Lord Strange Citizen Award August 2009

The beginning of this week was very fruitful for the law abiding citizens of this country. This week’s Lord Strange Citizen Awards goes to Dianne Baptiste and off-duty police constable PC Hall. There was something that struck me about the stories of both these individuals but before I go on further, for those of you who did not get to read the Express today (Wed 19 August 2009) let me just paraphrase and highlight bits of the stories that got my undivided attention, the links are provided for those who want to read the complete stories.

Dianne Baptiste - Bandit Tackled By Mom

“A mother who found a gunman outside her home intent on robbing and killing, saved herself and her teenage daughters on Monday.

"What was he going to do with this gun? Show it to me? No. He wanted to kill me. So I collared him. I shoved him and he fell backwards and the firearm fell out."

While others faced with a similar situation may have capitulated, Baptiste said, "I could not. Our home has been broken twice before.

"I did not want to be a victim a third time. And this man? Invading your privacy and then want to kill?"
Read the rest of this story here - Bandit Takcled By Mom

PC Hall – It Good For He

“Sympathy for a dead bandit was almost non-existent yesterday afternoon as he lay on the road next to a car that police believe he wanted to steal from a well-armed, well- trained off-duty police constable who was with his ten-year-old son at the time of the incident.

PC Hall at the time was standing outside the car, wearing a thick gold chain.

The bandit walked up to Hall, pointed a .357 Magnum to his head and began grabbing the chain. Hall reportedly began telling his now panicked son to "calm down."

Both police and bandit struggled as the large gold chain proved difficult to rip off. Hall, however, was able to reach for his service pistol. He pointed it at the bandit who was apparently preoccupied with the chain and squeezed the trigger.

The bandit fell back but as he raised his gun to fire back, Hall shot him again, killing him on the spot.

The Express was told by several people at the scene that they knew the bandit's face.
"For the last three days he was riding a bicycle up and down the road...we eh know what he was looking for...well like he find it," said one woman who didn't want to be named.

"Is a good thing he dead," said another woman, "the pitch real hot this evening."

Read the rest of this story here - It Good For He

Well done Ms Baptiste and PC Hall.....you get this weeks’ Lord Strange Citizen Award. May your families continue to be safe and may you continue to prosper through your hard work and determination. Now, let’s get down to the issues, you see the striking thing about both these stories is that the intended victim’s children were present. Yet still the presence of these people’s children in no way softened the heart of these heartless, selfish, lazy criminals. It did not matter that Ms. Baptiste was someone’s wife, mother, sister or aunt. It did not matter to that now thankfully dead criminal that PC Hall was someone’s husband, father, brother or uncle and that his ten year old son was in the car.

These two incidents are directly linked to my prior post ‘Abolishing The Death Penalty While Pissing on the Victims of Crime” . In this post I clearly stated that the death penalty is a consequence of a criminal’s wicked actions against a helpless law abiding society. These criminals are parasites, feeding off of the energy and sweat of the law abiding citizens of this country, home all day smoking weed on the block and then coming out with their guns in tow to shoot, maim, and kill for material things they did not work for nor are they entitled too.

Of course the anti-death penalty crew came at me with their dubious claims of the death penalty not being a deterrent, criminals are psychotic people and it doesn’t mean they should be killed because of that and the death penalty causes crime. What utter rubbish, did the death penalty stated in ink and paper cause that young man to go to the home of Ms Baptiste to rob her? Did the death penalty cause that young man to put a gun to an off duty officer’s head in the presence of his son in an attempt to steal his gold chain? These fools can’t even read so I doubt they are even aware of the contents of the law governing the death penalty.

Why do anti-death penalty activists keep making excuses for these heartless wicked low life criminals? Imagine I was told that criminals are psychotic and are not of sound mind like myself and the rest of the law abiding citizens that is why they kill and it doesn’t mean we should kill them. What????? Hello, to my anti-death penalty fanatics, criminologists have long declared crime the ‘alternate economy’. Criminologist have long declared that ‘criminal masterminds’ operate just like the CEO’s in big companies, they plan and execute their nefarious acts with great ‘cognitive judgement’. These criminals know exactly what they are doing when they put a gun to your mother, father, daughter or spouse’s head!

That guy who went to Ms Baptiste house could have been successful in overpowering her, then what, most likely rape and kill both her and her daughters. Would we have heard an out-cry from Amnesty International and their sycophant anti-death penalty supporters? Would any of them have contributed financially to helping Ms Baptiste’s husband bury his wife and daughters? Would they have held Mr. Baptiste put his life together again if that would have been possible? What about PC Hall’s ten year old son? Would Amnesty have provided a councillor for that young man after watching his father brutally murdered for a gold chain that was not the entitlement of some block rat? Would they have ensured that he was financially taken care of until the legal age and pay his university fees etc?

