Thursday, September 16, 2010

Restorative Justice - A Native American perspective

Just imagine for a moment that you come down with a cold or flu, and the sight of this, your neighbors and fellow citizens, have arrested and thrown into prison. Shortly after his arrest, he will go before a judge and jury of who you are "criminals" and "deviant increased" to the label on the outside of social norms. They send you to prison, where you can sit for years, perhaps even after the disease has passed.

you can say, "Thank God, this is only hypothetical, and could never happen in aintelligent civilizations ", but what do you think? happened. and not in some distant land with an evil dictator. It 'happened here in America.

No, not for the physically ill, but for those who suffer from psychological and sociological imbalance. These people spiritually and mentally ill were filling the prisons of this country for hundreds of years.

It 'strange that some people would be very shocked and horrified at the idea of throwing a cancer patient inPrison for treatment would be the same person who would be more prisons and longer sentences in cases of mental illness Holler.

The Cuyahoga River
As a country, the idea of what the disease really is and what does not need to be reviewed. Some people may remember, back in 1969 when the Cuyahoga River fire in fallen as a result of pollution, has been dumped in. Citizens began pounding a fist-waving and sign for the city or statedo something!
Where were these people when the first sewer pipe was installed?
Where were they, like the frogs were born with two heads and five legs?
Where were they when the fish could not live in the river?

Why wait for the house has been burned before calling the fire department?
Time to call the doctor is not after the person is dead and buried.

Spirit Sick
In Indian tradition, it is believed that a person outside of the stepsBoundaries of social norms is "sick mind". E 'out of balance with the harmony of the circle and, because he is sick, he will be treated - not punished.

A criminal is not something which is a choice you make, and then something changes with our decisions. In the past people would be our medicine with this person at work, sometimes as "Peace Village", the work to restore the "right thinking" that this person, which would result in longer sentences inthe future.

The difference between thinking and 'a system of punishing retaliatory and that the natives Peace Village, which have in the Village of Peace, people - all people - a place in the circle of life. They have an intrinsic value. Not only was it better to restore this person so that he was a source of help to the social whole, it was necessary. It was expected that the evil spirit could be made stronger, in fact, a person and have a more devastating impact onCommunity, if not treated.

The proof can be found be found worldwide in every prison.
That spirit is nourished? Good or bad?

It 's more realistic, the good things a person feels valued and expected part of the company by someone who is considered inhuman and degrading so unnatural and feels like no place in society, or participation has is its welfare.

Change the way you see things
Dr. Wayne Dyer says: "IfChange your way of looking at things, things you look at change. "
It 's just changed the company as having the disease and response aware that we are starting to work on a solution. It is not until we begin to see how all people of value and not a way we see it as coming from God and deserves to see treated as such.

I am the first to accept that there are people who are evil and do the hunting can be prevented in any other, but we can do it in a way thatis that in order to restore the person concerned. There is no better and no need to wait for the river to catch fire before you act!

"We judge others by their actions.
We measure by our intentions. "
- Chinese proverb

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