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South Carolina Needs To Dramatically Expand Capital Punishment
It’s time to make the death penalty a true deterrent to violent crime…
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Nothing says “Don’t trust the government” quite like saying the government should kill more people.
Nothing says “don’t trust the government” quite like having innocent people get murdered by the thousands while the perps get 3 hots and a cot with air conditioning. medical care, and TV for free, for 20 years to life.
Can we now assume you have dropped your “libertarian” label? Between this, your fundamental misunderstanding of the justice system, and your bended knee to the fake DOGE guy, I would say you are pretty big-government these days.
Sure enough: the WASP South-Carolina-government-dependent lawyer attacks the successful pro se first-generation Indian American scientist and brands him “fake DOGE guy.”
It is time to expose the triumvirate of South-Carolina middling law schools, judges and state officials with side gigs supposedly “teaching” in those law schools, and lawyers recouping their law-school debts and making a living by getting appointed for indigent criminal defendants then lazily advising those defendants, guilty or innocent, to plead guilty in return for a reduced sentence.
That WASP lawyer system, which arrogantly and without any evidence calls the Anglo-American common-law system “the best in the world,” is so brutal and cruel to independent thinkers it attacks even pro se litigants who STATISTICALLY get better results for themselves than represented ones as “mentally incompetent.”
That WASP lawyer system thinks it has NOTHING to learn from 21st Century science, from the French, Roman-inspired civil law system, or, most significantly, from the laws of God as detailed in Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and refined by Jesus Christ in, inter alia, Matthew 5:22, which states, “But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; but whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.”
Just so you know, the laws of God mandate PROPORTIONALITY of punishment; and the Holy Commandments (which are “ten” only in Hollywood, not in the REAL Bible) are the doom of capitalism.
“Thou shalt not covet […] or anything belonging to thy neighbor.” There goes the whole advertising industry!
Want me to continue about the hypocrisy of WASP lawyers?
Ah yes, the classic “libertarian”, Will Folks. What’s next, expanding the drug war?
We need to do away with the sex offender registry. There are 2 types of people on it. Those that deserve death or permanent incarceration, and those that don’t deserve to be on it at all.
Sex crimes physically committed against children – automatic death. Rape at gunpoint/knifepoint – death. All others, life.
Granted, in all death penalty cases, concrete physical evidence should be the standard not circumstantial.
Bob, you are exactly right. The Sex Offender Registry is one of the most abused and misused abominations found in our criminal justice system. People are on it virtually for life, for crimes where no physical contact with the alleged victim was made or even attempted. People are on this abomination virtually for life for things like inadvertently relieving themselves in view of others while intoxicated, or for having voluntary relations with someone who was below an arbitrary age that was set by a bunch of suit-wearing jokers, many of who have done the same or much worse in their own lives. A 22 year-old teacher who has sex with a 19 year old student in SC can get a decade in prison and life on the registry for doing something any other young adults could do with no penalty. A few years ago, the SC Supreme Court appeared ready to give some relief to the Sex Offender Registry madness, but mostly failed. Now, someone on the registry who had no contact whatsoever with the alleged victim and attempted none, can get off the registry 25 years after conviction with no further infractions. Why so long? The registry is geared towards destroying lives and all but denying any attempt at gainful employment for its victims. Is there any evidence that paying the Sheriff in your county $150 each year and registering twice a year for benign offenders, who must provide a list of all vehicles they have access to including bicycles and skateboards, has saved anyone? This madness must stop.
As far as real child (12 and under) go, yes give them the death penalty upon irrefutable proof, yesterday. We don’t want to see guys 19 years old getting the death penalty for voluntary sex with someone below an arbitarily set age. Solicitors and police already twist words and meanings by saying things like a fifteen year-old cannot give consent to a 19 year old so it must be rape. I can see some of them seeking the death penalty in these cases, too.
“while the perps get 3 hots and a cot with air conditioning. medical care, and TV for free, for 20 years to life.”
Wow, prison life sounds like a vacation resort. Feel free to book a stay if that’s the case.
I’m pretty sure all the innocent people who were wrongly convicted and executed would prefer at least that meager existence though.
