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Wednesday, March 03, 2004

What's the world coming to?

While I have put law school on hold as I try to determine whether or not I want to attend, there are always those few news stories that light that fire for me to go. I'm not talking about the Martha Stewart trial. That just makes me wonder how sick we are as a society to have propelled some people so high in the limelight and financially and then revel in their demise. I'm talking about all the sickos in this world that roam the streets and prey on little kids. In prison, they are the scum under that filthy dirt bottom beneath the layers of urine and feces that maggots won't touch. I'm shocked these people have the balls to do what they do.

I was reading on CNN.com about 2 seperate pedophiles. One in Belgium who lured and kidnapped six young girls into his basement with a specially built holding cell where he "raped, abused, and murdered." Four girls were killed including two eight year old schoolmates: they were starved to death. Two others were drugged, wrapped in plastic, and buried alive in his backyard. The other two girls were rescued. Overlooking the fact that he was dumb enough to bury his victims in his backyard, this guy is a sick and twisted animal. If he doesn't have a psychiatric problem, he better come up with one, because no human being can possibly think this was an okay thing to do. But could anyone be any sicker? How about a 41-year-old Sacramento man who sexually assaults a two-month-old infant, takes photos of him performing said acts, and distributing them over the Internet? Holy bejesus! Now I'd just about say the distributing over the Internet has to be a cry for help, but man, try and see a therapist before committing a crime on someone that was a zygote a few months ago!

Reading these stories just makes me want to head to law school and prosecute some sick puppy ass. And my friends wonder why I'm for the death penalty. There are some people we just can't rehabilitate or who have committed such depraved acts, I don't see why we should. And while a hospital for the criminally insane seems to be a good place for these people, I question why my tax dollars need to be spent on caring for individuals who will bring nothing good into this world when it could be spent on education, the environment, or the Mars Program.

While many of my friends think I'm just a trigger happy bitch wanting to electrocute anyone who shoplifts a Tic-Tac, I'm not. I just think that there are some crimes that are unforgivable. But if lethal injection is too much for a child molester, I'm all for castration. A former YMCA camp counselor in Texas underwent voluntary castration to control his sexually deviant behavior today. He still faces a charge of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old day camper. Blech! Castrate them! I know we can't force castration, but medically speaking, it works. It has been shown to help curb the aggressive sexual behavior of male rapists, molesters, and other sexual deviants by decreasing the testosterone in their system.

I often wonder if sexual deviance of this nature is a result of the industrialized world or if it is a result of the modern world. Do you think it was normal for neanderthal men to attack younger women and help them bear fruit? Even in the animal kingdom, the males have to court the females and show that their genes are worthy of being passed on. *sigh* If anyone has the answer, please let me know, because I can't fathom how you could explain a 41-year-old and an infant.