Start Punishing!

It is a fruitless battle to legislate morality to these misfits of society unless those who are the administers of justice execute with a firm hand of morality themselves. Crime and subsequent justice in this country would be analogist to a dam ready to burst and that our remedy has been to patch, plug or divert. We never seem to address the underlying causation, a lack of true moral direction. In Oregon, the tax payers are hamstrung by the legislators using criminals as blackmail. Unless they can squeeze more money from the tax base, they will keep releasing more rats on society until they cry Uncle. Does this sound to you like those who administer justice are of a high moral fabric? We give our Government more money under the pretense that it will be going to place for its intended use. Then a commingling of tax revenues occur, (something we would be indicted for if we did this in the private sector) and money is diverted elsewhere for other uses. Punishment is just that "Punishment". We need to start "punishing" rather than the sole focus on rehabilitation. It hasn't worked thus far and I suspect it never will. A car accident victim, someone who has been injured needs "Rehabilitation". Those that knowingly cross the line and commit a crime need "Punishment". Once we as a state, establish this clear line of reasoning, we will be on the road to recovery, if not, I see future vigilante justice becoming rampant.


John Wilson
Longview.