The Perversion of the eighth amendment.

Two simple, purposely misinterpreted words have wrecked havoc with our justice system -- cruel and unusual. When the founding fathers decided to borrow these two words from the English Bill of Rights, their intention was not, no it was not, I don't speak to the dead but this I know, was not meant to say that we no longer had to the right to punish criminals for their misdeeds. It only meant truly cruel and unusual. The Supreme Court, however, in its infinite wisdom, while we stood by watching and let it happen, has used those two words to eliminate punishment from our legal system altogether.

Know-it-all elitists sitting nestled in their ivory towers have spent the last two hundred years little by little, with no knowledge of, or care for, the real world, eroding the power and authority of our laws to the point that now they are nothing more than convoluted absurdities that serve no true purpose, are unenforceable, and have turned our cities into huge Darwinian experiments were only the most ruthless and bloodiest survive.

In Furman V. Georgia (1972) "Justice" Brennan wrote that there are four principles that determine if a punishment is 'cruel and unusual'. (Out of which orifice he managed to pull these out off we will never know but he manages to state them with such authority that one would think they were handed down to him by God himself.) I won't bore you or myself by enumerating them here. Only his first principle matters anyway. It is the one most responsible for the biggest most glaring miscarriages of justice in the last thirty years. According to this 'legal luminary' "punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity."

Who ever said punishment must be dignified and uplifting, Mr. Brennan? Where's the dignity of the child who's last smell on this earth was the breath of the animal that forcibly entered her while without an ounce of remorse choking the life out of her? Where's the dignity of the old lady whose last memory of anything is that of soiling herself while tied to a chair with duct tape in her own basement her life slowly slipping away after three days while a couple of scumbags sit on her couch and drink her beer? Where's the dignity of the man who worked hard his entire life to provide for his family by following the rules of society when he lies awkwardly in the middle of the road a small hole on his forehead and a crater on the back of his head what used to be the essence of him oozing onto the pavement because some lowlife thought the car the poor bastard was driving was worth his life?

Criminals must be punished severely for their atrocities. Retribution, for it to have any effect, must be harsh and timely.

Let's bring punishment back.

To hell with the Brennans of the world.