Murder can Never be made Morally or Ethically Correct
History has shown repeatedly that murder can be made legal with very little effort by those who abuse their position of power, and also that you can get others to perform murder for you. Murder has been made legal in the past, it has been made legal in the present and will be made legal in the future.
The death of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other undesirables
After World War I a man named Hitler was able to convince the people of Germany to elect him into a leadership position. It took a little effort but he was eventually able to consolidate enough power to become a dictator who ignored the treaties that had been enacted after the first world war. He was able to restore the economy of a war torn country. Eventually he was given so much power he could arbitrarily write rules and convince others to enforce his laws.
Hitler made it legal to kill people he considered undesirable. People with mental illnesses, people whom he deemed immoral; homosexuals, people who were members of certain ethnic groups; gypsies, and members of a religious group, Jews, that he blamed for the economic collapse of Germany because of their banking and predatory usury practices, like the credit card companies are using today.
Hitler used his reasoning to make murder legal in his mind, he even convinced others to commit the murders for him even though it was morally and ethically wrong.
The death of Jesus Christ
Jesus was found guilty of blasphemy. Blasphemy is the act of expressing lack of reverence for God, and or irreverence to something or someone considered sacred. Jesus was found guilty of being irreverent, he didn’t steal anything, he didn’t hurt anybody, he didn’t say anything bad about God, all he did was challenge laws and customs that he felt were hypocritical.
To a Christian this my sound bizarre, or weird but to the Jewish leadership at the time Jesus was considered a radical who refused to deny that he was/is the Son of God. Jewish leadership held what could best be described as a kangaroo court very late at night where Jesus was found guilty of blasphemy, with the punishment being death.
Jewish law of the time made it illegal for Jewish people to be directly involved in executing someone, so to get past their moral and ethical dilemma because Jesus had been found guilty in their court of law the Jewish leadership went to the Roman leadership where the laws and punishments were a little different.
The Roman leadership could not find Jesus guilty of any offence that was worthy of death and wanted to set Jesus free. The Jewish leadership was not happy and figured out a way to back the Roman leadership into a corner whereas a vote of the mob that was following these kangaroo court proceedings was allowed; thereby attempting to absolve themselves of the death of a man they could not find guilty. The Jewish leadership stacked the vote against Jesus Christ and an innocent man was put to death.
The Romans killed Jesus for the Jewish leadership thereby making murder legal. The murder of Jesus was not morally and ethically the correct thing to do, but it was legal.
Death by “collateral damage”
Today the neo-conservatives ( please google neocon or neo-conservatives) in this country have moved into prominent positions of authority where they have become advisers. The neocons believe it is alright to use force to push their beliefs on the Middle East and their vision of World policy and if people get killed in the process well that’s to bad, so sad. These innocent victims are considered collateral damage.
This is morally and ethically repugnant but it has been made legal.
Irving Kristol is widely referred to as the "godfather" of neoconservatism.
Paul Wolfowitz (who thought invading Iraqi was a great idea,) co-wrote with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, (who was the Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney until he got into a bunch of legal trouble) the 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance, which called for US military dominance over Eurasia and preemptive strikes against countries suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction. After being leaked to the media, the draft proved so shocking that it had to be substantially rewritten.
Richard Perle is a chief architect of the "creative destruction" agenda to reshape the Middle East, starting with the invasion of Iraq.
Douglas Feith had the Pentagon's No. 3 civilian position he was undersecretary of defense for policy.
John Bolton is the US ambassador to the UN
Elliott Abrams in February of 2005 was appointed deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy. From December 2002 to February 2005, Mr. Abrams served as special assistant to the president and senior director for Near East and North African affairs. In 1991, Abrams pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. President George H. W. Bush pardoned him in 1992.
Robert Kagan writes extensively on US strategy and diplomacy. Kagan and fellow neoconservative William Kristol co-founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in 1997. Kagan signed the famous 1998 PNAC letter sent to President Clinton urging regime change in Iraq. Mr.Kagan's wife, Victoria Nuland, was chosen by Vice President Dick Cheney as his deputy national security adviser.
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Dept. Homeland Security helped write the Patriot Act.
These “men” don’t mind using other people’s son and daughters to test their theories on U.S. government occupation of foreign countries.
I do not believe that a single neocon has a son or daughter as an enlisted member in the Armed Forces of the United States of America, I would be surprised if there was even one son or daughter serving as an active duty officer.
The list goes on and on. Google Neocon and neo-conservatives to help further your education as to how the United States got into this current round of legalized murder.
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