Will, all politics are local.
And historically, worldwide, the man the king feared most was his brother. Most wars, specially in medieval times were fratricidal or quasi-fratricidal wars of succession.
Your idea of justice is judges who ignore the Eighth Amendment.
And your solution to any problem is to throw prisons and/or deportations at it, you even added a gruesome idea of public executions with tickets sold. Really, you did, and recently, too, until I responded politely and scientifically showing your idea never worked elsewhere and could even increase murders locally.
When you devalue others’ human lives, you come to devalue your own, and worse, your and grand-children devalue their own lives and engage in self-destructive behavior and even commit suicides.
Salafis (Islamic extremists) totally devalue Jewish lives; that is why it is very easy for them to recruit suicide bombers, And against those, traditional punitive solutions withint the legal system are TOTALLY powerless. TOTALLY. I mean totally. How do you deter a man who thinks he can go to paradise by killing Jews and/or Christians SPECIALLY if he dies in the process? You can’t.
How do you deter a woman who hates her husband so much she kills her own children to get back at him? You won’t.
The two real solutions are love and science. And you cannot legislate the first; but you can legislate the second.
You are clearly paid, and DOGE SC is clearly deluded, to promote the idea that having a magical governor find and appoint magical judges will solve all problems.
The reality is there are no magical governors and no magical judges.
The scientific realities are that rational individuals will do what is in their self-interest every time. The trick is to scientifically construct a system that makes self-interest also coincide with public interest.
The Declaration of Independence speaks of the pursuit of HAPPINESS, not the pursuit of money.
I will not debate whether money buys happiness or does not because, even if you believe that money (and money alone) can buy happiness, you tacitly admit that money is not a goal in itself but a means to an end: happiness.
So, the trick to solving the problem of money corrupting the judicial process is to eliminate the (figurative) middle man. That is construct a system that makes people happy without needing money (beyond basic needs) to reach that level of happiness.
That is surely easier said than done. But doing it is made much harder, even impossible, with your rabid rhetoric for replacing a faulty system with a system of no promise to improve anything.
Your hateful rhetoric also kills the other solution: love.
You and your clan even exploited the reasonable and wounded Mr. Ferderico (to whom my condolences go) for your paid-for ends. He began by the very sensible request for a law criminalizing gun owners who leave a loaded weapon unlocked. That is how Ms. Ferderico was killed: with the unlocked loaded gun of her host who had left it visible in his apartment for a criminal on a rampage to find. You and David Pascoe and the so-called judicial reform movement are not supporting that most sensible idea of Mr. Ferderico’s, or even letting him repeat it, all because you fear the gun lobby.
If you let this comment of mine through, I shall, God willing, follow with further ideas for a prevention-not-punishment oriented legal system.
If you don’t let it through, you can always go coercive-control yourself.
Senator S Goldfinch was indicted and plead guilty to selling aborted fetuses across state line.
He is loved by the pro-abortion/trial lawyers coalition.
To be fair lawyer/senator Massey represent insurance companies in insurance lawsuits, just how well do you think his insurance reform “bill” would work for SC citizens?
When Will was throwing his fiancée down the stairs he wasn’t too worried about violent crime. He knows nothing about the legal system. Definitely gets paid to lie. I hope he gets caught in one of his multiple lies. He is a violent man with no brain who writes bullshit. And has fans who are an embarrassment.
Yeah probably. You make a good point. But it just seems irritating that Will gets to write whatever he gets paid to write, and then act like he is a real news guy. I assume “top fan” just means I come here a lot. But that’s because I cannot stand the lies and propoganda he gets paid to spread.
Thanks for responding civilly.
And I agree that many, perhaps most, positions Will Folks takes are nakedly either paid-for or pandering to the racism/xenophobia of the majority of his readers/subscribers.
But, to Will Folks’ credit, he MOSTLY honors his open-mic promise in letting through my comments which are sure to antagonize the majority because I am a non-lawyer independent thinker who, for example, insists that life begins at conception and that the death penalty promotes crimes and murders in addition to being murder in itself. Probably only Pope Leo XIV and his cardinal/bishop for South Carolina are such staunch combined anti-abortion-anti-capital-punishment for South Carolina; and neither of them is likely to read, much less comment in, FITSNews.
But I believe in the parable of the seed-sower; and I hope that, as a father of eight, Will Folks takes seriously his duty to expose his children to examples of moral courage.
So, let’s keep posting, God so willing and FITS permitting.
Happy New Year!
Update: I withdraw my mistaken compliment to Will Folks as generally keeping his open-mic policy. He has six times so far refused to let through my reply to CongareeCatfish even though it is, like all my writing, Catholic-school-polite, medical-school-scientific, and Dr.-Marie-Faltas-quality reasoned, objective and witty.
Of these three major issues, the matter of Lucas trying to take the Supreme Court Chief Justice slot concerns me the most in the short run. He is clearly unqualified for the job (but to be fair, there’s only a handful of people who are) and trying to make some extremely “creative” fairy-dust argument that the age restriction – that has been around a long time- won’t apply to him is extremely concerning. That speaks volumes as to what he will do on the court to engage in specious legal acrobatics achieve the outcome he desires.
I thrice tried to post a reply; but to no avail.
I shall, God willing, try one more time. If Will Folks still censors it, I’ll leave you to imagine it.
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Will, all politics are local.
