 Re: Thomas Bart Whitaker
Where ever you get you information form as to what offenders in prison get it is very wrong . They in every state have and the BOP have to pay for college courses on their own usually this comes from friends and family . Who often cannotaford that . So they do not get any education . At one time they were able to get Pell grants but the wacko right scapegoated them and that ended . Of course that worked out well. as does all those other "truff on crime" laws . That have just created more crimes and more criminals and made re entry extremely difficult . You make some very broad and uninformed, racist , intolerant assumptions about offenders that simply are not true. I would not be bothered if prisoners got Pell grants and a education so soem can become productive citizen on release as well as ending lawsthat set up near insurmountable barriers f or a lot of those relasaed unlessthey are very very fortunate like myself .
Emotions make very poor law and usually end up backfireing as wecan see today .
Why do you have such a hateful cold hearted attitude towards offenders . Obviously you relly do not know much about them or why or what laned them inproisn . They are not all twisted deranged maniacs as you poaint them not bya long shot . Very few aretiwsted andderanged as is true for those whoarwe not incacerted .
There are those who have never been locked up who have done a lot of harm stolen billions and even caused deaths at a scale unconcievable to all but maybe e 4 or five who all reside in the ADMAX .All of thease people might easily be called Sociopaths . Some are CEOs COOs CFOs ect . Some are Judges some were presidents or vice presidents . To mention a few places where Sociopaths are found .
Life is not as grim or back and white as you paint it . I sure can 't imagine living with such hate and fear of anything that is not just like me . With thatview of lie someone might just as well go move to one of those unused Bomb shelters and lock themselves in it so they can be safe from the big bad scary world .
Society is changing it is n o longer 1980 and those failed ideas are things of the past . Why tis deoisrefor revenge torture and getting even ? Do es that realy work ? Nothing says it does . If anything all the studies andrersaerch points to the fact that our making damn near every human beahviora felony has just increased crime and not prevent it . Does any one really think people do soemsort of cost benfit analysis befoe rcomitng a crime ?
Most are done on impulse or due to very poor judgment . Wonder what cuased that ? It sure was not the individual themselves humans are far to complex for that . and their environment plays a role to say it does not is ridiculous and irrational
it took the US 200 years to incarcerate one million people and 30 or so to lock up 250 million and counting . that is very telling . We cannot make every thing we do not like a crime or felony . Dong so does not stop those things from happening and lcoking every one up is very expensive and a waste of lives .
What about some "pros" who have openly advocated the commission of very serious felonies . What would do if you end up in TX court then in TDCJ ,.Advocating the commission of a felony is a felony in all 50 states
As for Bart he is a very smart and articulate guy . That does not mean we have to like him . it one not mean we cannot read his blog and gain insights into the thoughts of a sociopath . Regardless of what bart is he does have a point society needs to look at what it is and what it is becoming . Though I wish Bart did not have gruopies but I do not care if people wish to write him as long as they do not flaunt him or glorify him . It is a individuals choice to write a person in prison or not to do so . No one has a right to tell any one not ot . unless that correspondence is in someway illegal or a violation of that DOCs rules
Think about this. Bart is sitting on DR while the person who committed the actual homicide who is just as guilty got life with parole in return for testimony . He could have backed out at any time. With out both Brashear and Bart there is not a multipe homicide . So were are the values for life and whose life is more"valuable" ? I either both go to DR or both get life with parole or LWOP . Either one could have backed out at any time Bart could have called it off Brashear could have just left .If he wanted he could have contacted the cops about Bart at any time in prior to the homicides . He did not .
While there is little question much of what Bart writes about is all about him and his wants . The same can be said for a lot of pros that in itself is telling as they seem to be little differnt than Bart in their selfish needs and homicidal ideation or so it would seem. When people bet on and cheer executions, get mad when a person is exonerated or has a sentence commuted or pardoned . That is just as disturbing as what Bart is . and not any better . Why do they need a innocent person to be guilty ? Why do the object when the courts and officials do their job correctly ?
Their absolute certainty that they and only they are right is as equally troubling as some one like Bart . If not more so .
If it is ever them in the defendant's chair facing death , and it could easily be especially in TX .I have a feeling the would become Anti and very much in favor of reforming prison and the justice system in a matter of seconds . They would also discover the Constitution You know that pesky "piece of paper" as the wacko right calls it .
Not only does Bart have lots of self reflection and thought on who and what he is and become . A part of society has some to do on who and what they are and have become d also . The seem to have become every thing they claim to be against and then some .
Once again why the overwhelming need to torture and abuse our prisoners ? Does any one really think it makes any one safer, prevents crime and rehabilitates ? Or is it pure evil and revenge just wrapped up in the co opted grief and suffering of a real victim ? |