Too Ticked Off to Post, Dammit

I don't generally make a post and then delete it or revert it back to unpublished edit status. I just did that.

I really need to be even more firm in my committment to never post in anger and/or pain.

However, I think that in between my expressions of outrage and disdain for hateful and cruel people who take joy in harassing people that they think are "unacceptable" -- by which I mean, people who they perceive as disabled or otherwise contemptible -- I came up with some good ideas for legal reform here in Maryland.

I'll try to filter some of those into future postings, but the long and short of it is this:

Police need to be empowered to investigate and prosecute any and all crimes of violence, including second-degree assault and even any form of harassment in which force or weapons are alleged to be used. As it is, they can only really investigate and prosecute to the fullest degree in cases of armed robbery or murder, based solely on the victim's complaint (or decedent corpose).

Another thing is this: Maryland law really needs to understand the concept of maliciousness and cruelty, and needs to do something to make sure that malice and cruelty -- as motivations evident to any reasonable person -- will automatically escalate the seriousness of the crime. Thus, if you are running and trip and knock someone over and they are injured, that should at most constitute "reckless endangerment". If you are running and you intentionally leap and kick someone in the face as you pass, that should go right up to felony. If you then proceed to kick them once they're down, that should escalate up a level of felony. Some stuff is just wrong and rather than mere prohibition of acts, Maryland law needs to criminalize the intent if the intent is to do wrong, and the wrongness is enjoyed. Failing to make doing harmful wrong totally unenjoyable is gross failure of the wording and execution of the law.

To summarize, people who enjoy being cruel to others need to face a harsher penalty; those who enjoy being cruel to others because they believe that it is justifiable to harm those they despise, these folks need to understand that it is they in particular that the law was designed to suppress. The law needs to actually suppress them.

In the meantime, I guess I will just have to try to get it through the people that do hiring for CVS that they really need to impress on their employees that assaulting the customers is the fastest way known to get fired from CVS.