And historically, worldwide, the man the king feared most was his brother. Most wars, specially in medieval times were fratricidal or quasi-fratricidal wars of succession.
Your idea of justice is judges who ignore the Eighth Amendment.
And your solution to any problem is to throw prisons and/or deportations at it, you even added a gruesome idea of public executions with tickets sold. Really, you did, and recently, too, until I responded politely and scientifically showing your idea never worked elsewhere and could even increase murders locally.
When you devalue others’ human lives, you come to devalue your own, and worse, your and grand-children devalue their own lives and engage in self-destructive behavior and even commit suicides.
Salafis (Islamic extremists) totally devalue Jewish lives; that is why it is very easy for them to recruit suicide bombers, And against those, traditional punitive solutions withint the legal system are TOTALLY powerless. TOTALLY. I mean totally. How do you deter a man who thinks he can go to paradise by killing Jews and/or Christians SPECIALLY if he dies in the process? You can’t.
How do you deter a woman who hates her husband so much she kills her own children to get back at him? You won’t.
The two real solutions are love and science. And you cannot legislate the first; but you can legislate the second.
You are clearly paid, and DOGE SC is clearly deluded, to promote the idea that having a magical governor find and appoint magical judges will solve all problems.
The reality is there are no magical governors and no magical judges.
The scientific realities are that rational individuals will do what is in their self-interest every time. The trick is to scientifically construct a system that makes self-interest also coincide with public interest.
The Declaration of Independence speaks of the pursuit of HAPPINESS, not the pursuit of money.
I will not debate whether money buys happiness or does not because, even if you believe that money (and money alone) can buy happiness, you tacitly admit that money is not a goal in itself but a means to an end: happiness.
So, the trick to solving the problem of money corrupting the judicial process is to eliminate the (figurative) middle man. That is construct a system that makes people happy without needing money (beyond basic needs) to reach that level of happiness.
That is surely easier said than done. But doing it is made much harder, even impossible, with your rabid rhetoric for replacing a faulty system with a system of no promise to improve anything.
Your hateful rhetoric also kills the other solution: love.
You and your clan even exploited the reasonable and wounded Mr. Ferderico (to whom my condolences go) for your paid-for ends. He began by the very sensible request for a law criminalizing gun owners who leave a loaded weapon unlocked. That is how Ms. Ferderico was killed: with the unlocked loaded gun of her host who had left it visible in his apartment for a criminal on a rampage to find. You and David Pascoe and the so-called judicial reform movement are not supporting that most sensible idea of Mr. Ferderico’s, or even letting him repeat it, all because you fear the gun lobby.
If you let this comment of mine through, I shall, God willing, follow with further ideas for a prevention-not-punishment oriented legal system.
If you don’t let it through, you can always go coercive-control yourself.
Senator S Goldfinch was indicted and plead guilty to selling aborted fetuses across state line.
He is loved by the pro-abortion/trial lawyers coalition.
To be fair lawyer/senator Massey represent insurance companies in insurance lawsuits, just how well do you think his insurance reform “bill” would work for SC citizens?
When Will was throwing his fiancée down the stairs he wasn’t too worried about violent crime. He knows nothing about the legal system. Definitely gets paid to lie. I hope he gets caught in one of his multiple lies. He is a violent man with no brain who writes bullshit. And has fans who are an embarrassment.
But you, yourself, paid for a top-fan badge. Should that be a top-embarrassment badge?
Should you paid-for top-fan badge be a top-embarrassment badge then?
Yeah probably. You make a good point. But it just seems irritating that Will gets to write whatever he gets paid to write, and then act like he is a real news guy. I assume “top fan” just means I come here a lot. But that’s because I cannot stand the lies and propoganda he gets paid to spread.
Thanks for responding civilly.
And I agree that many, perhaps most, positions Will Folks takes are nakedly either paid-for or pandering to the racism/xenophobia of the majority of his readers/subscribers.
But, to Will Folks’ credit, he MOSTLY honors his open-mic promise in letting through my comments which are sure to antagonize the majority because I am a non-lawyer independent thinker who, for example, insists that life begins at conception and that the death penalty promotes crimes and murders in addition to being murder in itself. Probably only Pope Leo XIV and his cardinal/bishop for South Carolina are such staunch combined anti-abortion-anti-capital-punishment for South Carolina; and neither of them is likely to read, much less comment in, FITSNews.
But I believe in the parable of the seed-sower; and I hope that, as a father of eight, Will Folks takes seriously his duty to expose his children to examples of moral courage.
So, let’s keep posting, God so willing and FITS permitting.
Happy New Year!
Update: I withdraw my mistaken compliment to Will Folks as generally keeping his open-mic policy. He has six times so far refused to let through my reply to CongareeCatfish even though it is, like all my writing, Catholic-school-polite, medical-school-scientific, and Dr.-Marie-Faltas-quality reasoned, objective and witty.
Of these three major issues, the matter of Lucas trying to take the Supreme Court Chief Justice slot concerns me the most in the short run. He is clearly unqualified for the job (but to be fair, there’s only a handful of people who are) and trying to make some extremely “creative” fairy-dust argument that the age restriction – that has been around a long time- won’t apply to him is extremely concerning. That speaks volumes as to what he will do on the court to engage in specious legal acrobatics achieve the outcome he desires.
I thrice tried to post a reply; but to no avail.
I shall, God willing, try one more time. If Will Folks still censors it, I’ll leave you to imagine it.