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Today I’m still writing about Arkansas new Stand Your Ground Law. As everyone can see by my choice of today’s song shows how serious of a matter this is as I have chosen a song from such a high quality group as the Grateful Dead. But I’m not saying I haven’t looked at the Grateful Dead before. Went I was talking about Confederate monuments I almost choose Touch of Grey but then I found the Monkees Shades of Grey which worked out better for my post anyway. That’s the post where I started out I’ve heard there are fifty shades of grey but today I’m only talking one shade of grey-Confederate grey! Well anyway I thought that was one of my best lines so far.
Me and my sister are big fans of Lieutenant Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter, which is a longtime program and yes I know they are TV shows not programs and I did look at Wal Mart for a sign that says live, life and love but I didn’t find one! With our steaming service, no more cable EVER, we started watching every episode from the beginning, I think we’re in season four or five. The other night the TV show was about a man that was stabbed, lying dead in the living room floor. The man that stabbed him was in the kitchen so young Joe, I really like young Joe he’s so serious all the time, the man went on and on about how he was so innocent the other guy was attacking with a knife and him was defending himself, it was self-defense!! As you may know Lieutenant Kenda doesn’t just take people at their word he investigates, maybe that’s why he’s called the homicide hunter. Went he goes talk to the coroner, the coroner tells young Joe the vic, that what they would call him on CSI, he didn’t have one or maybe two stab wounds, he had a total of 28 stab wounds! MY, MY,MY No way was this self-defense it must had been a homicide. If you commit murder Kenda will find you. Of coarse this murderer wasn’t real hard to find since he was right there in the apartment covered in blood and said he stabbed the man, but still Kenda found him! After much investigating Kenda determined what happened. Turns out the vic was the ex- boyfriend but the problem was the suspect was the husband. The vic thought it was a great idea to go talk her back after midnight while she was in bed with her husband. Turns out that wasn’t the brightest idea that man ever had. Upon entering the apartment the husband rans into the kitchen grabs the nearest knife and attacks the ex-boyfriend stabbing him 28 times. That answered the question will his wife take him back? That would be a No! Yet another successful case solved by Joe Kenda. But wait there’s more! A couple of months later Kenda receives a call from the DA telling him that they were dropping the murder charges and letting him go free. Why? Kenda explained that the state of Colorado passed a law known as the Make My Day Law, in which if someone comes into your house you now have the complete and total right to stand your ground and kill anyone however you see fit. In Colorado the homeowner is always right. But if you live in Colorado and you invite someone over to your house, make sure you have a good plan to overtake him after all–A man got to know his limitations! So you have to ask yourself–Do you feel lucky? Hey wouldn’t the young Joe make a great Dirty Harry? As I said it my last post the Stand Your Ground and now the Make My Day is just making murder legal. It’s like those Purge movies where they take away all laws for a day or maybe more, I didn’t see Purge 2, but like the current movies Republicans with their Stand Your Ground and Make My Day laws have made a Forever Purge.
There’s an old hymn entitled What a Friend We Have in Jesus, thus today’s song. Your either a friend of Jesus or your a friend of the Devil. The Republicans have made their choice, Thou Shalt Not Kill has now become Thou Shalt Not Kill UNLESS thou seeth someone thou thinkest needs killing. (That’s the King James Version) Isn’t it the Republicans that are so proud that they call themselves pro-life? While their claiming how much they love and protect life, they will shake their Bible under your nose and say something like My Bible says Thou Shalt Not Kill–and the crowd goes wild. But it appears to me that just like mask wearing, Thou Shalt Not Kill doesn’t seem to apply to them.
I assume (there’s a saying about that word assume I wish I could think of what it was) but I assume Stand Your Ground and Make My Day laws are pretty much the same. I know the basic change in the Arkansas Stand Your Ground Law was to remove what is called the ” duty to retreat” just from name make my day sounds like its now lawful to say “Go ahead make my day I double dog, no I triple dog dare you! There’s no doubt that the members of the Colorado State Assembly have at least one time in their life have stuck their tongue to a frozen flagpole. And I’ll bet they were all pro-life Republicans just like here in Arkansas. This is a good example of these laws you have a mob (state legislatures) standing around a flagpole taunting the kid who knows it’s wrong, but the mob dares are so powerful that the good kid gives in to the mob.
Make My Day and Stand Your Ground Laws are not to be confused in any to the self-defense laws. These are new laws that Republicans have passed over several states and have no relation to self-defense or justifiable homicide laws. These laws are not intended to preserve life but rather these laws only purpose is to justify the taking of more human life. And yet the church going people who vote for these very Republicans will claim that they are voting Pro-Life.