15th August 2023, Tashkent/Usbekistan  -  Wishes 55 / 56 / 57

In the name of Peace and Justice.

I have three wishes today, which I present to you in the name of Peace and Justice - in the hope they may be fulfilled.

My wishes are about criminality, criminality in the most general sense, like bank robbing, tax evasion, shop lifting, and the like.

In Paradise, there is no criminality. We surely don't want any criminality, big or small. But when you look around, you see criminality everywhere.

So, what to do?

Obviously, we have to eliminate criminality. We want zero criminality. It's as simple as that. But how?

Well, I think as a first step we have to make it very clear to the general public, to humanity at large, that we do want to root out criminality at all cost. To root out criminality means to root out the people who commit crimes - not just to punish them in one way or another, but to root them out.

That's my first wish for today. We have to re-think our approach towards criminality, how to deal with criminality.

Basically, I think, there are two kinds of criminal acts: the premeditated ones (I would call them the hard-core crimes), and the more or less spontaneous ones (we might call them the soft-core crimes).

The premeditated ones are the ones where the criminal gives quite some thought about the criminal act he wants to commit. He plans his crime. Like in the case where he plans to break into a bank for a robbery, or where he plans to break into a house for burglary, or where he plans to break into somebody else's internet account for spying or blackmailing or whatever, and so on.

In such a case of a premeditated crime, in my opinion there can be no excuse, such criminals have to be eliminated, rooted out. They are not members of a civilized peaceful society seeking bliss in Paradise but sick outcasts with whom no peaceful future can be envisaged.

This is my first wish for today: that we reconsider the death penalty for hardcore criminals, i.e. for all criminals who premeditated their crimes, big or small.

Of course I know there are thousands of very good reasons to oppose the death penalty, especially when it comes to relatively minor cases like a simple burglary. But then again we have to ask ourselves: Are we seeking Paradise, or some wishy-washy kind of swamp?

People will say that everybody deserves a second chance. The fact is: Everybody has a second chance all his life. Every day there is a second chance for everybody. Every day everybody can choose between right or wrong, whether to be a criminal or a law-abiding righteous person. If someone chooses to not make use of his millions of second chances, he has made his choice and must bear the consequences.

Which leaves us with the question of what to do with "softcore" criminals, shoplifters and the like.

Well, I guess a death penalty for a shoplifter might be a very harsh punishment - even though one might ask, why not? Even shoplifters can act in a premeditated way, they can even gang up and act in a most vicious, violent, criminal way. Whatever the case, we don't want criminals, not even petty thieves or shoplifters.

Nowadays we send them to prison. Or we place them on probation. Or we put a fine on them.

I don't believe in prisons. And I certainly don't believe in probation. A convicted criminal has to be eliminated, in a radical way - or he has to be "re-educated", in a specialized institution, where he will stay as long as it takes until he can prove that he has learned his lesson.

So this is my second wish for today: That prison terms, probation periods and fines be abandoned in favour of education centers for criminals.

Which brings me to my third and last wish for today. It's about raising children. It's my impression that, the world over, children are not really taught what is right and what is wrong, and they don't really learn about the consequences of what it means to be wrong, to be a criminal. This has to change.

It seems to me that it is of utmost importance that children learn from an early age what humanity is striving for, namely for a Paradise on Earth. In a Paradise on Earth there is no place for criminal behaviour. Everybody has to learn to understand this.

So, this is my third wish for today: That all school curriculums be adapted in such a way as to include regular lessons in moral values. The content of such lessons should be coordinated worldwide, as we believe there is only one set of moral values, valid in every society in the whole world. As the saying goes: We are one family, we have the same aspirations, we share the same values, we are all striving to reach the same Paradise on Earth. So I think it's only appropriate that we raise our children reading from the same moral books.

Such are my three wishes for today, which I present to you in the name of Peace and Justice, in the hope they may be fulfilled.

In the name of Peace and Justice, thank you!