It has been a good many years since I read " Crime and Punishment " by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
It is essentially the story of a man who does something terrible, lives to regret it and how WE, as humans, are ultimately responsible for how we live our lives. We may seek redemption but we cannot turn the clock back and undo what we have done.
All we can do is live with the consequences, try not to repeat our mistakes and hope like hell that those around us cut us some slack if we rectify our behaviour and start being productive members of society.
As a character, the protagonist Raskolnikov is a pretty low life,. self centred, selfish scum bag who was over educated, arrogant and never really held down a job: in short, he was like so many leftist idiots that occupy our politics, public " service ", universities and unemployment queues. They are found in the protest marches, the pro abortion, anti Trump and anti coal movements; the " we love Greta" movements and the lazy insecure pricks who find it easier to blame others than to fess up and accept their own sense of self loathing.
Raskolnikov took an axe to his victims and then justified his actions:
“Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins, who sucked the lifeblood of the poor, and you call that a crime ?”
He spent 10 years in Siberia in slave labour to punish his crime.
However, these days, we see more and more crime and less and less punishment.
We need only look at the actions of the youth in Far North Queensland and in cities such as Melbourne where the youth are forgiven their crimes because of cultural differences or poor role models in their homes? Maybe it is because they are victims of racial slurs?
We all know how this cartoon went down... I will leave it at that. For obvious reasons.
It is NEVER THEIR FAULT. Never their lack of self restraint. Never a crime that requires punishment.
And therein lies the problem. We live in an era where the crime has no punishment.
The only punishment that is dished out these days is where there is no crime. And people have had a gutful.
Craig Kelly, a conservative and intelligent, caring, patriotic politician in Australia is being punished for having a view that sits outside the currently accepted modern behavioural norms. He believes that hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and zinc are effective in the treatment of Covid 19. He is under threat that he will lose his pre selection in his seat of Hughes, despite his enormous popularity with the electors.
President Trump is being punished for being a patriotic, caring and intelligent leader of America because he tried to stand up to the Deep State spoiled and corrupt machine that rules the world. He was cheated of his re election despite his unparalleled popularity with the electors.
Neither man believes in the Paris Agreement rubbish about starving their Nations of coal powered cost-effective energy in order to allow Communist China to prosper. Renewable power is damned expensive.
How many punishments these days are handed out to people who have committed NO CRIME in order that those who have committed crimes can walk free?
In Townsville in Queensland, out of control youths can steal a car, beat up an old aged pensioner or hold up a store at 11am and be out on bail by 3pm and back for a second helping at 9pm.
The hard working law abiding patriots in Washington DC were listening to Trump at a Rally when the " storming of the Capitol " took place. There is substantial evidence that the perpetrators of this infiltration were BLM and Antifa but what happens?
The Trump supporters are accused of being Domestic Terrorists and BLM are nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Biden, who has boasted that he used undue influence in the Ukraine and would win the election through fraud is inaugurated and Trump is being impeached?
Biden extorting blackmailing quid pro quo ukraine from Keith Snyder on Vimeo.
Crime and Punishment used to be linked in the cliche " you do the crime you to the time. "
Now it is you do the crime and you get time out and a counselling session.
Or in Biden's case, you become President of the most powerful country in the world.
What have we done to our world? Or, more importantly, what have we ALLOWED to be done to our world?
Today, Raskolnikov wouldn't spend 10 years in hard labour in Siberia. He would get the Nobel Peace Prize.
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