Fact: Our Nations prisons ar overcrowded.
Fact: Despite the possibility of a long commitment to one of these over-crowded holes there are still those that will do the most heinous acts against the persons least able to defend themselves. Our children.
In many cases we have had mandatory sentencing for offenses. (The U.S. Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing guidelines in 2004.) Mainly these were instituted as a part of the Goverment’s famed “War on Drugs”. We all know that there is no such “war” and that the Government has never been serious about it. Neither Democrat nor Republican, not even the few Independants. If America’s might had been turned to stopping the flow of drugs in the nation, said flow would have stopped long ago. All it has done is give politicians good sound bites and swell prison populations. So when The Bull sees a judge hand down some alternative sentence to a kid caught with a bit of weed for personal consumption The Bull is content for alternative sentencing can be a good thing.
Now before you get started, The Bull does NOT condone the use of illegal drugs! The Bull does NOT use illegal drugs. The Bull has far too many legally prescripted medications he is required to take without adding to the list. Besides, even the slightest scent of burning marijuana gives me an instant migraine headache so intense that I often vomit.
This post isn’t about drugs. It is about the monsters that those alternative sentences are putting back on our streets and how to stop them. When a judge sentences a teen to cleaning up a park somewhere and counselling for simple possession this shows wisdom and even-handed justice. Why wreck a kid’s entire life for something so trivial? However, when Nebraska judge Kristine Cecava sentenced a convicted sex offender to probation and electronic monitoring rather than send the 5-foot-1-inch, mentally impaired man to prison, The Bull begins to see red. This judge said she feared for the sex offender’s personal safety in jail. Does size matter? Why should I care if a child molester gets bent over a table and gang raped by the other convicts? I’ve got news for this judge: It won’t matter if this monster is 5-foot-1 or 6-foot-4. Not even convicts like a child molester and they will bring down their own version of “justice”.
You would think that after the firestorm of public ire that followed the Cecava ruling that judges would wake up. Nope. Back in January a Vermont judge, Edward Cashman, gave a convicted child molester scum named Mark Hulett 60 days of jail time “in order to get prompt treatment”. Fortunately, in February the judge upped Hulett’s sentence to three to 10 years in prison, but only after having been smeared by every talking head and blogger in the Nation. This one had The Bull snorting and pawing the ground!
Yes, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing guidelines. However, States can still pass legislation changing the maximim sentences for certain crimes, like child molestation. Some states, namely Oklahoma, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, and my home state of South Carolina, have death penalty statutes in place for child molesters. This is a good thing! Some believe that this won’t pass Constitutional muster. I think it should! If it does, I expect most states to pass similar legislation – with the noteable exceptions of the “Silly States” like Kalifornia, New York, and Massachusetts. Death would be the surest means of handling scum that can’t be trusted loose in society. All we need now are judges with the backbone to hand down said sentence. As you, Dear Reader, can tell from the examples of Cecava and Cashman that might be a damned difficult task!
I fear that if something is not done to stop these preditiors in a lawful manner that there may be a rather nasty backlash by the public. From time-to-time throughout history there have been problems arise with preditors, usually animals but sometimes human, operating on the fringes of society. Those problems, when not handled efficently by the officials, were eradicated by setting bounty. One way or another those that would harm our children must be removed from our communities.
The Bull, for one, will not tolerate these scum near his children. I watch the listings of convicted sex offenders closely. I study the faces that I might recognise them easily. I also post their mugshots and crimes openly on this blog so that my community may be warned that they are near. Believe me, they don’t like that! Neither do their families care for it. I get comments each time I post the mugshots telling me how it isn’t fair that these criminals can’t go anywhere without someone knowing what they did to a child. Can you believe it? They want to blame The Bull for making things hard for them! Ha! If they were real humans and had not chosen to become some deviant sub-species that preys on children they wouldn’t have their current problems – and innocent children would not be having nightmares, assuming they are still alive.
Folks, we have to make a stand. Now, today. No more children should fall prey to these monsters. I will make my stand here and now. I would prefer that our system of justice prevail and put these criminals, but when it comes down to brass tacks, it is ultimately up to us parents to protect our children. Therefore, I will make this open Statement of Warning to All Child Molesting sub-human Scum: “If you are caught the first time within 100 yards of my home, or my children wherever they may be, I will do my level best to make sure it is the last time using any and all means at my disposal.”
If that sounded somewhat threatening, excellent! I meant every-single-word. Frankly, if every parent made a similar statement, and backed up those words with same grim determination The Bull has for this Cause, then the Nation would not have this epidemic of pedophiles running loose and stalking our babies.
This terror must end. I’ll do my part by lobbying the State and Federal legislatures, voting, watching the sex offender registries, and posting warnings of the scum door-to-door. Most of all, I’m willing to do anything to protect my children.
What about you?
Bull, out.
