Enhancement Takes on a Whole New Meaning
Representative John Carter, a good-old-boy law-and-order Texas death penalty aficionado put a tag on the bill to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act. An amendment I guess they call it. Tag, amendment, it matters not. What offends me beyond nearly all words is the original title of his bill that became an amendment; the Terrorist Death Penalty Enhancement Act.
I am so amazed by the breathless fury and blood-lust of men like John Carter that I cracked my dictionary just to see that I had not misunderstood ‘enhancement.’
I had not. Enhancement is defined as “to improve or add to the strength, worth, beauty, or other desirable quality of something.” John has, in his mind, added to the beauty and desirable quality of death.
The Senate version contains no such language. That’s what I love about the United States Senate, it’s unending willingness to deal with the psychopaths and small-time criminal element within the House of Representatives. Mischief is hatched on a daily basis in the House…