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Val,
I feel like you do about sexual predators. I just don't feel there is a good answere to the problem of punishment and deterence. I know that sexual predators have a very high recedivism rate and some will even tell you that if freed, they'll return to their old habits. They will even tell you that they have learned that it is better to kill the victims. I may be wrong, and correct me if I am, but haven't most sexual predators been sexual victims themselves? Isn't there a high rate of non- violent ex-cons that become sexual predators after leaving prison? I've read enough research to have learned that incest is far more common than was previously thought in our society. No I am NOT portraying predators as victims, just saying incarceration isn't working and I doubt that hanging would either. We have to stop the cycle somewhere, but how and where? Yes public housing or low rent housing collects more than its share of social and sexual predators. I currently am facing the prospect of low income apartments being built close to my home. No I do not like the idea of low rent housing and yes I am going to fight it. Hope I win.
Fabs,
Everybody likes to complain about lawyers being unscrupulous, vicious, sly, shady, and sharks, until they need an attorney and want him to be all the terrible things they complained about before. I believe that it is a sign of a spoiled nation that is becoming corrupted all through our society. We our slowly devouring ourselves through greed, avarice and ego. One of the symptoms is that good people have watched our "justice" system loose most of its integrity with high profile public cases like Robert Blake and now Micheal Jackson. Blake was aquited and Jackson will probably be aquited also. It's bitter humor that Jackson is saying he is being persecuted because he is black and wealthy. He has made millions of dollars and wasted a whole lot of it trying to make himself into a wealthy white woman. Blake has told the most improbable of lies and appears to have gotten away with it.
If either one of these guys was a construction worker they would have an over worked, under payed, possibly imcompetent public defender pressuring them to make a plea bargain agreement.
I believe the saying is that, " Everyone is equal under the law, some just more that others.
John
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