I found the following comment at another Blog. –In Texas, nearly 2,000 separate acts have been declared felonies by the Legislature – when God laid down the law in Exodus, by contrast, He could only come up with ten.– It relates to figures found here. The other Blog states that Texas alone has more people incarcerated per capita than any other country in the world.
The overall theme of this blog, and many others are that most people in prison are there unjustly, or that the laws they broke are unjust, and should be released. And they speak of mass release.
There is not a single law in existence that does not relate in some way to the ten commandments. Unfortunately, I have to say that many laws exist to negate the ten commandments, but still they relate. There are many laws, mandatory car insurance for one, (and a pet peave of mine) that exist to allow others to steal from the people. But that is another and complicated discussion. Many laws exist that allow corporate greed (theft) to exist. Another complicated discussion.
I have doubts as to the accuracy of the prison counts in places like China as obviously it is a closed society. Only they know how many are locked away. But even if true, and in some ways I could believe it true, the underlying factors would be the true reasons. And I don’t mean that there are to many laws or that some are unjust. (Some laws as with the insurance thing, are unjust but do not normally lead to incarceration. Again another topic).
I’m talking about the breakdown of the family. Judicial activism that makes a mockery of the founders true intent. I’m talking about lawyers who want the high crime rate that they so greatly profit from. And I believe my last sentence to be a conspiracy of the highest magnitude. I think that the fact that the US has the highest per capita number of Lawyers is no coincidence, as related to the high crime rate.
The countries with low incarceration rated, seem to fall into two catagories. Those with a homogenous culture and those that are very poor and unable to enforce law at any appreciable degree. As a consequence of the poverty and inability to enforce law, they are the most violent and dangerous places in the world. Which in turn is the reason they are so poor. An unending cycle.
A perfect example in our own coutry are the inner cities. They exist in near anarchy. Every attempt to restore order is met with cries of racism and brutality. The police back off and the anarchy and poverty grow. Activist howl that the police do nothing. An unending cycle.
The solutions at this point are difficult maybe even impossible, multiculturalism has replaced the melting pot and is rapidly producing a Balkanized America.
Social decay and strife is everywhere and much of what I read on these other blogs, will only speed that decay. Legalizing dangerous drugs, uncontrolled immigration, releasing criminals to prevent overcrowding, political correctness, all these things are moving us to anarchy. A time when we too, will be to poor to enforce the laws. A time when we can no longer afford the cost of the absolute and total failure of current social programs that reward irresponsibility. A time when we too will be locked into the poverty and violence that will destroy us as a nation. We need by, and through rule of just law, social homogeny.
The problem is not to many laws, or even a lack of enforcement. The problem is a lack of true punishment of those who break the law. A true and absolute demand for individual responsibility.
