Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Friday, February 27, 2015

IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM J. BUCKLEY, JR. (NOVEMBER 24, 1925 TO FEBRUARY 27, 2005) [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE]



 
William F. Buckley, Jr.
If you believe, as the families of the victims of the robbery believe, that society owes to its members the ultimate protection from murder, then capital punishment raises its august hand, the most solemn form of retribution against the killer of innocent people.
[The Fight to Kill: Capital considerations. September 23, 2003, 5:37 p.m.

AUTHOR: William F. Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 - February 27, 2005) was an American Conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement. He hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, where his public persona was famous for a sesquipedalian vocabulary. He also wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and wrote numerous spy novels.
George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American Conservative movement, states that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century... For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary contribution to politics was a fusion of traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying groundwork for the new American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.
Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and over 50 other books on writing, speaking, history, politics and sailing, including a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. Buckley referred to himself as either a libertarian or conservative. He resided in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He was a practicing Roman Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass in Connecticut.
In the late 1960s, Buckley joined the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA. He resigned in January 1978 in protest over the organization's stance against capital punishment as expressed in its Stockholm Declaration of 1977, which he said would lead to the "inevitable sectarianization of the amnesty movement".

JESSICA’S LAW [IN LOVING MEMORY OF JESSICA LUNSFORD (OCTOBER 6, 1995 TO FEBRUARY 27, 2005)]



Let us not forget Jessica Lunsford who was murdered by John Couey on this day, February 27, 2005. There was some justice for her, as the killer died of anal cancer on September 30, 2009


Jessica Lunsford was last seen alive on the afternoon of Feb. 23, 2005. Her grandparents picked her up from the school bus stop in Homosassa, Fla. On the way home, they stopped at a Sonic restaurant to buy curly fries for Jessica before she went to Bible class. Family friend Sharon Armstrong brought her home that evening, and she watched television until her grandmother tucked her into bed at 9 p.m. (SOURCE: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/jessica-lunsford-trial.html)


Please go to this previous blog post to learn more.        

Thursday, February 26, 2015

JOSEPH DE MAISTRE’S PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTES [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTES]



 

Joseph de Maistre
QUOTE 1: “All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.” [The Works of Joseph de Maistre, ed. Jack Lively (1965). The Count, in Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, "First Dialogue," (1821).]

QUOTE 2: All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
           
AUTHOR: Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a French-speaking Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was one of the most influential spokesmen for hierarchical authoritarianism in the period immediately following the French Revolution of 1789.