We Want Big Brother?

Apparently everyone is up in arms because this sick twitch Joseph Edward Duncan (formerly Joseph Duncan, but now they've added his middle name, which gives him serial killerability) had been blogging his demons, and NOBODY CAUGHT ON!

Nobody read his blog and went "wait a minute, this guy is a time bomb waiting to happen", and stopped him before he commited a crime. HELLO! Innocent until proven guilty, and you have to commit a crime before you get arrested... at least that was my understanding up til now.

First of all, there are a zillion blogs on the internet. I doubt if anyone has read any of mine, except for a few friends.

Secondly, have you read some of these blogs? Either the world is filled with loons, or there are a lot of people out there just venting their spleens, hard to say which is which, so should we go arrest anyone that says "gee, had a rough day, my boss is a dick and I want to kill him" ?? HUH? Is that random thought worthy enough to have police knock down your door and drag you away? Role playing? Don't threaten to slice the head off your foe, or else here comes the SWAT team.

The Internet was evolved to allow people true freedom of speech. Should we take that "right" away from convicted criminals? Maybe just pedophiles? Who chooses what people get the right to post their thoughts?

Mr. Duncan served his time and was released. According to the prison system, that meant he was rehabilitated and ready to go off into the world and be a productive member of society. Right, that works out so well. Not going to drag all the statistics in about how many repeat and (they actually have a word for it) habitual offenders get out, go back in because they just didn't learn their lesson.

We're so confident in the prison system, that we now have to track pedophiles, make them register whenever they move somewhere, post their pictures on the Internet, and don't allow them to get jobs with kids within a 100 mile radius. There's a good system, what confidence! Why don't we just throw away the key and keep them locked up forever? Hey, I don't want to pay for that, do you?

I'm sorry, but there are just people being born and raised today with a switch loose in their head. They don't play by the rules, they don't follow the laws, they shoot people for iPods or sneakers, and yet we're expected to pay for their room and board for the rest of their lives just because we don't want them on the street? They'll never get "better", they'll always have a screw loose, either we keep them locked up, or we kill them, plain and simple.

Someone in the article (link above) suggested he be shot like the dog he is. I'm sorry, but dogs have more common sense and decency than most of the scum that walks around on parole. Don't compare the noble dog to these psychos.

Ok, just for argument sake, how many people remember streaking and flashing? Wasn't that fun, and relatively harmless. Zipping by in a car driven by your buddies, mooning the world. Don't do that nowadays though, it's a sex crime! Stuffing your bare butt out a car window will cost you jail time, the label of sex offender, the pleasure of having to register as a sex offender in the city where you decide to live, and a lovely stigma for the rest of your life. Should those people be banned from the Internet, banned from working with children, shunned by society? Hey, a sex offender is a sex offender, aren't they? Mooning one day must turn into diddling small children the next, it's only a matter of time.

Stop labeling everyone, everything is a situation. Stop demanding that we lose more rights by having our blogs monitored and people arrested by the thought police because they have not so nice things to say about someone.

Hindsight is 20/20 but we've set up the rule that says "until you do it, it's not against the law".... unless George Orwell was right, just off by a few years.