Punishment and Crime

An eye for an eye, let the punishment fit the crime.

Fact: The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, as well as the highest total documented prison and jail population in the world. (China has four times our population, yet only 18% of our incarceration rate.)

Think about that. Your tax dollars going for serial killers getting their three hots and a cot, while we blue collar folks stay up late working, sweating the utilities. Your tax dollars paying for inmates to pursue and achieve college degrees. Your tax dollars paying for killers and rapists to get cable teevee. Can't hold down a job? Rob a few stores, then at least you'll have a roof over your head, and maybe a concert or three for your entertainment. Modern Liberal psychology blows. We care more for felony offenders than we do for veterans.

So, the proposition then? Let's save money while reducing prison populations dramatically. If you rob, let's just hack off your hands. If you rob big, we introduce you to the wonderful wonderful world of being drawn and quartered. Rapist? Chop it off! No more repeat offenders. We need to not only bring back public torture, we should embrace it to the point of running it on live primetime network television. Watching a gangster thug hustler joker experience the electric chair on national teevee would do wonders for crime prevention. Send a strong, strong message to the members of our communities desperate and/or ignorant enough to put their own needs before the needs of the Law.

and people do learn more from television anyway, right?