Killers’ dues rarely paid
I’m back from Florida again. It’s got more palms than an East Side maître d’. But happily I’m home where the Second Avenue Deli pastrami’s as high as a waiter’s thigh. And I’m so into thanks for my birthday week off that I never even nagged Post Editor-in-Chief Keith Poole about a deeply desperately deserved raise.
Having demonstrated my enormous gentility and warmth — it’s back to my usual crankiness:
Like, will someone explain our greasy sense of justice? Take NY’s DA Bragg — who never met a thief he didn’t like? Or last week’s creep judge who helped a convict escape?
Those nice boys
Or nice children Lyle and his brother Erik Menendez who murdered both parents nearly 40 years ago and are now being considered as doing enough time?
Giving monster murderers a pass is now on the table. Understand, nice children Lyle and Erik didn’t just rob a stranger for a few bucks. Six-month trial. Found guilty as hell. Sentenced to life imprisonment. NO suggestion EVER of parole. Now, such a good idea to maybe let them out? Is this now reward time?
Shove buying mommy a Mother’s Day fragrance. Instead, reward ice-cold first-degree brutal killers for murdering both mommy and daddy. This way they mark the holiday with just a few cheap bullets. Only 10 shots into mommy — so there’d be no mistake. Same into daddy. Maybe mommy’s pot roast wasn’t delicious — but 10 bullets into your own mother? Seems a little rude.
So, aside from their enriched legal people, can someone say how USA’s bettered by freeing two brutal killer kids who pumped their parents full of lead? Is it the right thing to do? OK, jail food isn’t four-star, but still, is it what the DAR — Daughters of the American Revolution — would’ve supported?
Never said sorry
What is the value of releasing these sickos? So they can someday get married and have kids?
What is justice supposed to do? Set an example? Rehabilitate? Or judges only wear robes so they can issue traffic tickets? This is why we have high-level intellects sitting on high benches?
These murderers always claimed they were victims. Like a strange gun — alone, by itself — just somehow went off nearly 20 times to one parent and then another? Me, I always claimed they were cold-blooded killers. Murderers.
What’s a crime?
So only pickpocketing is a crime? Parking too close to a fireplug, theft, robbery, assault, counterfeiting, money laundering, helping your president dad maybe helping himself — these are legit crimes. Seems that murder is coming off tantamount to a misdemeanor. Like spitting on a sidewalk.
Taking a knee? That’s OK. Joining an anti-US rally? Still OK. Grabbing someone else’s dog? Not OK. But knocking off your legal parent — considered rude in some cases, but as all of us newly enlightened Americans can freshly understand — and as newly proven here — not bad enough to keep you behind bars.
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton. America the Beautiful.
Said a jurist to the two murderers: “You’ve paid your dues.”
Said one brother in return: “You’re right. And if everyone else worked as hard as we did they’d be on the road to prosperity.”
Only in America, kids, only in America.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
