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Pooka · #31 08-21-2013, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

Unless they're under military law, no one is requiring them to stay at their jobs under duress, or to engage in activities they see as abhorrent as part of their work.

"Give him a break, he's just doing his job" doesn't fly when the job involves doing things that are WRONG. Not for cops, soldiers, jailers, corporate middle managers, or hangmen.

Choose to be an executioner? F--k you. Hope you have nightmares every f--king night of the rest of your life. Maybe you'll actually do some good when you come out against the death penalty, as a lot of former executioners did.

Uh.... Did I say I was in favor of the death penalty?

I have never know a Criminal that was scared of the death penalty. It was an abstract thing that others were involved in and not them. Besides, they were too smart to get caught since they were just soooooo good at what they did.

If you want to know how I feel about the death penalty then read up on the Dallas County, Texas, DA Henry Wade. He could get a death penalty sentence for anyone with no evidence of any type and he did a number of times. There is a reason Texas leads the nation in 'discovering' guilty men on death row and releasing them and that reason is that Henry Wade was only interested in racking up convictions.

There is no doubt that Wade sent innocent people to Death Row. But to Wade it was all about the next election, and convictions were what the people were voting for.

spdrun · #32 08-21-2013, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Pooka

If you knew you were going to get a job where the work was 99% of the time pushing papers and drawing a good sized paycheck and 1% of the time doing something that most folks would recoil at..... Where do I sign up?

And if the choice was between that and needing to find a real job where you were expected to do real work and you could get fired for not doing your job... Where's that government job?

So wait ... you come up with a better way of doing something wrong to make a bunch of incompetents feel more comfortable, instead of just stopping doing the wrong thing? It doesn't save money, it isn't fairly applied, it doesn't deter crime, and it sure doesn't bring back the victims. What's the point other than to say that they're doing something?

(Besides, I thought that most states brought in an "expert" to do the actual dirty work -- I remember reading about an electrician that lived in Brooklyn in the 1940s, and would take a trip upstate or to a neighboring state once every week or two, not telling anyone where he was going.)