Thursday night.
Some severe weather has passed us by.
But we are not as late as usual sitting down to contemplate and to write.
And there are storms raging in the news.
A few:
Significant security breaches in Iraq.
Perhaps the US has left the cities too soon.
The Russian Navy has ‘rescued’ a Russian freighter from persons unknown, and has crew and ship “in custody”.
We wonder just who were the “persons unknown”.
The b.o. Administration has approved deep-sea drilling off the Brazilian coast to benefit Brazil.
But not off the US coast???
A democrat US Congressman verbally abuses a voter at a public forum.
Not the first time.
And not the last time.
Scotland is not having its finest hour.
We saw a USMC bumper sticker last year. It said in so many words,
To err is human; to forgive is divine. Neither is Marine Corps policy
The Scottish Government has erred (sp?) It has acted as though it has forgiven, even if it has not.
It does not want to be like the United States Marine Corps.
And it is successful in that regard.
It thinks it has done the right thing.
It has not.
The reason is that actions have consequences.
In this case, the Government has spared an evil doer from the earthly consequences of his actions.
The Scottish Government has done the wrong thing, thinking it has assumed the high ground.
In this instance, and in all other such, it has acted pathetically.
I think back to my teaching days and the reasons for punishing evil doers, criminals, miscreants, etc.
There are several legitimate reasons:
1 deterrrence
2 rehabilitation
3 incapacitation
4 retribution
5 public condemnation
Releasing the Lockerbie bomber ostensibly has served none of these five objectives.
Keeping him under lock and key would not achieve all of them, but it would achieve some of them.
Scotland should be ashamed of the Ministry of Justice.
The b.o. Administration is thinking of bringing some of the Guantanamo barbarians to a prison in Michigan.
This is one of his more ludicrous predicaments.
He has to close a perfect facility and build another just because he made an idiotic campaign promise.
What a leader!!!
AARP has declared legitimate worries of folks about the b.o. health care ‘reforms’ to be the stuff of myth.
60,000+ members have resigned as a result.
Good for them.
And so it goes.
There is a movie of some years ago…i have forgotten the title and I think it was not a very good movie, but the film has a catchy theme song. One of the lyrics says, in so many words, “It is a very strange world we live in, Master Jack.”
I think that the lyric is correct.
Our world is a very diverse place indeed.
Post script: I think the title was something like Billy Jack, the story of a young fella skilled at fighting who tried to do the right thing.
I believe he got into a heckofa lot of trouble.
Actions have consequences.
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