Death Penalty

One purely juridical argument against death penalty.

Death penalty is a remnant of the past.

A past when (land)lords didn't want to spend much time into arguing and wanted to teach easy lessons to their serfs. Now that we have evolved into a society of law, we could afford to be more lenient.

But sometimes there are horrible cases of stubborn serial killers like the one just revealed in the international press.

By (physically) destroying one person you destroy one person's memory. And with it any chance of recovering information about other crimes that he/she might have witnessed or committed and could prove valuable into establishing someone's innocence. Even a serial killer might have committed crimes that he did not confess, remember or have not been discovered. His/her later testimony/confession may help society by exonerating somebody else. Sentencing a person to death penalty carries a 99% percent chance of destroying evidence pertaining to other cases.

It had been argued that there is a cost paid for by society for keeping them alive and it would be cheaper to just kill them.

But they usually are not killed right away. The decades spent on appeals that (sometimes) overlap the entire rest of their lives come at even a higher cost as their (mostly paid by public) defense and continued prosecution is also paid for by society. Expenses for people that are in prison for a long time for much lesser offenses are also paid for by society.

But in the case of hardened criminals, they usually have been living in environments of crime. The bigger the offense, the more likely a prisoner might have had the chance to witness/commit other major crimes and posses valuable information again for helping exonerate innocents.

64

Don't know if i still can (retrieve those ideas). Yesterday i was trying to write a mini-essay about the nr.64. Got stuck in an online dictionary that it seems now somebody was playing with. I'm gonna try again. After all, the word essaie in French means try.

But before i start i have to say what this number meant to me until today. Early home computers' (later called PCs) memories and memory unit allocation on many early mainframes and minis had a size of 64 koctets. Octets from the latin word octo, opt in Romanian, that means eight in English, an octet being 8 bits (bit = smallest memory size) later baptized, i don't know why, byte. (Maybe from the four incisive teeth on each jaw a human use to byte with, i don't know LOL). No, it's a logical extension of the word bit, a byte being comprised by eight bits. Ok LOL again, not that logical. (Who did it?).

2 to the power of 16 is 65536. Not exactly 64 Kbytes, but in a way, yes, because 65536 = 1024 * 64.

I have no idea why. Maybe the early computer manufacturers new about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_manuscripts#Halliwell_Manuscript.2C_or_Regius_Poem

Truth is it was enough to write some programs, for other you had to segment the programs so each segment can be loaded in a memory page of 64K.

Soon it grew to 128 (i had a Sinclair Spectrum at work with memory of that size but i'm not sure anymore) and the first IMB "compatible" PCs came with 386 then extended to 1024 or one meg. One meg (megabyte - literally mega byte) was huge compared to 64 that many mainframes used for years but today we are measuring memory sizes in Gigs, that is thousand of megs and God knows what's next. Terra bytes for hard drives. Always symbolic.

But this is just the beginning of my mini-essay. Cause i've also encountered the number 64 in Hindu mythology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%C4%81

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali

I am not that good in Sanskrit to establish a connection between the two words.

After reading this article http://www.libertatea.ro/detalii/articol/secretele-initierii-masonice-509411.html i found out about the masonic (ritual) death. Think i heard about before.

So if we connect all these can we make a link?

Don't know, in the 64 kalas or arts of Krishna there is no reference to Euclid nor geometry. Euclid was much younger, historically speaking . "Puranic sources mention[12] Krishna's disappearance marks the end of Dvapara Yuga and the start of Kali Yuga (present age), which is dated to February 17/18, 3102 BCE" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna

There is something here "In pleading, begging, railing, desperate lines, the Bengali Ramprasad Sen explores the depth of love and despair that is the love of the dark Mother Kali. The Saundarya Lahari (often attributed to Adi Shankara) details the magnificent, radiant form of the Devi as queen of the universe, and reveals the esoteric meaning of her form as the Sri Yantra, the geometric pattern of energies that describes the inner workings of the universe." http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/i_es/i_es_caldw_goddess_frameset.htm

But the idea i was following was different. I know Regius Poem was dated ca. 1425-50. But now i read "The document relates how the craft of masonry was brought to England during the reign of King Athelstan (924–939)".

I know it comes from Egypt. (Everybody knows that i think).

