The Real Hunger Games
This past week two people were notably convicted of crimes that it merited a bit of news coverage.
Charles Taylor, the erstwhile dictator of Liberia, was put away in an international court for his autocratic brutality. Legal scholars and political scientists alike have expressed some consternation about this, merely because it may only encourage dictators to do more to consolidate power in order to keep them from the clutches of international law.
Another gentleman whose name is much less important received a "third-strike" sentence for the crime of conning people out of their homes. He promised help with foreclosure and deceptively took the houses and cashed in the equity. I don't know the details, but it was pointed out that no fraud conviction has ever resulted in the mandatory 25 year term the three strikes law requires. Many expressed distress about this.
One could easily scratch their heads about all this, but when seen from The Catholicist Nation perspective it makes perfect sense. World inhabitants and those working dutifully in Cain's agency are in a never-ending battle over who gets slammed on the human sacrifice altar for summary slicing up. The law is good in that it keeps people from murdering one another straight away, but the murdering still happens.
Taylor murdered lots of people because he was charged with doing human sacrifice to manage human sacrifice. The con man murdered people by hacking off others' human value slabs far too large to evade the authorities, but those same agents will do little to the big-time value extractors -- the stakeholders in banks, investment firms, financial management operations of all stripes -- because those human sacrifice practitioners are their gravy train.
Just a few more evidences of the real Hunger Games that go on all around us all the time. I wrote more about it in my webzine, and that is here.
Charles Taylor, the erstwhile dictator of Liberia, was put away in an international court for his autocratic brutality. Legal scholars and political scientists alike have expressed some consternation about this, merely because it may only encourage dictators to do more to consolidate power in order to keep them from the clutches of international law.
Another gentleman whose name is much less important received a "third-strike" sentence for the crime of conning people out of their homes. He promised help with foreclosure and deceptively took the houses and cashed in the equity. I don't know the details, but it was pointed out that no fraud conviction has ever resulted in the mandatory 25 year term the three strikes law requires. Many expressed distress about this.
One could easily scratch their heads about all this, but when seen from The Catholicist Nation perspective it makes perfect sense. World inhabitants and those working dutifully in Cain's agency are in a never-ending battle over who gets slammed on the human sacrifice altar for summary slicing up. The law is good in that it keeps people from murdering one another straight away, but the murdering still happens.
Taylor murdered lots of people because he was charged with doing human sacrifice to manage human sacrifice. The con man murdered people by hacking off others' human value slabs far too large to evade the authorities, but those same agents will do little to the big-time value extractors -- the stakeholders in banks, investment firms, financial management operations of all stripes -- because those human sacrifice practitioners are their gravy train.
Just a few more evidences of the real Hunger Games that go on all around us all the time. I wrote more about it in my webzine, and that is here.
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