It would probably be good to know, so we can continue to educate our kids. But frankly, even adults can be caught off-guard by people who make this kind of thing their life’s work.

I’m glad they caught him. I don’t believe in capital punishment, because frankly…death is too easy for someone like this. Let him live with himself until he is a pathetic old man. And, his fellow prisoners will make his life a living hell.

For Don Surber, you need to link and track back to the current day’s post.

Today’s OTP link at Don’s:

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2005/11/vote-for-lgf-and-post-some-links.html

And the TB for that post is:

http://www.haloscan.com/tb/donsurber/113247524395820387/

One other *very* small thing: my blog is smaller than you make it. Not a countRy; just a county.

:-)

It seems to be, but that could be because of 24/7 cable news.

This is what is disturbing to me. Why are pedophiles are let out of jail at all? I mean the ones convicted, but who didn’t kill. I think we know now they cannot be rehabilitated and we know that they re-commit their crimes. SO WHY???????

But he is responsible. And he should pay.

I usually don’t like the death penalty. In this case the evidence including video of the kidnapping is pretty clear, but it tends to get applied in too many cases. (The criminal justice system is just another poorly adminstered government program after all. Rewards are for winning, not serving justice.)

As for the nut jobs in the world, you can’t let them get to you.

As for Smith’s supporters, each and every time I post about a child molester I get a ton of comments. Those comments are usually about 30 to 40% in SUPPORT of the animal filth that commit these crimes. It’s disgusting and it makes you question humanity. (I delete the filth and ban the monsters. They can spread that crap on their own blogs and websites of which there are far too many out there.)

Honestly, the comments made by the pedophile groupies sometime make me very thankful that I don’t have children. I pray for all of you who do.

I’ll never understand criminal–especially murderer and pedophiliac–groupies. Never. I can’t believe this guy had them. WTF is wrong with people? Do their friends and families know they have this attraction for monsters, and if so, why don’t they have THEM locked up in the psych ward? They are SICK.

And every time there’s a crime involving a minor, some people blame the parents first. (See also: Natalee Holloway?!) Of course there are things you can do to lower the chances of something bad happening to a child, but Smith grabbed Carlie in broad daylight. 11 year-olds hang out outside without parental supervision all the time, so I don’t see how her mother could possibly have prevented it without keeping Carlie locked up and under her nose in the house full-time. (I’ll bet she wishes she DID do that now, but it’s just not reasonable.) I doesn’t matter if she’s a horrible mother, this case can’t possibly be honestly or logically blamed on her at all.

As for the snark against the Mom, geeze, those people don’t even know her – how can they be so arrogant and judgemental? I’m sure that each and every one of those people have led perfect, mistake-free lives, right?

Something about, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”?

Good post, Tammy!

– R’cat
CatHouse Chat

Michele sent me.

I’m so glad the evil monster was found guilty too. I almost missed picking up the kids from school because I wanted to stay and listen to the verdict. But Hannity had it on his radio show.

Smith is a poster boy for the death penalty. He is a predator of humans and needs to be put down.

And, this last aside, for anyone one that snivels about DNA data banks (CA is collecting DNA from every convicted felon now), DNA is helping get predators off the street. We have a 10 year old cold case recently solved … murder/sex assault of a 9 year old … due to DNA matching.