April 9th, 2010

One of my guilty pleasures is watching Judge Judy. I like her no-nonsense approach to dealing with people who come into her courtroom with no morals or sense of right and wrong. Many of the cases that come before her are from people that have borrowed huge sums of money from someone and refused to pay it back. They always claim the money was a gift. Sometimes the people who are in trouble owe thousands for traffic violations. They make a deal to pay the person they borrowed the money used to get them out of a jam back. They never do however and when they are in front of Judge Judy they too insist it was a gift. She tries to explain to them that the person they stiffed on the money should not be responsible for paying their traffic violations. She tries to get them to understand that what they have done is wrong. They NEVER get it. They sincerely do not think they have done anything wrong and that IT IS the other guy’s responsibility. It’s frustrating to watch, but I do because she doesn’t let such lack of shame and morals pass without punishment. Stupid should hurt and on Judge Judy’s show it does. I recently had a conversation with someone who is insensitive to a host of people’s feelings – just dead wrong about the way they are treating people. They don’t see it. And they get away with the bad they do. It’s unfortunate that Judge Judy can’t be more like Judge Roy Bean. In his court the morally bankrupt who refused to see the error of their ways were taught a lesson at the end of the rope. Sometimes lynching an evil person is necessary. In 1892, two criminals from Wyoming were taken out for their inability to see they were wrong and change their ways. Nate Champion and Nick Ray were murdered by a hundred or so minions of the Wyoming Stockmens Association at the Kaycee Ranch in Johnston County. Ray was gunned down at daybreak outside the cabin and heroically pulled to safety by Champion. Ray soon expired and Champion was put under siege inside the cabin. When the cabin was set afire Champion made a break for it and was shot 28 times. He left a detailed diary of the events up to the fire. Frontier justice?it worked!