Civilized Liberties

 Listened today with shock when a rep of an organization that works hard to ensure that all citizens are protected from injustices spoke to an interviewer. The individual was protesting that police should publish the names and pictures of well-known criminal gang members, She called that an injustice. It was also pointed out by this evidently misguided person, that the gang members known by police have families and businesses and are no longer members so why are they being picked on. What? With almost daily brazen, irresponsible gang war shootings that kill their members but also hurt innocent citizens in public places, how can I believe, or any other citizen, that gang members should receive support from a civil liberties group? In the first place, that these criminals have businesses, I would ask where do you think their big homes and  tapped up cars, parties and businesses came from? They are built from drug sales and all the filth that goes with it. Deaths of the young are occurring in record numbers from the drugs these guys sell. And once a gang member, always a gang member. The effects linger and very few really can quit.  What about the family of the 14 year old "gang member" who was shot and all the other children trafficked and enlisted and preyed upon by these unscrupulous gang creeps? Who with decency could overlook that? Are we to think that criminals past or present have "paid" for their crimes even if they have quit the gangs or done  miniscule time for "good behaviour"?  Of course not. I could quote here an old phrase about the evil  men do, that lives after them. The way this civil liberties speaker went on about "everyone" should be protected from public scrutiny as the police are doing by publishing their photographs, was ridiculous.  I would ask the person speaking, what about the rampant deaths from overdosing by unfortunates who were and are decent people and whose very lives lost, paid to pad up the gang members lives. I have no sympathy for the gang members cited and who have their pictures published. Let's do more of it. They do not belong in society. They gave up their rights to being called "civil" when they rose to the top of the heap of the agony that they built on other fellow warped humans. They enslave young people who are blind to the dark future they are sure to build as they speed around in their boss cars thinking they are kings.  The nice schools for their kids and clothes for their ladies and large homes for themselves, the parties and gambling and all the evil junk are temporary. Sometimes very temporary.  Criminals give up their rights when they hurt society and those who defend them are worse and abet them. That includes their families even though innocent.  And sure they may get through the courts because they use the same black dollars to pay for the best legal forces. Are too often they think they get away with it. Think. It's easy to criticize the police.  Seems everyone does it. They think uniform and not people. Police  have families and friends and lives to live apart from their work and it is the dirtiest work there is. Every day they say good-bye to their families, they know they may not come back. Their lives can be lost doing that good work and their families suffer.  No other tactics have worked with these gangs and if their mug shots must be hung out there for the public to see, it's time. These are not civil people. Civil liberties are for injustices and gang members are about as unjust as you can get.