Children of the World and current victims of Joseph Edward Duncan III,
If you are looking for any help outside of your immediate family, don't look to WOW, Joe or Ted. If someone does step up to the plate to help you, it won't be them, nor will they give any assistance to those who would help you. They will be scratching their nutts and exchanging macho stories of what they *would* do. But only to perps of their own kids
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Murderers of the World,
Want to get away with your crime? Call the Reality Legal Defense Fund. He'll help you get out of your jam.
Come on, Reality. Do you honestly believe that all it takes to get these kids over the abuse is just killing the person who did it to them? Do you even really believe that that HELPS get the kids over it?
Killing the person who molested a kid doesn't help the kid one bit. Not one bit. The only people it eases the minds of are the parents of the kids who were molested.
Obviously, you believe child molesters need to die. Hey - I'm all with you. You want to change the law, put child molesters on death row, I'm right there with you. I think you'll find MOST people would be good with such a change in the law. So why isn't it happening?
Unfortunately, that's not the way the law reads. And, unfortunately, a judge is limited to a pre-set sentence maximum in most cases. Come on - if we're going to have "mitigating circumstances" for people who kill their kid's molesters, why can't we untie the hands of judges who'll make sure the molesters won't get the chance to molest again? Why not let a judge hand down a sterilization order? Why not let a judge impose the death penalty on a repeat-abuser?
Nope. Your solution is to defend the people who decide the law isn't good enough, and therefore, take it into their own hands. After all - I don't see YOU going out and killing off child molesters, either. And you actually believe that such behavior is okay. I don't.
I believe the government has the right (and responsibility) to execute criminals whose crimes reach a certain threshhold. But I don't believe that *I* have that right.
But just because I don't have that right, it doesn't mean that I won't do it. I may KNOW that two wrongs don't make a right, but just because I KNOW it doesn't mean that I CARE. There's the playing field of knowledge, and the playing field of emotion. The court - and what is supposed to be an impartial jury - plays on the first. Just make sure you give me (and not just me, but folks like WOW and Ted) no reason to play on the second.
And if I'm going to watch the NBA Finals, send me the '83 tapes. I could care less about the '84 Celtics. Only players I really liked from that team were Quinn Buckner and M.L. Carr, and they barely ever got to play.