Healthcare activist bites off finger of counter-demonstrator, authorities say
The victim was lucky the guy didn't swallow.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Jaycee Dugard Shouldn't Have Been A Victim.
Jaycee Dugard was 11 when she was snatched away by Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender who raped her and subsequently fathered two daughters with her. She's now 29 years old and reunited with her family. Her daughters are with her. Garrido is arrested. This story is disturbing for many reasons. How was this registered sex offender able to get away with something this heinous for 18 years? Are we this bad at catching criminals or crime prevention? It seems to me that investigators didn't do enough to find Jaycee when she was kidnapped. Her stepfather gave police clear discriptions of the get-away car and Garrido's wife who pulled Jaycee into the car. Instead of doing everything possible to follow-up on the leads, they chose to focus on Jaycee's stepfather as a suspect because he was the last person with her. In 2006 when Garrido's neighbor complained to police about his odd behaviors and reported evidence of children at his property, they again didn't do enough. How did we become so complacent? Do investigators and parole officers just don't care and always prefer to do things the easy way? Would it be so hard to check out thoroughly Garrido's backyard? To me, they made it too easy for this guy to get away with this crime. Investigators and parole officers failed Jaycee Dugard, her family, and all those who want to protect children and innocent people from sexual predators. And it's well documented that Phillip Garrido was convicted of kidnapping and rape of a 25 year old woman in Nevada in 1976. However, he only served 11 years for a 50 year sentence. A lot of people are scratching their heads over that one especially the woman he raped in 1976 who had lived in fear worried that he might come after her. Innocent people shouldn't have to live in fear. U.S. parole system doesn't work the way it should. They seemed too concern with protecting criminal rights and they forget about protecting the victims or potential victims. Sexual predators will not change their ways. They either have to be rehabilitated or keep them locked up. And rehabilitation often won't guarantee success either. So discouraging or limiting the spread of porn may be part of the solution. Spread of deviant sex has really taken hold in the modern era. It's not difficult to find any kind of sex acts or preference on the internet. This, I believe, creates a numbing affect on society as a whole and sexual deviants are tolerated. A lot of people want to act out their sexual fantasies. Most people wouldn't be crazy enough to go out and kidnap another human being to satisfy their fantasies but criminals are crazy enough. But Phillip Garrido shouldn't be allowed to use the insanity defense either. It's clear to me that he knew what he was doing. The 1976 kidnapping was well thought out and planned. He had sex toys or materials set up to use on his victim. And he set up his backyard in a way that made it easy to hide a kidnap victim in there. Regardless, he is a criminal and a registered sex offender and he should be treated as such. He deserves no simpathy. Some people may feel that because he was under the influence of drugs or was a sex addict and couldn't control his urges, he's not fully responsible. This is nonsense. We have to stop trying to protect criminals and start figuring out how to better protect victims or innocent people. Jaycee Dugard and many more like her wouldn't have been victimized if we had done a better job of keeping criminals off the streets and away from innocent people. I hope whatever Jaycee Dugard endured will not go in vain. I hope her shocking story will wake us up, as a nation, and lead us to change our ways for the better.
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