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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (427876)	12/11/2014 12:23:54 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

The way I see it is that anyone is capable of killing another human being given the right circumstance. I've killed many human beings as a soldier so I got away with it. The only thing that has stopped me as a civilian is jail time/death penalty. I make no pretenses to being holy or pure in that regard. Do I have any regrets for my past actions as a soldier ? No. Would I do it again? No. I did what I did at the time I did it. I've changed since then. Rules are made to be broken for extreme/exceptional circumstances. I can forgive someone of murder given the situation. I don't have an all or nothing approach. Moreover, people are weak and passions often get the best of them. But a dude like Cheyney is in the perpetual mind state of torture and death so he is not worth tax payer dollars. He is incurable. He lost all his humanity a long time ago.

To: Terry Maloney who wrote (427876)	12/11/2014 1:01:34 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

My Mom use to work as an interviewer for the Census Bureau. She would often go into prisons and interview the inmates. The first thing she told me is that the guards were worse than the inmates. Second, she told me that most of these crimes were committed due to ghetto upbringing, the need for money because the families were so poor. Sure, they would hold up an outsider in their neighborhood (for the money) and once the person resisted they got killed. Do you know how many people in the USA get arrested everyday for stealing a loaf of bread in a supermarket because they are starving? I personally know a number of attorneys who got sick to their stomach defending these people and ended up becoming real estate attorneys instead. Excuse me, but I can easily identify with all the black youth and hispanics who end up accidentally killing someone for their money because they are starving and living on the street without a home. Not that I think it's right, but being on the street like that is not right either and the law of nature or the jungle takes over.