Little boys and girls found murdered. Some in ditches, some buried in back yards or remote locations. How do politicians and lawmakers propose to solve the problem? Harsher laws, more restrictions on those released from prison, more prisons, more government.
On the surface, to most, these ideas would seem quite plausable. Some, those seeking re-election would even venture to say these are the only ways to solve crime, "Just take a tough stance on criminals". But all these things are After the fact. After the little boy or girl has been abducted and found in a trash heap like little Somer Renee Thompson.
The word insane comes to mind when thinking of the situation in Florida with little Somer Renee Thompson, the other similar cases around the nation and the thousands of very similar cases which will come.
Children Being Murderd at Alaming Rates
ORANGE PARK — Two days almost to the hour after Somer Renee Thompson disappeared walking home from school, a body likely to be the first-grader’s was found Wednesday in a Georgia landfill.
The legs of a child were found protruding from garbage picked up in Clay County and transferred to the Chesser Island Road Landfill in Folkston, Ga., said Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler.
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Getting tough on crime, is not even in the same ball park to getting Smart on crime. Follow the root cause of all the sex crimes and murders in the United States leads along a path like this. Children are born, and because most families in the year 2009 are comprised of homes which either have only one parent, or both parents are working all the time just to pay the bills and keep a roof over their heads. Where does that leave little Johnny and Suzy? Either being raised by a day care center, shipped off to the Government run public schools, or sitting in front of a television, xbox 360 or Playstation. Enter into that scenario the Internet and 500 channels of Paid Programing on Cable or Satellite t.v. and what is the outcome? Children that for decades now has been filled with millions of scenes of sex, violence and sexual violence. Those children have grown up and are now the childen on the Sex Offender Registries, or in Prison for Life for Murder or Rape.
My heart goes out to Somer Renee Thompson but no amount of lawmaking which targets punishing the offender after the cime is going to solve the problem of the growing number of sex crimes and murders in our sex and violence sick nation.
Times Have Changed
Just 30 years ago, you could go out into any neighborhood and see children everywhere, riding bikes, skateboarding, playing and having fun. Typically, and without fear, children would leave the home in the morning, say bye to their mother and tell her they were riding their bikes to town....
Not today. You can walk or drive around any neighborhood today and you will not see very many children running around riding bicycles, skating or playing. They are all inside, watching television, playing xbox 360s, playstations or Wiis.
Their have been studies conducted on the effects of watching sex and violence on television day after day and the results are shocking and alarming to say the least. But you do not have to look to studies to see the results.
The largest industry in America is now the combined legislature, courts, police, sheriff and prison systems and all that those businesses support. Tied to these are countless businesses. Psychiatrists, psychologists who the courts order convicted felons to pay to go see. Grocers and suppliers, contractors, lawyers and the list is too great for this article.
After Somer Renee Thompson, Letting Our Kids Walk To School
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In an article by Parents TV entitled, "Facts and TV Statistics: It's Just Harmless Entertainment, Oh Really", they stated:
In a recent (03.20.05) Time Magazine Poll 53 percent of respondents said that they think the FCC should place stricter controls on broadcast-channel shows depicting sex and violence. 68 percent believe the entertainment industry has lost touch with viewers' moral standards. 66 percent said there is too much violence on open-air TV, 58 percent said too much cursing and 50 percent said there is too much sexual content on TV. 49 percent say FCC regulation should be extended to cover basic cable.
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Media creators for years have been creating, mass marketing and promoting movies which depict graphics sceens of Rape Murder and Dismemberment.
Americans were led into their hunger for these mind polluting perversions gradually as society gleefully accepted anything which Hollywood produced.
What would have been rejected and created an outcry for decency just a few decades ago, is now widely accepted and proclaimed to be Entertaining.
Just a few of the top sellers at the Box Office listed below...
Natural Born Killers, SAW, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, THE HILLS HAVE EYES, SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, HIGH TENSION, HOSTEL, TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, and the list could go on for ever...
These movies MADE MILLIONS for Hollywood. These movies depict violence and sex, and sexual violence...
My question. When will Americans and our Federal Communications Commission say ENOUGH and realize making laws to punish those who rape and murder is like telling a cancer patient to take two asprins and call me in the morning.
We have to get at the root of the problem. To stop any further creations of serial rapists and murderers, we need to STOP THE SEX AND VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA... Get back to Wholesome Family Values.
A few high selling titles at the box office which are labeled as Entertainment, Natural Born Killers SAW, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT,THE HILLS HAVE EYES, SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE,HIGH TENSION,HOSTEL,TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, and how about, The Girl Next Door? Songs Like, "Rape Me" by Nirvanna.
Some of you have seen some of these movies and get great joy at watching them. You are part of the problem. These types of movies teach people that doing these things is acceptable. The FCC needs to put a stop to the raw sewage flowing FROM Hollywood, and INTO the minds of your children and citizens.
The website, When a Child Goes Missing, states:
Missing Children Statistics
"...A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the U.S, over 2,100 per day
In excess of 800,000 children are reported missing each year
Another 500,000 go missing without ever being reported..."
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
When a child goes missing Does a child go missing in the United States every forty seconds?
Creating laws which punish those who commits these crimes of sex, violence and murder does not stop the violence. Creating tougher sex offender legislation which publishes the names, photographs, places of work and online identifiers of sex offenders living in neighborhoods does not stop these crimes. No amount of residency restrictions will prevent sex crimes. If a person has it in their heart to rob, rape or murder, if they are not locked down to a table in hand cuffs, they can find a way to do it.
Tougher laws will not cure the problem. The way to cure the problem is to remove the brainwashing which is flowing out of Hollywood. Rape and Murder is ENTERTAINMENT in America. That is precisely why we have so much of it. First, the citizens watch it and get their thrills, then when that is boring, they go out and do it.
But then, curing the problem would present a problem for all the politicians who seek election by Geting Tough On Crime and creating knee-jerk legislation which harms more people than it helps... How long before the Federal Government creates the Somer Renee Thompson Sex Offender Act...
Heaven forbid the mention of putting God back into schools, working towards strengthening Family. Stabelizing the economy so both parents do not have to work all the time, leaving little Johnny and Suzy to vegitate in front of the television.
This nation is like a snowball rolling down a hill headed for hell. I fear the moral degradation of this society has sunken to such a low state, that their is no return to a moral and just society of people who can be trusted to do the right thing. The right thing of this day is to ensure Number One gets all he or she can get before they die, no matter how it effects others in the community.