Fewer know though about Mamluks. There was simultaneously a Mamluk kingdom in Egypt and one in Delhi before that manuscript was written. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk Proably linked to each other, bringing also a possible explanation of the existence in Europe of slaves from India, especially after the wars and conquest by the the ottomans of the Mamluk kigndom, with the escape of their Indian slaves in Europe. I wrote more about this here http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2013/07/mini-eseu-despre-tigani-completabil.html I was thinking. What if the craft is not coming from Ancient Egypt but from India, especially from the cult of goddess Kali via the Mamluks? Or maybe it only partially comes from their, the rest being inherited and mixed by the Mamluks from whatever was still preserved from the heritage of ancient Egypt, maybe the worshiping of the Sun God during their kingdom (sultanate).

Possible Translation of hRdaya sUtra

Years ago i was intrigued by the resemblance of some Sanskrit and Romanian words. There are many, maybe as many as 50% of the lexis of Romanian, but when they match, some of them identically, most of the time they do not coincide as first meaning, neither in Sanskrit nor in Romanian. This indicates a strong but very old connection. Thinking many thousands of years.

After finding more than enough material on the web, i searched of course for any recorded source to hear the best pronunciation. Cause i wanted to know if the resemblance is indeed at the phonetic level.

Then i learned about several Latin transliterations of Sanskrit, that is writing Sanskrit with Latin characters in several different ways, which all lead to about the same pronunciation when pronounced in Latin which coincide with Romanian (Romanian has a phonetic writing which means the words are pronounced exactly how they are written, as in Latin and Sanskrit). I also found mp3s and videos with entire texts like hRdaya sUtra in different interpretations.

By listening and reading i was intrigued by some words and expressions in the text that were telling me that in a possible (out of many) translation, this mantra could be more than a prayer, more exactly, a way of transmitting ancient knowledge. Starting with the syntagm

पञ्च स्कन्ध
paJca skandha

Without knowing a lot of Sanskrit, very little grammar, i just put below the most significant meaning for each word, not ignoring the more... scientific meanings with the above hypothesis in mind. This is what i got, and of course i would try to ... perfect it the future.

I know if you asked any practitioner of Budhism he/her will tell you that is about the five senses. But in the dictionary close to that meaning we have the words shedding, aggregate, elements, moving and a number of words that all seem to converge in their meaning towards a single word that could be force.

Let's also not forget the word boson comes from the name Indian scientist "Satyendra Nath Bose [who] first sent a paper to Einstein on the quantum statistics of light quanta (now called photons), in which he derived Planck's quantum radiation law without any reference to classical physics. Einstein was impressed, translated the paper himself from English to German and submitted it for Bose to the Zeitschrift für Physik, which published it [in 1924]."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate#History

