Born: William Jefferson Blythe
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Posted on 03/21/2008 6:32:48 PM PDT by Stoat
Unlike the Soviet Union (how embarassing to have to explain the difference to an American citizen!) involuntary committal is safeguarded with a medical panel or lunacy board (depending on your state) overseen by a superior/general jurisdiction court judge. The defendant has full rights of appeal.
And the problem with liberals is the opposite of what you propose. Their compassion for the institutionalized led them to turn them all loose in the 60s and 70s . . . they were supposed to be put in halfway houses but those were never funded or adequately supervised, resulting in scores of mentally ill wandering the streets talking to themselves and attacking folks at random. A good friend of mine was attacked and badly injured by a released mental patient in Atlanta back in the 80s -- he had no business being on the street, but due to the liberals revising the committal laws, he was wandering around believing that the CIA was trying to kill him by transmitting thoughts into his brain.
Sounds like more misplaced liberal compassion is the reason for this now-you-see-him now-you-don't sex offender being on the street.
P.S. . . . a five month delay is NORMAL for this sort of probation violation. If he hadn’t been considered dangerous, they might never have gotten around to it.
He didn't stay in touch with his probation office, and now EVERYBODY knows what he did. (Bet the folks in that trailer park were anxious to get rid of him. Even trailer trash have standards, you know.)
TANKS a bunch,,,Great news...
Born: William Jefferson Blythe
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LMAO
At this point, it seems that the biggest differences between the two are that Clinton has been more successful at evading prosecution and has access to better stylists and photographers.
On another note, from the KOMO TV article about Blythe's capture:
Officers arrested Blythe, 29, without incident as he was leaving the residence. He was booked into Whatcom County Jail on suspicion of escape from community custody.
Missing sex offender found in Ferndale KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington Local & Regional
"Community custody"...what an innocuous-sounding euphemism for "turning an utterly depraved, predatory monster who has ruined many peoples' lives in unimaginably horrific ways loose upon society and asking him politely to please check in with authorities every now and then, and to try to restrain himself from doing anything really bad for a while."
At least with Clinton, smart and caring families who follow the news can learn if he is in their city and can take steps to keep themselves and loved ones well clear. Clinton also hasn't been known for raping babies and animals, as this psychopathic monster has.
With Blythe, on the other hand, people don't have an easy way to learn of his whereabouts....the people of Ferndale apparently didn't, at least until the Pierce County Sheriff's Department put out a plea for help to the public, and some good person there made that essential phone call.
One naturally wonders how many other utterly demonic monsters are out there, in "Community custody"...perhaps sitting next to your wife or girlfriend on the bus or train......
Thank God for our Second Amendment....stories like this remind us all of how very, very thin the 'blue line' actually is.
(end of rant)
I know it happens. We had a very famous case recently just one county over where we had a 14 year old who was tried as an adult and convicted of murder and sent to Parchman prison.
I also know that the vampire hairline that the guy has can happen early in life (mine started at 16). But as stated down thread. The guy looks more like 39 than 29. I was able to pull it off but I’m that rare animal — a great looking bald fat guy. BWAHAHAHA.
I’ll check my trunk as soon as I get back from the river.
LMAO! :-)
We have the death penalty for cop killers, why not for child rapists?
Any adult who rapes or molests a child, let’s say 10 or below, ought to be facing the death penalty. We should introduce such bills in legislatures to give the Dems the chance to vote against them.
If you're going to the chair anyhow, why not reduce your chances of conviction?
As it stands, cases such as the fellow in Florida who raped and buried the little girl alive with her stuffed toy are thankfully rare. They would increase if the DP was brought back.
And "short eyes" are not well regarded in prison, where punishment is much more likely (and swifter) than a death penalty that is probably 20-30 years away or even never, given appeals, habeas, stays, wholesale pardons by pandering governors, etc.
Good point - but there has to be a middle ground somewhere.
The local paper just reported the effort of a fellow to get an arrest annulled after spending only 12 months in prison for aggravated felonious sexual assault of a minor - raping a 15 year-old girl when he was 20.
That’s not justice, by any stretch of the imagination.
