November 22, 2009
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It's your call Oct. 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Get it done
I’m calling in regard about the prisons being overpopulated. I don’t understand why the big guys can’t figure out what the problem is. It’s really simple. Our court system gives the juries the right to pass a sentence on a criminal. If they pass a death sentence, then it should be carried out. And it shouldn’t be 20 years since the time the death sentence is pronounced. It should be within a two- to three-year time frame. If the person did such a heinous crime to get the death penalty, then “get ’er done.”
Editor’s note: The state of Missouri has more than 50,000 prison inmates. Of those, about 50 are on death row.
In the swing
When my sister was alive, she had her TV on 24 hours a day tuned to Channel 3, listening to the wonderful ’50s music. Why can’t cable give us seniors some of that wonderful music on Saturdays or Sundays? We would like our turn. We pay our cable bills. Give us a break on weekends, please.
Stop sports
If the supporters of the school taxation would stop spending more money on trips associated with sports, sports equipment, etc., and less on parking lots for the more affluent students and spent all of this money on education instead of recreation, we wouldn’t need more taxes. Our teachers work nine months out of the year and complain about their salaries. Get real, what we need is less large salaries and more teaching to improve our children’s minds and less spent on recreation and days out early.
Double time
This is to “Seeing double.” Teachers did not receive a double paycheck. They’re contracted from July to August. This year they started in August.
Threats
I thought that was pretty interesting the other day when Rahm Emanuel went before the cameras, warned the press not to pick up any stories from FOX. If you think this country is not headed down an evil path, you are definitely wrong. When the White House starts threatening the news media, we are in big trouble.
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i'd have to agree. this obamanation should look to one of their own to realize just how dangerous the concept of "contorlling the press is." i am remined of a book i once read predicting the social climate that people were forced to tolerate, just to survive in that new world. the book is 1984 by Georg Orwell. the repeating themes in the book are; "war is peace, ignorance is stregnth, freedom is slavery." wake up America, is this the nation we want our children to inherit? this is where we are headed with liberals in control.
Editor’s note: The state of Missouri has more than 50,000 prison inmates. Of those, about 50 are on death row.
So then what is the hold up? And the 50,000 should be thinned. There should be no such thing as 2 life terms, or life plus 100 years etc..you murder someone , you should get death..PERIOD.
And a dictatorship has to squash negative media the first thing.How many negative news stations operate in North Korea? They tune in to hear Dear leader is great!! And turn the channel and hear Dear leader is terrific!!
Stop sports,
Sure yeah, stop the sports. Lets not strive to produce well-rounded individuals. Lets not encourage an active lifestyle or self esteem. For some kids, sports is the only thing keeping them out of trouble, their only outlet.
Sports have always been and should be part of education. But I don't want to hear crap aboput how someone's son had to stand in the rain and hear about how some kids from KC made fun of the facilities, who cares? Sports are part of education, but it's priority is last on the list when discussing anything about it.Mention anything about how we need to pass this school tax because we need a state of the art weight room built, or need to add a jumbo tron at a football field and you will find alot of people that will say they think we should just cut all of it.
Why not abolish the death penalty and stop locking up non-violent offenders?
Interesting wording from stop sports - "If those in favor of school taxation - Note that the organization funding the "Citizens Against Forever Tax" is being funded by the "Sam Adams Alliance" from Chicago whe is agaisnt taxation and beleive our schools should be private not public. They are a grass roots oganization who have held workshops in Kansas City to recurit people to get involved in civic elections and school board elections.
The truth is it matters not if you favor school taxation or not, that is the only way we pay for public schools. It matters not if you vote yes or no for the levy in November, you will pay taxes to your public schools. The question is will the community live up to its responsiblilty of education its own.
Do you listen to what your community needs from those in your community, or some organization in Chicago who will lie, misinform and do whatever they can to move their national agenda. Do not allow our children to be politcal footballs, if this community does not stand up for its own, who will.
muguy,
"Why not stop locking up non-violent offenders." So you think it's okay to have drug peddlers, thieves and vandals walking around unpunished? Great logic.
Instead, how about actually making them serve their sentences in a jail/prison where their life is so miserable that perhaps they will think twice about commiting a crime again when they get out? Jail/prison is suppposed to be a deterrant, not a summer camp.
Regarding over crowding in prisons, in WW2 I was in a barrack with 300 others, was that overcrowding? It sure did'nt harm me and I volunteered.
anon,
I was thinking rehab and community service type punishments. If they quit or repeat, then send them to the pen.
I have family members that work within the corrections dept. and guess what? Most prisoners don't become good guys after serving time. They hangout with other criminals all day and do criminal networking. Some are trying to turn their life around... some.
muguy,
If the prisoners didn't have a chance to see or talk to one another you might not have a criminal networking problem. Do away with all windows, do away with recess, leave them in a closed cell 24/7. Why give tehm two chances to screw up before punishing them? That's just one more victim you've created.
Anon,
There are countries in the world that punish criminals with the methods you have described. Why not do the US a favor and move to one of them. Third world countries around the globe would welcome your ideals about corrections with open arms.
Yeah, your idea makes perfect sense, get rid of the law-abiding citizens and let the criminals run free. what a concept! And you think my opinion is silly? Do you even read what you write?
As archaic as those "third world countries" are they have a MUCH lower crime rate than we do, they must be doing something right.
You leave someone in a cell with zero human contact and no window, and you are creating a crazy person. So instead of just a criminal to take care of, the employees of the prison would get to deal with a bunch of insane people. Wonderful plan.
I think our jails and prisons do need some sort of changes, but that's not it. Someone much smarter than us will have to figure that one out.