प्राज्ञ	पारमिता	हृदय	सूत्र
prAjJA	pAramitA	hRdaya	sUtra
refining	complete	science	plan
आर्य	अवलोकिते	बोधिसत्त्वो
Arya	avalokitezvara	bodhisattva
wise	most revered	on the way to attainment
गंभीरम्	प्रज्ञापारमितायां	चर्या	चरम
gaMbhIram	prajJApAramitA	caryA	carama
profoundly	refining perfection	performing	ultimate
नो	व्य	वल्कयति	स्म
no	vya	valkayati	sma
and not	coverer	speak	certainly
पञ्च	स्कन्ध	ताः	च
paJca	skandha	tAH	ca
five	forces	they	fundamental
स्वाभाव	शून्य	पश्यति	स्म
svAbhAva	zUnya	pazyati	sma
natural state	non-existence	incure	certainly
इह	शारिपुत्र	रूप
iha	zAriputra	rUpa
in this reality	random	form
शून्यता	शून्यता	इव	रूप
zUnyatA	zUnyatA	iva	rUpa
absence of mind	non-existence	as if	form
रूपण	पृथक्	शून्यता
rUpaNa	pRthak	zUnyatA
examination	separate	non-existence
शून्यता	या	न	पृथग्रूप
zUnyatA	yA	na	pRthagrUpa
absence of mind	generate	no	discrete form
यद्	रूप	सा	शून्यता
yad	rUpa	sA	zUnyatA
which	form	itself	non-reality
या	शून्यता	तद्	रूप
yA	zUnyatA	tad	rUpa
generate	non-existence	then	form
एवमेव	वेधन
evameva	vedhana
only in this manner	puncturing a hole
संज्ञा	संस्कार	विज्ञानना	नि
saMjJA	saMskAra	vijJAnanA	ni
meaning	re-creation	perceiving	leading
इह	शारिपुत्र	सर्व	धर्म
iha	zAriputra	sarva	dharma
in this reality	randomly	completely	natural state
शून्यता	लक्षणा
zUnyatA	lakSaNA
non-existence	aimed at
अनुत्पन्न	अनिरुद्ध	अमल	न
anutpanna	aniruddha	amala	na
not produced	self-willed	pure	not
विमल	नाना	न	परिपूर्ण
vimala	nAnA	na	paripUrNa
pristine	distinctly	not	complete
तस्मात्	चारी	पुत्र
tasmAt	cArI	putra
therefore	particular step	descendant
शून्यता	आय	न	रूप
zUnyatA	Aya	na	rUpa
non-existence	gain	no	form
न	वेदना	न	संज्ञा
na	vedanA	na	saMjJA
no	transition	no	signs
न	संस्कार	न	विज्ञान
na	saMskAra	na	vijJAna
no	re-creation	no	knowledge
न	क्षु	श्रोत्र	घ्राणा
na	cakSu	zrotra	ghrANA
without	observance	hearing	smelling
जिह्वा	काय	मना	सि
jihvA	kAya	manA	si
speach	assemblage	purpose	service
न	रूप	शब्द	गन्ध
na	rUpa	zabda	gandha
not	form	sound	scent
रस	स्प्रष्टव्य	धर्म	न
rasa	spraSTavya	dharma	na
primary soup	sensible	natural law	not
चक्	सुर्	दातृ	यवान
cak	sur	dhAtR	yavAna
repel	rule	permiting	boiled
मनोविज्ञान	धातु
manovijJAna	dhAtu
psychology	divisible
न	विद्या	नविद्य
na	vidyA	navidya
no	knowledge	ignorant
न	विद्या	क्षय
na	vidyA	kSaya
no	knowledge	decay
यवान	जार	मारण
yavAna	jAra	mAraNa
boiled	aging	destruction
न	जार	मारण	क्षय
na	jAra	mAraNa	kSaya
not	boiled	destruction	decay
न	दुःख
na	duHkha
not	difficult
समुदय	नीर	धा	मार्ग
samudaya	nIra	dhA	mArga
assemblage	essence	wish to gain	way
न	ज्ञान	न	प्राप्ति
na	jJAna	na	prApti
not	conscious	not	attaining
तस्मात्	अप्राप्ति	त्वद्
tasmAt	aprApti	tvad
therefore	non-attainement	thou
बोधिसत्त्व	नम्	प्रज्ञापारमिता	आश्रित्य
bodhisattva	nam	prajJApAramitA	Azritya
on the way to attainemnt	one's self	refining perfection	practicing
विहरति	चित्त	वर	न
viharati	citta	vara	na
carry away	aimed at	best	not
चित्तावरण	नास्तित्व	द	त्रस्त
cittaavaraNa	nAstitva	da	trasta
aimed at cover	unrest	offering	quick
विपर्यास्यति	क्रान्त	निष्ट	निर्वाण
viparyAsyati	krAnta	niSTa	nirvANa
causing to turn aroun	surpassed	dependent on	final deliverance
त्र्यध	व्यवस्थित	सर्व	बुद्धाः
tryadha	vyavasthita	sarva	buddha
	expected for	each	enlightened
प्रज्ञापारमितायां	मा	स्रुत्य	नतराम्
prajJApAramitA	mA	srutya	natarAm
refinement of perfection	no	road of pain	not at all
सम्यक्सम्बोधि	अभिसम्बुद्ध
samyaksambodhi	abhisambuddha
complete enlightement	having attained
तस्मै	ज्ञातव्य
tasmai	jJAtavya
therefore	to be considered as
प्रज्ञा	पर	मित	महामन्त्र
prajJA	para	mita	mahAmantra
intelectual	following	strong	great text
मह	विद्या	मन्त्र
maha	vidyA	mantra
great	philosoply	text
	नतराम्	मन्त्र
a	natarAm	mantra
no	not at all	text
सम	सम	मन्त्र
sama	sama	mantra
equally	matching	text
सर्व	दुःख	प्राश	मन
sarva	duHkha	prAsa	mana
each	difficult	spread	belief
सत्य	अमिथ्या	त्व
satya	amithyA	tva
genuinly	truly	thou
प्रज्ञापारमितायां	मुक्त	मन्त्र	तद्यथा
prajJApAramitA	mukta	mantra	tadyathA
refining perfection	emancipated	text
गत	गत	पारगत	परसंगत
gata	gata	pAragata	parasaMgata
बोधि	स्वाहा
bodhi	svAhA

Jinichi

I put this here because it can be accessed publicly, i mean if i go somewhere in an office and i have to prove it.

