*Please keep in mind that what follows is simply my own opinions, my own thoughts, my own feelings and views on things. I'm not trying to raise a debate or to insult or offend any one person or group.
VENGEANCE: punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense : retribution
KARMA: The force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence
"Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. " - Agatha Christie
I don't consider myself a bad person. I think on the surface and within me, I am a good, moral individual with goodwill toward all people. Where that becomes grey area, where that goodness is lacking is in the intolerance for stupidity, ignorance and just flat out evil deeds that some people commit.
Deryl Dedmon, Jr., 18, has been charged with murder.
"On a recent Sunday morning just before dawn, two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says was a mission of hate: to find and hurt a black person."
James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, was beaten by Dedmon and his buddies. Dedmon then got into his pickup truck and as Anderson staggered along the street, he ran over Anderson killing him instantly. Took this man's life because he was black.
Stupid. Ignorant. Evil.
The surveillance video does not lie. It is not he said, she said. It is not in question. This happened and he did it. So... now what?
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.- Annie Lennox
Dying is easy. I agree. Too easy for some people. Too easy I think for young Mr. Dedmon. Here is where i think the punishment branch of the law is flawed. The judges, juries, courts, our legal system, our criminal justice system all say the same thing... you break one of our laws, our rules and you will be punished. But that punishment in most cases is simply the expulsion (Either temporarily or for "life") of that person from our everyday society.
I dont agree with that. I believe that (and although i can apply it to other crimes, im speaking about murder here) when some one commits such a crime, they are already at that moment turning in their "right to live among us" card.
10 years, 30 years, life in prison... doesnt matter. The law is just putting a number on what we already know. That this person should not share the same street we walk on.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Ill refer back to the definition of vengeance. "PUNISHMENT inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense"
Where is there justice for Mr. Anderson? What punishment is Dedmon really getting for his evil? For his offense? He should face the same terror, the same fear, the same pain everyday of his life. And while it may be that while in prison he may get a taste of that, to me the system fails by not being the hand that holds the whip. As you can see im a little scattered with all of this but my point is this, evil deeds by evil people should be actually punished and punished by the system that is in place to supposedly make us feel safe to walk out in our world. I want my tax money to support THAT, not a slap on the wrist and 3 meals a day.
Finally, i'll say this about Dedmon, the D-bag Kashif Parvaiz who had his wife killed it seems over money and to all the stupidity, ignorance and evil in the world and those who embrace it, and to all of the rest of us out there who may feel like people around us are "getting away with murder".....
Retribution comes in many forms but it does come, Karma is a bitchzilla and she gets around, and may true justice be served.
Da Wizard
