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To: ThinkingBuddha

Civilized people make a social contract with each other. They create governments and laws and agree to obey them. We all give up a little so we can prosper as a group.

One of the things we give up is vengeance. On one side the people agree not to seek private vengeance in exchange for a promise by our government to punish those that wrong us.

It was only a generation or so ago that a person accused of murder (kidnapping and even rape) was tried and if found guilty was executed in a very short time.

Recently it was reported that a man on death row in California died of old age waiting for all his appeals.

My question for those that put road blocks in the way of having justice done, what are you going to do when the people realize the social contract against vengeance has broken by those that care more for the criminal then their victim (or victim’s family).

Personally I prefer allowing the state to deal with finding justice but I can understand those that feel cheated.


23 posted on 03/08/2011 8:30:45 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (California does not have a money problem, it has a spending problem.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

When Law Enforcment fails to enforce the law; When justice stops prevailing, there is little choice left.


42 posted on 03/08/2011 8:54:12 AM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: CIB-173RDABN
One of the things we give up is vengeance. On one side the people agree not to seek private vengeance in exchange for a promise by our government to punish those that wrong us.

Personally I prefer allowing the state to deal with finding justice but I can understand those that feel cheated.

Vigilantism occurs when a system designed to protect the innocent and punish the guilty now does the opposite.

43 posted on 03/08/2011 8:55:18 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmit in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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