[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Impending Execution of Milton Mathis

Milton Mathis executed for Houston double slaying -- HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Condemned Texas inmate Milton Mathis has been put to death for a double slaying more than 12 years ago in Houston.

The execution is the sixth this year in Huntsville. It was carried out Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments the 32-year-old Mathis was mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty....."

[Myrddin]

The execution was entirely appropriate. There was enough brain functioning to use a gun to execute two people. If he's capable of using a weapon to execute his fellow humans, he is capable and eligible to receive the same treatment in return at the hands of the state. If his foible was signing a contract that he was incapable of understanding, I would have been willing to excuse him on the basis of being mentally incapable of agreeing to a contract. Killing another doesn't take much mental capacity.

[ArrogantBustard]

I suppose this is as good a time as any to post (again):

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

-Rudyard Kipling

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

[Texas resident]

Hey NY doofus.
How about we just put these poor misunderstood souls on a bus to your lovely city. Then you all can be blessed by their presence.

Meanwhile, mind your own business.

[Jack Hammer]

The writer of this drivel has his head stuck so far up his ass it’s never coming out.

Obama voter, no question.

[ketelone]

Ugh.. who wrote this? As a normal, peace lovin’ Houstonian, this article makes me want to BARF!

A. Legalizing immorality does not make a state “civilized”, it makes it DECADENT!

B. Son, I dont care where youre from, but that lowlife deserved to FRY!

God bless Texas!

Now lemme just mosey along over to the head, and puke my guts out because I read that dogpile pretending to be an op-ed.

[Hoffer Rand]

...there is a reason that there is an age of criminal responsibility. Elsewhere, children and those are children in an adult's body, are deemed to be unaware of the consequences of their actions and therefore not liable to the criminal law.

He claimed he shot the first victim in self-defense, then the others because he panicked. Pretty sure those below the age of criminal responsibility have no concept of "self-defense." Not to mention, guns are loud, so after firing the first shot, his panicked thought isn't "drop the gun," but "keep shooting"? Right...that sounds like a five year old reasoning./s Also, how is someone who doesn't have the skills to dress himself managing to be involved in drugs?

[TheDon]

How can one country produce such wildly differing moral landscapes?

We can only hope that NY will someday become as compassionate and morally good as Texas.

[spodefly]

(Gay Marriage is) a sign that the state is civilized and considerate, understanding that people should be allowed to love each other whatever their sexual orientation ...

Only someone with a reverence for, and unwavering faith in, "The State" could even conceive of a statement like that.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Mathis could not perform some of the most basic functions, such as dressing himself.

But he could murder people. Amazing!

[July4]

I have no special insight into the problem of determining the IQ of a criminal, but I suspect that most of these folks have the equivalent of a PhD in gaming the system. I'm suspicious, too, that many an attorney, as well as prisoner advocates, coach the accused on how to simulate mental illness or a low IQ.

Then, there are those who are genuinely unable to understand what they have done or the rules of our society. I don't know what to do about them, but we can't continue letting hurt themselves and others.

[Political Junkie Too]

How can one country produce such wildly differing moral landscapes?

Wildly different?

Didn't New York "produce" David Berkowitz? How's he doing these days?

-PJ

[17th Miss Regt]

Putting someone to death does not deter other criminals. Nor does it stop the criminal that is put to death from committing other crimes when they get out.

(/Liberal)

[shield]

Anyone evil enough to kill two people would have to be insane. A word mistranslated in the scripture is enosh=two legged beast/animal.

[Arrowhead1952]

Mathis should have been detained for a very long time . . . . if and when it was deemed fit and proper, he was released into the community.

Hey Tony, how about you take criminals like Mathis into your home after they are "rehabilitated" as you see to have so much compassion? I bet you'd never entertain that thought.

[mjp]

True justice is making a moral judgment and then acting in accordance with that judgment and giving that person what he deserves. There is no time component to that definition. It applies to all times and places. The author seems to be a typical libtard that doesn't understand the definition of justice.

Also he doesn't seem to understand the definition of marriage. It is a particular kind of relationship between a man and a woman. There is no component that prohibits two men from loving each other. They just can't get married.

[txroadkill]

How can one state prepare to take a massive step into the 21st century, while not 1,000 miles away another part of the same country travels back in time to the dark ages?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

God Blessed Texas!

[Clay+Iron_Times]

So, the United States is One Nation, as the Pledge of Allegiance has it?

Uh, No...

One Nation, UNDER GOD

SO, IF we are under GOD, then we are also under HIS WORD

And His Word declares:

ROMANS 1

24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28. And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

[YHAOS]

It's real simple, Metcalf:

Think marriage should be whatever you want it to be?
Stay in NY.

Think marriage is between one man and one woman?
Move to Texas.

Is this a great country, or what?

[RoadTest]

If New York wants to O.K. sodomy, what does that have to do with Texas?

[TexasRepublic]

“Rick Perry’s brand of medieval populism”

The guy has not even announced his candidacy, and the government lapdogs are already preemptively smearing Perry and Texas. This will be a brutal campaign.