OUTRAGED KIWIS CALL FOR D*ATH PENALTY

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Bring back the death penalty! So Kiwis say, and it's the only rational response to the murder on New Year's Day of Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming, a mother, "a beautiful soul and an outstanding police officer". Adam Ramsey, on foot patrol with Fleming, was critically injured when a man drove his vehicle into both officers in Nelson’s Buxton Square.

Not only that, but also - in the first moments of the New Year, yet another infant was murdered in Hamilton, in what's now euphemistically termed "family harm". Meaning, mayhem. Meaning that another child has been killed by its father or a step-father, almost certainly after previous brutish attacks on the baby and/or its mother. And almost certainly, the child was Maori. Chances are the murderer is a recidivist criminal offender who's escaped the maximum prison sentence he deserved. A Simpsons' character on Twitter is saying, "I'm shocked! I'm shocked! Well not that shocked". 

What men such as these deserve, after a fair trial and conviction, is the death penalty. Antipope Francis has taken it upon himself to change the millenial teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church in regard to capital punishment and on New Year's Day repeated his calls for abolition of the death penalty worldwide. 

In contrast with the Pope’s description of the death penalty as “inadmissible” and an attack on the “dignity of the person,” the Catholic Church has always taught – through the Magisterium, popes, saints, theologians, and scholars – that the state reserves the right, in natural law and according to Sacred Scripture (Gen 9:6), to execute criminals.https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-calls-for-abolition-of-the-death-penalty-in-all-countries-of-the-world/

 Renowned Catholic philosopher Edward Feser points out that "consistency with scripture and previous papal teaching requires us to say both that life has dignity but also that an offender can in principle lose the right to his life.  To fail to affirm both of these things is precisely to contradict past teaching, not “develop” it."

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sawing-off-the-branch-on-which-he-sits-experts-question-francis-attack-on-p/

Collings was executed for sexually assaulting a 9 year-old and dumping her body in a sinkhole in Missouri, USA

 Ann Barnhardt calls on Catholic luminaries, some sainted, to refute Antipope Francis' quaint ideas on the death penalty (below):

 

The Death Penalty Is Essential To A Christian Society and Is Willed By God

The certainty that Antipope Bergoglio is not merely a criminal usurper but the actual False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist continues to leap higher. He is undeniably attempting to put himself OVER and ABOVE God and His Holy Church (fraternity quote) at the head of an Antichurch being erected inside the Vatican so as to deceive the world into believing that the Antichurch is and has replaced the One True Church.

 

Bergoglio is obviously an Antipope, and has been all along, and sits at the head of the ANTICHURCH. It's obvious. There is simply no way the Petrine Promise of Our Lord Jesus Christ to His Body and Bride the Church can be reconciled to Bergoglio as Pope without violating the Law of Non-contradiction and thus denying the Divinity of Christ.

 

St James the Great on his way to execution

 

Some helpful quotes on the death penalty:

Avery Cardinal Dulles

“The reversal of a doctrine as well established as the legitimacy of capital punishment would raise serious problems regarding the credibility of the magisterium.

 

Consistency with scripture and long-standing Catholic tradition is important for the grounding of many current teachings of the Catholic Church; for example, those regarding abortion, contraception, the permanence of marriage, and the ineligibility of women for priestly ordination. If the tradition on capital punishment had been reversed, serious questions would be raised regarding other doctrines.”
(2004, Avery Cardinal Dulles)

St. Augustine

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

 

The agent who executes the killing does not commit homicide; he is an instrument as is the sword with which he cuts. Therefore, it is in no way contrary to the commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ to wage war at God’s bidding, or for the representatives of public authority to put criminals to death, according to the law, that is, the will of the most just reason.

(The City of God, Book 1, chapter 21)

St. Thomas Aquinas

It is written: “Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live” (Ex. 22:18); and: “In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land” (Ps. 100:8). …

Every part is directed to the whole, as imperfect to perfect, wherefore every part exists naturally for the sake of the whole. For this reason we see that if the health of the whole human body demands the excision of a member, because it became putrid or infectious to the other members, it would be both praiseworthy and healthful to have it cut away.

 

Now every individual person is related to the entire society as a part to the whole. Therefore if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and healthful that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good, since “a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump” (1 Cor. 5:6).
(Summa Theologiae, II, II, q. 64, art. 2)

 

The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.

 

They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.”

(Summa contra gentiles, Book III, chapter 146)

 

“…a secondary measure of the love of God may be said to appear, for capital punishment provides the murderer with incentive to repentance which the ordinary man does not have, that is a definite date on which he is to meet his God. …the law grants to the condemned an opportunity which he did not grant to his victim, the opportunity to prepare to meet his God. Even divine justice here may be said to be tempered with mercy.”

St. Alphonsus Liguori

It is lawful to put a man to death by public authority: it is even a duty of princes and of judges to condemn to death criminals who deserve it; and it is the duty of the officers of justice to execute the sentence; God Himself wishes malefactors to be punished.

John Senior

Justice is simply the social good, and it must therefore be done. It is defined as “giving each his due” – cuique sum, “to each his own.” A man is due his life because he is a living thing; it is his nature to have life; and, since it is also his nature to be moral, if a man commits a crime, he must be punished because punishment is retributive – punishment is the penalty due the criminal in justice to him. Proportioned punishment is due him, too, and you cannot deny him that right without yourself committing an injustice against him deserving punishment in turn. The judge who fails the criminal in punishment himself incurs a greater guilt.

 

a prisoner on death row being used to test safety nets before they were mass-produced for the public (1958)

 

There is another justification for punishment besides retribution. Pain and deprivation are medicinal. They hurt so much that the criminal can learn that crime does not pay – or at least that the victims pay back. If you want to teach the prisoner a trade or put him to useful work, well and good; but those things are secondary and must never interfere with the first and proper use of punishment, which is the restoration of the equality of justice not only in society but in the person of the criminal.

 

A person who commits a crime has indulged his will against reason; a disequilibrium has been established in his soul, as Plato says, which can only be righted by retributive exercise of reason against his will. The greatest evil in the world is to do wrong without being punished.

They object to punishment itself; and that is because they deny the existence of justice; and that is because they deny that man is free, that man is responsible for his acts. Crime, they say, is sickness. It must be cured, or better, prevented by prophylaxis of the spirit, by the extermination of free will altogether so that men will react like Pavlov’s dogs to sensitivity training and even to psychosurgery and drugs . . . .

 

They say crime is illness. Now if that were true, there could be no moral act whatsoever. If man is not free to choose evil, he is not free to choose good . . . . Everyone must remember the story of the murderer who said in court: “You can’t blame me, it was my heredity and environment that caused me to kill” and the judge who replied, “It is my heredity and environment that sentences you to hang by the neck until dead.”

(The Death of Christian Culture, Chapter 7)

Watch: A Nazi war criminal brought to scaffold for execution by hanging:  https://youtu.be/fX1mmQOL1t8

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