Posted on 09/13/2013 3:24:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Exactly right. Western culture has always been individualistic rather than collectivist, which is why Communism has always been alien to the west and has always collapsed. The attitude is "me vs. my personal enemies" or "me and my family/personal friends vs. our personal enemies," not "my race/tribe vs. their race/tribe." In contrast, African and Middle Eastern cultures DO think in terms of race, tribe, or creed trumping all other loyalties and values.
Good point. We have a system of anarcho-tyranny: where the legal system tyrannizes law-abiding citizens with bureaucratic red tape, gives draconian sentences for minor or victimless crimes, while doing little or nothing about truly dangerous and violent criminals. Suspended Imposition of Sentence allows many violent thugs to walk the streets while someone else rots away in Federal Prison for driving some pot over state lines or failing to report additional income from doing odd jobs on a tax return.
I don’t genearally show mine off to impress people in public
Probably the most destructive “booger in the law” is what is known as concurrent sentencing. When a person is arrested on a felony and released into the public awaiting trial, he can commit endless crimes of a lesser penalty value because he will know with confidence that all of his offenses will be merged into one concurrent term of incarceration. If he is already getting 12 years for a robbery where the victim is injured, he can commit assaults, burglaries, drug offenses galore and he will never do more than the 12 years to which he will be sentenced on his primary offense.
A simple way around this would be to always give consecutive sentences, i.e. if you have a 10-year sentence for armed robbery, and commit a crime that carries a 1-2 year sentence (assault), make it a 12 year sentence. Yet this rarely happens in cases where it matters. Instead, it’s done in purely symbolic cases of consecutive life sentences and the like, where it really doesn’t make a bit of difference.
Oh, and was Cain genetically violent as well? Or is sin more of an equal opportunist?
Genesis 4
1 ¶ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 ¶ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 ¶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
8 ¶ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
James 2
8 ¶ If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
If you judge by outward appearance, you commit sin.
Unfortunately, all too many Republicans have imbibed the political correctness Kool-Aid. So they bury their heads in the sand, ignoring black on white crime and the transformation of the US into a third world country by immigration, all the while pretending to be "conservatives."
Do I care what they are in jail for? Nope. The link between drugs and drinking and violence is close enough that I don't need to worry the details. So that bit of your argument is just another strawman.
Can we use that info? Even Jesse Jackson, in a brief moment of honestly, noted that he uses it when deciding who to worry about when walking down the street.
Liberals talk about the ideal of a color-blind society, but they don't believe it for a second. If they did, your typical white liberal would just as soon live in a black inner city neighborhood as in their lily-white suburbs and gated communities. But they don't.
Sometimes it seems as though the only people who do believe that race has nothing to do with crime are a handful of Republicans who bend over backwards at every opportunity to prove to liberals and to the media how enlightened and non-racist they really are.
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