We have a genre of laws which add extra penalties for killing a police officer. We seem to feel that labeling something a “hate crime” adds to the seriousness. I think it may be time to do the same thing for politicians. We could call them Loophole Crimes.
We need a law adding special penalties to people in positions of power who manipulate the political process. This would need to isolate elected officials as well as appointed positions. Thus it could even be applied to judges who ignore the law in order to advance their personal agendas.
This should apply even if specific laws were danced around. We know that loopholes are bigger in the laws effecting the rich and powerful than they are in purchasing firearms. At the present time congress seems to exempt themselves from the laws they lay on the rest of us. Since cop killers seem to get special treatment maybe Constitution killers deserve the same fate. We also should follow the money and confiscate all of the wealth that they and their families have gathered as they were lined up at the public pork trough.
Since this would need to be written and passed by politicians I won’t be holding my breath.
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I make a lot of folks angry with my views on cop-killer laws. I ask them why the penalty should be any less for murdering a teacher, a store clerk or a truck driver, and the very question angers them. NOW, they want to give the same penalty for killing a K-9 unit as killing and officer. That means someone might get a harsher penalty for killing a dog than for killing some kid at McDonald's.
ReplyDeleteI have a similar feeling about hate crimes.
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