Tismăneanu vs Vişinescu

Just looked in Wikipedia for the page of Leonte Timsnăneaun (born Leonid Tisminetski) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonte_Tism%C4%83neanu

"In 1948, Tisminetski and his family were sent to Soviet-occupied Romania, where he changed his name in 1949 to Leonte Tismăneanu, at the request of the PCR(Romanian Communist Party).[5] He was named deputy director of Editura PMR (Romanian Worker's Party's), later Editura Politică, the publishing house of the Communist Party[6] and also held the Chair of Marxism-Leninism at the University of Bucharest.[1]"

He used to be the head of Communist Romania's main publishing house as stated above. Teacher of Marxism-Leninism at the University. We know at least one case where he was an investigator into a high profile case resulting in the imprisoning of a Romanian student that later became a known dissident and writer although controversial after year 2005 Paul Goma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Goma 

"Controversies

Some of Goma's post-2005 articles and essays have been criticized for their strong antisemitic nature.[10][11] Goma rejects these criticisms[12] and claims that he has filed libel lawsuits against his accusers.[13] He asserts that his wife is Jewish and states that similar arguments were used against him by the Securitate in the 1980s.[14] On January 30, 2007, Goma was awarded the "Citizen of Honor" distinction by the Municipal Council of Timişoara. In February 2007, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania and the Israeli Embassy protested against the distinction, arguing that Paul Goma is the author of multiple antisemitic articles.[15]

On April 5, 2006 he was invited to become a member of the Tismăneanu Commission,[16] a body charged with researching the crimes of the communist dictatorship in Romania. Nine days later he was dismissed by the Commission's president, Vladimir Tismăneanu, who explained the exclusion based on Goma's questioning the moral and scientific credibility of the president of the Commission, and disclosing of their private correspondence.[16][17]"

In 1952 when in 10th grade he was detained by Securitate for 8 days for speaking out about Romanian anti-communist partisans and for keeping a coded personal journal... http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Paul_Goma#Dissident_in_Romania

In 1956 was arrested for being "part of the Bucharest student movement of 1956: during a seminar, he read out to other students parts of a novel he had written about a student who establishes a movement that is similar to the ones in Hungary" He did 2 years of prison in Jilava and Gherla, where Vişinescu was apparently inspector in that period of time. Tismăneanu was among those who inquired him.

Vişinescu does not have a Wikipedia page but Leonte Tismăneanu does. Why? Vişinescu was a low level semi-literate prison inspector and later prison manager doing the dirty jobs Tismăneanu and others of his kind ordered.

23 years after the revolution, Tismăneanu's son, Vladimir, now a teacher of Comparative Politics at Maryland University who has a much bigger page in Wikipedia suddenly remembered of Vişinescu, now 88 and started accusing him of executing his father's orders as himself plainly states:

"Securistul nu are convingeri, el sau ea executa (la propriu si la figurat)."

"The Securist does not have convictions, he or she executes (literally or figuratively)"

http://www.revista22.ro/articol-29549.html

(The word Securistul is hard to translate into English. Part due to the confounding with the English word security that the first one has little to do with.)

Securist is the word used to describe the most villain characters in the time of communism, the most hated, the most infamous, often killers and torturous, at least in the first years. Also the most visible. Recruited from the lowest levels of the social hierarchy in Romania. Often illiterate. Often rudimentary nationalists themselves. Most likely brainwashed, into loosing basic human reflexes, as ironically shown above by one who knows.

Later just hearing of them was convincing enough. Further later, they softened as they got used to luxury and comfort and into the traps of corruption. Some of them realized how much they were hated. Nowadays them and their inheritors caught in network of blackmail that paralyses most of the political life of that country.

