Please act now!!! (Senate bill 1738)

[Gracey 7]

Please please please go to the following link to urge your Senators to pass Senate bill 1738, i.e. the Protect Our Children Act before this session ends at the end of September. This is probably the best bi-partisan act to come down the pike (or is it pipe?).

Hundreds of thousands of children are victims of sexual abuse each year. Due to the sheer lack of resources, law enforcement is unable to follow up on the majority of leads they have.

The PROTECT Our Children Act will:

• Authorize over $320 million over the next five years in desperately needed funding for law enforcement to investigate child exploitation.
  
• Mandate that child rescue be a top priority for law enforcement receiving federal funding.
  
• Allocate funds for high-tech computer software that can track down Internet predators.
  

Help Pass the PROTECT Our Children Act

Scroll down to read the directions to either email, call, telegram, or write your Senators. (I went the senate.gov route!)

Thanks so much!!!

[plain 12]

Hey, strictly to play devil's advocate here, because nothing in that bill sounded wrong, or wasteful, or bad. In fact, it sounds like something that's needed (assuming nobody tacks any crappy riders on the bill, as politicians are wont to do).

But....I fully support very tough mandatory sentences for first time child predators (aka "Jessica's Law"). See, so far I think only 33 states have tough mandatory minimums for pedophiles. What I think is that law enforcement can catch all the pervs they want, but if an activist judge gives that perv a joke sentence and lets them walk the streets, then what is gained?

BTW, Georgia does, in fact have tough minimums, so congrads.

[Gracey 7]

Plain - are you trying to be my new stalker?

Remember the post I had sometime earlier about putting all of the criminals in a pen with guns? I'm definitely about putting the pedophiles in there too. Even criminals hate pedophiles! Honestly, I'd be ok with the police putting a bullet in their heads (but not for some guy at 19 who dated a 16 year old!). The true sick bastards can't be reformed so they're a drain on our society in every way.

The Oprah show that brought this to my attention showed some software that had been created to plot all of gross freaks looking at pedophilia online across the country. The amount of red dots on that map was staggering. The one man that was busted had gigs of child porn on his computer and had emailed/shared an insane amount of pics/videos. (I can't remember the number.) Disgusting.

Edited September 16, 2008 by SickNTired

[plain 12]

If you call responding to only your posts, having poster-sized pics of you all over my house, and standing outside your window nightly being a stalker, then.....maybe I am a stalker. I mean, my friend may be a stalker...

[Gracey 7]

Ha! Stalking me nights 3 states away; that's impressive!!!

With regard to the other one - he walked right by me in the cafeteria and I didn't trip him. I was so proud!

Oh - were you affected by Ike??

[plain 12]

Only tangentally....little bit of wind, little bit of rain. We lost power for about 14 hrs, but didn't lose any trees at my place. I can say that we were only minimally affected. Nowhere near the level that Glouc had to endure.