tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18335846.post1777730270330186381..comments2024-01-07T22:12:48.097-05:00Comments on On the road (to abolition): How Difficult Can it Betcaskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16426653143463528003noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18335846.post-65870770021957115882008-06-06T08:15:00.000-05:002008-06-06T08:15:00.000-05:00The "state" our American capitalist democracy has ...The "state" our American capitalist democracy has murdered its citizens based on class and race for way too long. The oppression and repression in our culture stemming from its puritanically beginnings has worked so well that most Americans actually believe that the government is killing people to deter crime. Capitalists do not want to deter crime they need the crime and the punishment system to explain why we "need" armed men rampaging the streets in the name of law and order. (Google Sean Bell's Story)<BR/>People always run to the ridiculous slippery slope aurgument; " because you don't want the authorities to kill people you want people to be murdered ". WAKE UP. No one should take the life of another human being, contrary to the accepted belief that some people have more value than others the truth is even when I don't want to believe it even when I want revenge even when I want to lash out to kill the person that might hurt my child I intrinsically know that one persons life does not replace another life, so how can we think that one murder can justify another.<BR/>Rapists, killers, child murders, child rapists, serial killers, maniacal killers and any other terrible and hateful label that you can throw at me to incite my fears will change my mind. As the Tao Te Ching simply states, " For every force there is a counterforce. Violence, even well intentioned always rebounds upon oneself." ( Written by Lao-tzuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com