Legal Action For Death Threats

In America we do not allow a person to specifically threaten another person. For some reason we do allow, under 'freedom of speech', allow people to threaten ambiguously large numbers of people. These threats range from political (Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Anarchists), to racist (Muslims, Jews) and I believe those threats should be treated as a worse crime.

A threat against one person should not be considered more serious than a threat against many. This shooter in Washington D.C., the name of whom I will not glorify on my blog, had a forum through which he threatened to kill gentiles. This could have been prevented. It should have been prevented. Our legal system needs to stop protecting the threatening of life in any form. It is not free speech, it is a threat to our security. Our nation's security is our citizen's security because our people are the nation.

I call for action and I urge you to do so as well. As I said yesterday I am running for city council in my town, I urge you to run for office in your areas as well. We need American's in office who know what needs to change and how we can fix it. My stand on this is to urge the Bangor code to pass a law making death threats against not only a person but groups of people as well to be illegal and punishable.

Thank you for reading and I hope you will stand up and be heard as well.

A Final Note On Torture

Waterboarding is torture. The other techniques require the use of occassional chains, slapping, and blindfolding. If it is not torture, which those may not necessarily be, they are in the least unusual if not cruel. I do not oppose them because they violate the Geneva conventions. If they do, fine, if they don't, so what. We have a Constitution in this country that says no cruel and unusual punishment. While that is often interpreted as a right given to our citizens, I believe it is also a command. We can not experience those punishments based on our 6th Amendment. What do we think gives us the right to conduct those practices on someone else? I think the Constitution tells us not to use those techniques and so I agree with them being banned as they already are based on the Constitution.

As for the photos, what idiot decided to take not just a few pictures, but thousands. The torture was wrong, but taking photos was perhaps the dumbest option for someone who was there to take. I will give the person closest to the photos right now a little hint: burn them. End the arguement, risk your job over it, but we can not allow Nancy Pelosi and others to get their way and give our enemies ammunition for recruitment. It is as simple as that. You may lose your job I understand, but it will be a brave sacrafice for our nation's security.