[Vision2020] Bush protects children, deserves credit...

[Tony Simpson]

The article from CNN.com provided by Tom details a sweeping new law enacted 
to punish the filthy brutes who abuse children.  Very comprehensive and 
overdue.  John Kerry and George Bush both deserve tremendous credit for 
enacting this measure.  Bi--partisan legislation at its best.

While this law is certainly an improvement, I would prefer a measure that 
called for the public drawing and quartering of child rapists.  The heart 
warming event could then be sold nationwide via pay per view and the huge 
proceeds used to implant GPS units beneath the skin of lesser offenders.

Ah, in a perfect world......           --Tony

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Joan Opyr" <joanopyr at moscow.com>; "'Moscow Vision 2020'" 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Web Database of Molesters Becomes Law


> >From CNN.com -
>
> Note to Unpastor Doug Wilson:  Here is an article you can take to "Show 
> and
> Tell" next time you visit Steven Sitler.
>
> "The law . . . increases minimum sentences for molesters who travel 
> between
> states."
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Web database of molesters becomes law
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, joined by "America's Most Wanted" host
> John Walsh, signed a new law Thursday that requires convicted child
> molesters to be listed on a national Internet database and face a felony
> charge for failing to update their whereabouts.
>
> "Our nation grieves with every family that's suffered the unbearable pain 
> of
> a child who's been abducted or abused," Bush said in a bill-signing 
> ceremony
> in the Rose Garden. "This law takes an important step forward in this
> country's efforts to protect those who cannot protect themselves."
>
> The measure was named for Walsh's 6-year-old son, Adam, who was abducted
> exactly 25 years ago Thursday, and subsequently murdered.
>
> It aims to help police find more than 100,000 sex offenders by creating 
> the
> first national online listing available to the public and searchable by 
> ZIP
> code. It also called for harsh federal punishment for sexually assaulting
> children, including the possibility of the death penalty when a victim is
> murdered.
>
> "Today is truly a family day for us," Walsh's wife, Reve, told reporters
> outside the West Wing after the event. "Adam's presence is felt here with 
> us
> today. This is all about children. It tells children in our country that
> they are precious and are cared about -- even though they don't have any
> money, or vote or lobby -- that we will take care of them."
>
> Bush said the new law will help prevent child abuse by creating the 
> national
> child abuse registry, and requiring investigators to do background checks 
> on
> adoptive and foster parents before they are approved to take custody of a
> child. Giving child protective services professionals in all 50 states
> access to this information will improve their ability to investigate child
> abuse cases, he said.
>
> "These improvements will help prevent sex offenders from evading detection
> by moving from one state to the next," Bush said.
>
> Child advocates have called the bill the most sweeping sex offender
> legislation to target pedophiles in years. It would:
>
>    * Establish a comprehensive federal DNA database of material collected
> from convicted molesters, and procedures for the routine DNA collection 
> and
> comparison to the database when someone has been convicted of such an
> offense.
>
>    * Provide federal funding for states to track pedophiles using global
> positioning devices.
>
>    * Allow victims of child abuse to sue their molesters.
>
>      The law imposes a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years for raping a
> child; a mandatory 10-year penalty for sex trafficking offenses involving
> children and for coercing child prostitution; and increases minimum
> sentences for molesters who travel between states.
>
>      Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, said the measure the president
> signed into law closes loopholes in current child Internet pornography 
> laws.
> Kerry and co-sponsor Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, pushed to include 
> what
> they dubbed "Masha's Law" into the legislation Bush signed.
>
>      Now 13, Masha Allen was adopted from a Russian orphanage at age 5 by 
> a
> man who sexually abused her. Her abuser was convicted, yet her images on 
> the
> Internet are being downloaded around the world.
>
>      "It's an absolute outrage that the penalty for downloading songs
> illegally off the Internet was three times the penalty for downloading
> disgusting images of children," Kerry said. "We need to do everything we 
> can
> to end the disgrace of child pornography. This is a start."
>
>      The new law dramatically increases penalties for anyone who downloads
> child pornography off the Internet, raising the civil penalties from 
> $50,000
> to $150,000. It will also change existing law to allow victims ages 18 or
> older to recover damages from those who downloaded images of them taken
> while they were children.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> One question:  How soon can we anticipate entering Moscow's two latest
> pedophiles (Wight and Sitler) onto this database?
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "Uh, how about a 1-strike law. Death doesn't seem too extreme for a 
> Level-3
> sex offender."
>
> - Dale "Comb-Over" Courtney (August 3, 2005)
>
>
>
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