Posted on 05/28/2016 10:10:57 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It’s no problem, bootless.
My main beef with the GOP and their platform is that they don’t mean it, any of it.
Every single plank of the platform is just a ruse used to fool conservative people and pro-life people into believing that the GOP is on their side, when the truth of the matter, as illustrated by both their actions and non-actions, is that they do not intend to implement any of it.
They are pure liars, and they are using us for our votes, and beyond that they despise us.
The GOP serves no purpose at all other than to advance the government agenda and fool people into thinking that their vote matters, when it does not matter.
The arguments against the death penalty are many and robust.
- Life does not cease to be life when it loses its innocence. Recognition of this principle and application to policy is what distinguishes “pro-life” from being merely “anti-abortion”. Being pro-life is about more that just abortion.
- Revenge is not an aspect of justice.
- When a life is taken, the potential to correct errors and abuses is permanently gone.
- Any system of justice, however perfect, must necessarily be arbitrated by imperfect human beings; this guarantees that unintentional errors and intentional abuses will occur.
- Giving governments the power to put people to death has historically yielded poor results.
- In the current system in the US, outcomes from the criminal justice system are more closely correlated with the financial resources of the defendant than with any objective standard of right and wrong.
- The death penalty demonstrably does not deter crime.
- Where sufficient due process is in place, the death penalty is more expensive to administer than is a life sentence.
I’m sure additional reasons could be found if it were necessary but these should be more than enough. If one respects life, that is not conditional on the nature of that life. The only lawful means of taking a life, to a person who is genuinely and not incompletely pro-life, is through an act of self-defense.
Lyin’ Ted and Heidi, like Hellry, are in the pocket of Goldman-Sachs and support the NO BORDERS/North American Union.
Traitors all!
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