LIFE SENTENCES

OUTRAGE, ACQUIESCENCE OR ACTION IS THE CHOICE OF REACTION TO THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE. A NEW TRIAL HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR A LIBYAN AGENT CONVICTED IN THE BOMBING OF A PLANE OVER LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND THAT KILLED HUNDREDS A SCORE AGO. THE MASTERMIND WAS TO SERVE A LIFE SENTENCE BUT LAWYERS HELPED TO SIMULTANEOUSLY STAMP COMMON SENSE INTO THE GROUND AND EXHUME A DEAD ISSUE. WILL COMMON SENSE, DECEASED, GO TO HELL? A VIRTUE LIKE COMMON SENSE, SACRIFICED, OUGHT TO HAVE A CHANCE TO GO TO HEAVEN, HAVING DIED AN INNOCENT VICTIM OF THE LACK OF MORTALITY IN MORTALS.

A PROBLEM ARISES WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MEANING OF ‘LIFE SENTENCE’. CONVICTED MURDERERS - SPARED THE DEATH PENALTY - DO NOT SERVE THEIR TERMS. NEITHER DO MARRIED COUPLES. THE RELATIVISM OF MODERNITY MEANS NOT ONLY THAT SEMANTICS IS DEAD, BUT MORALITY AS WELL. A VOW TO LIVE TOGETHER 'TILL DEATH DO US PART,' MEANS NOTHING. A LIFE SENTENCE TO SPEND 'ONE'S LIFE BEHIND BARS SEPARATED FROM SOCIETY' MEANS NOTHING. BOTH WORDS AND DEEDS, WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCES, MEAN NOTHING.

FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND ACTION HAS ALLOWED 9.5 MILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD TO EACH ACCUMULATE THAN 2 MILLION DOLLARS IN ASSETS. WHY ARE LIFE-TIME SENTENCES ONLY LIMITED TO ACQUISITIONS OF WEALTH?

NEITHER OUTRAGE NOR ACQUIESCENCE WILL ACCOMPLISH MUCH UNLESS SUPPLEMENTED BY ACTION. LET'S GET BACK TO WORK USING COMMON SENSE TO ILLUMINATE WHAT'S RIGHT AND WRONG SO THAT MORE PEOPLE SERVE OUT THEIR SENTENCES PROPERLY ON EARTH.