tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post2564973858766093554..comments2024-01-25T14:51:13.377-05:00Comments on Gamso - For the Defense: Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Romans 12:19 (KJV)Jeff Gamsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09869425697771419546noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945843206427351559.post-48008836797406488362011-07-29T10:53:47.358-04:002011-07-29T10:53:47.358-04:00Legal systems should punish the guilty commensurat...<i>Legal systems should punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes and recognize a moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged.</i><br /><br />Which is impossible. The concept of 'an eye for an eye' makes sense because the punishment fits the crime and does not allow the victim to specify the punishment. This means that when my neighbor deliberately trespasses on my ground and opens the gate to my back yard in the hope that my dog will escape and be killed in traffic, I am not allowed to work on him with a bullwhip until I begin to feel a little better. I know how to use a bullwhip too, so this is not an idle or speculative statement.<br /><br />Then we have Rosenbaum: <i>[T]he actual difference between vengeance and justice is not as great as people think.</i> Which is bullshit. There's a world of difference, a vast abyss between justice and vengeance, which is the way it should be. I could continue in this vein, but I won't.<br /><br />In the case of Casey Anthony virtually everyone could point at the situation and say, accurately, that something isn't right here. In Bubba-speak that's "Somethin' sure as Hell ain't right about that." The prosecutor bitched it. Murder 1? Nope. Manslaughter? Nope, can't prove it. What the enforcement arm of the justice department probably wanted to do, what I would have wanted to do was lay violent hands on five or six of the adults closest to the child and lay the rubber on them until someone talks. Well, that didn't happen this time (check the Chicago PD scandals). Now we are stuck with a case that can't be proven, and yeah, the public should be made to understand just how and why this whole thing shook out the way it did. It's important to understand these things, because you never know when you, personally, might be involved with the justice system. Even as a juror, which is what I'm waiting for.<br /><br /><i>He was beating her, so she fired six warning shots... from a 12 gauge double, into his midsection.</i><br /><br />Okay, give her a medal and a couple grand cash to get her life restarted, then let's go across the street and have a drink. By the way, Not Guilty yer honner.Mad Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06190137186843630543noreply@blogger.com