[Enemy Of The State]

This is an excellent rebuttal to a previous submission to the Daily News. Please take a moment to give some feedback to the BSU DAILY NEWS and put it on your list of Liberal University Papers to Frequently Freep!

[LiteKeeper]

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[Verginius Rufus]

BSU = Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana)

[Magoo]

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[IowaHawk]

Two issues, four possible stances:

1. anti-abortion, anti-death penalty. Predicated on the believe that all life is sacred. A reasonable position, favored by many religious liberals.

2. anti-abortion, pro-death penalty. Predicated on the belief that innocent life is sacred. A reasonable position, favored by many religious conservatives.

3. pro-abortion, pro-death penalty. Predicated on the belief that the value of a life is utilitarian. A reasonable (or, at least, consistant) position favored by many libertarians.

4. pro-abortion, anti-death penalty. To hold this position you have to be a complete and utter ethical moron, or a member of the Democratic Party. But I repeat myself.

[dark_lord]

I would also point Jendraszak to the reactions when then-Governor Ryan of Illinois commuted all death-row inmates in his state. The outcry from the families who lost loved ones (innocents) to murders was strident, as were the reactions of the prosecutors. The reason: all the work put into ensuring that the crimes were punished was for naught. Ryan's move immediately devalued the lives of those killed by implying the crimes of the murderers were not that severe and rated with rape, bank fraud and car theft.

Not that good an argument. Illinois is a special case. Problem in Illinois is that there have been about a dozen death row convictions reversed in the last few years, where it wasn't just the case that the person convicted was found guilty of lesser crimes, but that they were found not guilty at all -- due to DNA evidence and the recantations of witnesses who fessed up to being bribed by Chicago cops to lie on the witness stand in exchange for "reward" money. So rightly or wrongly Ryan (who is a corrupt RINO) commuted all the sentences (mainly to life in prison) because it may be assumed that there are a few others who are in fact innocent. That said, clearly 98+% are GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY and should fry....the issue is which 98%.