From prison guards to heads and the lower ranks of the Minister of the Interior to military and militarized police and special forces, etc., they were all securişti. I think etymologically it's coming from the Ministry of Interior and State Security.

However, this is the perception. The real "politicians" - apparatchiks - used them to do the dirtiest tasks and instill fear into population without getting themselves involved. The most interesting part is they used brainwashed nationals into killing their own, with the multiple purposes of not carrying the historic responsibility themselves but also to show Romanians are killing Romanians.

Fear or the memory of it is exploitable to the day since the generations witnessing those events are still alive and vote worthy.

Vişinescu was a jail inspector before becoming a jail manager. That proves inspections were done and they knew at any level what was going on.

Although he directly might have been responsible for some of the inhuman conditions of the prisoners or the killing of some, that could be in the hundreds, they were figures with no other power except the one given to them by their superiors. Who by the way are responsible of the killing and imprisoning of hundreds of thousands comprising mostly of the Romanian elite, often nationalists, like Goma, mostly just patriots or rich or educated.

Tismăneanu's son, Vladimir (i know, another weird coincidence) lately became (by some) the de facto leader of the Romanian intellectuals. Teacher of Comparative Politics at Maryland Universtity, he constantly mixes, implying that authority, with the hot subjects of the day in Romania, from a distance, and if there is none or none he can touch he creates one on the fly, with all the needed and necessary arguments so he can get involved.

However, at least in the last article he uses the language of the 60s and 70s and at times unexpected and rare neologisms that i for one just gave up looking for in the dictionaries. The only thing that makes the articles attractive is the evocative emotions for many as Romania is getting deeper into a hopeless poverty for most and a scene of daily scandals featuring a few, with millions working outside borders and still having a 7% official unemployment rate and on the list of the first ten countries in the world for remittance, or money sent home by migrant workers with the fear that they will forever settle in those countries (mainly Italy and Spain) and the country will be severely depopulated.

23 years after Revolution very few Romanians are interested in justice for their grand or grand grand parents long gone but this can be easily substituted, at least for a day or two, until something else comes up, for the myriad of crimes in the area of economics and politics on an unprecedented scale for that country that occur even as i write this here.

But about the current image and status of Romania there is enough information everywhere.

There are some other, more subtle aspects that occurred to me as i read Vladimir Tismăneaun's biography in Wikipedia.

"In September 1981, a short while after the death of his father, he accompanied his mother on a voyage to Spain, after she had been granted a request to visit the sites where she and her husband had fought as young people.[10][12] Unlike Hermina Tismăneanu, he opted not to return, and soon after left for Venezuela, before ultimately settling in the United States in 1982."

As i just read in that section (honestly i did not read it all, it seems very interesting, i will make some time later) it occurred to me that besides not agreeing with the Protochronism theory, that was probably way out of the European cultural mainstream and visibly exaggerated and self flattering for the National Communist regime of Ceauşescu, i don't see a great deal of dissent against his father's old comrades whose sons he probably befriended and with whom he enjoyed all the privileges of being a son of an apparatchik.

Unlike others he did not waste his time and accessed the information and accumulated a great deal of culture reading whatever was available in those libraries that not many could enter. For that, he will be judged accordingly by those who have time to read his works.

The most intriguing part is that his unique biography seems conceived as a string of dilemmas and carefully laid out traps, by many contributors, untouchable, at least in Romania, by those who don't want to risk their careers and start discussing or controversing even parts of it. Even this article i'm writing about it is an obvious, well conceived recurrent trick taken out of a Science of Politics book, with some understanding for some readers and different understanding for others, depending of their "degrees of understanding", and about this and other aspects of it i hope i will write about later as i will try to treat it dually as well.

In Romania, the only that could even read this English page from Wikipedia are teachers or students or some of the journalists that depend on the current government, that is in Tismăneanu's likeness. He even made a list with those agreed. http://www.cotidianul.ro/lista-lui-tismaneanu-216344/

But there should be, at least some degree of controversy about a guy who has a degree in sociology since 74 and a Ph.D since 80 at the University of Bucharest (although self-corrected through his numerous individual unsupervised by... Securitate! - of which he was above through his father - studies) with the title ("The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and Contemporary Left-Wing Radicalism").[6][7] and now teaches American students at the University of Maryland.