Maybe I am just grumpy but....

[Pagan]

Originally Posted by saucygirl

I don't think you're being racist with that remark I think you might be misinformed. It's not like we're taking those prisoners and patting them on the back and wishing them luck while we set them free. We're placing them in high security prisons where no one has ever escaped. What about those prisoners that were set free in the time the bush administration was still in power. How come no one is saying anything about that?

Federal pens, even the maximum security ones, are pretty darned nice. Air conditioned, 3 meals a day, tv, "rehabilitation" programs - all on the taxpayer's dime. Gitmo, while not perfect has several advantages. The biggest one is that these prisoners are safe from harm by other prisoners. Can you guarantee that in the Federal Prison system? Sure, by isolation and that can be cruel treatment. And yeah, I did forget to insert my dripping sarcasm tags, too.

I don't agree with a lot of the paroles and releases. How do you explain to a minor that has been raped that the person who committed the crime only has to do a couple of years in jail and is free to live wherever they want? We don't have the manpower necessary to monitor the parolees on the streets now.

In my day job, I work getting deadbeat parents served. A good number of them are convicted violent offenders that have not kept up their registration with law enforcement. One very chilling case had the guy fleeing from his home state to Florida. There was a felony arrest warrant out for the guy, and we had a solid lead on where he was. I got a hold of the local police department, got a copy of the warrant to them and begged them - "Please pick this violent child abuser up." The address we had was less than 500 feet from an elementary school AND he was there with his girlfriend and toddlers.

Instead of picking him up, they ran his driver's license and found an address in a neighboring county. When I ran it against Google, it turned out to be a private postal center. The original PD NEVER even went out to the address we gave them. That man is still on the loose, living in someone's neighborhood because a kind judge let him out of jail. He's not the only one -- he is one of the saddest because that girlfriend was just 18 and had his year old baby with her.

With our "Kinder than thou" attitude, it will not be long before we are convinced that we must welcome these war criminals to our neighborhoods, give them US tax dollars to buy homes and cars and bring their starving families over, give them more tax dollars to live on, and just smile when they stick out their hand for more.

Does anyone remember what happened to the US citizens that were caught early on in this war? What about Daniel Pearl?