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 Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 1:43 am Post subject: The Politics of Cowardice |
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| Quote: | The Politics of Cowardice
By: Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, May 05, 2005
It took the brutal sexual assault and murder of a nine year-old girl to force the state of Florida to pass a law to protect children. Just days after Jessica Lunsford was found murdered, buried alive, the state legislature passed a law mandating a penalty of 25 years to life for any person convicted of molesting a child under 12 years of age. And if the molester ever did get out of prison, he or she would have to wear an electronic monitor for life.
The law passed because of citizen outrage; the guy who confessed to killing Jessica, John Couey, was a convicted sex offender who was running around unsupervised.
The media made a big deal out of photographing Governor Jeb Bush signing the law, but why didn't he and every other American governor sign a law like this years ago? Everybody knows that kids are being molested in great numbers. A new study out of Hofstra University says that 10% of American school kids are molested by their teachers! Unbelievable.
The system that is supposed to protect children has broken down in the United States for two reasons: first, there is no national database for sexual offenders, so they can roam from state to state without people knowing who they are.
And second, the apathy of some judges and prosecutors is stunning. In Jessica Lunsford's case, John Couey failed to register as a sex offender as required by Florida law and the state did not track him down. In fact, Couey's sister, his niece and another man, admit they hid the pervert when police were searching for Jessica. According to the niece, Couey's sister then bought him a bus ticket so he could flee the state.
Investigators also believe that Jessica was being tortured inside the trailer where those people lived with Couey. Yet no charges have been filed by Florida prosecutor Brad King against the three individuals who protected Couey and may have known about Jessica's abduction and murder.
This is simply obscene, but it is not unusual. King has told the local media there is no law in Florida that would allow him to prosecute these three revolting people. Lawyers I've spoken with disagree, but King is standing firm despite growing outrage.
King's inaction is what kills children. An aggressive prosecutor finds a way to bring those three to justice. A judge who cares puts child molesters away for the longest time possible. But all over the USA this is not happening.
Florida is ground zero for attacks on children, but they are happening everywhere. Don't believe the propagandists who say the problem has always been there, that it is no worse now. It is worse. That's because our justice system is chaotic and many judges are consumed by politics, making liberal rulings that allow the most vicious people imaginable to roam the streets.
Jessica Lunsford died for our sins. In the end, her gruesome demise did motivate Florida pols to at least do something. But three people who did nothing to save Jessica are still not being held accountable. And the shame of our society continues. |
Bill O'Reilly |
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Seems BOR, in his haste to mention the new law "protecting" children, missed that even befre it is to go into effect, one predator already mandated to wear his locating transmitter, simply cut it off and now cannot be found. I fail to see where that will help protect the children.
I see the law as a "feel good" law since it only applies to harming children 12 and under (an intersting age cut-off as that is the same exact age NAMBLA is lobbying to have the age of consent lowered to).
The only way children will ever be protected from this type of fiends is to ensure they never get another chance. If you can't kill them, then they deserve to be locked away for the rest of their lives.
But, anything coming from BOR is just sensationalism to build his own legend in his own mind.
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Somewhere in the early 20th Century and late 19th politicos took it under themselves to decry murder, molestation and a variety of abominations that never before rose to the dignity of state attention. The were attended to by the "hew and cry". They didn't have Miranda rights, discovery motions, vacated warrants in their defense. They met the indignation of their neighbors at the end of a rope. Unfortunately indiscriminate lynching gave it a bad name. Our current, fractured sense of community doesn't comprehend and support the just deserts of the perp' who kills the 7/11 clerk for $20. More's the pity.
A store owner friend of mine was punched by a shoplifter and I tackled the guy. When the police arrived it was I who faced arrest (deprived him of his civil right to escape don't you know, and the stolen goods were inadmissable).
F**k BOR and f**k the lawyers!
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