Can someone tell me when exactly did the tables turn? When did criminals earn the right to rape and kill our family members with impunity and then subsequently use the law to preserve their worthless souls? When? When did this transformation occur? This week in Ohio Jason Getsy was executed for the 1995 murder of 66 year old Ann Serafino. Can you imagine that son of a bitch asked the American Supreme Court to grant him stay to challenge Ohio’s lethal injection system as “cruel and unusual punishment”? Can you believe the audacity of that fool? If the lethal injection is a cruel punishment to him then what the hell was his shooting to Ms Serafino, a bloody act of generosity?? It did not matter to Mr. Getsy that this woman was someone’s mother, grandmother or sister. People need to realise that these criminals are selfish, heartless ego centric persons who only care about themselves and will trample on the rights of everyone in order to satisfy their selfish impulses.

Such is the twisted way of the world where the criminals have all the rights and the ordinary law abiding citizen has none. Thankfully the residents of Ohio had their way and the bastard was executed on Tuesday 18 August 2009. At least the residents of Ohio will not be punished now into providing perpetual shelter, food, entertainment and medical care for that low life. I look forward to the resumptions of hangings in Trinidad and Tobago so we can purge T&T of the parasites that walk amongst us.

Abolishing the death penalty while pissing on the victims of crime

Let me start off by simply stating my position on the death penalty, I support it! I’m sick and tired of people saying the death penalty does not solve or is not a deterrent to crime so it should be abolished. If that is the case then I say break down all the prisons and turn them into shopping complexes because we could do with some extra ‘WestMalls’ in T&T and do away with the life imprisonment sentence because neither of these are solving crime nor are they proving to be deterrents. Currently no one is being hanged, everyone is being imprisoned and the murder rate keeps sky rocketing. People the reality is the death penalty was never meant to be a deterrent nor was it meant to be a cure to rampant crime or any crime for that matter.

The death penalty is simply the consequence of committing a particular crime just as life imprisonment or any imprisonment is a consequence for someone perpetrating a particular type of crime. The death penalty is based on the old adage an eye for an eye. It is based on the premise that the law seeks to promote equality and fairness, hence the statue of the blind woman with the balancing scale. Abolish the death penalty and the scale becomes skewed in the favour of criminals. On the 21st April 2009 gun men killed a man and his wife and then proceeded to burn their two children inside the house. Granting someone life imprisonment for this heinous, gut-less, premeditated crime does not equate to the lives of these four people, there is no way in hell that scale could balance!

What is even more stupid, is people who say the death penalty causes and promotes violence. What utter bollox! If that is the case then we should do away with all the laws against stealing, money laundering, driving recklessly, rape, child molestation etc, because all these laws are promoting the respective transgression right? Wrong, so the argument that having the death penalty on our law books promotes violence in our society is moot, it is dead, it defies logic. Another argument put forward by anti-death penalty activists is that there stands the chance of an innocent person being put to death. Well gee there is also the chance of an innocent person being found guilty of rape even though they didn’t do it and being sentenced to life imprisonment. Anyone can be mistakenly found guilty of any crime and you could also wrongfully be sentenced to life imprisonment.

I fail to see how imprisoning someone for life at the age of 25 and it is only when they reach 80 you find out that they were innocent all along, I fail to see how that is better or more humane than the death penalty so exactly what is the point with that argument? The fact of the matter is all human processes are subject to error and that includes law. Error is an inextricable part of the human fabric it cannot be eliminated. To say that you are going to abolish the death penalty because human beings are imperfect is rightfully stupid. In that case then all laws should be abolished because all laws and the methods by which people are held accountable to these laws are open to error.

Also people who promote this ridiculous argument shouldn’t fly because they could never tell which man made plane will give out in mid flight and they should never drive either because they could never tell which man made tyre will bust on them causing them to lose control of their car and be killed instantly. They should live a life of doubt, return to the caves of our ancestors and avoid the Sun God! In any event there have been tremendous advancements in technology that has increased the investigative abilities of law enforcement officers triple fold. Word to the wise, we no longer live in the 14th century, we are way past the Petri-dish era!

What amuses me about human rights organisations such as Amnesty International is that they are never around immediately after a crime is committed. When those gun men killed that family in April where was Amnesty International? Did Amnesty International issue a statement about these dead people’s rights and how they were brutally denied of their right to life? Did Amnesty International send any support units to assist the family members who were left behind to moan the loss of their daughter, son, and grandchildren? No, Amnesty International is never around when the victims of brutal crimes are being buried! But the minute a government decides to hang a perpetrator for committing a most gruesome act such as setting a house on fire with two little children in it; Amnesty International throws their hands in the air and pontificates to our government about human rights! Is it that only the criminals have rights?

