In all things, as in all life, complexity is merely simplicity multiplied to the point where it can no longer be recognized as such, but rather makes up its own entirely new reality. The problem is, we rarely see all the moving parts and recognize them for what they are before they have already metastasized.

I raise this point because I recently got to thinking about our legal system and some of its more dangerous peculiarities, and I began to see a pattern in many individual and seemingly unrelated issues that potentially belie a larger trend.

Take for example the concept of “Hate Crimes” which was so much in vogue some years back.

Ostensibly, the idea was to designate certain crimes as more heinous than others; the cited examples at the time being the torture and dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. (an African-American) near Jasper Texas - a crime that was presumably motivated by “racial hatred”, and the beating and subsequent death of Matthew Shepard (a Homosexual) who was left to die tied to a fence in the snow near Laramie Wyoming - a crime that was presumably motivated by “Homophobic Hatred”

In both cases, when I heard about each on the evening news, my first and overwhelming reaction was one of complete and utter revulsion and disgust that anyone could be so evil as to want to do that to another person - feelings that were neither enhanced nor mitigated by my understanding of their racial makeup or sexual preferences. Clearly whoever was responsible needed to be tried, convicted and executed. (As an aside, I don’t personally support Capital Punishment, however, I am so sick and tired of liberal judges setting obvious Criminals and Psychopaths free despite being sentenced to supposed “life sentences”, that I find myself forced to support it as the lesser of two evils.)

Be that as it may, my first reaction to these “slaughters of the innocent” was not to think that we needed a new set of laws defining newly protected classes of victims.

Don’t get me wrong. Designating protected classes is an equal opportunity political flaw that follows no particular ideology. It is much like pork spending in that the regard, with the only practical difference being the choice of who is being favored and the reason why.

Politically, Conservatives designate crimes against the Police as particularly heinous, and I certainly understand the logic, in that anyone who will kill a policeman is more clearly a threat to the rest of society. Also, it is critical for the proper functioning of society that we aggressively protect those that we have tasked with protecting us, or we can’t expect them to be there when we need them.

Liberals, on the other hand, I have come to believe, want to create hate crimes laws less to make America safer, and more merely to highlight how racism and homophobia are alive and well in America in furtherance of their agenda of power through American Fear and Self-loathing.

In a bizarre sense, in this PC world run amuck, one could even theoretically argue that Hate Crime Laws simply imply a greater right to kill people as long as you don’t hate them. In terms of logical policy, this is almost as bad as the supposed Constitutional “Right to an abortion” which Ann Coulter has rightly described as “The right to have sex with men you don’t want to have children with.”

In the end, however, I have to fall back on the fact that we already have laws for these kinds of crimes.

In the Bible, it is “Thou Shalt not Kill” and in American Jurisprudence, it is a Statute in the Penal Code of every state in the Union - Interestingly enough, rape is also against the law in all Fifty States and the District of Columbia, in spite Cameron Diaz’s dire warnings about the consequences of the re-election of George W. Bush as President of the Unites States. So much for the amazing political savvy emanating from Hollywood.

In the end, I truly believe that we would all be better off if we spent less time coming up with new laws and more time and energy properly enforcing those that we already have.

Murder is already against the law. Now we just need to start putting murderers away for life instead of paroling them, or worse, excusing them all altogether because we judge them to be either misunderstood or part of a group of people we have chosen to designate as “racially oppressed” and therefore somehow not responsible for their actions.

Unfortunately, as a result, it seems that today, the only people that Liberals are actually willing to consider putting in Prison are young white Lacrosse Players (despite a complete lack of evidence of their guilt, coupled with considerable evidence of their innocence) solely because the alleged victim was a protected racial minority; or Border Guards who dare to actually try to arrest a man who was an illegal Border Crosser and a Drug Smuggler (which I actually though was their job.)

At this rate, we had better build the Border Fence extra quick, if for no other reason, than to protect our own Border Agents from malicious prosecution at the hands of overzealous Prosecutors.

And, speaking of illegal immigration, in another “truth is stranger than fiction” episode, there was a recent news report that in certain cities there were efforts to try to set up “safe havens” for Illegal Immigrants where the Police were not allowed to ask people about their Immigration status unless they were suspected of a crime. Do we live in a completely logic free zone now? I thought that being an illegal Alien was a crime!

Presumably the Liberals in charge of the Asylum mean some other crime: one that they are actually willing to prosecute.

OK everybody, repeat after me. Oral Sex is “Sexual Relations” and Illegal Immigrants are breaking the law simply by the very nature of their continued existence on American Soil.

While I know that there are many who would not agree, I believe that one of the things that made this Country great is that it was founded on Christian Principles, and it is time that we started to reapply those principles to our rapidly disintegrating legal system.

All People are equal in GOD’s sight, just as the Declaration of Independence says that “All men are created equal.”

We don’t need new laws to define one victim as being better or more aggrieved than another, just as we don’t need selective enforcement of our existing laws based on a misguided sense of societal guilt towards the criminal for their personal circumstances.

Unfortunately, when the Government can and will designate certain people to be Oppressors or Victims based on their heritage, the color of their skin, or any other arbitrary and meaningless criteria that have no place in a just and civilized society, rather than allowing the Law to do so based solely on people’s individual actions, we will never have justice, and in failing to live up to the founding ideals of this Country none of us will ever truly be free.

Finally, if liberals really want to end Capital Punishment, the one thing that would have the greatest impact would be to stop putting Criminals back on the streets.

Conservatives are not interested in killing criminals for the pure pleasure of retribution. We just don’t want them back out in public to prey on our neighbors, and we have much less sympathy for the Criminals than we do for their likely future victims.