Punishment Without Due Legal Process

I’m willing to on out on a limb and say; I’m not the only citizen to be subjected to this gross injustice of character. Punishment for the sake of convenience is a growing problem in this country. And not just in the criminal system, which most people think of when you mention this subject. If a man or woman is to be a productive member of society, this kind of injustice must have an outlet for a possibility of justice.

I think back to John Allen Muhammad, Theodore Kaczynski, Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh. Each man guilty of his crime. Punished for his misdeeds. We can all agree on that, I think. Can we all agree on what pushed these men to take the actions they took? Is it really what was written about these men? Three of these four men where military veterans. Does that give you any idea to what happens to the mental rationalization when these type of people feel punished for something they didn’t do, and decides to strike back in the only way the government trained them too? A scary though, isn’t it? Especially considering the hundreds of thousands of combat veterans running free in our society today. We; as a nation; need to pay attention to how we deal with the ordinary person and not decide too quickly that that poor insignificant Joe Nobody of today, may not become the next Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, or John Allen Muhammad of tomorrow. There’s and old saying that goes like this, ” You can take the soldier out the military; but you can take the military out the soldier”. It’s always been said that we have the best trained military in the world. As McVeigh, Nichols and Allen Muhammad so ghoulishly demonstrated; that training doesn’t terminate as a result of leaving military service.

It’s a burden of responsibility to harness the aggressional desirer, to strike out, when you are the victim of unfair punishment. It’s time to put the posturing and politics aside and give fair and impartial effort to all of America’s citizens. After nearly 16 years of being out the military, I’m still having difficulty adjusting to the back stabbing, butt-kissing, innocent victims being ignored mentality, that is the American civilian society. Patience is a good thing. But we all have our limits.

For all you people in public office, and all you people who are paid to see that justice is evenly applied to ALL our citizens; I say you’re as responsible for those men’s acts as they are themselves. The wrongful punishment of law abiding citizens is still going on to this very day; and when made aware of it; you do nothing to make it right. You do nothing to ensure that the punishment of innocent people doesn’t have the same breeding grounds to manifest itself again. You do nothing to those accountable for dealing with these issues, who are glossing them over. If they’re not going to do their jobs responsibly; they should be demoted and relegated to duties of lesser responsibility until they prove they can and will do the job.

How many more innocent victims will we have, before another one goes off the deep end and does something for which more innocents are made to pay for with their lives, for the lack of humanity we manifest in American society today? It shouldn’t require deep pockets or fame to get a wrong corrected. In the eyes of our creator; we’re all somebody; regardless of religion,creed, color, or financial status. That’s what America needs to get to; in order to be a true World leader. I can’t say get back to, because America has always had a history of disenfranchising it’s poor, in the arena of fair and impartial justice.

Can anybody say Sean Bell?