This Is What Spurs Vigilanteism...

There is another tragic child rape case making headlines in Oklahoma.  Like so many other cases, the lessons are obvious, we can't eliminate the risk of the monsters raping our children, but we can deal ruthlessly with them once we know who they are and create disincentives to those who might think they can get away with this truly evil crime.  But we aren't.  In fact we are doing the opposite as the Oklahoma case shows.

I have pinpointed the problem before (and as I stated it goes all the way to the top, this is NOT a local issue).  Government at all levels is failing even the basic task of reacting appropriately to one of society's most heinous crimes.  When people don't feel that their government is capable of administering basic justice, they take matters into their own hands.  Mark these words, one day coming soon, a distraught father will kill a child rapist, accused rightly or wrongly, because he feels that is the only recourse or sense of justice that is possible.  Don't like people taking things into their own hands?  It's your fault.  Our fault.  We continually elect bozos who have ridiculous notions of human nature and no moral courage.  Keep electing these types who abdicate basic law and order and express ambivalence to evil by virtue of their actions, and we reap what we sow.