Newly inaugurated Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins is tapping the brakes on her list of 15 crimes she won’t prosecute, saying she is taking a “long and hard” look at the list first.
Rollins, addressing her controversial list after being sworn in at Roxbury Community College on Wednesday, said she wants “everything to be a case-by-case basis.” She said feedback from the community and police was key.
“We’re going to be looking long and hard at this list, I am very clear that we will be holding people accountable but jail is going to be the last option with respect to those 15,” Rollins said. The list includes crimes from shoplifting and trespassing to drug possession, resisting arrest and larceny under $250. - https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/02/suffolk-da-rollins-taking-a-hard-look-at-decline-to-prosecute-list/
And what, Rachael dear, is a law abiding citizen who accidentally leaves her home’s door unlocked to do when she comes home from shopping and finds some filthy bum squatting there and claiming a right to be on the premises?
In legal terms, I believe this is best described as being "arbitrary and capricious "
which is illegal and un-Constitutional.
Better yet, call it what it is going to create : "Free Crime",
.. please don't tell the criminals.
Thanks for the responses, which I will get to, but I hope you do not mind a analytical sermon.
What’s behind this is one side of the the victim entitlement mentality of Hell, in which not only is obtaining benefits on the basis of merit considered to be unfair, but so is punishment for neglect and disobedience of laws.
And thus those who lack benefits that require merit, and who suffer consequences for disobedience to that principle, as well as by acting contrary to laws, are seen as victims.
And that such, as a matter of justice, are entitled to special treatment and the rewards normally obtained by merit.
And which victim entitlement mentality effectively also does away with mercy and grace from of those who have warranted benefits toward those who do not, since the latter are seduced into seeing themselves as victims, even if due to their own fault, who are rightfully owed what others possess on the basis of merit. Those rather than gratitude and an incentive toward betterment in response to sacrificial voluntary acts of grace, the recipients of such often seek more as a matter of “justice.”
Which is what is behind the “share the wealth” demand and the Occupy (positions of power) movement. And which victim entitlement mentality the devil and his proxy servants (stay with me here) inculcates and who are then presented as saviors of the oppressed.
For the devil’s original presumption was that he was worthy to sit in the throne of God, asserting, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” [God’s response:] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:14-15)
Note that the devil did zero to warrant any promotion from his already glorious state, nor was he appealing for mercy or grace, but essentially presumed that elevation as his right as the original liberal elite. However “every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” (Luke 18:14)
And being cast down for his selfish presumption, the devil (who works to pervert and or defile what honors God) next goes to work on Eve, presenting God as selfishly, malevolently keeping the blessed Eve from the one thing forbidden mankind, and seducing her to lust after what the devil presented as rightfully being hers, and that disobedience to God was the way to attaining it.
However, rather than the elevation that God gives to those who, in response to mercy and by grace, believe and obey Him, instead we have the Fall, evil-affecting not only themselves but all under their stewardship.
Yet not without the promise and provision of redemption (see tag). Thanks be to God.