What is Wrong With This Story?
Tags: Morality.
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Police in the Ohio city of Cleveland urged families of missing people to come forward with pictures of their absent relatives yesterday after the discovery of six badly decomposed bodies at the home of a convicted rapist, prompting a mass murder investigation.
Did you catch it? If you didn’t, I’ll give you another shot:
The bodies came to light on Thursday and Friday when officers visited his home to investigate an allegation of rape. Sowell has already served 15 years in prison for choking and raping a 21-year-old woman who was lured to his bedroom in 1989.
Get it? Ok, for those who are inattentive – key in on “convicted rapist” and “served 15 years in prison for choking and raping”. You see, if this man was still serving the life sentence without parole he should have got, then the six women in his home would still be alive.
There’s just something about a person who rapes – whether its a man raping a woman or an adult raping a child: once they do it, there doesn’t seem much chance they won’t do it again. Anyone who rapes, once convicted, should never be let out of jail. While good behavior might merit an easy prison, the fact remains that such people cannot be trusted around anyone they may be able to victimize.
Rape should not be a three strikes your out thing – once you rape, away you go, for good.
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22 Responses to “What is Wrong With This Story?”
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Mark
I somewhat agree however there have been many cases of a woman accusing a man of rape when it did not happen.
A life sentence is pretty harsh if both parties were drunk the woman was willing until she woke up in bed the next morning with the man she wanted the night before and now claims she was raped.
neocon,
I doubt that most rape cases resolve themselves in to something like that – if you like, we can have first and second degree rape convictions and first degree rape is a life sentence.
Guess what?
I agree with BOTH Mark and Neocon.
Rape is absolutely unforgivable.
But innocent people being accused of rape is wrong also. People who are convicted should be proven to be completely guilty, and things such as bad judgement should be considered – but in the end rape is rape – it is unforgivable.
Did you hear that guys?
I AGREE 100% with both of you. I have felt that way my entire life.
I have known many women who have been raped – both friends and people I have dated – and tried to help them through their feelings about it.
I AGREE with you all the way on this one.
Now, am I such a horrible, stupid, Godless, moralless heathen Liberal after all?
Which is why I keep trying to make the point that not all Liberals belive the things that you think they believe and not all Liberals act the way you think they act.
Some of us actually care about people – and some of us have great moral foundations – even if you refuse to believe it.
Mark
if you like, we can have first and second degree rape convictions and first degree rape is a life sentence.
I fully agree with that.I believe this one should be hung no shot in the arm.
SWW
what is your opinion on abortion?
on assisted suicide?
Now, am I such a horrible, stupid, Godless, moralless heathen Liberal after all?
Don’t ask a rhetorical question, liar…
Mark, if this puke had raped and choked a girl in Baltimore, he’d have gotten out of prison in eight years or less–even if the girl died.
Blue state justice is very lenient, very forgiving. After all, these convicted rapists/murderers can be rehibilitated, can’t they.
Libs make me puke…
I don’t think you are going to find any body on this blog that will defend rapists. Life would have been too short for this guy.
Since the thread is about rape, how do you feel about Jamie Leigh Jones, the girl that was raped by KBR employees. Should she get her day in court?
casper,
Too complex a legal issue for me to render any sort of judgment…some people say this, some people say that…the left is trying to use it as an indictment of KBR and, by extension, the liberation of Iraq.
Mark, Then shouldn’t there at least be an investigation into the matter? If rape is wrong, it should be wrong no matter where it is committed.
No, casper, there should not be an investigation.
Are you completely brain dead? You bring it up because you “moderates” and libbies hate kbr. There’s bad people everywhere, moron.
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keef says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
No, casper, there should not be an investigation.
Are you completely brain dead? You bring it up because you “moderates” and libbies hate kbr. There’s bad people everywhere, moron.”
No, I bring it up because I believe rape is wrong. I don’t care about the company. This should be investigated. If she was in fact raped, then the men who did it should be punished. If she wasn’t and the woman is filing false charges, then she should be punished. If you blow this off because you are worried about the politics, then your values don’t really mean much.
