Pogo for President

Since Dzhokhar was sentenced to death there’s much going round and in the press about capital punishment. I keep writing about it then deleting instead of tapping Publish. To be honest, which is the idea, my view from the seventh floor isn’t worth any more than any other American’s opinion even though I think it is.

Frankly, if Dzhokhar weren’t so young and cute, and I suppose sexy with that tousled head of hair and innocent who me look, people wouldn’t be so up tight about killing him. But that’s not the issue, is it. The creature is as evil as we get.

My opinion is that there’s no space on earth nor breathing room in the atmosphere for anyone who hurts or kills a child, and my heart doesn’t bleed when executions of such monsters are botched.

Here’s my problem. Government by Administration has bred nests of slithering certitudinous mediocrities. To my chagrin, even the FBI, whom I've admired and felt essential to public safety and security, recently proved this about themselves beyond all shadow of moral challenge when it was disclosed that "Nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000," the newspaper (TWP) reported, adding that "the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death.” My problem is shame: the lack of honesty and integrity in government seeking convictions at all cost regardless of truth. With no saving grace, government cannot be trusted, which means that our system is — flawed is a weak weasel-word. The word is disgusting. Shameful. Immoral. Incompetent. Lacking human decency. Contemptible. This is why we have the Second Amendment: not for squirrel hunting or for deer season or for shooting up rival motorcycle gangs or even for castle law. It’s because our national origin is historically based in our need and ultimate right to rid ourselves of evil government.

There are crimes so heinous that, given our constitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, anything other than the death penalty is morally reprehensible. But we cannot trust overzealous government to bring only those cases before our juries for capital prosecution. Government is its own case against itself. Government, of course, is of, by, and for the people. So Pogo again, "We have met the enemy and he is us."