Democrats perverting justice

North County Times/The Californian ^ | Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005 | Rick Reiss

[DogByte6RER]

Democrats perverting justice

By: RICK REISS - Commentary

It is both baffling and outrageous how sexual predators operate in our society. Many act with impunity and with no regard to consequences.

Recent headlines are replete with examples.

- Last week, Murrieta police arrested parolee Nicholas John Garcia, alleging that he repeatedly attempted to lure teenage girls at two Murrieta high school campuses. Garcia remains jailed without bail.

- Lifelong sexual predator Joseph Edward Duncan faces capital murder charges for the slaying of an Idaho family and the kidnapping and abuse of the family's daughter. Riverside County law enforcement has connected Duncan to the 1997 kidnapping-murder of a 10-year-old Beaumont boy.

- NBC News caught audacious sexual predators trying to lure children via Internet chat rooms. Nineteen alleged pedophiles were recorded attempting to meet with adult decoys posing as children. Among those caught on video were a medical doctor, a special-ed teacher and a rabbi.

It's also worth emphasizing that the Internet remains a prime hunting ground for sexual predators. Law enforcement officials estimate that 50,000 predators are online at any given moment. It is foolhardy to assume that these predators are merely shopping at Amazon.com. What they are doing with greater frequency is soliciting children for sex.

Earlier this year, Murrieta school district officials issued a warning about MySpace.com, a Web site popular with teens. School officials cited the potential for harassment. Yet, the potential for infiltration by sexual predators cannot be ignored, either.

Cyberspace remains an electronic jungle when it comes to predatory perverts. Parental supervision and Web site blocking software do provide safeguards.

But there is more that we must do to keep these predators in check.

Last summer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger backed "Jessica's Law" legislation in California. The legislation is the namesake of murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford from Florida. Officially titled "The Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act," this proposed legislation would:

- Mandate satellite surveillance of released sex offenders.

- Establish "Predator Free Zones" around schools and playgrounds.

- Increase penalties under a "one-strike" designation for predators.

- Criminalize Internet contact of children for sexual abuse purposes.

- Enhance the possession of child pornography to a felony.

The legislation faces an uphill battle. Senate Bill 588 and Assembly Bill 231 have been blocked in the Democrat-controlled Legislature.

Of course, such political foot dragging only provides aid and comfort to sex offenders in California. Sexual predators do not distinguish between Democrats and Republicans when choosing their victims.

Democrat legislators must move these bills forward and stop catering to the civil libertarians who spearhead the sex offender lobby in Sacramento. To do otherwise is a perversion of justice.

Rick Reiss of Temecula is a regular columnist for The Californian. E-mail: RickReiss6@netscape.net.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Legislation like this should be mandated in every State in the Union. One problem is that there are psychologists who are creating sexual predators out of children who have been placed in institutions because the child was sexually molested.

If there's an attorney out there who can practice in Georgia, (USA), and is willing to bring a lawsuit against the State (DHR/DFCS) with no or little payment by the relative of one of these children being brainwashed to admit to sexual misconduct he did not commit, please FReepmail me. I think this case could turn into a Class Action Lawsuit and could result in a "hugh" financial settlement.

But better than the financial payment would be placing in jail the caseworkers who knew about a sexual predator when they hired him and who covered for him while he was sexually abusing foster children. The publicity alone would force the State to act and bring to justice those involved in the cover-up.

"All your money are belong to the innocents the State allowed to be sexually molested by a known pedophile."

[GladesGuru]

Dear "accurately Opinionated,

You have raised a significant point - there IS a group devoted to profit-mongering of the worst kind. These bachelor's children think nothing of creating false testimony for fun and profit. The fun is their advance ment of their agenda.

I visualize them as some sort of warped whacko in a pseudo-Nazi uniform screaming "AGENDA UBER ALLES" with their right arm/fist upraised while at the same time their left hand is picking the pockets of the court system and those paying for their soi dissant "professional services".

As both the Old Testament and the New testament mention a wide array of perverts, including child molesters, the shrill cries of those loudest for the public good in this case are very misleading. Not that this is unique to our time. Edmund Burke noted the those loudest for the public good had it least at heart.

IMHO, any person found to have falsely concocted evidence should be exiled for life because they have proven themselves unable to regulate their own behavior in this free Republic of ours.

America has enough real problems. Those who concoct false problems are beneath contempt - and pose an unacceptable risk to hte Unalienable Rights of real Americans.

[GladesGuru]

Dear "accurately Opinionated,

You have raised a significant point - there IS a group devoted to profit-mongering of the worst kind. These bachelor's children think nothing of creating false testimony for fun and profit. The fun is their advance ment of their agenda.

I visualize them as some sort of warped whacko in a pseudo-Nazi uniform screaming "AGENDA UBER ALLES" with their right arm/fist upraised while at the same time their left hand is picking the pockets of the court system and those paying for their soi dissant "professional services".

As both the Old Testament and the New testament mention a wide array of perverts, including child molesters, the shrill cries of those loudest for the public good in this case are very misleading. Not that this is unique to our time. Edmund Burke noted the those loudest for the public good had it least at heart.

IMHO, any person found to have falsely concocted evidence should be exiled for life because they have proven themselves unable to regulate their own behavior in this free Republic of ours.

America has enough real problems. Those who concoct false problems are beneath contempt - and pose an unacceptable risk to hte Unalienable Rights of real Americans.

[GladesGuru]

Please excuse the double post. The haemoglobin level in my caffeine stream is too high.

[GBA]

Mandatory castration for sex offenders.

[Carry_Okie]

Mandate satellite surveillance of released sex offenders.

Watch this legislation carefully. They are justifying satellite surveillance with pedophiles that never should have been released, but then switch the terminology to "sex offenders" which includes a boy of eighteen with a seventeen year old girlfriend. This type of legislation could be used as a prototype for total surveillance of the entire population.

[LIConFem]

"They are justifying satellite surveillance with pedophiles that never should have been released, but then switch the terminology to "sex offenders" which includes a boy of eighteen with a seventeen year old girlfriend. "

In my opinion, any legislation regarding sexual predators should take this into consideration. An 18 year old boy having sex with a 17 year old girlfriend is NOT, by virtue of the act itself, a rapist or 'sexual predator'. Such statutory rape cases should have an entirely different set of sentencing standards.

As for the real predators... just lock 'em up for life. Or just execute them. It's a low-tech problem, and as such, requires no more than a low-tech solution.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Make your post a separate thread.

[Carry_Okie]

As for the real predators... just lock 'em up for life. Or just execute them. It's a low-tech problem, and as such, requires no more than a low-tech solution.

No argument there. I'm just pointing out the way the language gets twisted in the name of a hidden agenda. It's a legitimate concern.

[hedgetrimmer]

This story comes right after another one stating that Britain was going to build a use a satellite system to monitor "our planet" for countries and individuals who violate the EU's environmental rules.

I believe a few years back the US and Britain made an agreement about satellite communications, where Britain could monitor calls of US citizens without court orders and they would share the information with US officials. The name is escaping me right now, but its guaranteed, without protest from citizens these governments will surveill citizens and share data, overriding any privacy safeguards built into US law.