Keef,
Let me put it a different way. If this young lady claimed that she had been raped by employees of ACORN instead of Republican supporter KBR, would you have a different opinion. I’m guessing that the conservatives on this blog would be going ballistic. They would be demanding that ACORN be dismantled and every member jailed. I’m only asking for an investigation.
It should go … Once you rape, up to the ropes you go!
Once you murder, up to the ropes you go!
rapists and murderers are just too costly!
They create a state of dependency on the government, which is not good for all involved directly or indirectly!
Jeremiah,
I can’t go with that – by making death the penalty for rape and murder you only encourage the commission of the larger crime as a preventative for discovery of the lesser.
Prison would be ok, Mark, if it weren’t made so easy…take Charles Manson for example…he has spent all these years in prison and yet he is still unrepentant.
Prisoners are to be able to speak of the horrors of such a place, if we are to have a prison system – to testify that, no, you definitely don’t want to be in this place.
Prison should include a place where one who has committed rape or murder does not have a comfortable place to sleep, preferably on the cold, hard, cement…a place where they are deprived of light for long periods at a time, and a place where they get very little to eat and drink until they haven’t even the strength to rise from the floor, and during the day, they should be made to do strenuous work under heavy supervision in a confined area where they can dig holes and fill them back in, dig holes and fill them back in…on and on, until their backs hurt to the extreme…make them lift very heavy objects such as big rocks or steel I-beams, that puts immense strain on their backs … it wouldn’t take long until they were broken down. And finally, after they have been worn to a pulp, and in such pain, permanently unable to recover…they could then be witnesses for the horrors of prison … That, yes, if you play, you will pay…and pay mighty dearly. Would would then be paying for a system that works, instead of rewards bad behavior.
Yet, still, they get to live, while their victim/victims don’t have the breath of life.
It just ain’t right.
But I see where you’re coming from, Mark…if we want to prevent murder, don’t administer punishment that is equal to it.
I say, the punishment should equal the crime. That’s where we went wrong so long ago. And secondly because we aren’t speedy enough with the verdict.
If this young lady claimed that she had been raped by employees of ACORN instead of Republican supporter KBR, would you have a different opinion.
casper, I was being sarcastic. You’re not very perceptive, for an educator, are you?
The reason I’m slamming your comment is because you brought it up for one reason. It was kbr, and you, just like your liberal bedmates, hate kbr, halliburton, and any cooporation supported by the GOP.
As for SWW, I call b/s on his claim to “have known many women who have been raped.” Nobody knows “many women who have been raped.”
Except for, perhaps, a serial rapist…
“No, I bring it up because I believe rape is wrong.”
Now, to use a well know casper tactic:
Do you believe Juanita Broderick should get her day in court?
tired
or caspurt
the duke lacrosse team?
twana brawley?
KBR….??
Hmmmm terrible GOP company huh?
Brown & Root: Lyndon Johnson’s Primary Financial Supporter
Throughout Lyndon Johnson’s career, Brown & Root was his biggest financial supporter. Today the company is a huge defense contractor. It was founded by Herman Brown in the 1920s. The son of a Belton, Texas shopkeeper, Herman’s career had a humble beginning. But Alvin Wirtz and Lyndon Johnson helped Brown & Root acquire huge defense contracts from President Roosevelt in the late 1930s. The company prospered a great deal after America’s entry into World War II. Brown & Root returned the favor by giving Johnson virtually any financial help he requested.
Brown & Root continued to grow as the primary contractor for building military bases. When Johnson got America into the Vietnam War, Brown & Root made a fortune constructing military bases in Southeast Asia. They built the Tan Son Nhut Air Base and reportedly built many of the infamous tiger cages used to brutalize and torture suspected enemies of the Saigon regime.60 Tiger Cages were cells constructed below ground with just enough room to fit one person. Prisoners were put in these as punishment for various infractions of the rules.
neocon1, that pretty much explains why LBJ kept putting the Vietnam War on hold…