Today’s food for thought is from George Savile: “Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.” (Fred) “Punishment is designed to deter an act; the dilemma is that it never works, but we cannot cheat justice, what should we do?”
Fred’s observation for today is: Should we care what the Boston bombers motive is, these people are murderers. Anyone who does this kind of act, which is premeditated doesn’t deserve any defense. I don’t care if they had a bad childhood, their country wants to be free, their religion is persecuted, or any other possible motivation that sends these nut cases over the edge. I will bet money that anyone hurt or killed at the Boston Marathon had nothing to do with any possible grievance.
I have a novel idea. Any foreign national (if the terrorist is a U.S.Citizen, we will take care of them under our laws) that commits an act of terror in the U.S., will cause all student visas, travel visas, work visas, business visas and immigration papers from their country, to be immediately pulled and all those individuals will be given 48 hours to get out of the country, also all foreign aid to that country will be suspended for 10 years. I understand that this is like throwing the baby out with the bath water—but the babies are already dead.