Death Penalty

The death penalty is a very long well thought out plan that has many aspects that are made to protect the accused. In the pretrial the court makes sure that the jury is a fair well educated jury. The reason for the long process of determining the jury is because if the jury had a bias member or someone that had already pre-determined their decision someone’s life will be taken away. Another way the accused can get away with surviving is pleading insanity or a mental illness. If you were to kill someone and diagnosed with mental retardation the court would protect you from the death penalty. There are many ways the court will help provide the accused with a fair trial. I think that this long methodical plan is a very accurate way of protecting the rights of the accused. We could be much stricter than we already are, but these rights provide the wrong with some fair protection. There are five ways of using the death penalty they are hanging, firing squad, lethal injection, gas chamber and electrocution and in my eyes I find all of these ways more than fair. If you take someone’s life why your life shouldn’t be taken? I understand that in some cases there are some acceptations, but that’s up to the jury to decide. Also most of the killings are very brutal and gruesome the way that these criminals are put to death are quick and painless, so in my eyes they are having somewhat of a luxury. None of these are considered cruel and unusual punishment in my mind, but I can see how people can argue it. I think they get what they deserve. The state of Illinois and some surrounding states don't have the death penalty. Surprisingly California has the most amounts of inmates with 724. I was also surprised to hear that they had the most women with 19 inmates. There are by far more male inmates in the United States. In North Carolina in 2002, a new law allowed life without parole and because of this death sentences dropped by over 50% following the law.

The Next Four Years

With the election over most people have accepted that Obama has won the election. It makes me intrigued and excited where he will bring the country in his next term. As what I like to call myself a fair critic I don’t think president Obamas first term was a successful one. I thought that the bright side of the his four years was the assassination of Osama. And I wish that the highlight was him getting us out of debt. I don’t see or understand how his plans that have not changed very much will make his next term more successful. What will president Obama do to get us out of this huge debt? He didn’t bring us out but dug us further into debt, but I am not positive that Governor Romney’s plans would have gotten us out of debt. It is a very controversial topic that truly needs to adapt. I want to see a president that is willing to accept that the other party might have some good plans. The democratic and republican parties are great but together I believe we could create a great plan to get us into positive ways again.

Next Four Years

With the election nearing close tensions among family and friends tend to get high. Most people can’t help to let themselves go and debate which candidate they approve of. Whatever ends up happening the week leading up to election I always ask myself what the next election is going to be like. I know we have plenty of worries to worry about but I always begin to wonder, what will happen? If president wins the election and we don’t see much progress like his last term than will the next president be a republican? If president Obama turns the economy around, will a under qualified democrat become president, because of his success? And if Governor Romney wins will his term be a success? Will he help the republican party retain office for years to come? All of these questions are impossible to answer in my mind. You won’t be able to determine this until the next four years are up.

Political Ads

Recently in the life of the media all you see and hear about is politics. There is no way of getting around it even when watching sports all the commercial are political ads. I always wonder while seeing these adds if they actually work. All they do is take something that there opponent has done wrong and try to make a mockery out of them.  Does this really persuade the voters? I know that if I had the chance to vote it wouldn’t. By the time all of these commercials come out I would have already made up my mind. For example I saw a commercial today about Brad Schneider and the commercial talked about his personal life and how his business didn’t make a huge profit, but I don’t care about that. If he didn’t have the history or the skills to run for congress than he wouldn’t be running for it. I don’t understand why people think that attacking their opponent is the only way to get to the public. Why is it that we have to probe what other people did wrong rather than proving what we have done right? I would rather vote for a person that’s more confident in what they will bring to the government rather than what the other person has done wrong.

Crime Rate

In the last ten years America has seen the most drastic rise in crime rate and killings ever. At 4.7 murders per 100,000 people in 2012, it is by far the highest in the developed world. Why is it that the crime rate has so drastically increased? Is it because of the current debt that the united states are in. We are currently trillions of dollars in debt.  During our last depression the “great depression” the crime rate drastically increased, because people will do whatever it takes to provide for themselves and their family. Another reason I believe for the current crime rate is because of my generation. If you think about the current role models that my generation and the generation after me has to look up to it almost embarrassing. Athletes have been getting DUI’s and criminal records like crazy, many musician are not considered “cool” unless they have a criminal record. These are the people that many kids inspire to do and there setting examples that unfortunately kids follow.  I really don’t know what to suggest stopping this. No matter what you or me say people are going to continue doing what they want. Even the few good role models cannot inspire enough people to stop what they’re doing, and to our current debt we have a long time until its back to okay.  The crime rate is a problem that many people are avoiding, but it is just one step that needs to be taken to make America what it was before, the true super power of the world.

Presidential Debate

Recently the biggest story in the news was the presidential debate, as a kid that unfortunately   hates listening and talking politics I was fascinated by the debate. My parents are split one a republican one a democrat. I like having a split family better because I can go into everything with an open mind and not corrupted. So as being a kid with no personal preference watching the debate I had to say I thought Mitt Romney won. Obama was playing defense the whole time. Listening to the positive and negatives that Romney listened about president Obama really persuade me. I believe that governor Romney is a better candidate. His plans although do have flaws and can fail, I believe will work. He is so positive and determined to make all of his agendas work he convinced me. When President Obama kept comparing himself to former president Bill Clinton and came off that he thought he was President Clinton.  He was living to much in his shadow, when he should be creating his own. I might have been convinced because I did watch the debate on FOX. The difference in watching it on ABC and FOX is huge. We switched of channels from ABC to FOX. ABC had the cameras mostly focused on Obama FOX had theirs on Romney. The way the media persuades people is amazing. Why is there not a neutral channel ? Is it because there would not be strong ratings? Personally I would love to have a channel that always people to form their own opinion.

Class Colors

Class colors are for some reason a very huge issue. Why is it that kids were so frustrated by the change of colors? The fact that kids and factuality started to talk about how legally they can’t do it is pathetic. All the students and factuality new that the students were going to wear their class colors. I believe that the reason they were leaning towards the red and grey sprit wear was because of hazing. Although shouting "freshman bedtime" is stupid and pointless it’s pathetic that people take offense to it. When I heard that chant I never thought anything of it. Society and people have become way too sensitive. People need to lighten up and just embrace the experience. I was told that its unfair that people were looking forward to wearing black for four years, if that’s true than you should probably be thinking about other things.