“pro-life” Will Folks jumping on the ‘tough on crime’ bandwagon. What a maroon.
There is no “true deterrent” for violent crime. Newsflash–criminals don’t give a shit.
An armed citizenry, unimpeded by unnecessary prohibited carry zones, is a deterrent.
Yeah, right! Cover the land with armed impulsive ne’er-do-wells who shoot first then pretend they felt threatened later. That will reduce the murder rate!
So much better to keep the sheep helpless and the wolves empowered like on that Charlotte light-rail train, eh?
How do you tell real wolves from wolves in sheep’s clothing?
Those who live by the sword die by the sword.
The most likely use of wanton firearms is in suicides and homicides of family/household members. Read the REAL statistics.
Say it loud, Sub. Say it proud.
“BAAAAAAA!”
Kinda hard to reoffend from the grave…
However you want to say it, Observer, I can only say it directly. So, I do not know what “BAAAAAAA” means. Is it sheep sounds?
Almost no European countries or British Commonwealth nations have the death penalty for violent crime, and yet the homicide rate in those countries is well below that in the US. In the US, the states that impose the death penalty for murder or homicide have the highest homicide rates. Why is that? For example, Texas kills the most people, but its homicide rate per capita is well above New York’s and California’s, which do not impose the death penalty. Just killing more people does not seem to work.
Oh, and why haven’t you called for the release of the Epstein files? Do you not think we have the right to know who participated in Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors? Why is MAGA Mike fighting so hard to cover this up?
I agree the Epstein files need to be released in their entirety. Unfortunately, this will spur Trump to make more attacks on Iran, Venezuela, or maybe Russia, to distract from talk of releasing the Epstein files and probably embarrassing himself.
One might make the argument that one major criticism of the death penalty is the arbitrary and capricious way in which it is applied. Minorities and poor people and males are much more susceptible to receiving it than others in society. In SC, it even extends to geography. Commit a murder in Richland County and the death penalty seldom applies. Cross the river into Lexington and you will find quite the opposite. As for social and economic parity, ask yourself a simple question: If Alex Murdaugh did not deserve the death penalty for the cold-blooded murder of his wife and son, then who does? Yet it was taken off the table by Attorney General Alan Wilson.
I hope Pope Leo XIV, Vice President JD Vance, and Mrs, Kirk, make it fashionable (or at least acceptable) within MAGA to be Catholic.
And while we are at at, I hope Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II are not forgotten already.
I hope, too, that Usha Chilukuri makes it acceptable, even fashionable, within some circles who worship the Germanic beauty dreams of tall, blue-eyed, blond and big-breasted and big-footed (whether naturally or artificially), to be petite, natural-dark-haired with silver streaks of wisdom, with wise brown eyes un-weighted-down with artificial eyelashes and the allergenic glue it takes to apply them, AND frugal in fashion.
With that said, I know that Will Folks is not Catholic though I am unsure of which, if any, theology he brings his children up in. I know that Jenn Woods claims to be Catholic, and that, before the Citadel, David Pascoe went to a preparatory academy with a Catholic-sounding name.
Though I converted in later adulthood to Coptic Orthodoxy, my 100% childhood-into-early-adulthood Catholic education is indelible. And looking back at it, I marvel at how skilled the nuns were, in co-operation with the monks. in ingraining in us the JOYS of chastity, charity, and studiousness. The nuns took us to visit the sick and the poor while the monks taught us the basics of Catholic philosophy and that the purpose of life is to know God and to love Him.
The Coptic Orthodox phrasing of the purpose of life is to unite with God.
Since my conversion, the only thing I do differently is where and how I take Holy Communion where and when I can.
The Coptic Orthodox Church does not YET oppose the death penalty (how can it in majority-Moslem Egypt?) but the Catholic Church does and now requires the faithful to actively oppose it, too.
And come what may, I believe it hypocritical to oppose abortion without opposing the death penalty and/or to oppose the death penalty without opposing abortion.
So, insult me you self-anointed righteous right and lofty left all you want; but remember that God is love and God told us to choose life. Period. No age brackets.
