Posted on 04/22/2005 11:19:32 AM PDT by halieus
WOOO HOOOO! Maybe the rest will become copycaters!
"A better hypo: you live in a town where 88% of the residents are molesters. Your town is walled off permanently because of the danger to neighboring towns. You appeal to the courts to let you escape, but you are not allowed to. You have been grouped with "THEM", permanently and irreversibly, without any regard for your own situation. Nice, isn't it?"
I am sure each of the residents would like to get out. In the first place, they earned their way into thiscommunity by molesting children, don't forget.
According to statistics you provide, 88% will molest other peoples' children when out.
But I am so glad you have the rights of the 12% that won't reoffend, in front of those of the children, that will be molested.
By the way, we have trouble telling WHICH 12% until they offend.
So considering the overall effect of my position, I am quite happy to hold the child molester for life. One strike and you are out.
It is that simple. Pedophilia equals a life sentence.
Sorry if this offends your sensitivities, for child molesters, and perhaps for all types of criminals.
How many armed robberies, until you lock somebody up for life?
How many 2nd degree murders?
How many assaults?
How many rapes?
I would like your answers. Tell me how many, for each.
All it boils down to is I have a lower tolerance for "wishful thinking" than you have.
Do the crime, spend the time.
No one is talking about a death sentence for teens having sex. Grown men and innocent children is what we are talking about! Or a man who rapes a girl/women of any age, second offense, life in prison.
Damn, that is a great point and I had never thought of it like that, but you hit the nail on the head.
Even if you do take the offender's perspective, there is utterly no sense in this. You let the guy roam free and do battle with the demons which defeated him before. And then you expose them to the public, yes, indeed for the benefit of the public, but at tremendous disservice to the offender. I agree with you - the crim justice system isn't there to serve the offenders, but the libs think that it is....so they should also oppose releasing these sickos. Leave them in where they can live what will be the best shot at a normal life - one of constant supervision and made work. Then of course you rightly bring up the interest of the public..."hey...guess what? there is a sex offender in your neighborhood? brought to you as a psa...your tax dollars at work!" what an ingenius system....
Lock em up. Never let em out. Everyone wins.
I guess those signs are working!
No it does not.
All convicted sex offenders that are out on the streets should have their faces and hands tatooed a bright red color if they want to stay on the street. At least people could see them coming.
I'd like to meet such a person as well, but I have been too busy to find out when the local chapter of the ACL freaking U has its next meeting. I'm betting there I would strike gold.
Well put
But we can't because the system is just too corrupt at this time. All the children alive now are living only because someone had the grace to let them live until they were born. We have become a nation of whores and murderers.
Doesn't offend me at all. IF that were the law, then I'd support it's (just and equal) application.
The problem is that so many otherwise intelligent people support that punishment when it is NOT what is judicially-awarded or legislatively-imposed, and yet they want it done anyway. THAT is where the problems begin, and where the guarantees of the Constitution are put at risk... and protecting those guarantees is what I am adamant about, despite all attempts to paint me otherwise.
There have been teens that have killed little babies, and yes they should be given the death penalty. Being a minor is no excuse to be allowed to rape and murder in cold blood.
...our society, and our legal system, says "You did A, so you owe B." Then it exacts B, which the person pays.
This is where I have a problem, a definite problem. "B", with regard to pedophiles, is not enough. The rate of recidivism in pedophiles boggles the mind. It is a cancer with the slimmest chance of a cure. It is also a cancer which spreads. A person is far more likely to become a molester if they themselves were victimized. The surest way to stop the spread of the disease: quarantine of infected individual until the end of their days.
I feel pity for the victim here, but I also feel pity for the accused. Society did him a disservice by letting him out.
Flame on, folks.
No one made this person commit suicide except himself.
opps, that is really to bad. /s
Dan has probably already answered this, but it seems to me that suicide could never be God's will. Suicide is the ultimate act of hopelessness, the complete and total shutting out of the Spirit. Think about it: Why did He put His only son up there on that cross? Not for some of the sins of a few chosen. For all the sins of all of us.
That does not excuse his crime even if he is a changed person. Actions have consequences. If he couldn't handle reading posters warning parents of young children about him then he ought not to have done the deed in the first place.
Agreed.
Suicide is the coward's way out. Tragically, most people who commit suicide probably do so because they think then "it'll just be over" and they won't exist so nothing will matter. But for them, it's barely just begun.
You don't think Judas' suicide was God's will?
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