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We demand a justice system with the end goal of removing the most dangerous offenders from society. The most serious crimes, including crimes against the nation and its people, must carry the death penalty.

 

Crime and punishment is a subject that is so often driven by the desire for revenge and restitution. And in many ways that is how it should be. But there is a higher purpose to any justice system, which is not rooted in retribution for yesterday but rooted in protection for the entire national community tomorrow.

 

It has long been known that the overwhelming majority of crime and asocial activity is perpetrated by the same tiny number of people, who have a virtually inherent aspect of their character that drives them to act with no regard to the people around them. And thus, the primary purpose of any justice system must be to identify who falls into this tiny minority, and either correct the problem, or remove it from society completely.

 

There are some crimes - murder, premeditated rape, paedophilia, to name a few - which are so henious that anyone who is actually willing to carry them out, must be in possession of an inherently dysfunctional moral compass which is impossible to correct. Likewise, people who are willing to carry out crimes that cause direct OR indirect harm to enormous numbers of people (including habitual low-level crime) - what you could call crimes against the nation and its people - must be in possession of a similarly twisted mentality that is beyond redemption. 

 

To this end, for the most serious of crimes, including crimes against all of society, the only fair penalty is death. Not primarily for the sake of 'punishing' that individual, but for the sake of removing their ability to ever commit such affronts a second time. Not a case of revenge, but a case of prevention by removing from society a cancerous element.

 

There are some people who would argue that such a stance is brutally unfair to that individual, but the right of the community not to have to suffer the existence of degenerate and amoral individuals, far outweighs any supposed 'rights' that the individual might have. And for those whose only language in life is brutality and crime, brutality in return, meted out by the state, is the only language they will understand.

 

The end-goal of a justice system isn't punishment, it is to facilitate a society in which good people are kept safe from those who would do them harm, by any means necessary.

 

By National Rebirth Party