Miscellaneous
We need to get tough with the criminals, not worry about their rights Season 3, Episode 7 Recently on a Frontier Airline Flight from Philadelphia to Miami, a passenger who may have been drinking too much got physical and violent against the flight attendants. He allegedly groped two female flight attendants grabbing their breasts and then punched a male flight attendant in the face when that flight attendant urged him to settle down. During the flight, the unruly violent passenger was restrained in his seat and was arrested but released when he arrived in Miami. But Frontier Airlines immediately suspended the flight attendants with pay, as if they did something wrong. What is wrong with our upside-down society in which we seem to be extra careful to protect the rights of the criminals but so quick to judge the and punish the victims? We need to strengthen the police and give them the powers to punish and confront criminals, especially those that cross the line of crime to engage in any form of physical violence. If you use a gun in any crime, or involve an underaged accomplice to carry and hold the weapon, you should be charged and held in custody without bond of any form. If you use that weapon to injure someone, you should be jailed for at least 230 years. If you murder someone intentionally -- first degree murder -- you should be put to death. We need the death penalty not just to discourage people from murdering other people but to cleanse the prison system of overcrowding. The most vicious criminals who have intentionally taken someone else's life should have their life taken. That's one way to help ease over crowding. If you use a weapon intentionally and then kill someone unintentionally, you should be imprisoned for life without parole. We need to toughen the penalties for violent crimes, not weaken them. And, we need to stand by the victims of the crime and those people who have the courage and even the responsibility to confront criminal conduct. For more information on Ray Hanania's columns and podcasts, visit www.Hanania.com. Subscribe to his columns by clicking this link.