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Immigration Project: Blog 7- Crime and Punishment

In America, we are experiencing social issues with a cerain aspect of the government. Our country has always taken pride in its "outstanding" process of crime and punishment; however, there are still criminals on the street that have gotten away with their crimes. Some of these very criminals have made second and third offenses; this is disgracful. If our criminal justice system is allowing these criminals to slide through without punishment, then our country is not all that it's made out to be. Due to the softness of men in the leadership roles, we are allowing our country's innocent people to suffer at the hand of unpunished criminals. As of now, our country's legal system is not reliable, and no one can feel safe.
Criminals who have previously made offenses towards our citizens walk the streets of America, with no fear at all; they walk freely without even a cloak to hide their idenity. There are burglerers, rapists, abusers of children, kidnappers, and murderers who walk without a care in the world; and how does this affect our country's citizens? People live in fear; a single mother who lives alone with her two children in a big house must always wonder...A little girl who was raped three years ago must lay in her bed every night and wonder...A grown man who lost his best friend due to a hate crime must take the subway to work every day and wonder...will the person who did this awful crime ever be caught? Will they have to live in fear forrever that this person may come back? Our citizens should not have to go through this; it's not fair to them and they have suffered enough. But the problem is that when we think we have found the criminal that did that horrible crime, they are then put in front of a grand jury and the trial could go either way. We could end up letting the real criminal go. And then what would we be doing? We would be setting up the next person to be murdered or raped or mugged. This cannot happen, not in our country.
It is my proposition that we, as America, change our legal system thoroughly. If we were to make it law that anyone who was to be suspected of a major crime, that involved hurting other citizens, was given punishment, America would be a safer place. We should give anyone who is suspected by the detectives, who investigate a case, the same punishment that the real criminal would actually get. This way, we could be about 75% more sure that we caught the actual criminal. We wouldn't have to worrty that the guy slipped ;past the grand jury wth a tall tale of lies. I think this would be the best thing for America right now. We would no longer have to live in fear that these criminals who have become proffessionals at their craft, due to the fact that the have done it for so long and never been caught, would return. Then we could truly say America has Crime and Punishment.

Immigration Project: Blog 6

If Swift's proposal is accepted into society as a regulation, which is absolutely and entirely crazy, those who will benefit include the Irish who are poor and suffering. There is currently a potato famine that is destroying society; it was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration ravaged Ireland between 1845 and 1852.As the crisis continued the rapidly rising price of all other produce brought hardship even to those who in other circumstances might have been able to provide themselves with alternative food; the roblem was thwat the British had cut off their aility to get food overseas by means of fishing and trading. Widespread malnutrition also led to the rapid spread of a range of diseases; many recognize and remember such diseases as typhus and relapsing fever, which actually killed far more than died of actual starvation and lack of nutrition. By 1850 an estimated million people had died of hunger or disease, and another million had fled the country, emigrating to Great Britain or North America. ALso, in the A Modest Proposal, Johnothan Swift starts out the document with terrible stories of how the Irish are forced to live because of the dreadful cicumstances; he talks aout others who must ecome beggars to support their chhildren. He also talks about yuong orphans whho were abandoned ecause their familied did not have the money to support them; these children grew up to be theives. So, it is most definate that those who are meant to benefit from this propsal, are indeed the Irish. Although, those who are just born will certainly not benefit because they will not get a chance to live. The Irish social group who are not financially well of, in any terms, would benefit because of a turn around in Ireland's economic system. Before such regulations would be organized, there would not be enough food for everyone because of overpopulation, there would not be enough jobs because of overpopulation; therefore, there are many people out of work so there is an unbeliveable amount of poverty. The poverty has caused alot of theft and craziness in society; there is a lack of organization. In A Modest Proposal, Johnathon Swift talks aout how caotic it is on the streets and how there is theft everywhere; he says that children who were abandoned grow up to be well trained and experienced theives.
If the regulation is put in place, all of the babies that cannot be taken care of, that arte born into poor families, are going to be eaten. This will fix a good amount of hunger and it will also fix a llarge amount of overpopulation at the same time. Also, since all of the babies who cannot be taken care of were growing up to be trained thievs who know nothing else, this will stop alot of theft; therefore, organization will be restored. If all of this happen, obviously, things will be fixed and the Irish would no longer have to live in such terrible living standards.