Terrific.
Is it too much to ask headline writers (yes, I checked: it's on the source) to find the correct spelling of the word they mean to use? As it's written, it means "rule in sex offenders". I believe they wanted "Rein in sex offenders", which would mean to control or restrain them.
A small thing? Not when English is already at risk in this country.
Of course, the ACLU, who almost certainly has a NAMBLA member on its board of directors, would scream bloody murder.
Petition to the Governor, anyone?
Mediots.
You will note that this category of "sex offenders" includes mere gropers of adult women and not just pedophiles and rapists. Do they deserve lifetime monitoring too, or shouldn't we be simply throwing away the key on the real monsters?
My preference is to make the psychologists who say that sexual predators are safe to release criminally liable if they are wrong. There is a whole industry of these "criminal therapists" subsisting off the damage these thugs do. It's time to make that professional option wildly unpopular.
Therefore the question is how do we deal with them after the fact. Incarceration and death will not stop the new weed crop each year.
Society will not allow expedient death to the sick killer in Idaho. His death would not deter one pervert but it would at the very least save society a lot of money and we would be assured he would never do it again.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
There has been so much news about sex crimes against children lately; some may say it's just that we are hearing about it more. In the not-so-long ago past, such criminals would have faced quick execution after the FIRST offense. In how many recent stories has the criminal been a repeater? More than a few.
If each sex offender (meaning rapist or child abuser, not an 18 year old guy who has a volunteer 15 year old girlfriend) is executed, much of this problem will be solved.
For those who say "But if the pervert scum know they'll be executed they'll kill their victims!" Wake up! They're already killing their victims.
Every civilization has had the death penalty for such horrible crimes that ruin countless lives. The so-called compassion that is shown to such criminals by either keeping them alive or worse yet, returning them to society, is false and misplaced compassion. And what is the road to hell paved with?
Misplaced compassion creates nothing but hell on earth. It does no one any good, in fact, does a great deal of harm. Real compassion is quick (not 15 years of appeals) execution. Compassion for the potential future victims and their families. Compassion for those who are already victims. Compassion for you and me, the taxpayers who have to pay for the whole deal, and compassion for the criminal, saving him from himself, and by facing execution, giving him a good chance to repent and beg forgiveness from God and those he has harmed.
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