American hubris

I still feel a slight bit shitty from last night, so I have decided to trash the Americans once more. It’s not that I don’t like Americans, or they don’t live in a beautiful country. It’s just that they are so easy to trash, for they have a crappy government and actors as chosen governors and presidents, who should just stick with what they are good at; every man to his trade… And I wanted to say this ever since last week when it became known that Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams had been executed. I do acknowledge that the man is a murderer, and he did belong in jail, but I am against capital punishment. For I think being in jail till the end of your days (that means a natural death) is more effective and revengeful than being in death row; put the criminal away with no access to any luxury or the prospect of keeping contact with any family till the day he dies a natural death. The prospect of death row just doesn’t decrease criminality. Furthermore, alive he was worth more than dead cause he had a good influence on the community, for he wrote books which kept the youth away from gangs and their culture. But, after his petition for clemency was denied, he was put to death; he was executed for Arnold Schwarzenegger said that he didn’t know if Williams was honest in his redemption. What the fuck?! So what if it wasn’t honest… Williams decreased criminality with his books and had been nominated for the Nobel Prize of Peace and Literature a couple of times… a gang had promised to give up half of their arsenal if Williams got his clemency… HE HAD A GOOD INFLUENCE. Isn’t that worth more than the question if he was honest?

So where is the hubris in this you may ask? Well, Americans like to think that no other people are as Christian as they are. God is their Father and they follow Him in all His might and bright. But only God has the right to decide between life and death and the Americans who make the decision to put someone to death just ignore this little fact. So do they think they have the right to make the decision for/in stead of God? Do they think they are better than He is? For they are most certainly not. But still they think nobody is as Christian as they are. No one is as conservative as they are… But they do have the right to decide over life and death… If that isn’t hubris, nothing is. And yes, so did Williams, think he has the right to decide over life and death, and that got him locked up for nearly 25 years…

'Tis the Season to be jolly, the season we celebrate the coming of Christ. A Season of life and love... and what do the Americans do? Put someone to death in all their might and bright and hubris… And they don’t get punished for it.