A Matter of Priority

Here is a question of priority: We are releasing prisoners early, and keeping 700+ libraries open in San Diego County?

We are still funding the “public art” in communities? (Every time I see that bronze woman on a bench on Grand in Escondido, I see $200,000. Public art ain’t cheap!)

Bring Back the Gander Society?

Many years ago, I proposed – and wrote a business plan for – The Gander Society.

(What’s Good For The Goose…)

It proposed (VERY short version) a non-profit that identified the most lenient judges in the US, purchased a home as close to them as possible and leased it to a convicted, unrepentant rapist/murderer who has been released – for $1 a year!

Let the judge, and his family suffer the problems they present to the rest of us.

That would not solve EVERYTHING, but in just an incident or two it would put judges on notice, legally, that if they think that they and their “gated community” were immune from the low-life’s they released into the general public, they were wring.

That would solve ONE part of the problem.

A law requiring that all officers be sworn in for each trial would, as I have addressed before, solve another.

There are legal means to reform the system.

Let’s stop losing talented young women.

Is chivalry dead? You bet it is!

Women are now brought down from their pedestals to be “equal” to the most devious and powerful creature in nature’s hunter universe.

Nature designed man to protect women, not prey on them. NOW, and the ACLU have changed the equation to women’s detriment.

I refuse to believe we can’t place the protection of innocents above the legal niceties, or change the legal niceties to meet the obvious problem.

I may have to dust off the Gander Society…

Looking for Justice

If the law can’t find a way, the people can.

I would respectfully suggest that the law find a way.

The people have a right to self defense, to act in concert against imminent danger.

As a Texan, I can tell you that there is a common thread there: “I would rather be tried by 12, than carried by six.”

That is why Texas executes those convicted and sentenced in well less than half the time it takes in California – these days it is almost infinity since California never executes anyone for anything.

Law must find a way, but they are roped, handcuffed, delayed, and constantly re-routed by the ACLU and their liberal constituents.

THE ACLU is the barrier to FIXING the system.

“The Field Research Corporation found in February 2004 that when asked how they personally felt about capital punishment, 68% supported it and 31% opposed…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_California

If you think the anger demonstrated by the Tea Party is palpable, just wait until something triggers THIS anger.

The Justice System is BROKEN

The “justice system” is broken.

Period.

The reason THIS Gardner perp is on the streets has to do with a plea down and an agreement so as to keep the 13 year old traumatized victim in 2000 from testifying.

There are provisions for victims to testify and be cross-examined via video, as I recall. Something must be done to keep the victims from being traumatized TWICE – not every victim has the ability to sit in a courtroom and testify as to the personal details of their humiliation with the Court and 100 public members present.

This perp could have received 30 years in 2000. He got 6 and served 5. The psychiatrist who interviewed him said he showed not a “scintilla” of remorse and that he was not a good potential for rehabilitation.

Apparently the plea agreement trumped the psychiatrist and common sense. A judge DOES NOT have to accept a plea agreement.

This was a case with many warning signs ignored.

Filed Under: The trend lines are still moving south…

“This week, South Dakota’s legislature passed a resolution calling for the “balanced teaching of global warming.”

“Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but rather a highly beneficial ingredient for all plant life,” says the resolution, which passed with mostly GOP votes.  It also says global warming is “a scientific theory rather than a proven fact” and a variety of “astrological” and other “dynamics” affect weather.”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/03/what-should-schools-teach-about-global-warming/1

Jessica’s Law

The ACLU takes a legal Constitutional position on Jessica’s Law.

It may well be valid (the SCOTUS will decide), but it places the law above the protection of the innocent – hardly the place one wants to argue. The protection of the innocent IS THE PURPOSE OF LAW!

In a conflict of “rights” who wins? I side with the protection of innocents, and liberals stand…WHERE?

How about this: ALL rapists be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Or, how about  life imprisonment with a potential contractual release after 30 years IF the perp AGREES to chemical or physical castration AND an ankle bracelet?

Trouble to the South

There are about 30,000 Cubans working in the Chavez Venezuelan government, and according to the Economist they are in “ports, telecommunications, police training, the issuing of identity documents and the business registry.”

In return, Venezuela provides Cuba with roughly half the oil that Cuba uses each year.

Meanwhile, Venezuela is crumbling from within — its public health system is in disarray and it is suffering electrical blackouts — public demonstrations have risen in size to tens of thousands.

Why should we care? Only because there is a UN bloc of votes that will oppose anything the administration wants to do in reining in Iran, and Venezuela, Cuba and their other leftist states, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, have influence beyond their narrow borders.

Such as Brazil, which told Hillary today that they oppose further increases in Iran sanctions. Now I understand that liberals claim that the anti-American actions of everyone, everywhere is the direct result of Bush and his policies, but President Obama has been President for more than a year and has sufficiently groveled worldwide, so everyone should at least start to love America by now.

If not necessarily love us, at least like us more.

No sign of that, yet.

Actually, I am more surprised by the very recent Washington position on the Falkland Islands.

Washington has declared “neutrality” — which has torqued our British allies to no end. The Falkland Islands have had votes, and have always turned down Argentina, preferring to stay with Britain.

I don’t expect I need remind you of the President’s propensity to anger our allies and court our enemies? (He has succeeded in the former, and failed in the latter.)

What is THIS?

Reading today’s blogs, I am stunned to learn that we are still funding two active wars!

I thought the nation elected an anti-war President, more than a year ago.

I must check with PolitiFact on this.

 It is hard to believe that liberals elect an anti-war President and still complain about money spent on two foreign wars — unless of course liberals have found some magical way to fund those wars.