Worst of the worst


iconMassachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, is going to try to reinstate the death penalty. While he probably won't have much success, you can't blame the guy for trying. Romney is carefully wording the bill so that it will appeal more to Massachusetts liberals who are usually soft on criminals.

...the bill would limit capital punishment to the "worst of the worst" crimes including terrorism, the murder of police officers, murder involving torture and the killing of witnesses.
Now, the state sponsored killing of rapists and murderers usually makes me feel all warm and tingly inside, and I usually support our hard working boys in blue. But why is it that killing a police officer is considered worse than killing a regular Joe. I understand that the police do a thankless and necessary job, but their murder doesn't seem any worse than that of the guy standing behind the counter at the Quickie Mart. At least the cops have guns and can fight back. A lot of the other innocent victims are sitting ducks.



Comments (1)      top   link me

Comments

Perhaps it's because killing a cop is tantamount to thumbing your nose at the king whereas killing some Joe Doofus on the street is more like one peasant killing another.

Posted by: Ralph Gizzip at December 30, 2004 10:22 AM

(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014

About Ravenwood
Libertarianism
Libertarian Quiz
Secrets o' the Universe
Email Ravenwood

reading
<Blogroll Me>
/images/buttons/ru-button-r.gif

Bitch Girls
Bogie Blog
Countertop Chronicles
DC Thornton
Dean's World
Dumb Criminals
Dustbury
Gallery Clastic
Geek with a .45
Gut Rumbles
Hokie Pundit
Joanie
Lone Star Times
Other Side of Kim
Right Wing News
Say Uncle
Scrappleface
Silflay Hraka
Smallest Minority
The Command Post
Venomous Kate
VRWC


FemmeBloggers


archives

search the universe



rings etc

Gun Blogs


rss feeds
[All Versions]
[PDA Version]
[Non-CSS Version]
XML 0.91
RSS 1.0 (blurb)
RSS 2.0 (full feed)
 

credits
Design by:

Powered by: Movable Type 3.34
Encryption by: Deltus
Hosted by: Bluehost

Ravenwood's Universe:
Established 1990

Odometer

OdometerOdometerOdometerOdometer