Talk:Herman Wallace (criminal)

I think this page should have some other label to address disambiguation for "Herman Wallace" than (criminal). I find this offensive and inaccurate, there being so much controversy as to whether he is guilty of murder, the charge most associated with justifying that designation. In regards to justifying the label on the basis of the armed robbery charge, it is again offensive to me whenever the "criminal" comes from an oppressed class. As the late John Swomley wrote in his essay on capital punishment, "An Eye for an Eye" :


 * ''Does the state have any responsibility for the social conditions of poverty, exaltation of power, or a culture that glorifies violence and makes weapons easily acceptable, a culture that permits corruption in high places or by wealthy corporations with little if any punishment?
 * Emil Brunner, a German theologian, wrote: "In every crime the first and the chief criminal is---society. For it breeds crime by the brutality of its economic 'order,' by the paucity of its provision for those who grow up in morally impossible conditions, by the harshness with which it throws upon the street all those who are less talented and successful in life, by the lovelessness with which it meets those who are least adapted to its requirements."
 * Emil Brunner, a German theologian, wrote: "In every crime the first and the chief criminal is---society. For it breeds crime by the brutality of its economic 'order,' by the paucity of its provision for those who grow up in morally impossible conditions, by the harshness with which it throws upon the street all those who are less talented and successful in life, by the lovelessness with which it meets those who are least adapted to its requirements."

'' Then Brunner adds, "A society which invents the most horrible technical devices for war" and indoctrinates "every member of a nation" regarding "the use of these methods in order to employ them against his brother man . . . has no moral right to wax indignant over the individual criminal, but it should be horrified at his crime as our own."

The disambiguation page itself does NOT use the word criminal, using Angola 3 (my choice) and prisoner. One of those terms would remove the racism and bigotry of that entry, now that Herman has been released and he is so much in the news. Erichwwk3 (talk) 12:49, 2 October 2013 (UTC)