CRIME PAYS

America is a land of injustice. This allows those that commit crimes to profit from their crimes. Justice is no longer the goal of law enforcement but fairness. Instead of doing what is right, people want to do what is fair. With the meaning in modern jargon fair allows for wiggle room. The original meaning has to do with being just and equitable. Righteousness is the same as straightness. Under righteousness, there is no room to wiggle around in. There are no deviations allowed because righteousness is not a respecter of persons.

When man legislates apart from righteousness, his laws will be, by definition, unrighteous. This unrighteousness will always favor lawbreakers. Lawbreakers know how to work the system. There is a case right now in Johnson City, Tennessee where a man named Howard Willis has been charged in a double murder in 2002 and six years later, he still has not been brought to trial. Since it is a death penalty case, there is a fear that a decision for death will be overturned on appeal. The criminal knows this, so he will the endless motions and appeals and will not work with his attorneys and so justice is postponed. Meanwhile, evidence can be destroyed, witnesses memories fade and there is the real possibility that the accused will be acquitted on some procedural technicality.

A good example of crime paying is in the case of Debra Cox of Johnson City, Tennessee. She has pled guilty to embezzling $269,778 from her employer. This woman stole this amount of money over a two year period. Her employers had trusted her and could not believe that she was stealing from them. Apparently, her employers were naive concerning the sinful nature. Cox would steal from her own mother.

What is most astounding about this case is that her employer owed Cox about $7,000 for unused sick, personal and vacation pay. Her employer, Watauga Orthopaedics was given legal advice that they had to pay Cox these benefits. So let’s get this straight. Cox steals $269,778 from her employer and her employer has to pay her $7,000. This is simply unbelievable. The $7,000 should have been used as a beginning of restitution payments for Cox. Cox has now been able to steal twice from her employer. She forfeited all claims to those benefits when she willingly chose to steal from her employer.

Our legal system is going to allow Cox to steal from the taxpayers next. She is facing jail time. Question, why do the taxpayers have to pay for her care? Biblically, she should have to make, at the least, double restitution to her former employer. She should not be put into jail but should have to work and pay back her victim. Putting her in jail accomplishes nothing but the wasting of limited law enforcement resources. The Cox and Willis cases proves beyond a shadow of doubt that crime pays in America.