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Punishment? Justice? Revenge? "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Vengeance is mine", sayeth the Lord. I am not a vengeful person and I am not God. I am actually kind and tolerant, but I have a few bones to pick.

The fires that burned so tragically in Southern California have set me to thinking...again...about the nature of crime and its punishment. Certainly, most of those fires are the result of low humidity, high winds and unfortunate accident. I am fairly certain, however, that some of them have been deliberately set. "Fire bugs" tend to take advantage of these sorts of situations; what's one more fire among so many?

Did I mention that I am a kind person? Well, as true as that is, I have some rather strong views about justice. And I am not normally a judgmental person, either.

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I do not believe that, as a society, we deal effectively with those who perpetrate crimes upon our society. If everyone who ever thought about setting a wild fire burning knew for an absolute fact that they themselves would be set on fire as a punishment, how many of them would actually set a fire? Maybe that is a little too cruel of a punishment. Maybe we should just burn to ash everything that they own. Granted some egomaniacs will think that they can not be caught. But you get my point, right?

Our criminals, when caught and prosecuted have a nice, relatively cushy jail cell to look forward to. I am certain that thousands of years ago when mankind first banded together into tribes, they did not tolerate behavior that went against the best interests of the tribe. Individuals who endangered, directly harmed or broke a taboo of the tribe were most likely cast out or shunned. No cozy prison cells with three square meals a day for them. Go out there and make it entirely on your own, buddy.

Whenever I think about crime, it tends to re-open a poorly healed wound. About a year ago, our next door neighbor trespassed on our property with a loaded shot gun. From our backyard, he shot and killed a miniature Dachshund that belonged to the daughter of our backdoor neighbors. They had gone out to dinner and the dog was loose in the fenced yard and had been barking for several hours. His first blast only wounded the poor dog. I will never forget how it screamed. His second shot finished it off. He did not just kill the dog, he also changed the dog owner's and our lives forever; not for the better.

Prior to this incident, our neighbor had been going around to many of us and complaining about lights left on that shined into his bedroom windows at night, noisy children, parties and the like. He wanted his way regardless of what anyone else might want. The little dog sacrificed its life to let us all know the lengths to which this man is willing to go in order to have his way.

Now, I am not advocating that a life be taken as punishment for the taking of a life. Quite possibly the British had it right; but where do you find a nice, completely isolated desert island and how do you keep it that way? Besides, Australia is now a nice place to live.

My husband and I have been shunning our neighbor and his wife (she had the opportunity to stop him), but the people who lived directly behind him have moved away and so has the family that lost their dog. If I thought there was some way to force him to move, I would pursue it. Recently, some of our good friends across the street have started talking to our next door neighbors again. We do not hold this against our friends, but it is a shame.

Our felonious neighbor gets to continue to live in his house (he served no prison time, but did complete several hundred hours of community service at the Humane Society) and continue his life as if he never did anything reproachable. This is just wrong.

I do not know what the ultimate answer is. I wish I did. But I do know that criminal behavior should never be tolerated, forgotten, forgiven or condoned. I believe that we, as a society, owe it to ourselves to find a better solution to the problem of crime and implement it. Sometimes the hard decisions just have to be made. And believe it or not, I would be happy to help make them.

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The Holocaust began with Hitler's rise to power in January of 1933 and ended on VE Day (May 8, 1945). During this time, more than 6 million Jews and millions of other groups that caught the negative attention of Nazi Germany. While all the murders were devastating to native populations, none were so devastating than that of the Jews. During this period, 5,000 Jewish communities were wiped out and the total that died represented 1/3 of all Jewish people alive at that time.

Due to a series of events, Hitler assumed dictatorial powers in March 23, 1933 when the Enabling Act was passed. With total power available to him, he quickly developed a sophisticated police and military force and used them to squelch anyone who criticized his authority. From this authority stemmed the first concentation camp, Dachau, just outside of Munich which started as a political prison camp but evolved over time into a full scale Nazi concentration camp to exterminate Jews and others.

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By the end of 1934, Hiter's campaign against the Jews was in full force. The Nazis weere claiming them to be mongrels who were corrupting the pure German race and persecutions of the Jewish grew in strength. Those who could, fled Germany to other European countries which gave them safety for a while.

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The next major event that led towards the widescale destruction of the Jews was the Meeting in July of 1938 where representatives of 32 countries met in the French town of Evian to discuss the refugee problems created by the Nazis - but since no conclusive action was taken, Hitler took that as defacto notice that no one would act against him while he worked to purge the Jews from his territories.

Germany started World War II with the invasion of Poland in September of 1939 and in 1940 established Jewish ghettos in Poland where they could be isolated from the rest of society and kept an eye on. Conditions in the ghettos were deplorable - not enough food, water, space, sanitation facilities, etc., and many died from the horrid conditions.

In June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and began the implementation of the Final Solution - the beginnings of the systemized destruction of the undesirables. At first they were just gathered up, shot and thrown into mass open graves. It is estimated that over 1 million people died in this manner. But it wasn't efficient enough so more and more death camps sprang up.

From this point, the Germans worked on more and more efficient ways to liquidate the undesirables by bringing them to death camps to systematically kill them and recycle any valuables for the war effort. And in this instance, a valuable was a healthy person - so the Germans would work the prisoners until they had no more energy to produce and then kill them. In effect, that had millions of slaves being forced to work to death to help the Germans in their war efforts.

This atrocity continued to the end of the war - with liberation not happening until July 1944 and later. In July 1944, the Soviet Union liberatated Maidanek concentration camp and then in January 1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp and so on until Nazi Germany was totally defeated and all peoples were freed.

All told, there were only about 200,000 Jewish survivors by the end of the liberation and the death counts from the holocaust were estimated to be around 6 million Jews and millions of other people who did not fit the Aryan mold.

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