If we all did it...
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
MSNBC Newsweek
- November 27,
2006 edition - by MARK MILLER, ANDREW MURR and WESTON
KOSOVA, Newsweek
- How Low Can You Go?
To those who worried our violent, sex-obsessed,
celebrity-crazed culture had at last reached the very farthest depths
of depravity, O. J. Simpson and Judith Regan come bearing news: we had
so much farther to fall. The accused but unconvicted killer and the
attention-hungry pulp publisher have teamed up to create a product so
lacking in taste and decency that people are already lining up to buy
it.
Regan's imprint at HarperCollins, which has put out books about
convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson and a memoir by porn star Jenna
Jameson, is set to publish a "fictional" account by O.J. that details
how he would have killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman if he did kill
them, which he still insists he did not. The book, titled "If I Did
It," will go along with a two-part "Fox television event" in which
Regan—a former National Enquirer reporter—will interview O.J., who'll
apparently spell out in gory detail precisely how he didn't commit the
crime.
...Simpson's friends and family say that at this point he's got nothing
to lose. He can't sink any lower in the public eye. "There is nothing
he can do to make the Goldmans or Browns happy," says a close family
member. "He would have to drop dead and that wouldn't be enough ...
They would find something wrong if he was saving dying kids in Africa."
O.J. saving dying kids. Now that would make for some great TV. Short of
that, he could follow the lead of Borders, the national book chain,
which announced it will donate profits from the book to victims of
domestic violence. (Regan—who says, "What I wanted was closure, not
money"—could hand over her chunk of the loot, too.) Don't hold your
breath. But it would be an interesting experiment to see what would
happen. If he did it. full story
No such thing as getting away with murder
Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 1: Creation (1.7.37)
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Kill and Be Killed by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada According to Judeo-Christian scriptures, it is clearly said, “Thou shalt not kill.” Nonetheless, giving all kinds of excuses, even the heads of religions indulge in killing animals while trying to pass as saintly persons. This mockery and hypocrisy in human society bring about unlimited calamities; therefore occasionally there are great wars. Masses of such people go out onto battlefields and kill themselves. Presently they have discovered the atomic bomb, which is simply waiting to be used for wholesale destruction. more |
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A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the cost of others' lives deserves to be killed for his own well-being, otherwise he will go down by his own actions.—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.7
PURPORT
A life for a life is just punishment for a person who cruelly and
shamelessly lives at the cost of another's life. Political morality is
to punish a person by a death sentence in order to save a cruel person
from going to hell. That a murderer is condemned to a death sentence by
the state is good for the culprit because in his next life he will not
have to suffer for his act of murder. Such a death sentence for the
murderer is the lowest possible punishment offered to him, and it is
said in the smriti-shastras that men who are punished
by the king on the principle of a life for a life are purified of all
their sins, so much so that they may be eligible for being promoted to
the planets of heaven. According to Manu, the great author of civic
codes and religious principles, even the killer of an animal is to be
considered a murderer because animal food is never meant for the
civilized man, whose prime duty is to prepare himself for going back to
Godhead. He says that in the act of killing an animal, there is a
regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable
to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who
kill a human being combinedly. He who gives permission, he who kills
the animal, he who sells the slaughtered animal, he who cooks the
animal, he who 
administers distribution of the foodstuff, and at last
he who eats such cooked animal food are all murderers, and all of them
are liable to be punished by the laws of nature. No one can create a
living being despite all advancement of material science, and therefore
no one has the right to kill a living being by one's independent whims.
For the animal-eaters, the scriptures have sanctioned restricted animal
sacrifices only, and such sanctions are there just to restrict the
opening of slaughterhouses and not to encourage animal-killing. The
procedure under which animal sacrifice is allowed in the scriptures is
good both for the animal sacrificed and the animal-eaters. It is good
for the animal in the sense that the sacrificed animal is at once
promoted to the human form of life after being sacrificed at the altar,
and the animal-eater is saved from grosser types of sins (eating meats
supplied by organized slaughterhouses which are ghastly places for
breeding all kinds of material afflictions to society, country and the
people in general). The material world is itself a place always full of
anxieties, and by encouraging animal slaughter the whole atmosphere
becomes polluted more and more by war, pestilence, famine and many
other unwanted calamities.
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