Land Of The Free Because Of The...Excuses?

By Semperpapa

There was a time when America was the land where right and wrong was divided by a defined line, the crossing of which had some real repercussions. You do something wrong and you are held accountable for it.

It appears that times have fundamentally changed.

In San Diego, a man with a conviction for sexual assault of an underage girl, a man registered as a sex offender, is being held and will soon be charged with the rape and murder of a 16-year old Rancho Bernardo young woman, Chelsea King. Investigators appeared to have found the body of the young woman in a shallow grave. This animal, John Albert Gardner, was free to roam the streets looking for the next victim. The first had been able to escape after he attempted to rape her and subsequently beat her when she resisted. Obviously, this time around, he was not going to allow his victim to escape.
At the time of his first sexual assault conviction in 2000, Gardner was convicted to a six year prison term, even after the psychiatrist who had analyzed him had urged the maximum sentence of 11 years because Gardner represented a clear danger to any young girl he would come into contact with. Thanks to a plea bargain, he only got six and served five before being paroled.
If the sentence had been the maximum and he had served the maximum, he would have gotten out of jail in 2011 and Chelsea would be alive.
That is probably something weighing on the devastated parents’ mind today.
So what excuse did the prosecution used to give the scum a reduced sentence? Wouldn’t that be a good question to ask the prosecutors of that case? Especially considering that the animal had been linked to two previous sexual assaults?

But the excuses of a judicial system unwilling to make a straight determination that some people are just evil and society at large must be protected from them, gave Gardner the freedom to, this time, take an innocent life. The excuse of wanting to “re-habilitate” such an animalistic bastard was a costly one, but one that the responsible parties will not have to account for. Not their fault. More excuses.

This is not by any stretch an isolated incident. Our society is going the way of excusing bad behavior thanks to an army of defense lawyers whose only scope in life is to get guilty people exonerated. I can already hear some defense lawyer coming up with some excuse that the guy had been molested or has a mental disorder or maybe, just maybe, it was actually Chelsea’s fault because she was a pretty girl and she had gone jogging by herself in a park area. How can Gardner resist the temptation?

And the behavior is not exclusive of tribunal court rooms, but it extends to every level of our social fiber.
We see it when we hear so called Americans actually excusing the attacks of 9-11-01 as an almost legitimate retaliation on the part of Islamic terrorist for the bad actions of America in the Middle East. Sure, it was not nice to kill 2,000+ people in the WTC, although it represented America’s greed, but it was perfectly legitimate in the case of the Pentagon.
So there are those who will entertain the idea of trying KSM and the other masterminds of the attack in New York, in criminal court because after all it was America’s foreign policy stand in the Middle East that brought so much hatred upon our nation.

The “Apology Tour” Obama embarked on in 2009 was a clear message to the rest of the world, and specifically to the Muslim world, that he felt the jihad they had been conducting against us was justified and therefore excusable. To that effect, Obama has taken our country on a journey of not just “bridging the socio-cultural gap with Islam”, but also to bring Terror-connected Islamic groups into the highest levels of our government.

Then we have our Congress. John Murtha and Robert Byrd, just two off a very long list, have been bringing pork money to their constituencies in a disgustingly corrupted way, and yet the same people who vote these characters in, excuse any possible wrong doing because of the benefits they are told to be enjoying. The end justifies the mean.

Charlie Rangel, chairman of the powerful Weighs and Means Committee has great weight in telling the American people how much of their money they can keep, but when caught with his grubby hands in the tax evasion cookie jar, he says he did not know about it, that he was not aware of it. Since when is ignorance of the law an excuse? Well, since it involves Charlie Rangel. For the rest of us meaningless slobs, that excuse does not apply. How fast would you say I would loose my freedom if I cheated the IRS like Rangel? Why can he use the “ignorance” excuse and I cannot?

Yes, America is the Land of the Free, physically and ideologically because of the Braves, but socially and culturally because of excuses.

Just my thoughts