You may remember this story from earlier in the year of a woman who was killed when she tried to stop a robber and her friends insisted that she would not have wanted him to go to jail because she was into social justice.
Jen Angel, a beloved local bakery owner and social justice community activist, died on Thursday from injuries she suffered in a violent robbery, according to her close friends. She was 48…
“As a long-time social movement activist and anarchist, Jen did not believe in state violence, carceral punishment or incarceration as an effective or just solution to social violence and inequity,” her loved ones wrote on a GoFundMe page after the brutal crime.
Her family is “committed to pursuing all available alternatives to traditional prosecution, such as restorative justice,” the post said.
“We know Jen would not want to continue the cycle of harm by bringing state-sanctioned violence to those involved in her death or to other members of Oakland’s rich community,” the family added.
The trend is spreading to celebrities.
One of the drug dealers tied to the overdose death of “The Wire” actor Michael K. Williams was sentenced to just two-and-a-half years in prison Tuesday after the HBO show’s co-creator David Simon asked the judge to show him mercy.
Simon earlier this month asked Abrams to go easy on Macci, saying that Williams “bears the fuller responsibility” and noting his actor pal’s opposition to mass incarceration and the war on drugs.
Macci, who has 23 prior drug convictions, has been locked up for about a year-and-a-half.
Whatever Michael K. Williams believed in the abstract, he, like Jen, might have had other thoughts while dying.
This trend where people forgive criminals in the name of the politics that their victims allegedly had is obscene. Speaking in the name of the dead is risky business and no one has a right to forgive in their name.
Furthermore, setting aside their politics, we prosecute criminals not just because of the harm they caused, but the harm they might cause. There are also the lives of future victims at stake.
We don’t have a ‘pick the punishment for your offender’ system. Instead, we have clearly stated laws and objective prosecutions based on the offense. Or at least we ought to.
On the upside, as soon as criminals see this trend they will start targeting the social justice idiots, knowing that when they do get caught, the punishment will be minimal. It’s a problem that will take care of itself eventually.
One can but hope.
Michael K. Williams is a victim of a drug dealer? Like Hunter Biden? Time to put all those bartenders away for life.
Sharia would solve all this drug and alcohol shenanigans.
Agreed. But we would also get bacha bazi, goat sex, tuneless nasal singing, sex with little pre-pubescent girls, nasty bathroom and eating habits, and the worship of their satanic moon god.
I was being sarcastic, the whole comment is sarcastic. I don’t want an America ruled by Sharia, Mosaic, or Christian Law. Or Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or Horoscope Law.
I want an America ruled by objective laws based on the facts of reality.
Michael K. Williams and Hunter Biden were/are no victims, they were/are grown-ass middle-aged men on the cusp of old age. Objective law recognizes a man becomes a self-responsible man and not a child-victim at least by the time he gets to be 50 or so.
Atheism is subjective, not objective.
The American republic was always “ruled” by Judeo-Christian law. But with atheism ascendant, that’s’ changing rapidly.
Exactly right. Laws based upon Christianity, but the Enlightenment principles very much in ascendency.
I have boiled down your faith to its essence. What you want is a nation of individual godlets, all doing their own thing without hierarchy.
But anarchy is unfit for humanity.
It sounds bad when you put it like that………..:)
People who support the terrorists and criminal deserve to be victimized by them.
But what about the normal people who just want safety for themselves and their families.
That’s why we need laws that apply to all.
Even apply to Crack Hunter?
First, whatever a dead victim may have expressed in the abstract, we have no idea what he or she would have wanted for their own murderer because they are dead. Second, who gives a rat’s rear end what they might have wanted? The rest of society is entitled to be protected from such evil predators irrespective of what their victims may or may not have believed. This is all, like so much of our current society, stupid beyond belief.
You nailed it. The approval of this stupid religion of altruistic forgiveness harms society. But I think that is exactly the point.
The question is not whether religion will exist and have power, but of which one. Not whether, but which.
It is important to point out that there are in reality no crimes against “humanity” or “society”. Or the Jews, or the Christians, or the Muslims, or the Blacks, or the Gays, or the Female Sex.
Real crimes are crimes committed by real individuals on real individuals, in real time, in a real place, in a real context, not on some disembodied, entity called “humanity”, “society”, or the “race”.
Reparations for slavery is based on the premise of crimes against humanity and society, based on an evasion of reality. Original Sin is based on the same premise of unreality.
You don’t understand original sin. A Christian’s task is to be ‘in the world, but not of the world.’ That’s called the ‘narrow road.’
We know the song already.
Imagine all the people
Livin’ for today
Ah
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
I remember a supposedly intolerant and “right wing” preacher character back in the “WKRP in Cincinnati” TV show heard those lyrics and said “that sounds like communism to me.” It was meant to demean Christians and normal people but John Lennon absolutely was singing a paean to communism with that offensive song.
The melody was good, though.
I agree with most of what you say, but would like to add that many people do not see others as individuals – hence the stupid crime against the person because of his religion, race, etc.
Plus, genocide is a real thing, carried out by individuals working as a group. Another great moral evil.
And Beez is right. I don’t understand what you mean by “original sin,” but it is not what is meant by the Christian doctrine of “original sin.”
Original sin simply means we sin because we are sinners — a universal human nature shared by all humanity, patently observable by undeniable evidence.
The actions of Jen Angel and her family do not comport with the Christian understanding of justice or forgiveness. To argue that her killer should escape punishment is to usurp God and His earthly provisions for justice.
Christians must forgive others if we want God to forgive us. Ultimately, only God can forgive sins.
Sin often carries its own temporal punishment, as well as an eternal consequence. If God forgives, this does not mean we will not suffer in our lives as a consequence. The sword never departed from the House of David because of his sin with Bathsheba, and their first child died. David was most certainly forgiven.
Likewise, forgiveness does not mean taking away the punishment. Government is established by God to bear the sword to punish evil doers. When wrong has occurred, the one harmed does not bear the sword.
On a personal level, forgiveness is unilateral and exists for the good of the one harmed – not the evil doer. We trust that God will administer justice as He deems best, both temporally and eternally. And our forgiveness makes possible the restoration of relationship (if there was one). But relationship is always bi-lateral.
The faith that motivates Jen Angel and her family is not Christian, but some post-modern nihilistic religion of death.
Liberal pinheads with sawdust for brains takes In a convicted killer and claim on the 6:00 News This person needs counseling not prison time and in the end the Bleeding-heart is murdered and hacked to pieces by them
Shows how dumb people who aren’t streetwise can be.