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In the last 72 hours I have seen three great examples that we need to remember that as a country, in fact any country in the modern age and not just the USA, we need to be of law and logic and not emotion.
First is the Sean Bell verdict:
Anyone from New York City and the surrounding area has been treated to a three day temper tantrum from people about the fact that the police officers in this case were found not gulity.
We have heard about civil disobedience
We have heard that if at first you do not succeed, forget the law that says you can only be tried once for a crime, we will use the civil rights loophole and try these guys again! I mean maybe we can intimidate a Federal judge into forgetting that there were lies told from the witnesses against the police, the best being one in which a man shot directly through the voice box in a way that no doctor finds he could talk, did a touching death monolouge as if this was a bad Lifetime movie.
Maybe we can make the emotions into law.
A man died and others were hurt. But police made an error in judgement that was justified given the spilt second they had to decide and the facts they were presented. Not ever mistake is criminal.
Then last night I watch 60 Minutes and get treated to the words of maybe the best judicial mind on the planet in decades, Justice Scalia.
Torture is may or may not be bad, but it is not cruel and unusual punishment because it is not punishment. You punish people for what they did wrong and if want to call the person being interogated innocent then they did nothing wrong and you do it to get valuable information, how is it punishment ?
And if flag burning is done to protest the goverment, and that protest is speech, and we have free speech in the country, even if you hate the idea of someone burning a flag and would love to punch them in the mouth for doing it, it can not be illegal as it is protected.
I loved watching the reporters head smoke trying to reason this all.
Emotions are not laws
Then I watched Pastor Wright on PBS
Frankly I think he was almost given a tounge bath my Bill Moyers and never truly challenged on anything but all in all he made sense....but then he had to let emotions in
Yes he is angry about slavery and that the founders let it say "All men are created equal" yet they were not.
But he fails to tell you that there is a reason for that, but why let a great piece of rhetoric get destroyed by fact.
Thomas Jefferson wanted to abolish slavery and have all men created equal in the new country, but the southern colonies would not allow it and the greater, and yes I know some may dispute that word, need to break from England was served. And then less than 100 years later all men became equal by law, or at least the start began there.
I am not really sure how to end this post other than to say that I thought this was three good examples of where logic and facts and reason need to maybe overrule emotion if we are to make it in the world.
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Posted by whiteknight on 2008-04-28 13:14:53 | Rating: | Views: 77
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The Sean Bell Case is a very sad case is really all I can say because I am on the the outside looking in but one things I can speak on is from the police point of view. Although I am not a police officer, I am a veteran that has seen my share of voilence on a whole different scale. I have seen a situation where a little kid was running at a high rate of speed with an unidentified object.Guns pointed, commands being shouted in native tongue .......the child still running towards the solider. A shot rung out. This affected everyone involvedbut come to find out it was just a bottle wrapped in foil. The solider questioned whether or not they did the right thing. Imagines like that do ever go away it follows you. I have nothing to really say about Justice Salica I saw the 60 minutes interview and just shook my head...that is all I could was just shake my head. Oh my word, Pastor Wright!!!!! I think all African Americans are still harboring bitterness about the injustice of our skin color including me...but really some things that he did not say we should be made at our own selves because it was us who sold our own for personal gain. Everyone has blood on thier hands when the subject of slavery is being brought up. I just wish that one day my people (African Americans) will own up to thier part in slavery.
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Posted by Nubian
on 2008-04-29 15:29:00
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