Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Andrea Yates gets a new trial?! Why?

If you don't know, you came to the right place! I'll try to explain this in terms an idiot can understand, and just hope you're as smart as an idiot.

Andrea Yates was convicted of murder for killing her five children. She was given a trial in front of a jury, and the jury weighed the allowable evidence and made the decision that she intentionally, and with forethought and malice, drown the precious lives out of those five kids.

The defense only disputed the malice. They contended that she suffers from post partum depression, an identifiable mental ailment that afflicts many women shortly after giving a birth. She was on medication for it. In severe cases, it can cause bizarre behavior including thoughts of suicide and murder, and sometimes the thoughts are acted upon. She told the police that she wanted to make sure her children would be with God. She had the classic signs of a psychotic episode.

The defense didn't pretend that she didn't murder her children. They just said she was was so fucking loony that she actually thought she was doing a good thing for the children.

But her case wasn't the typical baby found in a bag on the side of the road, or in a bathroom trash can; her case was the methodical murder of five children! Besides, and to many this seemed a relevant point, she's a goddamned Christian! The public expected the prosecution to get the conviction! This bitch didn't even deserve to live!

Well, they heard you.

They found this guy named Park Dietz. Mr. Dietz is a forensic consultant. To explain how she wasn't insane, he claimed he consulted for the TV series Law and Order for an episode in which a mother drown her children and got off claiming she was insane. It aired shortly before Andrea Yates murdered her children. She was an avid viewer of the show. Besides, if she didn't want the devil influencing her children from God, she obviously knew right from wrong.

Well, Park Dietz lied! There was no episode like that!

The appeal was correctly decided that Andrea Yates deserved a new trial because the prosecution's star witness influenced, or may have influenced, the jury into a decision based on a lie.

Don't fucking gripe about that! Those same fucking rules apply to you if some fucking prosecutor resorts to false witness to win a conviction! You should be fucking pissed off that these fucking doctors of law can even be influenced by you idiots! You fuckers should be making them listen to intelligent people like me, but you'll probably sell out to the money and the marketing slogans. Someone will come up with a law that throws the insane in with the criminals, and anyone who wouldn't make such an assanine suggestion gets to run with the tag that he/she is in favor of killing children!

You're fucking idiots to fall for that shit!

There's this idea that if you say something often enough, you'll believe it, even if you don't understand it. Try saying this often: 'people have the right to fair trials.' Maybe someday you'll understand it.

That's my take.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Gay marriage ban: polarizing the masses over nonsense

Over the past several years, courts that operate under state constitutions that include clauses that prohibit discrimination based on gender have decided that marriage laws discriminate on the basis of gender.

So-called conservatives (aka fundamentalist Christians and rednecks) are yelling that we need to rid the courts of 'activist judges' who make these ridiculous decisions, and replace them with judges who will uphold the standards God has set for us all. Worse than that, they claim it 'ruins the sanctity of marriage' to 'endorse' these types of relationships by allowing them to marry.

On the other side, you have these people who claim that homosexuality is both normal and a birth defect, and that they deserve 'special' protection because they are 'just like' everybody else. The average gay rights supporter who isn't himself/herself gay, is usually an idiot who tries to explain the normalcy in one man allowing another man to stick his dick in his mouth, and then tries to explain that it's genetically impossible for him to make any other decision.

Polarizing idiots works well for the two-party system. Since most people are idiots, they will, once again, be able to reinforce that we have no choice but to vote Republican or Democrat. Other idiots who voted third parties last election because 'there was no lesser of the two evils,' forcing them to vote their consciences, will be lured back into voting for one of the two major parties feeling the duty to not waste their votes.

I think most people just don't give a shit, but, unfortunately, they will still tend to line up with one major party or the other, and for all the wrong reasons - and the two parties know it!

A marriage license is just a document. People fill them out, sign them, and have them recorded, just like they would a deed. No more than a deed will keep the lawn mowed and the house painted, a license doesn't add sanctity to a marriage. Either the parties work at being married and create the sanctity of their marriage, or they don't. The license, in and of itself, becomes important when the couple dissolves the marriage, when one of the parties in a marriage becomes mortally ill, and when one of the parties dies. At that point, however, the license is quintessentially important.

So why don't gay people accept some other type of document, say a civil union license, instead of making us issue marriage licenses? Simple: because, as a society, we're only discussing that option with them now that they've won the right to marry in several states. Until it became reality that gays are able to marry, we, as a society, didn't give a shit about them or their problems. Why would they, metaphorically, settle a million dollar judgment against a respondent who can afford to pay, for a measly thousand dollars?

Whether homosexuality is a sin that will send the participants to hell, or something God won't judge them on, doesn't matter. It's irrelevant whether it's a choice or a genetic defect. Gay marriage is here, or soon will be. Those of us who will be able to say that 'we remember when' will eventually die off, and to future generations it will be as accepted as paying the state to own a dog is today.

But until it becomes accepted, it will be a tool to make all you idiots believe you have no choice except to vote for one of the two major parties.

That's my take.