Sunday, November 24, 2013

There is a solution to this "Game". It's not unprecedented.

 I think (and I am serious here) anyone no matter the age who is arrested and convicted for this should no go to prison but rather to a training camp to prepare them for battle. They already know how to maim and in some cases kill. Jail would be expensive and a waste. Then in 6 weeks of training they are uniformed, given hand weapons (no firearms) and put in villages and cities all over Afghanistan to keep the peace by using the skill they have developed with their fists. They can go around and knock out the mullahs. And whoever survives 3 years on the streets of Kabul and other places is allowed to return with their criminal record expunged.

I didn't make this up. During the early years of the draft for the Vietnam war, many young men who got into trouble with the law in Dakota for assault and even manslaughter were given a choice by the judges. Jail or military. If they chose military they went to the toughest boot camp for 2 sessions until the drill sergeants (who know who they were) beat them to a pulp emotionally. Then they were sent to Vietnam for 2 years. The ones that survived and returned were allowed back into society with no record. BUT if they got into trouble again for the same thing... it would go double.

The advantage was that the survivors were not felons and were employable, could vote and all privileges. However hidden in the records for law enforcement was a sword of Damocles. Get in trouble and double came your way.

Most of the men I knew who went that way became excellent citizens.

So the knockout boys would have a chance to practice their craft among the Afghan and if they don't lose their head should be welcomed back. Of course that only applied to an earlier time when lawyers and political correctness were not with us. Now we don't have the guts to do what is right.

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