tub, get some hot wings and a cold drink and just watch the steam evaporate into the wind.” What I said was, “I will drive the tractor to the alley and see if I can pull him out of the telephone pole and get this taken care of.”

Nick is a good man, and I would consider him someone with good common sense, however that was not the case that evening while we constantly tried to pull the loaded trailer out of the alley way. At one point we ended up with the trailer stuck between two lightpoles and had to chain the tractor to the trailer to pull it out so that Nick can get out and we can get going.

What we discovered was that after the first load of dirt, Nick pulled the trailer in straight, but after loading about 30 buckets of dirt on the trailer the tractor had nudged the trailer closer to the light pole. Without looking at the trailer (rookie mistake,) Nick took off. So technically it was my fault. (Remember? I was the pilot of the tractor express!) Needless to say, after an hour of trying to get this oversized trailer and truck down a small alley Nick and I finally get everything ready.

Nick and I found a great spot for the second load of dirt. We unloaded it with no problems, it came off quickly with the tractor (a miracle by itself,) and we were back home in less than a half hour. We had one last part of the yard to finish, and then we could call it a night and begin the bar-b-que fiesta of our normal Saturday night routine. Until . . .

I was coming down the slight incline to cut up about 8 inches of dirt, it was the last thing to do and then we were done. Needless to say, (but I will say it anyway,) I put the bucket up too high, I was going forward too fast, and apparently someone just invented physics (forward motion with downard force,) in our small town. Next thing I know is that my face is looking down into the dirt, my shins are purple from ruptured capullaries, and I had just seen my life pass before my eyes. Nick’s wife comes out asking if everyone is okay. Then she begins to tell me that I am stupid and it was bound to happen. Which I agreed with her at the time, Nick is laughing and I am feeling like I need to get the money back for all of my education, since I don’t seem to use any of it when it is needed.

After about another hour we finally get enough chains, tow ropes, and webbing to get the tractor attached to a truck and back on all four wheels.

Here is the lesson that needs to be learned. Never trust physics in Montana!