Just Us

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court said that sentences of life without possibility of parole for crimes other than homicide that were committed when the offender was under the age of 18 are unconstitutional.

There are no jails in Torah Law; crimes committed that that do not involve death were dealt by monetary compensation. If the criminal could not pay the compensation, along with the rabbinical fine then the criminal was forced to be sold into servitude to the victim.

Jail is a deterrent whereas servitude is demonstrable justice. As there are laws concerning the servitude of the perpetrator so too are laws pertaining to the obligation of the slave owner who is responsible for the food, shelter and medical expensives for the slave and his family–sounds like capitalism.

The slave can redeem himself at anytime in the event of a sudden windfall like winning the lottery. A legal system based on deterrent only works through fear of being tortured–prison is torture, anyone who has been there knows that. The legal system uses the concept of justice and law to control the people.

The last of the seven commandments of Noah obligates all peoples of the world is to form courts of law for the purpose of administrating justice. If our constitution does not provide for speedy justice than the constitution is unconstitutional and justice is just us.

For Peter

After more than a decade of debates, hearings and lobbying the Senate has passed a bill to change the punishment for possession of crack users 100 times more heavily than powder cocaine users.

This obvious abuse of power to incarcerate the poor instead of the rich based on the kind of cocaine they employ is more criminal than the crime they punish. During the Vietnam War those married or in college had a deferment while the poor minorities were drafted into the conflict.

The government for the rich and by the rich has been unrelenting and brutal in their perverse tactics to breed more violence while sowing unrest by returning convicts back into communities where poverty pervades. The government always finds ways to make a buck out of people’s sorrow.

Cocaine like opium are natural substances indigenous to two areas in the world, Central Asia and Northern South America; Opium is used to still pain while Cocaine soothes hunger–these regions of God given substances are two focal points of war in the world along with the Middle East which came to nourish the soul.

The Torah came to the world to bring peace through law which demands compassion and retribution. Included in the Torah are the three oral traditions of Talmud–the interpretation of the law, Midrash–the story behind the law and the Zohar–the secret hidden within the story.

The Death Penalty

A ruling by Texas state District Judge Kevin Fine, a tattooed recovering drug addict has ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional.

Capital punishment as defined in the Torah/Teaching was performed for the sake of the soul and not as an deterrent to crime. Contemporary criminal systems are deterrent based; it is the fear of punishment which provides the incentive to obey the law of the land.

The laws of Torah are much kinder. There were no jail in Israel; people who stole were fined and those unable to pay must enter into servitude to the victim–those who killed were banished to the cities of refuge. Only those who killed with intent in front of witnesses who had warned the person before the offense occurred were executed.

It is said in the Talmud-Book of Law if more than one person was executed in any 70 year period the courts were considered murderers. There were four types of execution carried out by the rabbis untilizing sword, stone, fire and water–all four had to be carried out after the death occurred without pain.

The Cabala explains how the body and soul share the same geometry drawn from the Four Letter Name of God YHVH; when we commit a crime against God’s law we effect the the clarity of our soul.