Tag: The role of the victim

“The World According to Doctrine” — Is there a “Robbery gone good”?

“The World According to Doctrine” — Is there a “Robbery gone good”?

With victims dismissively reduced to “complainants,” and murders spin-doctored down to “a robbery gone bad” – we should ask our increasingly distant government: “Is there a ‘robbery gone good’?”

Would that be a robbery with just the threat of violence? Or is it any amount of injury short of death? Authorities seem able to rationalize, and minimize, our suffering – and while some people may admire their ability to make so measured a judgement: it brings little relief to the nightmares of victims – only the closure of a file drawer.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Plea Bargaining is “Professional Courtesy”

Plea Bargaining is “Professional Courtesy”

While the victims of murder have no opportunity or ability to lessen their condition – those who kill them can cut a deal to reduce, or even eliminate the consequences of their actions – and the victim’s family is not a party to the plea bargain and has no standing to prevent it.

Giving the victims “the right to offer written input into whether a plea bargaining agreement is proper,” and “making a reasonable effort to provide them the opportunity to comment on the agreement terms”; is as meaningful an action as putting up your hand to stop a lethal bullet.

Professional courtesy generally refers to the etiquette extended between members of the same profession.

It’s a situation that places career criminals and career law enforcement on an equal footing. And the victims?

You’re a victim: get over it!

“The World According to Doctrine” — “They were in the wrong place . . .”

“They were in the wrong place . . .”

Everybody in the Criminal Justice System knows: it’s the victims that cause all the trouble – they’re the grit that fouls up the smooth running cycle of plea bargains and paroles, cause unnecessary paperwork, and drive up departmental statistics.

So the victims are now “complainants” – and the criminals? They’re victims of complainants.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “It’s time to debate with facts – Not assertions”

“It’s time to debate with facts – Not assertions”

When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul bragged about a 140% increase in illegal gun seizures – she meant that if it was expressed it as a percentage of the illegal guns that are still out there: you would laugh in her face. And Hochul’s election timed announcement of a 12% decrease in gun violence does nothing to help the thousands of victims and their families.

Politicians talk a lot of shit — It’s time to rub their faces in it.

Full disclosure – Full exposure.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “Smug as a thug on a drug”

“Smug as a thug on a drug”

Humility is a no-show in today’s self-inflated society: where greed, ambition, and arrogance combine to make a name for people who would have had a very different name in the past.

When the only crime is not getting what you want – victims are just collateral at the waterhole.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “They scream their hate; to shut out debate”

“They scream their hate; to shut out debate”

Fearful silence never stopped evil yet – and compliance never stopped the ax. If you believe that today’s oppressive policies will lead to a future of equality and human worth: why don’t you try a virtual debate with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, and Frederick Douglass.

Piling evil on top of evil won’t lead you to the gates of Heaven — only back to its source.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “What goes around; comes around – in a different guise”

“What goes around; comes around – in a different guise”

Evil recycles – and the same evil can take many forms: but evil cannot just exist – it must act. The small evil is the key that unlocks the door to a bigger evil.

The “lens” of evil is a lens of distortion. If you have three children; and always praise and recount the goodness of two of them – and use the third one as an example of everything bad: the evil would claim that this is to promote recognition of the worth of those two – disguising that evil with a coating of self-serving gain, and cloaking the action with secrecy. Another day: one of the remaining two children would be found unworthy – and then; the last child will fall. Evil does not share.

If you give a government the power to discriminate against whoever they want, whenever they want, for as long as they want, in secret — there is nothing that you receive in exchange that will not be taken from you.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “An ounce of prevention. . .”

“An ounce of prevention. . .”

Not all problems can be cured – so doesn’t it make sense to prevent the problem and avoid the use of dangerous poisons? Not to our government.

Politicians and Policy Makers are clearing the fields of our Society of all unwanted growth with wide-spectrum poisons – destroying the families, institutions, and religions that compete with the varieties they wish to grow.

Decades of experimentation and reformulation have led to the creation of GMOs [Government Modified Organizations] designed to be resistant to these poisons – and replace our non-conforming heritage society. To carry the analogy further; these “GMOs” do not have the ability to reproduce and survive on their own – but must be seeded, grown and harvested; generation after generation: in the forms and varieties chosen by those in charge.

“Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind” — and our government plans to profit from them both.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “When you’re waving on the roof. . .”

“When you’re waving on the roof. . .”

We live in a world where an authoritative explanation is considered the same as a solution. We’re told that the recent “1,000-year floods” are due to climate change, and “what would normally be a small and consistent trickle of water over the course of the year, becomes a large bucket dumped all at once” – concluding that “we need to rethink everything about how we build where we build.”

Ya think? Don’t fix the climate change; fix the building codes? Maybe we should rethink everything again.