Before Kaia was born, there was a standing joke around here that we were going to start a 'fund' for him. Instead of a college fund, his was going to go toward paying for the massive amounts of therapy he would undoubtedly need after enduring my sister, my self and the rest of the family for 18 years. We are, to put it mildly, kind of like Dharma... without a strong Greg force.
I just read online that the actor Wesley Snipes is going to jail for tax evasion. Did he not learn anything fro Al Capone. (Go look that one up boys and girls, but here is the link for Wesley)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/24/snipes.sentencing/index.html).
There are many theories as to what causes deviance to exist. Theorists come from a multitude of backgrounds, anywhere from biological to psychological to sociological. What many do not address, however, is any possible origin of deviance.
After recently watching the movie Atonement, I began to wonder what the meaning of the word really was. The definition of the word is this: satisfaction or reparations for a wrong or injury; amends. When I look at this, then look at the movie, then look into life, I begin to wonder how this all fits in to real life.
In mid-2006 a Mormon fundamentalist leader named Warren Jeffs was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted List as well as the Fox television show America's Most Wanted. Jeffs made it onto the infamous list for child molestation as well as other charges and the facts unveiled about him and the community he was running would make the coldest heart skip a beat.
There's a lot crime that we know about and understand, but there's also a lot of crime that we kind of know about, but probably don't realize it. I feel like talking about it, cause awareness needs to be spread.
The top three most profitable crimes:
1. Drugs/Narcotics.
2. Guns.
3. Sex trading.
The Supreme Court is currently in the process of making a decision regarding the potential cruelty of lethal injection, the most popular form of capital punishment in the United States. An opponent of the death penalty in all cases in the United States, I'll save the cruelty argument for another time. Instead, I wish to utilize this space to discuss the process leading up to the death penalty.
I just spent an hour and fifteen minutes engaged in a class discussion about whether or not the government should be allowed to make drugs illegal on the basis of regulating our health. Questions were posed such as "should the government then make food that makes us fat illegal?" But what if that's not the issue?
