PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

A couple of decades ago, the public verdict would be clear and uncontested: Karmelo Anthony murdered someone and Lindsay Clancy murdered -- her own children. Not a lot of “context” really. Neither case was an accident or an action of self-defense.

Skin color is irrelevant. Gender is irrelevant. In the case of Clancy, the defense attorney might make a plausible “insanity” defense using medical personnel to appraise post-partem depression and thus lesson the punishment.

All the usual tricks of the trade aside, lawyers have little wiggle-room in defending the act of murder.

In Anthony’s trial, the usual mob of relativist race-mongers have rallied to make a clear cut case of murder into some civil rights issue. Similarly, mobs of hysterical (no pun intended if you know the origin of the word) feminist-minded “activists” have conjured concocted reasons for judging Clancy a mere victim.

I suppose that, in any criminal action, there is some degree of “context” but context aside, the law should keep things simple; Karmelo Anthony and Lindsay Clancy committed murder. During sentencing, context issues may lighten the punishment somewhat but cultural collectivists seeking to martyr two killers is absurd.

To clearly state again;

Karmelo Anthony and Lindsay Clancy committed murder(!)…case closed.

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 12:37 PM