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To Those Who Would Kill Children
I sat in stunned amazement recently as I listened to the morning news. The report was playing a sound bite from a police officer in Maryland, who was reporting a grizzly murder. I listened, as the officer spoke of a triple homicide. Triple homicides are rare, but certainly have happened before. But, as this police officer continued to tell the story of another senseless crime, his voice began to break as he described the scene. Three people had been murdered, all of the three had been decapitated, and all three were children. Did you understand what I said? The victims were children!
What have we become, as beings that would allow one of us to be born that has the capacity to cut off the heads of three precious children? While I know nothing about the case other than the facts that I have shared with you, I can already predict how this case will turn out. We will hear nothing more about the children. We will hear nothing about the hopes and dreams of three kids who will never breathe another breath of air. We will hear nothing more about the void that has been left on this earth by their untimely and undeserving death. In fact, in a very short period of time, all that will be left of these kids are some yellowed newspaper clippings and a few pictures that will end up in a shoe box in someone's closet.
Guess what we will hear about? The murderers! We will hear that these people were troubled, perhaps mentally ill. We will hear that they were abused as children. We will hear that maybe they had just lost their job or were despondent about a relationship. We will hear that nothing was going right in these poor souls' life and this was just an act of screaming for help. We will hear about this disorder and that disorder and how these unrecognized ailments lead to this act that was beyond the control of the murderers. We will hear that these people did not mean to do it, it was involuntary. What a sad life these people had endured. No wonder such an act was committed based on the pitiful life that has been dealt to this innocent people. Pass me the barf bag! I do not know that I can sit through another one of these "let's feel sorry for the defendant scenarios." What about the VICTIMS? Do we not owe it to them to ensure that this person, or persons, who committed one of the worst crimes that I have ever heard of, meets a swift and just punishment? When are we ever going to wake up and just get it?
Anybody who would murder a child, you pick the case…and there are plenty of them out there these days, must be held responsible. We hear of case after case where children are tortured, raped, butchered, and abused. We respond to these barbaric cases by a shrug of the shoulder and a soft comment of "Oh my goodness, that's terrible." We then proceed to go on with our lives and assume that things will just work out. Guess what; they don't always just work out. We have got to rise above the stacks of dead children that are continuing to accumulate and demand that justice be done and that this justice be swift. No more excuses, no more syndromes, no more nothing that attempts to relieve the person, or persons, of the responsibility that goes along with murdering an innocent child. If I sound harsh, please excuse my political incorrectness. But, it is this political correctness that has caused us to forgive and forget, or at least to forget, no matter how atrocious the crime. Just when we think we have heard the worst cases in the world, we hear of one that will top it.
We need to wake up and we need to wake up before the story is about one of your children. Are we really a society that doesn't care any more, if it doesn't affect us personally? Are we really to the point that we are so desensitized that we can let the beheading of three children go unnoticed? I pray that we are not. We must send swift messages to our law enforcement, our prosecutors, our judges, and our lawmakers that we are done with complacency. If saving our children is not a reason to become politically active, I would submit that nothing
is.
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