Steelers Go Bird Hunting!
Long days with no sunshine. Fog thickly mesmerizing the mind, thoughts begin to drift to a darker side. Rain. Rain all day drenching the soul washing out optimism. Welcome to Seattle. Home of the Seahawks, who will be making their first Super Bowl appearance this Sunday in Detroit. Hawk fans are excited, to say the least. But a cloud of doubt may have followed the Hawk Nation from Seattle to the Big Game. The Seahawks are under dogs. And rightfully so.
Seattle is out of their element, and a more determined and all around tougher team has made their way to the Motor City.
Steeler fans have taken over Detroit. Detroit has embraced them. The fans are exuberant, sharing more commonality with Detroit than Seattleites could ever hope for.
My take: Steelers are going bird hunting, their after victory meal will consist of champagne and fowl. Sorry Seahawks.
Honestly, both teams have fire power and good solid defense. It's going to be one heck of a game.
Have a Great Weekend Everybody!
Go Steelers!
Alito: 0-1
I was somewhat satisfied with the decision of making Alito the new Supreme Court Justice. With Alito being known for a man of high integrity and his toughness on crime, he was expected to side more often with prosecutors. Yesterday, his first day on the job, Alito sided with a child rapist and killer.
Justice is once again thwarted.
Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening.Taylor was convicted of killing 15-year-old Ann Harrison, who was waiting for a school bus when he and an accomplice kidnapped her in 1989. Taylor pleaded guilty and said he was high on crack cocaine at the time.Taylor's legal team had pursued two challenges claiming that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment and that his constitutional rights were violated by a system tilted against black defendants.The court, acting without Alito, rejected Taylor's appeal that argued that Missouri's death penalty system is racist. Taylor is black and his victim was white.By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press WriterIn my eyes and many, many others, his first decision was a failure. I don't know if Alito was just giddy and overly happy to be sworn in or what. But siding with a child rapist/killer who is continuing to screw the system with his lies and bleeding heart lawyers is the mark of a failure.
How to breed a killer.
Last August a Collinsville, Illinois serial raping spree came to an end. For now, anyway. The rapist was sentenced Tuesday for only 10 years, and only has to serve 85% of it.
Samuel Levitan age 22 is a predator, child molester, serial rapist, and when he gets out maybe even murderer. He is accused of raping two teen girls and assaulting three others. Samuel cruised chat rooms for his prey. He coerced the girls to meet him and then he would take them to his house to force himself on them. One of the girls, a fifteen year old, went to the police last August and Samuel was arrested. Since then four others have come forward with similar allegations.
The 15 year old victim who first came forward lived in St. Peters Missouri. Somehow after meeting Samuel in a chat room Samuel was able to find her phone number and address. Posing as a 16 year old, the man drove to her house and gave her a call. Parked outside of the girls home he called saying, "Hey, I'm parked outside your house. Why don't you come outside and talk to me." The trap was set and it was about to spring shut on the unsuspecting teen.
After the rapist was arrested the police grew very concerned about Samuel having more than just one victim. They released pictures and information on the suspect. Four more girls came forward, one accusing Samuel of rape and the other two of assault, all taking place at his home and after chatting with them on the net. Samuel would pose as a 16 year old and deceived his way into their lives forever. Law enforcement suspect there are even more victims out there. The police at one point even suspected that Samuel had killed some of his victims.
State prosecutors this week accepted a plea bargain from the rapist. He confessed to only one of the rapes and was sentenced to less than 10 years. Case closed. Or is it?
What happens in eight years from now when Samuel gets out? Chances are, by then, the prison system will have turned him into an even harder criminal - even a murderer, if he isn't already.
How does our judicial system breed murderers? Just like this. Almost everyday. In this great country of ours.
I Have A Dream........
I believe that if enough people complain and voice their opinions and beliefs, things can be done. Many people have pretty much given up on our government and do not believe that their voice will make a difference. Please do not fall for that deception. Write your elected officials today and voice your concerns and opinions. We need tougher laws on child molesters and rapists. We also need tougher laws on murders. And we need tougher laws against those who make, distribute and view child porn. S-1086 is explained by John Walsh below:
The following is an editorial by John Walsh
My message is simple. It's time to hold states accountable for tracking child sex offenders, hold offenders accountable by enforcing real punishment when they fail to resgister, and to give state governments the money they need to do this once and for all.
Too many innocent children have been harmed and killed by convicted sex offenders who found ways to avoid the very system used to "track" them. The problem is growing, and needless to say, the system is insufficient.
Rather than sitting and waiting for the laws to change, I went to Capitol Hill, along with representatives of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. We marched through the halls of Congress, bringing our message straight to the hearts of those who can fix the problem.
I have some great news to report. They listened.
Members of Congress have worked together to close the loopholes and to fill in the cracks of the current sex offender registration system.
Representative Mark Foley of Florida and his staff worked for a year writing a comprehensive bill with some important conditions.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved HR3132 creating a national registry of child abuse and neglect cases. The establishment of the national registry was included as part of the Children's Safety Act, approved by the House.
The Provisions Of The Sex Offender Registration And Notification Act:
Sex offenders should have to reregister in person twice a year instead of once.
Violent sex offenders should have to reregister in person every three months.
A new federally maintained sex offender DNA database should be created.
The bill must fully integrate the "Megan's Law" amendment into the Wetterling Act.
The bill must develop clear guidelines to determine the threat level posed by each convicted sex offender  using three levels of danger to determine who should register and how often they should be monitored by law enforcement.
The bill should mandate use of tracking devices for the worst offenders.
The bill should add to the registry people convicted of using the Internet to commit a crime against a child.
The bill should make it a felony to lie on the registry, or fail to register.
Most importantly, the bill should develop a system for states to communicate with each other when a sex offender crosses state lines.
How You Can Help
Even though the House of Representatives has approved HR3132, there's still work to be done before we have an active and effective law in place. Please write to your senator telling them how much you care about this issue  and that you support the ideas in S1086. It's time to stand together to protect our children. You can copy the text below into and send it to your senators. Do it today!
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Dear Senator:
I am a constituent who is very concerned about the sex offenders who live in my community. Recently, there have been many stories in the news about how the current sex offender registration and notification laws don't work, and need to be changed. I think it's a matter of life and death that you help your fellow lawmakers make this change to protect our children. I urge you to support the provisions of S1086 that would create a more comprehensive system for tracking these offenders, and improve the way information is released about these predators to our communities.
Today, there are more than 500,000 sex offenders who are supposed to be registered in the U.S.; however, it's believed that 100,000 of these offenders are 'lost' in the system. We must:
Close the loopholes between state programs, so sex offenders can't move from state to state and elude authorities.
Provide federal and state funding so law enforcement agencies have the resources to track these predators.
Make sure that information about sex offenders is released to all of our communities. Thank you for taking the time to read my views on this issue.
The time is now to tighten the tracking of sex offenders, and provide higher standards for notifying people like myself and my neighbors. I don't want one more person who's been convicted of sex crimes to be able to hide from our community and law enforcement, and prey upon our children.
Write an official:
www.house.gov/writerep/www.senate.gov/www.congress.orgI have a dream, that children will once again be able to enjoy life. Without the fear of predators invading their lives. That all victims of crimes will see justice served and be protected by laws while the criminal shall shake in fear of being caught.
