Inverse Paradigm

These are my thoughts on the 1932 Lindbergh baby murder. I am connecting the dots here in free association.

The Lindbergh baby was abducted and killed at the behest of agents of the Federal Reserve. This was done to keep Charles Lindbergh from speaking out against the Fed as his father Charles Sr. lost his seat for doing.

Gary McKinnon, the UK hacker who broke into NASA and military computers looking for information on UFOs is seeking to block extradition to the United States.

I don’t blame him. There’s no telling what sort of enemy of the state he could be declared and what sort of gulag situation he could end up in. He’s safer in his own country.

Your stuff would just blow up.

You wouldn’t be getting desert videos beforehand about impending threats. No one would claim responsibility the day after from a country that has no extradition treaty. There would be no religious feeling whatever. He would plant and detonate the explosives with the same lack of passion that he put into eating that guy’s liver with some fava beans and a nice chainti. You might find such a situation easier or more difficult to deal with. On the one hand there would be one person to pursue. On the other there would be no assets to try and freeze, no history in a certain region, no paper trail of any kind. Maybe we’ll read about such a person in a James Patterson novel.

This past week someone entered the Austin Public Library main branch and spread several gallons of urine across three sections of books. I want to sit in court and hear an attorney try to defend that. I mean what excuse could you give? All the childhood defenses are worn out. It would have to be something truly creative. Maybe it’ll be on CourtTV so I can record it on TiVo and eat pizza and watch it at home. I really think it would be entertaining.

I am talking here about categories of crime that have emerged in the past 40 years or so due to the exploitation of honorable acts. There are certain motions and actions that people used to go through as a matter of habit because they were told it was the right thing to do. I don’t know if it’s just the increase in population has given us more people thinking up ways to do evil, but now you have to think twice before doing the right thing because there is a higher chance you may be dealing with someone who has dishonest intentions.

DRIVING
Used to be: You’re on the road at night and a car in the opposing lane has his high beams on. You flash yours to remind him to dim his when encountering on-coming traffic.
Now: They’re liable to go down to the next crossover, catch up to you and harass you or shoot you.

Used to be: You’re at a light. Someone comes up too fast for whatever reason and rear-ends you. You both get out of your vehicles, check the damage and exchange insurance information.
Now: You’re liable to get car-jacked.

more as I can think of them.

OJ

Maybe if more people carried cameras with them other people who are up to no good would think twice about their little missions.

I’ve been watching quite a few of the crime shows on CourtTV and Discovery Times. I cringe every time I hear a murder or other violent defendant given a disgustingly short sentence (less than 20 years) or murder defendants sentenced to life with parole. After Kenneth McDuff’s release, commiting another murder, recapture, and final execution I had hoped the state would see the error of its ways. Then I hear about serial killer Coral Eugene Watts, who was about to be released for “good time.”

Early release is something driven mostly by the spectre of “overcrowding.” Parole and pardons boards and departments of criminal justice try to reduce the population by letting inmates out in some cases many years before the time their sentence would dictate. It is a back-end loaded timebomb for society as a whole. It allows a prisoner out early for behaving himself…a reward for something he or she should be doing. Mr. Watts was being held in the Texas prison system. Since he wasn’t misbehaving in there, he was earning 3 days off his sentence for every day he served.There really wasn’t much room to question Mr. Watts’ behavior inside the penitentiary. He never seemed to be much of a threat to other men. Fortunately Michigan was able to extradite him and convict him of one of the murders he had never been charged with before.

I am not saying we should end parole or that inmates who have not wrought havoc inside the prison should not be recognized for it. The guards and the warden probably appreciate it. Part of the purpose of prison is to take the offender off the streets and give society a break. They are supposed to lose the right, for whatever period of time, to free access to goods and services, and the freedom to move about amongst the populace, especially those whose lives they have maligned. And when and if they do get out, they should not expect to have all trust restored.

But whether we let a man out early or not, time off for good behavior should never be confused with rehabilitation. The two are completely different animals. Just because the inmate never gave the guards grief or attacked her fellow prisoners does not mean that on this side of the wall she is not capable of doing the same thing that got her arrested in the first place.

Your Honor,

If you’re going to call the defendant “The Death Dealer,” give him more than five years.

A vegetarian/vegan restaurant was set ablaze by a homeless person who fell asleep while cooking steaks.

I think they should press the same charges as someone who falls asleep at the wheel and drives through a building.