If I am elected.....

So, I was watching this show the other night and this guy shot and killed someone just a short time after being parolled for murder. It was a true story. I don't get how people who purposely kill
someone get out of jail. Actually I do get it. It's the plea bargain. When the constitution guaranteed us a right to a jury by our peers, there were about 500 people in this country. I'm approximating.
Now with a gazillion people in this country, we do not have the time or the money to give everyone who commits a crime a jury trial so we have the plea bargain whereby they try to offer criminals a good enough deal to keep them
from demanding a trial where we will spend even more money on public defenders, prosecutors,
jury selection and so on. Hence, we are all living amongst parolled rapists, murderers, etc. The folks on the parole board should be told, "so-and-so is going to move into the house next door to you. NOW do you think he/she is no longer a danger to society?!!!" We have 2 cases here
that keep showing up in the paper. One is the man who raped and killed a 7 year old girl selling girl scout cookies. She was his neighbor and HE WAS A SCHOOL TEACHER. I was a 7 year old
girl scout when this happened, looked like I could be her sister and this happened close enough to where we lived that our neighborhood and property were searched. FREAKED me out. They found her body on Easter. This girl's poor mom had to fight to get laws changed in this state to deny parole to anyone who rapes and kills a child under a certain age but of course this is not retroactive so every time this guy comes up for parole, she has to relive this nightmare and fight to keep him in jail. WHY? This poor child did not get to come back to life in 12 years or 25. Why does a murderer get another chance? Now I'm not talking about people who accidentally kill someone. It happens. People are negligent and bad things happen without that intent.
Some drunk guy punches another guy who falls and hits hit head just right on a curb. I'm talking about someone who kills someone and intended to kill them. THROW AWAY THE KEY FOR PETE'S SAKE! If you say we'll be overcrowding jails. Take the money you save on jury trials and
put that toward building and staffing prisons. Have criminals go up against a panel of judges who
know the law better than jurors do anyway and let them decide whether they did it or not. Afraid the judges can be bought? Dis-bar any judge forever if caught being unethical. In this day of DNA evidence, there are so many ways to prove things now. If they can't decide, fine then do a trial but we just cannot expect to have a working judicial system that did not change with the times. I don't know that a constitutional right will ever be overturned but this is not working. Heck, there used to be laws about men and women being on a beach at the same time
as well as how covered up they had to be. Going to the beach now is practically like stepping into
an x-rated movie. The other story is one that strikes fear into any woman and this guy's mom,
and he I guess before he was imprisoned. live just about a mile and a half from my house. Now
before you think I live in a bad neighborhood, I don't. I live in a crowded but very nice suburb
with the highest property taxes in the nation and to be honest, I'm not sure I could afford to buy my own house right now for what it's worth. I've seen the ghetto, this ain't it. But even here, we
have the "dregs of society." This guy raped a girl when I was a teen. He went to jail where the inmates told him that the mistake he made was not killing her. He was a juvenile when he did it and served a very short sentence. He got out, abducted another girl in the parking lot of a mall
15 minutes from here. He raped and killed her. He is in prison and again, the girls parents have
to relive this every so often to keep him there. The last time they were seeking support for that, they posted the story with a picture of this guy in the paper. Just looking at this guy made my blood run cold. I've never seen a person look like such evil in my life. Knowing if he was released, he would be living with his mom right up the road from me makes me nuts. The faulty judicial system is at the bottom of a lot of the problems in this country. When people know they will not be punished or will just receive a slap on the wrist for their
wrongdoing, there is little to stop them from doing it. There is a reason why this country has such a high crime rate. People literally get away with murder here. People like OJ walk on technicalities and a system that has more laws protecting the rights of the guilty than the rights
of the innocent. When a little girl in Florida was killed recently, the news said there was over 120
registered sex offenders living in a 5 mile radius of her house. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
The only place that should have that many sex offenders that close is a jail. I just don't get it.
Whew, I had to get that off my chest. I know this is a depressing post but I just can't stand seeing another paper or newscast telling of someone else who lost their life because a killer was
let loose. When will this madness stop?