High Court Sides WIth Child Rapists

The energy posts will come later, but beings this is the last day of the Supreme Court's session, and important rulings are coming down, I figured we would stay with them for most of today!
There have been two important decisions rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the last two days. One involves the High Court siding with child rapists against their victims, and the other is a huge win for the gun owners, and the Right To Bear Arms.

The first is an absolutely horrendous ruling yesterday, regarding the death penalty for child rapists. I cannot understand how the Supreme Court cannot see how the rape of a child "can" be just as bad as killing them, because they often "kill" their soul, and that is as bad or worse than killing them physically.
I know people who have been through this horrible experience, and where many rape crisis center managers are saying that most times it is a family member or friend, and therefore, it would impact these children to know that they put this person on death row, and may therefore emotionally hurt them even more, "they" don't necessarily speak for all child rape victims. I have had at least two people who are so messed up that they "wish" they had killed the family member rapist, as one of the rapists went on to rape other children, and was never caught, because of their fear of him!!

I also know that many people who just object to the death penalty under any circumstance, so with them I can only respectfully disagree. For child rapists and other sadistic people, such as the man in New York who held the woman for 19 hours, raped her, tortured her, and left her to burn to death, I not only hope he gets the death penalty, but I would not even give him the luxury of a painless death, and believe he should be pushed off a nice building into a industrial sized chipper/shredder (trademark name), with a whole parsel of child rapists, and violent killers to follow. The problem with the death penalty in this country is not that it is used too often, but that it is not used often enough. It is such a drawn out process, it really has no deterrent value whatsoever, as it may take many years to finally bring them to a "just" end.
Oh, that is with the exception of maybe Texas, which as comedian Ron White, says "they not only have the death penalty, but they have an express lane", too funny!! And, Yes I do think that joke is funny!! Should We Pity the poor criminal sitting on death row~~Uh, NO, pity the victims of these criminals, and their families, and friends!!
I also believe in Karma and Reincarnation, so the sooner we can get these people on their way, the sooner, they will be taught a universal lesson, and perhaps make better choices in their next venue, and if I am wrong, then at least let them get started on their sentence in Hell!!

One other quick thing before we get on with the story at Yahoo News, and that is the response by John McCain, and Barack Obama, who both disagreed with the Supreme Court ruling. Now I figured McCain would be against the Court ruling, but I wondered how Obama would respond. I wondered how Obama's "liberal" friends took the news, that he opposed the Court's ruling. I for one was very pleased to hear his endorsement of the death penalty for child rape, "if" the states choose to have it!! Good for you Obama, at least you did not give a Dukakis~type response, and put a whole bunch of people against you, by giving an emotionless liberal response. Your response gave a large segment of this country the view that you are not just a "liberal", but actually can feel for the victims of crimes such as child rape, so Kudos to Senator Obama, and to the other pro-death penalty contingent of politicians on both sides, who are going to work to pass a "Constitutional" law to fix this injustice!

Now I do not believe any non-death penalty proponent can be swayed by any arguments, so I shall not try and will just support the people who are trying to draft legislation that will "pass" the Supreme Court's tests, and if not now, then in the near future when "new" judges are picked to fill future vacancies. If we keep at it, and support the right judges, perhaps we shall get to a point where the Supreme Court will follow the will of the "people", instead of siding with child rapists!! A Special Hope For Patrick Kennedy: "maybe you will not receive "justice" right now, but perhaps some well meaning guard will "make" a mistake, and your fellow "hate child rapist" prisoners, will have the last ruling in your case"!!

The story at Yahoo News is that:

Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional.

"Anybody in the country who cares about children should be outraged that we have a Supreme Court that would issue a decision like this," said Alabama Attorney General Troy King, a Republican. The justices, he said, are "creating a situation where the country is a less safe place to grow up."

The court's 5-4 decision Wednesday derailed the efforts of nearly a dozen states supporting the right to kill those convicted of raping a child — and said execution was confined to attacks that take a life and to other crimes including treason and espionage.


At issue before the high court was a Louisiana case involving Patrick Kennedy, sentenced to die for raping his 8-year-old daughter in her bed, an assault so severe she required surgery. In his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote "the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," despite the horrendous nature of the crime.
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