As some of us, the comrades of Unit 1012
are born again Christians. We would like rebut the 7 answers of Karen Clifton,
who is the Executive Director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network to end the use of the Death Penalty. We will back up our rebuttal essay with different kinds
of statistics with stories from blog posts and also Force 1109 Blog.
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SOURCE: http://michaeloloughlin.religionnews.com/2013/08/11/7-questions-ending-the-death-penalty/
7 Questions: ending the
death penalty
Michael J. O'Loughlin | Aug 11, 2013
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Karen
Clifton is the executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing
Network, a Washington, DC, based Catholic group that seeks to apply the
Catholic Church’s pro-life mission to the abolition of the death penalty in the
US.
Michael O’Loughlin: Your group, Catholic Mobilizing Network, fights to
end the use of the death penalty. How does this fit in to the Catholic Church’s
very active pro-life movement?
Karen Clifton: The death penalty is a pro-life issue. By educating
Catholics on the death penalty, we close the loopholes on all of the life
issues. If we can come to believe that those who have done heinous crimes have
the right to life and redemption, it is logical to believe the innocent have a
right to life. Abolishing the death penalty is a means of changing the mindset
of our culture from using violence to solve problems.
REBUTTAL: Heinous crimes have the right to life and
redemption??? Why do people like Karen keep silent on the victims and their
grieving families? Recidivist murderers have murdered again and again and
redemption does not seem to work at all. Kenneth McDuff is one great example in
Texas.
Kenneth McDuff
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"Abolishing the death penalty is a means of changing the mindset of our culture from using violence to solve problems."
George Orwell and Robert A. Heinlein have quotes for you in regards to
the cycle of violence.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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MO: Federal authorities may seek the death penalty
against the alleged Boston marathon bomber, accused of killing 4, including a
child, and injuring hundreds. Why should this person, and those who commit
heinous crimes, be spared?
KC: Putting the Boston marathon bomber to death is not going to bring
any of the four people who were sadly killed back to life. Two wrongs are not
going to make a right, and using the death penalty just increase the
violence. His death would just teach that killing justifies
killing. Another way to think about it is, how does killing someone show
that killing others is wrong? As a Catholic, I believe in redemption,
which is all in God’s time.
REBUTTAL: As usual, abolitionists do
not seem to realize that their argument, “Putting someone to death does not
bring the victim back to life.” is the most flawed argument against capital
punishment. Unit 1012 can also say that incarceration and any punishment cannot
bring the victim back to life, why don’t we leave all evildoers unpunished.
"Two wrongs are not going to make a right, and using the death penalty just increase the violence. His death would just teach that killing justifies killing. Another way to think about it is, how does killing someone show that killing others is wrong?"
English Philosopher, John Stuart Mill was quoted in
a Speech in favor of capital punishment in the House of Lords on April 21,
1865:
Does fining a criminal show want of respect for property, or imprisoning him, for personal freedom? Just as unreasonable is it to think that to take the life of a man who has taken that of another is to show want of regard for human life. We show, on the contrary, most emphatically our regard for it, by the adoption of a rule that he who violates that right in another forfeits it for himself, and that while no other crime that he can commit deprives him of his right to live, this shall.
The Boston Marathon Bomber will hopefully
join the The Legion of Doom: The 13 Dead Terrorists. The
13 evil men were either executed or killed by military action. Are the soldiers
or executioners all stooping to their level?
MO: You’re from Texas, home of what the New York
Times called America’s busiest
death chamber. What was it like fighting the death penalty there?
KC: It feels like you are invisible. The executions were on the
newspaper’s back page when I lived in Texas, and they were never discussed. It
was as if they weren’t happening at all. The good works of many, including
attorneys, students, and religious, are raising their voices to make the
facts and moral issues known. Texas can always surprise you.
REBUTTAL: Karen, we rather you obey
God’s Justice than get wrongfully influenced by The ACLU. Unit 1012 prayed to Jesus Christ and we thank God he answered our prayers and Proposition 34 was defeated. Unit 1012 research the facts of capital cases and we DO NOT BELIEVE
in whatever the ACLU says.
MO: Your group works with Sr.
Helen Prejean, made famous for her anti-death penalty work in the
movie ‘Dead Man Walking.’ What impact has she, and
the film, had on America’s attitudes toward capital punishment?
KC: ‘Dead Man Walking’ was the perfect example of how film, theatrical
performances and media can educate people about issues. Often, people don’t
think about the death penalty unless it touches your family or someone you
know. The book, which has many more facts, and the movie, which was beautifully
written and acted, caught the nation’s attention. Other movies have done the
same for mental illness, poverty, and racism, which are all issues that come to
play in the death penalty. We need more movies that educate people about the
realities that exist.