So, today, remembering Revelation 3:20 English Standard Version
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”
and the Parable of the Sower Mark 4:1-20 New International Version
“1 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. 2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
I hope, God willing and FITS permitting, to show the political candidates that literal guillotine-glorification is unsound, unscientific, and unconstitutional.
FITS and David Pascoe, you guillotine-glorifiers, remember that Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008), already held the death penalty unconstitutional for non-homicidal crimes other than crimes against the state itself, not mere inhabitants thereof.
Any attempt to expand it to non-homicidal child abuse will be promptly struck down after having enriched some lawyers in the process of arguing for and against it.
That is the real purpose of most laws nowadays: enriching lawyers.
Besides, who are the most recent admitters of guilt in CSAM possession/distribution? Your super-sanctimonious “church-going” sheriff, your jolly judge, and your fallen crusading “freedom caucus” king-maker.
Do we really want more such hypocrites deciding for us what deserves the death penalty?
Also think about it. Isn’t CSAM sadism against the defenseless? Your advocating for executions in the most torturous methods possible will do the OPPOSITE of reducing violent crime. It will promote lust for blood and sadism.
You could do well while doing good by promoting instead scientific proportionality in punishment.
I am so tired.
So, Will Folks wants to expand capital punishment in South Carolina! Has he forgotten, or did he ever know, that perjury and subornation of perjury ARE crimes which at different times places WERE punished by the death penalty?
Now that Will Folks knows it, how would he want Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) punished for her perjury and subornation of perjury against me?
After all, the same set of Holy Commandments (which some want posted in classrooms) which say “thou shalt not kill” and “thou shalt not steal” also say “thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain” and “thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
But because I had no $70K/year as the City of Columbia was paying then-Assistant-Solicitor Weiss on the side to be the City’s hatchet, Hatchet-for-Hire Heather did not just ignore that I was the VICTIM of harassment and even threats of rape by a PWID-crack dealer previously convicted by none other than Weiss herself. Hatchet-for-Hire Heather did not just ignore the photos of career criminal Corey/Cory Lamont Curry masturbating at me in MY parking lot. Hatchet-for-Hire Heather spent public resources and jurors’ time trying to incarcerate ME for taking the very photos which prove same Corey/Cory’s crimes against me. And Hatchet-for-Hire Heather did not just want to incarcerate me for days or months; she wanted me (God forbade and my self-defense WITHOUT A LAWYER thwarted) incarcerated for 36 YEARS; yes THIRTY-SIX. Hatchet-for-Hire Heather tenaciously did so through perjury and subornation of perjury, it bears repeating, ARE crimes which at different times places WERE punished by the death penalty.
Yet the system wants to continue to punish ME for criticizing Hatchet-for-Hire Heather and her benefactors PRECISELY BECAUSE I have no money to pay her or to hire a hatchet of my own, even if I believed in hatchets, which I do not.
But I do NOT want Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) incarcerated for even 36 minutes; nor do I want any harm done to her person or even her livelihood. I want her punishment to be that she be ORDERED to review, and TRUTHFULLY report on, EVERY incarcerated person in South Carolina’s case for defects in the conviction and the investigation preceding it. A one-woman conviction integrity unit, so to speak, which South Carolina (alone?) among the states still does not have.
Also this expression of Will Folks’ TERRIFYING personal fantasies of extreme AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL sadism in applying the death penalty becomes even more terrifying with each re-reading, I do what I can to disabuse the readers of its basic fallacies:
1. “Justice” means harshness;
2. Harshness reduces crime; and
3. Hypocritical judges who now pander to “lawyer legislators” who elect them will not pander to the governor who appoints them or to the public at large who elects them, or to the donors who finance their campaigns, or to the U.S. Senator who employs them in his/her office then elevates them to the federal bench, or to any other form of judicial selection.
I’ll take the second point first: slow hanging in the public square with tickets sold to witness actual death as entertainment.
Where, in today’s world, do executions take place in the public square but without “tickets sold”? In case you have not guessed it, look it up.
Has the cutting of hands of thieves reduced thefts in those places? No.
