[fabsroman]

"PS. and if you really took the time to know more about this subject than you obviously do...you will find these crimes against our kids are not one time events that go away over time...facts are...the overwhelming amount of abusers were abused themselves...its generational....so as the crimes become more common and not dealt with, the odds of your kids or grandkids getting a hit from one of these guys gets greater and greater..."

I might be younger than you Val, but I'm not naive. While I cannot take hours and hours out of my day to thoroughly research every subjecy I post about on here, I do know about the PS portion of your post.

I am all for stricter laws requiring these people to spend the rest of their life in jail, or better yet, the death sentence. I used to be a big proponent of the death sentence until I heard about all these innocent guys on death row. I sort of understand that they were found guilty before modern science could have proven them not guilty, but I also watched that show about that good doctor down in Florida where he was found guilty because of modern science that was later proven to be wrong. Anyway, I digress.

What I am not for is laws that say all counties have to support the same number of child molestors/criminals. I know where the bad areas of Maryland are and I choose to stay away from them. I also have plenty of friends, blue colar and white colar, and they stay away from these areas also.

Essentially, what you are looking to do is almost like welfare. Make the poorer neighborhoods better to live in at the cost of the wealthy. Yeah, keep the SOB's in jail longer, fine with me, but don't tell me that they will HAVE to move into my neighborhood because I do not have enough of them around here. Why not give them million dollar homes in Potomac, Maryland because I can bet that there aren't many of these scumbags living there. If we are really looking for everybody to be subject to the same ratio of sexual offenders to normal people, we would have to give them million dollar homes in Potomac, Maryland because there is nothing cheaper than that around there. Hell, the median home price in Montgomery County, Maryland is $650,000, who is going to pay for all of these guys to live evenly throughout the county.

What I really do not understand is why my sister spent $332,500 on a condo and I spent $333,000 on a townhouse so that we can be told that we will be forced to live next to sexual offenders who will be given subsidized housing in our area because they definitely cannot afford it. Both my sister's condo and my townhouse are now selling for $400,000+. Why should we have to pay the high mortgage cost and be subjected to the same atmoshere as the poor neighborhoods.

When evaluating where to live, a lot of variables come into play, schools, businesses, growth, and CRIME. I didn't move into the very affordable Southeast Washington, D.C. where I could have picked up a row house for less than $100K because that place used to be the murder capital of the nation. According to your program, most of those gang members should be moved out too because Southeast D.C. has an incorrect ratio of gang members to normal people. Those gang members should also get a mansion in Potomac to sell crack out of. Same goes for Seat Pleasant in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Why are jails usually in crappy neighborhoods? Because nobody in their right mind wants to live next to a jail, so they work their rears off to get away from that environment. I guess we should drop a jail in Potomac, Maryland. NOT. The residents there would be on the phone to their reps in the Maryland Legistlature and the County Council and it would never happen.

You have great ideas Val, but they aren't as easy to implement as you think.

I guess I should also be saying, "Val, what am I going to do with you darlin?"

In a utopia, there would be no crime and everybody would live in a mansion, but this isn't a utopia. We have good and bad, rich and poor, old and young, well and sick, smart and stupid, etc.

What's that Forest saying that my mom loves, ah yes,

Stupid is as stupid does.

I am all for stricter sentences on criminals, but that would mean more jails and more taxes, and nobody wants to hear more taxes. I am all for deporting our criminals to the southern most tip of South America, or better yet, Antartica, so that they will have a long trip to get back to the US. Deporting them to the southern most tip of South America would give these South American countries a little taste of what they are sending our way.

Better yet, build a Great Wall of America across our southern border, have citizens take turns manning it, like jury duty, to prevent south americans from coming over, and toss our convicted criminals over the wall for the given sentence time. Once their time is up, they can come back into the US. Makes it a lot easier to meet out harsh sentences because we do not have to worry about overflowing jails. The only thing we would have to worry about is Mexico overflowing, but even then, they could continue to move south.