Comments on: Home Insurance

By: wgsullivan

wgsullivan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:24:15 +0000

I don’t know if I am in favor of allowing more criminals off the hook so as to reduce the prison population.
A secure and safe home in my mind would be free of drug users/alcoholics and the like. A secure dwelling fostering growth in confidence would be a safe house not a pot house. Allowing those that choose evil to run freely amongst us breeds fear.
Looking at prisons in the U.S. is all together different than looking at prisons in China. If our prisons were as harsh as China’s our prison population would be much, much less. Many in China, whether guilty or falsely accused, don’t even make it to prison. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe in inhumane treatment but just wanted to point out apples and oranges.
When we look to the U.S., it used to be a fairly safe place to grow in confidence when it based itself closer to Christ’s teachings. However without building on the “divine foundation and nature of the Church” it has become a less stable house to dwell and grow in confdence in. Hence we produce more prisoners (slaves) to sin.
As a Catholic I need to better live my faith so as to help build a stronger foundation under my portion of the dwelling.

By: noelfitz

noelfitz — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:47:47 +0000

very good point.

I wanted to discuss this issue and as the fora in CE seem moribund I thought sending it here might get a reply.

I am disapppointed that the interaction between members of the CE roundtables seems to be almost nil. What can we do to get things going again?

By: Arkanabar Ilarsadin

Arkanabar Ilarsadin — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:30:24 +0000

I agree that our drug laws are draconian, capricious, cruel, and absurd. But really, is a column about the divine foundation and nature of the Church the place to bring that up?

By: noelfitz

noelfitz — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:23:04 +0000

I read:
“We are the beneficiaries of this divine founding and guarantee. We know that when children dwell secure they dwell happily. A secure home provides them an atmosphere in which they can grow in confidence. ”

This does not happen frequently in the US, due to the prison system harming family life.

This is disgraceful.Please read the following and comment:

********************************************************************************* The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.

Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences.

The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College London.

China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/23/america/23prison.php