Let's Talk Turkey

What’s up with the “turkey pardon” thing.   Every year elected officials waste time pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving.  Tell me, do you think the turkey knows this? Why pardon an animal when there are so many people on death rows all across the country?  We’ve already executed (read MURDERED) Nobel Peace Prize Tookie Williams.  The establishment has been trying to murder…err execute Mumia Abu Jamal for four decades.  Americans have taken the Marine approach to killing: Kill them all and let God sort them out.

How many people found guilty have been proven innocent long after their execution.  And even of those executed, what about the unanswered questions?  Where are those who were killed by serial killers that are still missing?  Will we have to wait for Judgement Day to find the answers? 

Instead of doing everything in our power to prove the innocence of those who are incarcerated, we waste precious time  finding new ways to convict at any cost.  We have lost our souls in the legal system.

How did we get from a turkey pardon to death penality? Well, I’ll tell you.  A turkey pardon is insignificant in the larger scheme.  There are real people who need to be pardoned, some who didn’t need to be jailed from the start.  This is a diversion, like sports or some television series.  At some point we get back to reality and we have to point at what is true and meaningful.

According to the Death Penality Information Center since the reinstatement of executions in 1976, there have been 1177 executions (as of  October 21, 2009). How many of those were wrongly convicted but lacked a dreamteam to assist in their defense?  That’s how we get from a turkey pardon to an inmate pardon.  Right now our country looks as idiotic as Sarah Palin’s 2008 turkey pardon with the slaughter of turkeys in the backdrop. No wonder she’s confused. The entire country is confused. 

 Kill a man, save a turkey.  I don’t get it.