Sex Change for Murdering Your Wife?

This post is off the beaten path but it does have to do with politics and the bad wrap the folks in Massachusetts get being a very Liberal state. When it comes to crimes like murder there is no politics or theology that gives a pass too it. If you kill someone in the Bay State you will serve life in prison. We do not have the death penalty option in Massachusetts. There is no gray area in a left leaning mindset or right leaning mindset when it comes to killing another human being. Jailed for life is what you get.

Here is the case of a husband that was convicted of killing his wife in cold blood and claims the state is suffering onto him cruel and unusual punishment while in jail because after his three square meals, clothing, and a roof over his head that he deserves a sex change operation at the states epxpense.

My good friend for life over at the Gun Toting Liberal had my blood boiling on this issue. We tend to do that to one another simply because he beat me to this article this time. He has a different spin on it than I do but I think we are still on the same page. Mind you, we are both very Liberal opinionated people for the most part. Over at the Boston Herald they have this to say about the so called poor treatment of Robert Kosilek…

Judge grants hearing for killer seeking better sex change care in prison

A judge today granted a hearing to a convicted murderer who says she’s being denied medical treatment in prison as she awaits a ruling in her bid for sex change surgery.

U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ordered a March 13 hearing in the case of Michelle Kosilek, formerly known as Robert. Kosilek asked for the hearing after claiming she’d been denied hair removal treatment and access to a specialist to discuss testosterone levels. She said as a result her body is becoming more masculine. - Boston Herald

Is it not already a given fact that convicted prisoners in Massachusetts already have a better medical plan than most of the citizens? Don’t get me wrong, they are wards of the state for the crimes THEY committed but this goes beyond dental care! Murder is murder no matter how you look at it from any political perspective. This man planned HIS wife’s murder in cold blood. Lied about it to the children they brought forth into this world and HE wants special circumstances while serving life in prison? That does not wash with this Liberal Democrat and it should not wash with you from any political view point.

Prison is for people that committed and were convicted by a jury of their peers for heinous crimes against society, like oh say murder. And Bob Kosilek murdered his wife. What about her? What about the children she left behind? He killed their Mother!

This monster is making the crime he committed secondary in public opinion and murder is still murder but his sex change is more important to him? Screw him or she or whatever group you want to claim he is part of. He killed his wife! This is not a transgender argument as much as it is a manipulative monster using up court time for something that should be a simple answer. NO! You can not have a sex change operation!

It makes me sick to think that one in four of our veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan will end up on the street homeless from various mental health ailments and yet this state is actually considering this bastard being treated inhumanely?

I’m not sure if the States Attorney General or Governor Deval Patrick can intercede but they should. This is ridiculous.

Papamoka

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Death Penalty Put to Death in Jersey

Calling hours are two to four PM and six to nine at the State Penitentiary on Saturday. Burial will be private at the Governors request. In lieu of flowers please send donations to the New Jersey Democrat Party.

Never having been a big fan of the death penalty I don’t think that I will attend the memorial service. In some respects it is a relief that New Jersey has abolished the death penalty. There are far to many chances that the wrong person can be put to death even with overwhelming evidence. One innocent prisoner executed is one to many. In the past I have had strong emotions regarding putting to death someone that has brutally harmed and killed a child, or killed anyone in a police uniform capacity. In hindsight I have seen that two wrongs will never make it right for the families left behind.

With the latest technology and DNA testing there have been far to many near misses when it comes to throwing the switch or injecting the lethal dose to end a convicted but innocent persons life. Over at MSNBC they have this to say about Jersey’s decision to end the death penalty…

N.J. Legislature votes to abolish death penalty
State is first to legislatively outlaw capital punishment

MSNBC News Services

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Thursday became the first U.S. state to legislatively abolish the death penalty since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled state Assembly voted 44-36 in favor of a bill to scrap the death penalty and substitute it with life in prison without the possibility of parole for those found guilty of the most serious crimes.

The vote follows approval by the state Senate on Monday, leaving as the last step the signature of Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, an opponent of capital punishment.

Snip a Noose…

A special state commission found in January that the death penalty was a more expensive sentence than life in prison, hasn't deterred murder and risks killing an innocent person.
"It's time New Jersey got out of the execution business," Democratic Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo said. "Capital punishment is costly, discriminatory, immoral and barbaric. We're a better state than one that puts people to death."

Among the death row inmates who would be spared is Jesse Timmendequas, a sex offender convicted of murdering 7-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994. That case sparked a Megan's Law, which requires law enforcement agencies to notify the public about convicted sex offenders living in their communities. -MSNBC

If someone was found guilty with overwhelming evidence of harming one of my kids or God forbid killing one of them, I’m sure that my opinion as a father might be swayed momentarily as pro death penalty. For that matter I might even want to find my own vengeance and perform the task myself. In the long run I would prefer that the guilty serve hard time with a lifetime of thought on why they are serving that time. Always in the back of their mind why they are in prison. Not just sitting there in some cell with cable television and a radio to be entertained with though. That is no different than living in a hotel in a bad neighborhood. I’m sure the hotel room is cheaper by the day though.

Maybe the solution to the problem of crime in this nation is to stop building these glorified Club Med for gang members and start making crime a real punishable offense. Whatever happened to hard labor and taking ten ton boulders and making beach sand out of them? We don’t do that anymore because that is supposedly inhumane but isn’t that the reason why the prisoners are behind bars in the first place? What we need to do is stop baby sitting these animals of society that have been irrefutability convicted and make doing time for the crime a real sentence.

Might it be possible to build a national prison system where the scum of the earth that have killed children, police officers and IRS agents that cheated on their taxes serve time in a prison with the sole mission of breaking down the Rocky Mountains and moving the beach sand to the Grand Canyon as fill? How about instead of drilling for oil in Alaska we have them dig for oil and all the oil goes to the poor in America? Then again we run the risk of them tunneling to true freedom in China so that idea may not work out after all.

Until we as a society make the alternative of any crime committed against the innocent a real deterrent then gross negligent crime will continue. Till then we have the revolving door of the gang members equivalent of the Super 8. They get a roof over their head, clothing, three meals a day and all the free time in the world to plot out survival and retribution against the man.

Killing them is far to easy. Lethal injection is the most widely used option for the death sentence and falling asleep as if getting a tooth pulled and never waking up is just not punishment enough for my liking. Then again, the electric chair or the gas chamber is just brutality up there with the worse forms of torture. I’d prefer a life long sentence of hard realistic labor.

If I were a family member of someone murdered for any reason I simply would want to know that the guilty persons life is equal to the pain I would have in my heart for the rest of my life. The death penalty is a tough issue and both sides have legitimate logic behind the thought process. I’m erring on the side of caution when there is a remote possibility that the death of my innocent loved one is the result of proof proven false years down the road that put another innocent to death. I would not wish that on anyone’s conscience.

Papamoka

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