There is a gray area involving consensual sex with an older teenage minor (which is still rape in the eyes of the law). Not clear from your post whether the aggravated felonious sexual assault is forcible rape or aggravated because of other factors (e.g. sodomy). Unless there is physical evidence of violence, sex with a 15-year-old and possibly physically mature girl is quite a different issue from rape of a 10 year old.
And just out of curiosity, what does "get an arrest annulled" mean? Is he trying to get the conviction expunged as a first offender, or what? And if he only spent 12 months, it was probably jail, not prison. I'm a little confused.
Right, but I was getting at the problem of slap-on-the-wrist sentencing for the violent crime of rape.
This case, as I understand it, involved a forcible rape of the girl by the man, so the idea that he got only 12 months is a travesty. The average rapist gets about five years, as I understand it, which is another travesty.
As for annulment - in New Hampshire there’s a provision to petition the court to expunge and seal the records of an arrest or conviction for certain crimes, and if granted it becomes a crime to even discuss it.
The jury may have found forcible rape, but the judge may have had his doubts, hence the light sentence. Which is why you have judges, to exercise discretion. Otherwise a bureaucrat could just impose the sentence and have done with it. With mandatory minimums, you often end up with injustice in a particular case.
If it was an overwhelming case of forcible rape of an underage girl and the judge is just a "let 'em go Joe," the solution is to recall that judge at the next election or impeach him, not to distort the law in order to achieve justice in one particular case.
All I'm saying is that in the case you mention, there are more issues and more room for doubt than in a rape of a pre-pubertal child. You have the question of a sexually active girl crying rape after daddy finds out or her friends make fun of her, or having second thoughts.
And thanks for clearing up the legal issue. We don't use "annulment" for expunging a record here.
Oh, man, any white male in America today is either an unindicted or indicted sex offender! Arrest anyone!
Decades of seething, anti-male hostility, apoplectic rage and unhinged hysteria from the 'usual suspect' hard-left militant feminists has definitely created a climate unhealthy for white males....'men of color' are usually given a much easier time, and occasionally an outright pass by the 'professional victim' crones under the misplaced assumption that only white males have the historical power to truly harm others and as a result should be the particular focal point of their wrath.
As a proud and unapologetic healthy heterosexual white male I can tell you that my life would have been dramatically more pleasant and bountiful in numerous arenas had this anti-male jihad not been in place since the late sixties and a retributive weapon of the courts and legislatures since the early seventies. It has deprived me of untold numbers of friendships, job and advancement opportunities and myriad quality-of-life experiences, the loss of which have at times have left me feeling quite despondent.
Despite all this, I would like to think that it hasn't made me bitter, as I continue to regard Ladies (not mere 'women') as being the Crown of Creation and the Light of the Universe. Some might say that I'm being naive but I would suggest that it's merely another one of life's challenges that I've done my best to rise to and overcome when and where I can.
That being said, you will be hard pressed to find someone who is more leery of efforts to 'railroad' men and unjustly accuse them of the utterly demonic and unforgivable crime of rape. There have been too many instances of men having their entire lives destroyed by vicious, vindictive women who have legions of passionate institutional support as they blatantly fabricate anything under the sun about a man whom they no longer like, with cavalier impunity. And these same women rarely if ever suffer any significant consequences for their behaviors.
In the matter of Mr. Blythe here, however, I've as yet seen no evidence that he has been unjustly accused. According to the articles on him, he is truly a monster and I'm afraid that I have absolutely no compassion for him at all.
Have you seen evidence that he is being railroaded?
No, of course not. My post was a general comment on the subject that you elucidated so well. No, but others have been (railroaded) and are being railroaded every day, maybe not in the courts of law, but in workplaces, and on public transport, and even in restaurants and bars. I'm speaking just from personal experience of the past year. It's hard to avoid being bitter, and even harder to make friends or even make contact with women.
Thanks very much for yor reply, your clarification and your kind words. I’m very sorry to hear that a witty and erudite person such as yourself has been having such a rough time lately. I know that it’s no consolation, but you’re not alone. Hopefully the next life will be kinder to us all.
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