Civil Rights III

Patrick Henry, some thoughts about your email,

When we start talking about ‘rights’ we are walking on dodgy ground. None of us have any rights that we cannot defend for ourselves (or have defended for us by others).

When we talk about ‘correlation or proportion’ in regard to the removal of rights as punishment, we are talking about the legal profession and the whole body of law that has been built around it. Largely, these concepts are dictated by the moral codes of the social environment – for example: death penalty in some American States, but not in others.

Here is a thought: who says the punishment has to fit the crime? To make a punishment ‘fit’ a crime is to make the punishment a teaching tool. Who says the state has to ‘teach’ its citizens? Who says the state has to care that a criminal has ‘learned his lesson’? Is there any real evidence that criminals are learning their lessons and changing their ways as a result of punishment?

Superior violence is the defining factor in changing the rules of a regime. To stop a Fascist dictator, he must be physically removed from power. This will require violence.

Randy Bentwick
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