Amnesty International likes to use statistics to prove that country’s that have abolished the death penalty have a lesser crime rate than those that retain the death penalty. What Amnesty International does not tell Joe Public is that the country’s with the lowest crime rates are also the most wealthiest, with the citizens of those countries living improved lives compared to the citizens of those countries with the death penalty but which also has a significant disparity with the distribution of national wealth. Having the death penalty in your law books does not cause crime, what causes crime is social inequality. However as human beings we all have choices and being poor does not justify taking the life of another human being, especially when you choose to sit on the block all day scratching your arse because you’re too lazy to go find a job. These criminals are like parasites that prey on the work force of a nation. We work, we do all the sweating and toiling and like parasites all they do is kill so they can consume and reap the benefits of our labour, they are like a malignant cancer that steals the life out of a human body. What do you do with a malignant cancer? Do you treat it? No, you gut it, you cut it off even if it means losing a breast or an entire limb. These criminals must be cut off permanently because they are a cancer to our society.

Another curious position Amnesty International has is the cost it takes to affect the death sentence. Amnesty claim it is simply too expensive for governments to affect the death penalty. Out of curiosity has anyone ever done a cost analysis on the effect of losing a productive citizen at the hands of these depraved criminals? Let’s say a business man aged 35 earns 400k per annum, he has three children and a wife who stays at home to take care of the household. Some criminals decide to rob him and in the process they put a bullet through his head to take from him what they are not entitled. Let’s say we give the businessman an economic life span up to the age of 65, has Amnesty International done any analysis of losses to governments through the loss of taxes they would have received from this business man? Losses which would no doubt be incremental because as the businessman aged and time passed by taking inflationary considerations to account he would no doubt be making more money at age 40, 50 and 60.

Have they estimated the losses to his family, his widow who now has to find a job and take care of her three children until they all reach legal age? And please don’t tell me about insurance because the pittance she will get from insurance isn’t going to last forever. Does Amnesty take into account the emotional and psychological cost of losing a husband, wife or children to violent crime? Furthermore does Amnesty International contribute financially to the families of victims of violent premeditated crime? Do they help pay the household bills after the sole or a significant bread winner is taken away? Do they attend all the parent day meetings of the now parent less children? Do they remember the anniversaries of the widows? Do they buy gifts for every birthday and leave a mark on the wall for every extra inch of growth? Does Amnesty International keep a widow warm in bed at night as she recoils into herself and stare at the empty spot where her hard working husband once lay?! I’m sure if all of the above costs are tallied it we would soon come to the conclusion that the price at which we hang the bastards is a bargain price!

Amnesty International and all these other anti-death penalty groups do absolutely nothing for the victims of violent crime. Family members are left on their own to pick up the pieces. With one hand members of anti-death penalty groups fight for the rights of criminals and demand the abolition of the death penalty while simultaneously holding their penises with their other hand and pissing on family members and on the graves of the victims of violent crime. Another silly argument that people like to throw at you is, ‘would you be willing to be the one to do the hanging’. The answer to that is quite simple, if it’s my wife and children that the bastard brutally killed then yes I will gladly pull the lever to pop his neck! But for those who want to be smart by asking that dumb question, are you willing to continue paying the deceased’s bills? Are you willing to continue to provide for his family and sustain their standard of living prior to the death of their loved one? Are you willing to attend all the birthday parties and graduation of the deceased’s children? Are you willing to foot the university bills of the deceased’s children?

The above are just some of the effects the loss of a loved one to brutal crime can have on a family. Families pay a high emotional and financial price when a lazy, depraved criminal premeditatedly and violently kills their loved ones. It is only fair that the punishment for such crime be equal to the rippling effect it has on the victim’s family. Giving this person perpetual accommodation courtesy state resources, along with food, entertainment and medical benefits can in no way be a just punishment for the suffering that person has caused unto others. People like to ask the question, ‘Have we become so depraved as a specie to repay violence with violence’. Well I often wonder, have we become so depraved that the rights of a criminal is now supreme to that of his victims? So much so that we are actually punishing society as a whole by seeking to force society to stand the costs of accommodating these wicked criminals in humane conditions that are acceptable to human rights groups like Amnesty International?

If Amnesty wants us to abolish the death penalty then I say let Amnesty International foot the expense of keeping T&T’s worst criminals alive. If such an agreement is unacceptable to Amnesty and I know it will be, then I say forward march to Woodford Square and let the necks start popping! We can all then visit any of our favourite watering holes on the Avenue and have a beastly cold beer, after which we can all take turns pissing on Amnesty International’s request for the abolition of the death penalty in T&T. ©