Children are immature, physically weak, psychologically vulnerable,and need protection. I want the government and the law to have some role in providing that protection, especially from abuse and murder by their own family members. You don’t. Next case.
Oh, certainly not !
We’re two people with some very strong opinions, and I see in my zeal I’ve forgotten to agree on a not-so-subtle point !
I certainly do not feel that government has _no_ role, that’s lunacy, that’s up there with NAMBLA.
Of course, if through legal law enforcement activity crimes are found out, they of course need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Of course, we should not even ever be releasing some of these people for the very sickest of crimes when they do get convicted - how often are there repeat offender problems.
Law and order is absolutely necessary, but I think it’s pretty obvious that the “government control of children industry”, i.e., child services, teachers, counselors, etc., is far and away mostly made up of left-wingers, and also it is a bureaucracy with statistical goals, etc., so it does a miserable job. Another troubling part of this is that homosexuals are now allowed to adopt. I wonder how many convicted sex offenders are foster parents ? Bottom line, this is a big, big mess.
But as far as basic police work and prosecution where there is a real case that is actually proven, of course we all want justice. I just think there is no sense to the current policies, no common sense, and I think its very important to protect families from frivolous prosecution. I’ve heard of cases of out-and-out lies, and the law has to be designed to cause zero harm to families where there is no abuse, because, sine they did nothing wrong, they should suffer no consequences. Isn’t that what libs say about the death penalty ? Execute none for fear of executing someone who is innocent ? Well, it should be the same level of truth applied consistently, punishment should be severe where there is incontrovertible evidence, caught on tape, admission, etc. String’em up !
Not to mention that the elderly fall into the same defenseless classification and suffer much abuse, but mainstream libdom ignores it. Is the rape of a child or and old defenseless lady worse, right ? It just doesn’t seem as popular to be “for” that issue.