What kind of country is this?

[arkjarhead]

A friend of mine called me a few moments ago. About a year ago he and his wife took in his sisters daughter who is now 12 after. his sister and brother in law died in a car crash. he told me thursday night he walked outside to smoke a cigarette and caught a guy looking in at his niece laying in bed watching t.v. and pleasuring himself. my friend said he went ape crap and beat the dude down and then called the law. the cops show up arrest the guy, and he says he wants to press charges against my friend for assault. so the cops arrest my friend for assualt. he's out on bail waiting to go to court for i think he said 1st degree assualt. a charge on which he could wind up in the pen. i'm sorry but i would have whooped the guy to. maybe that's just the redneck coming out in me. i know Jesus said turn the other cheeck, but i'm afraid i wouldv'e down like my friend and turned that pervert's cheeck with my fist. his lawyer says no jury would convict him, but it's the simple fact that he got chargered that makes me mad.are me and friend the only two who wouldv'e acted this way in this situation or do the perverts have all the rights in this country? back in the old days the cops wouldv'e helped you whoop someone like that. i guess i'll get down off of my soapbox.

 

[riverrat2000]

normal people would do that and more should have made a eunuch out or the prick, the only problem your friend had is he is now living in a country where the far left,special interest groups and hollywood run the country and the idiots in washington could care less what the majority of Americans want.

 

[arkjarhead]

well i guess it's like the saying that goes "I love my country, but I fear my governemnt."

 

[cheri1122]

It's the kind of country where citizens are innocent until proven guilty, and taking the law into your own hands, is breaking the law.
Arkjar, try imagining this: say you have a neighbor, with whom you don't get along. One evening, you're walking down the street, minding your own business, when he grabs you as you pass his house, and starts beating you up, accusing you of being a peeping tom. Someone calls the police, and he claims that he came out of his house and saw you looking at his young daughter through her bedroom window, and pleasuring yourself - how do you prove that you weren't, first to the police, and maybe then to a courtroom?
Anyone can understand the anger your friend felt, but we have laws for a reason. In the situation you described, the police can't simply accept your friend's word that the perpetrator is guilty, because, sad but true, some people will lie, to further their own agenda.

 

[arkjarhead]

the guy has been in the pen before for child rape so he has somewhat of record. but on the other hand i do understand where you are coming from cheri. you make a valid point and i respect that. i can tell you are a calmer, more level headed person than what i can be at times. which is a compliment.

 

[greg334]

Cheri,
Dealing with some of these people directly, there is no other way to stop it. We don't have the facilities to lock them up and with the courts today, protecting your kids in situations like this is to me and many others not vigilantism but justified in many ways. We should not only lock them up but also physically lobotomize and sterilize them just in case they get out.

Today we have serious problems in society, and for some reason many gay groups have embraced groups who support pedophilia to increase their numbers and many can’t discern between the two which we end up tolerating some of this disgusting stuff that is done with children because we can’t discriminate against gay people – see the problem? The pedophiles get to ride on the coat tails of the gay movement.

With people like Jack McClellan who openly talks about his need to chase little girls, some feel sorry for him and others like him but no one has actually said enough is enough and done something about it. The public needs to draw the line themselves in what should be tolerated without the worry of law enforcement or the ACLU coming after them. Law enforcement and the courts are supposed to protect us, not protect the people who commit crimes.

I read the other day about something that happened in a public rest room where someone walked into a man ‘pleasuring’ himself in front of a 9 year old boy he grabbed earlier. The guy who walked into the rest room grabbed the kid throwing him out and than proceeded to beat the guy – justified? Yes. This guy was released from prison a week before and later it was reported that he was going to be charged with raping a teenage girl.

 

[cheri1122]

I believe that what occurs behind closed doors, between consenting adults, is nobody else's business, but the key words there are consenting, and adults. Anyone who abuses children, in any way, should be locked up for the rest of their lives, because so far, there hasn't been any success in 'rehabilitating' such people.
And to be honest, if I felt someone was a threat to one of my daughters, I don't think that what I am legally permitted to do would even enter my mind, before I went after them, with the intent to cause serious bodily injury, if not death.