Has the public beheading of adulterers reduced adultery in those places? No.
Has the public flogging of alleged blasphemers reduced internal doubts about religions which stifle such thoughts?
And let me ask those who claim to be Christian this: Has the public and cruel crucifixion of Jesus Christ stifle Christianity or, to the contrary, cause it to spread?
Remember: Christianity was a crime in the “judgment” of the Pharisees and of the Roman Emperors.
But Simon, who witnesses Jesus Christ’s crucifixion from afar in Jerusalem, later became Saint Peter, who willingly gave himself to be crucified.
And Saul of Tarsus, who PARTICIPATED in the stoning of Saint Stephens later became Saint Paul, who was willing to be martyred in Rome for the same cause for which he had participated in the public stoning of Saint Stephens in Jerusalem.
To the a-religious who still claim to be latter-day American patriots, I ask: Did the British’s literal “quartering” of captured revolutionaries defeat the American Revolution?
You will insult me by falsely claiming that I equate Christianity and/or the American Revolution with base child rapes or production of CSAM.
But you will be promoting the very hypocrisy I am trying to expose and reduce BECAUSE you know THAT IS NOT MY POINT.
My point is that public cruelty promotes private cruelty; and violence against (good or bad) ideas only promotes violence by those who espouse bad ideas and, for those espousing good ideas, willingness to be subjected to violence for the sake of good ideas.
You do NOT eliminate child rape or production/distribution of CSAM, or drug use/distribution, or even murder by public torturous executions.
You DO or CAN eliminate such evils by filling people’s hears with JOY from GOOD activities such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, sheltering the stranger, and visiting the prisoner.
You DO or CAN eliminate the DESIRE to look at CSAM by giving people great art to look at or great photos and videos of the wonders of nature to look at.
In Pharmacology, it is called “competitive inhibition.” In simple terms, it means a drug that binds to the receptor site of a different molecule prevents that molecule (good or bad) from acting. It does not break down that other molecule itself but prevents it from acting on the receptor by getting there first.
So, do not scare your children with public torturous hangings; get to them “first” by filling their time with learning, art, creativity, good sports, etc.
I shall, God willing and FITS permitting, get to points 1 and 3 later.
“‘There is simply no elegant way to kill a man,’ justice John Few wrote in announcing the resumption of the death penalty in the Palmetto State.” Huh?
Well, Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”), and later now-mysteriously-resigned former SC Circuit Judge D. Craig Brown, along with his accomplices Timothy Lee Griffin and Jessica Mangum, think they found an inelegant way to kill an innocent lady.
But at the threshold, I was puzzled by Will Folks’ sudden love for John Canon Few, on whose messy private life Will Folks reported extensively while hypocritically prefacing and ending every salacious article with something to the effect that Few’s private life does not concern us so long as he is a good judge.
But Few’s private life DOES concern us because it makes him a VERY BAD JUDGE. I think Few should withdraw and save me the trouble of filing a complaint against his candidacy which might get ditched anyway as was my complaint two years ago against John Kittredge’s candidacy. That complaint was ditched by Andy Fiffick, IV, who, few months later, committed suicide which was covered up by the lawyer-speak “died unexpectedly” and received a whole-month belated WASP service because the Catholic Church, to which the Fiffick family long belonged, considers suicide a mortal sin and does not administer last rites to suicidants.
But now, Will Folks apparently hopes to recruit Few to Folks’ guillotine-glorification club.
Or Folks subscribes to “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” idea and has a grudge against Jay Lucas and wants to keep Lucas off South Carolina’s bench.
I do not anything about Jay Lucas as a lawyer and potential jurist and am not in the habit of commenting without study.
But I know that Few’s opinions have not been particularly liberal or conservative but generally showy-offy.
And I suspect that, if Few loses re-election, it would be because he and Kittredge do not like each other, and because Murrell Smith wants his former law partner, George James, Jr. to become SC Chief Justice as soon as possible after Kittredge mandatorily retires in a couple of years.
I truly pray FITS lets this comment through and allows the details which shall, God willing and FITS permitting, follow.
