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Why Was Monster Let Out to Strike Again?
Jewish World Review ^ | August 31, 2009 | Mitch Albom

Posted on 08/31/2009 5:15:31 AM PDT by reaganaut1

What shocked you most about Jaycee Lee Dugard's story?

Was it the fact that she was abducted in plain sight, waking to a bus stop when she was 11 years old?

Or the fact that she was still alive when discovered this past week, 18 years after disappearing?

Was it the fact that for most of those 18 years, she was forced to live in a backyard of a couple's home in California, surrounded by fences, tents and sheds?

Or the fact that nobody noticed?

Was it the fact that she was allegedly raped repeatedly by her abductor, even though she was just a kid? Or did it shock you more that she bore two daughters by this suspected monster, and that one of those girls is now 11, the same age Jaycee was when she was abducted?

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All of this shocked me.

But none of it shocked me the most.

What shocked me the most is that the suspect, Phillip Garrido, was convicted in 1976 of kidnapping a woman, raping her, handcuffing her and holding her captive in a warehouse.

He was sentenced to 50 years on one charge and five-to-life on another.

And he was paroled. After 11 years.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: dugard; garrido; parole; rape
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California is releasing many prisoners because federal judges ruled its prisons overcrowded .

How many more people will be victimized because of this?

1 posted on 08/31/2009 5:15:31 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Some of these sorry ass judges and lawyers need to spend time in prison for letting these types go. These folks (sexual predators, a lot of judges and lawyers) are a menace to society.


2 posted on 08/31/2009 5:20:43 AM PDT by boycott
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To: reaganaut1

Who was the judge and who was the lawyer responsible for his release?


3 posted on 08/31/2009 5:22:27 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: reaganaut1

99.85768% chance these sorry judges committing this horrible act on society voted for obama.


4 posted on 08/31/2009 5:23:06 AM PDT by boycott
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My current thinking is that the longest possible prison sentence should be 10 years. If someone commits a crime where a mere 10 year sentence seems inadequate, then they should get the death penalty. One appeal. Lose the appeal, die the next day. And, if you commit minor crimes and get sentenced to short sentences in jail in jail each time, then that time adds up. Once you get to the point where a prison sentence would put you over the 10 year mark, then you get the death penalty.

Society suffers -- 300 million people suffer -- because we try too hard to be nice to the feral population. I say we put these people down like dogs.

5 posted on 08/31/2009 5:23:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: reaganaut1

Where is your compassion.

Mandatory minimum sentences are the scourge of the liberal left who feel no crime is serious enough to be punished with lengthy incarceration.

That this monster was freed is an outrage.


6 posted on 08/31/2009 5:23:24 AM PDT by Carley (WHEN YOU HONOR THE DISHONORABLE YOU SHOW YOUR OWN TRUE COLORS)
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To: reaganaut1

Waking to a bus stop??

Nobody proofreads anymore.


7 posted on 08/31/2009 5:27:22 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: Carley

i dont think liberals even think rape is a crime.


8 posted on 08/31/2009 5:27:36 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Carley

who was the judge and the lawyers who let this guy out! Thats absurd. Even after being charge for kidnapping and raping the first time and got 50 years, he was let out the same again?!!?


9 posted on 08/31/2009 5:28:39 AM PDT by 4rcane
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Parole, don’t you know. After all, the prisons are crowded and it’s uncomfortable for the criminals.


10 posted on 08/31/2009 5:32:53 AM PDT by Carley (WHEN YOU HONOR THE DISHONORABLE YOU SHOW YOUR OWN TRUE COLORS)
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To: reaganaut1

Assuming the guy is found guilty, he be out in 11 years again to do this all over again a 3rd time


11 posted on 08/31/2009 5:32:56 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I say we put these people down like dogs.”

Oh, Jeez, now you’ve done it!

Dog-lovers are going to be down your throat in minutes. Perhaps you could re-phrase that to read “put these people down like diseased vermin”.

I don’t think there’s too many vermin-fanciers here.


12 posted on 08/31/2009 5:33:42 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: ClearCase_guy

You’re on the right track.

We treat predators the same way we treat ordinary criminals, and that’s a mistake.

Once you assault and kidnap ANYONE, ONCE - you should never walk free.

I’d be fine with execution, but the majority apparently disagrees.

Fine.

But once a predator uncloaks by the nature of his first crime, if he’s not killed, he should be permanently isolated with others of his own kind, for life.


13 posted on 08/31/2009 5:34:53 AM PDT by Jim Noble (I hope Sarah will start a 2nd party soon)
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Some of these sorry ass judges and lawyers need to spend time in prison for letting these types go.

What? Are you proposing that there actually be accountability when we are dealing with innocent human lives? < /sarcasm>

Let's see, the bank demands collateral when I take out a loan; so if a parole is out before his time is up - wouldn't it make sense that any violation would put him, and the parole board in jail (they are collateral) for the duration of his sentence? I think that the parole hearing would actually be done competently, in that case. For the parole board would be darn sure that the incarcerated prisoner was going to be no threat to anyone, before they released the keys and gave him freedom.

14 posted on 08/31/2009 5:37:42 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: dalebert
i dont think liberals even think rape is a crime.

I believe they prefer to use the term 'Romance-challenged'.

15 posted on 08/31/2009 5:39:32 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: dalebert
"i don't think liberals even think rape is a crime."

Two exceptions:

1. Unless they are the ones being raped.

2. The alleged rape is committed by white males against a female of color like the fake Duke University Scandal.

Real horrors like the Knoxville Case of 2007 don't count of course.

This is where a young white couple gets carjacked, tortured, raped and murdered with mutilate bodies set on fire or cut up and placed in trash cans.

I will bet even most FREEPERS never heard of this case!

The rest of the citizens, who expect the MSM to provide them with the news, are by definition clueless.

16 posted on 08/31/2009 5:44:55 AM PDT by wmileo (I miss Ronald Wilson Reagan. POTUS #40)
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To: reaganaut1

Simple, permanent, cost-effective solution: Hanging.


17 posted on 08/31/2009 5:45:20 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: wmileo

> Real horrors like the Knoxville Case of 2007 don’t count of course.
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>This is where a young white couple gets carjacked, tortured, raped and murdered with mutilate bodies set on fire or cut up and placed in trash cans.
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>I will bet even most FREEPERS never heard of this case!

I haven’t heard of it before; you’re right that it is a horrific case.


18 posted on 08/31/2009 5:47:20 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: reaganaut1

Another victim of Liberalism in America. A Conservative would have thrown away the key.

Pray for America and Our Troops


19 posted on 08/31/2009 5:54:16 AM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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To: reaganaut1

That’s your wonderful Liberalism at work, Mitch. Hate to break it to you.


20 posted on 08/31/2009 6:07:07 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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