Saturday, October 10, 2009

The Criminal Courts

Ideally, courts dispense justice. Repressive regimes have long used their courts as a mechanism of control over their people. In America, our highest court is currently deliberating whether a small cross erected in 1934 as a memorial to World War I dead may remain in place in 1.6 million Federal acres of the Mojave Desert. The case in a Godly country founded Providentially by believers to be that New Jerusalem, a sanctuary from persecution that sheltered all different faiths by never adopting an official state religion, is now mimicking the godless Soviets and subsequent murderous Red religion-free nightmares that followed and filled the void left by trying to banish God with unrepentant slaughter. The American courts are largely populated with political judges who follow the caprice of the international elite. Even when the issues before the courts are decidedly local, judges are producing a parody of justice. Two cases near my home illustrate this point. In the first case at a pizzeria near my home, two workers were murdered in a robbery where a former employee schemed with his friend and their two girlfriends to gain some quick cash. The disgruntled former worker was convicted of pulling the trigger, but his buddy who provided the gun and drove the getaway car was acquitted and in America's system can not be tried again because of the concept of double jeopardy. In this case, both victims were white and the two who have so far stood trial were black. If the races were reversed, and blacks were victims and whites perpetrators, Federal authorities would rapidly swoop in with hate crimes and violation of civil rights charges. In the other case, a father in the nearby community of Franklin, Tennessee was one of the rare males to win sole custody in his divorce over his Japan-born wife, who was granted unsupervised visitation despite the father's multiple warnings to the court that the mother at an early opportunity would take the children and flee to Japan, which in the event, is precisely what she did. Now, the father languishes in a jail in Japan after journeying across the world and making it to the gates of the US consulate before being detained by Japanese authorities for kidnapping his own stolen children. Now, he will see if justice exists in Japan, as it seems so sorely lacking here with crosses covered, crushing good and rewarding evil in our ACLU and free OJ courts which in family law almost always favor women, where social workers can break apart families and seize children themselves based on suspicion that is often not borne out by the facts and where state care is almost always worse than whatever neglect or abuse the children faced in their parents' care. Now the Obama administration punishes thrift, rewards sloth and government and courts mock our most basic civilizing values and seek to undermine our most deeply held beliefs with our Congress set to send Obama a special measure of protection for homosexuals that he will sign into law. When law does not protect or meet just demands, it is only a matter a time before some beleaguered citizens arise to take matters into their own hands.

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