Thank God I am still alive to write this, and thanks to FITS for letting my antecedent through.
Now, I continue with God’s help.
Since my Hatchet-for-Hire-Heather-(“Weiss”)-contrived 2 December 2009 false arrest, I’ve been saying, “don’t take my word for it, take the record.”
Now, I modify it to “Take the record, then take my word.” My word is my the filling in of what does not appear in the record and my plausible inferences of how those objective facts are tied together.
The objective facts are too numerous to be listed here but anyone interested can verify them from court records, and records of various media, and records of the City of Columbia Council meetings and of Richland County Council meetings, and records of the University of South Carolina’s law school’s payments to various judges, sitting or retired, to teach or lecture at that law school, and records of South Carolina’s Insurance Reserve Fund’s payments through the years to private lawyers who are relatives of sitting judges or of USC’s forever-General-Counsel Terry Parham, or are lawyer legislators. or are law firms which later employed men and women whom that law-firm groomed to become state or federal judges.
The connections are mind-boggling as they are eye-opening; and are the closest to a real web of money trail in which the innocent get caught.
I am that innocent and will try to show every thread and how it intersects with the others and how it is hypocritical of everyone to fail to look at all those threads while claiming to be combatting judicial corruption.
SC Attorney-General Candidate, another guillotine-glorifier, promises that, if elected, he will not give any Insurance Reserve Fund work to lawyer legislators.
Why should South Carolina’s Attorney General be farming out the state’s legal work to ANY outside lawyer, legislator or not, in the first place? Few, if any, other states do that; and certainly not to the AUTOMATIC extent to which South Carolina’s attorney general farms out ALL the State’s civil legal work to private lawyer who bill the state for tens, if not hundreds, of millions for unnecessary work.
And what the state does on a large scale, the municipalities and counties do on a slightly smaller scale, that is wasting hundreds of thousands MORE dollars on top of the millions the state is wasting.
For now, I cite the $70K/year the City of Columbia has been paying Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) for years while she was assistant solicitor for Barney Giese and for John Meadors and the $75M, yes seventy-five million dollars Alan Wilson gave two law firms for the nuclear waste storage deal which was, legal-work-wise, easier than shooting fish in a barred. One of those two law firms is Jean Toal’s brother, and the other is that of a former attorney general employee.
In animal colonies, the aspiring leader often does not pick up a fight with an equal-in-strength rival but grabs the weakest member of the group and kills it in front of all the others to make an example.
So, Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) wanted to secure her ADDITIONAL $70K/year from the City of Columbia which I had just sued in state court to end their trespass on a vacant lot of land Mother and I had bought earlier in 2009, not knowing that the adjacent neighbor’s and the City’s sewer lines had been illegally and surreptitiously run under out land.
Instead of dealing with my civil suit in civil court according to law, the City had its Hatchet-for-Hire Heather and its Columbia Police Department (“CPD”) falsely arrest me in the morning of 2 December 2009, the morning after the 1 December 2009 hearings before Judge Barber for discovery and before Judge Lee for a preliminary injunction.
Hatchet-for-Hire Heather and CPD were hoping that I would go berserk in the process and they could shoot me under false pretext of self-defense.
They had not seen real class before and would not recognize it when they see it.
So, Hatchet-for-Hire Heather, having clandestinely and extensively investigated my medical history, knew that I had had thyroid surgery in Chapel Hill, NC, in 1980, before MRI machines were used and before MRI-compatible surgical staples were invented or used.
Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) then began FALSELY “reporting” bizarre behavior by me and suggesting that it is caused by a brain tumor and requesting the courts to order me to undergo a brain MRI. She knew that would cause the surgical staples in my neck from the thyroid surgery to be dislodged by the powerful magnetic field of the machine and cause my death.
Too far-fetched you say? No, no, no. Only recently a man in chains was sucked into an MRI machine and thereby killed.
I will need a break now because I get too emotional at how evil a prosecutor, whom the courts address as “honorable” can be; and how supposedly “honorable” judges continued to indulge her crimes against me and her continuing torment of me.
To be continued, God willing and FITS permitting.