What am I paying taxes for? What am I working for the first 1/4 of a year, annually, to fund? Hmm…Maintaining roads….check. Enabling law enforcement… check. Provide for the common defense… check. Cloth, feed and provide shelter for complete and utter scumbags contributing absolutely positively nothing of any benefit to our society on the whole, while actually harming complete innocents… check. Confirmed by an article in Saturday’s San Jose Mercury News, detailing the 800 year sentence given to one of two child molesters who were living and ‘operating’ way to close to home for my own comfort. And to be clear, the other side of the world would be way to close, let alone a dozen or so miles away.
My initial reaction to the headline was “serves them right”. Then I thought about it for a moment and realized that I’m being punished, not them. My tax dollars, ones that should go to such greater and more pressing needs such as education, health care, and global warming just to scrape the surface, are instead going towards incarcerating and caring for people for the rest of their lives, when they don’t contribute anything to the greater good of our world. In fact when you really think about it, the food, clothing, education and health care they’ll have access to are probably superior to that available to most lower-milddle class citizen that actually play a positive role in our world. Seriously…. you think these guys w/have a co-pay? I don’t think so. And it’s unthinkable to me that they’re gonna be riding on my dime.
Perhaps there’s some arguments in favor about “the sanctity of human life”. But in a world in which the rights of the victim take a back seat to the rights of the criminal, I’m not inclined to lean in so liberal a direction. And as a parent, my ‘midway point’ of reasons is to resolve the issue with a pair of rusty garden sheers and a cigarette for cauterizing the wound, a mandatory GPS locator embedded via a procedure performed in the prison shower by a team of large, aggressively brutal rapist inmates, and oh yeah, a fully supervised work program in which he’s spending every day for the rest of his life contributing to society in some seriously significant fashion, utilizing either their individual sklll sets and strengths, or if nothing else, fixing roads on a chain gang.
I mean seriously, how can anybody argue in favor of a child molester having any rights, especially after “3 strikes”? And worse over, why should our society bear the costs associated with keeping the bastard alive unless there’s a benefit to doing so? Call me harsh if you wish, but that’s how I see it. The cost of a single bullet can’t be more then the 1/100th of the administrative costs spent just getting the human slime from his holding cell to the courtroom.
