Example # 1:
On the morning of August 2, a fired Columbus police officer, Hermando "Cliff" Harton, Jr., 39, shot his wife in their home. He then led the police on a chase on I-71 into Ashland County where he was shot and wounded by State Patrol officers. His wife had informed him that she wanted a divorce, and he had just been fired from the Columbus Police force. Now comes the shocking part:
The Media said that ''his pending divorce and the stress of losing his job was blamed as being responsible for Harton murdering his wife''.
So he is now suing the officers who shot him, even though he had killed his wife and had a gun in each hand - pointing one of them at the officers. The suit accuses the officers of "cruel and unusual punishment." Too bad that killing his wife did not seem cruel and unusual to him.
Example # 2:
Another officer, an FBI agent, was fired for embezzling $2000 and using it for gambling. Instead of admitting his guilt and accepting his punishment, he sued the FBI saying that his gambling habit was a handicap protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The amazing thing is that he won his case and the FBI was forced to reinstate him. What are the odds that he'll stay imployed?
Example # 3:
In 1980 a Boston court acquitted Michael Tindall of flying illegal drugs into the United States. Tindall's attorneys argued that he was a victim of "action addict syndrome," an emotional disorder that makes a person crave dangerous, thrilling situations. Tindall was not a drug dealer, merely a thrill seeker.
Example # 4:
An Oregon man who tried to kill his ex-wife was acquitted on the grounds that he suffered from "depression-suicide syndrome," whose victims deliberately commit poorly planned crimes with the unconscious goal of being caught or killed. He didn't really want to shoot his wife; he wanted the police to shoot him.
Example # 5:
Then there's the famous "Twinkie syndrome." Attorneys for Dan White, who murdered San Francisco mayor George Moscone, blamed the crime on emotional stress linked to White's junk food binges. White was acquitted of murder and convicted on a lesser charge of manslaughter.
In our current society no on is fault for anything. We have become a nation of victims!
There is a sad trend in our country, where everyone is a victim of one thing or another, hence we are not responsible for our actions.
The result is that people tend not to see that they just might be in the wrong, but look around for someone else to blame for their behavior.
The bible tells us that'' all have sinned and come short of the glory of God''. None of us are perfect and we will all make mistakes and blow it now and then. Once we realize that, we are on the way to victory.
