Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Palestinian statehood and capital punishment on my mind.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’" Matthew 24: 37-39 A created Zion ahead of God has created an apartheid state (Israel) that insists on genocide. My heart bleeds for all those at war over this, but the Palestinians are on the losing end. I know it breaks God's heart too. Troy Davis will be executed in GA tomorrow. There is quite a bit of doubt about his guilt but as in the case of Cameron Willingham in Texas (where proof was found of his innocence) the parole boards refused to hear the evidence and grant clemency. Is it possible that we knowingly execute innocent people now? I think it's time to withdraw the death penalty and get about making more prisons to house people for life. And I plan on rallying loudly for that.

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