Why does our government reject the warning that the crime does not pay?

By: Keith Kappes
columnist
Carter County Times

I accepted most of my life the validity of this warning in the 23^RD Verse of the Romans' book in the New Testament that the crime does not pay and can actually have a high price … our own death.

The actual wording according to the Königs -James version of the Bible reads: “Because wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ of our Lord.”

And isn't it that dying when committing a crime is a perfect example of this biblical prophecy?

If so, why did the Trump administration announced last Friday that a preliminary agreement had been made, an illegal complaint from the Ashli ​​Babbitt family, the woman who was fatally shot by the police in the US captain on January 6, 2021?

Babbitt's estate filed a lawsuit of $ 30 million for her death last year, which resulted from her attempt to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door in the Capitol.

The police officer who shot her was released from misconduct by the US law firm for the District of Columbia, which came to the conclusion that he acted in self-defense and defending congress members. The DC police came to the same conclusion.

The lawyers of Babbitt's estate and the US Ministry of Justice told a judge to Washington's Federal Supreme Court that a comparisons had been “in principle”, but the details had not been worked out.

The Capitol police officer said that he fired as a “last way out” and when he pulled the withdrawal, he had no idea whether the person who jumped through the window or not was armed or not. Babbitt, 35, was not armed.

Unfortunately, the idea is that the family of this woman is probably a considerable amount of money for her criminal behavior, another example of how the Trump government routinely ignores and/or defies the rule of law.

I wonder how much our country has to pay for each of the other almost 1,500 rioters, in which their punishments are converted or released or pardoned.

(Contact Keith at Keithkappes@gmail.com.)