REBUTTAL: As usual, Karen needs to
stop get wrongfully influenced by the media that love to lie and lie again. We
know the facts of the case when we read the book, ‘Dead Family Walking’
instead. Unit 1012 prefers to watch movies like The Passion of The Christ,
where the Director, Mel Gibson who is a Traditionalist Catholic is truly
Pro-Life (where he is anti-abortion but Pro Death Penalty). Please see this
blog post from Force 1109, ‘DEFENDING THE DEATH PENALTY: THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST’.
PLEASE SEE
THIS QUOTE FROM CORDELL HULL:
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MO: In addition to fighting against capital
punishment, you promote restorative justice. What’s the goal of restorative
justice?
KC: Restorative Justice asks us to consider how we achieve justice and
promote healing of the victim, the perpetrator, and the whole community. It’s
not an easy out for the perpetrators; it’s actually more difficult. The
offender has to recognize what they have done, own their
actions, and then work to restore the harm they have caused. Through our
retributive system of justice, all is focused on the offender. We need a system
that gives the victim a voice, as well as the means to heal. The death
penalty has proven not to be a source of healing, but a system that
re-victimizes the victim’s family for many, many years.
REBUTTAL: If Karen claims that restorative
justice works as well, meaning that those killers can be redeem and heal
society, she should learn the case of Leonard
Keith Lawson and Barry
Gordon Hadlow, who were devout Christians and model prisoners, who won
their parole for good behavior and went on to murder again. She should also
learn about James
Tramel who became an Episcopal priest after serving a prison sentence for
murder, he is now suspended from church duties as he had been accused of sexual
misconduct.
"We need a system that gives the victim a voice, as well as the means to heal. The death penalty has proven not to be a source of healing, but a system that re-victimizes the victim’s family for many, many years."
The D.C. Sniper, John Allen Muhammad
was executed at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia. Unlike
other States in the America, he was executed in seven years after his murders
and six years after being sentenced to death on November 17, 2003, he was not
executed ‘voluntarily’ (state suicide assist). We hope that other states can
follow Virginia’s example, as they did it with Michael
William Lenz.
MO: What’s more effective in converting
people to your cause, moral arguments or economic ones?
KC: Depends on the audience. I would say initially, the economic
arguments are more effective. People have usually not thought about the death
penalty and often they don’t know the facts. If you give them the facts
about cost, then they are often open to hearing the moral arguments as well.
They often don’t know that execution can cost three times more than a life
sentence in the highest level security prison, that poverty plays a major role
in who gets the death penalty, as people with money do not sit on death row,
that it’s racially biased, that one-third of all executions come from only 15
counties in the US, that there is a high probability of executing an innocent
person. Once people hear this, they are open to hearing the moral arguments
about a flawed system playing God, the lack of redemption, and the dignity of
human life.
REBUTTAL: One of the main reasons
why capital trials are more expensive than life sentence is because of the ACLU
demons who made it expensive. Abolishing the death penalty will not save money at all.
The arguments that those Death Penalty
opponents provide like racism and executing an innocent person can be rebutted
here. Please see this blog post, “STOP THE RACISM, KEEP THE PUNISHMENT!”
There are massive safeguards and strict guidelines to follow in capital cases, the chance of getting an innocent
person wrongfully executed is close to nil. The innocence argument are just one
of the scare stories used to frighten people to preserving the evildoers.
"A flawed system playing God, the lack of redemption, and the dignity of human life."
Unit 1012
wonders if Karen and her organization will cry for Nazi War Criminals?
Seyß-Inquart,
Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Heydrich in Vienna,
March 1938
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If we can send The Seal Team Six to
kill Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists. Why can we not use them as the
firing squad to kill all guilty murderers in America? The Seal Team Six were NOT PLAYING God when they assassinated Osama Bin Laden. They were meting out Justice and Protection.
MO: A majority of Hispanics in the US supports the death
penalty, despite the overrepresentation of Hispanics on death row compared to
the population. Why?
KC: Hispanics tend to be culturally pro-life, but Spanish-speaking
Catholics usually come from countries that do not have the death
penalty. When they arrive in this country, usually in the South, they try
to assimilate into American culture. They assume our values, which are
predominately pro-death penalty. It is our job as Church to educate them
that the death penalty is a pro-life issue and our laws are not always just.
REBUTTAL: Unit 1012 feels the death
penalty is Pro Life please see this quote from Saint Thomas Aquinas and read
one of his articles.
Unit
1012 advises you to stop showing support for evildoers, if you end the death
penalty, you will be grieving more victims’ families and causing more innocent
lives. Blood is on the CMN’s hands! If you see the case Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, people like us remember them every year on the date they
die and on their birth dates.
Channon Gail
Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23.
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John
Murray, Edmund Burke and Dietrich Bonhoeffer will explain more to you in their own
quotes:
Nothing shows the moral
bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity
of human life. And it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the
plea for the abolition of the death penalty. It is the sanctity of life that
validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this
sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The
deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction
which the violation of that sanctity merit.
- John Murray
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.quoteswave.com/picture-quotes/410567)
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