What has this country become?

With the arrest and confession of John Couey the people of Florida have been having fits trying to figure out what to do about the RSOs in the state. Years ago this would be a sad case of a career criminal kidnapping a child and murdering her. There might have been mention of his previous sex crime, but there would have been a huge outcry about his other criminal acts and how he probably should have been kept in prison becuase of them.

Now all you hear is that he's a sex offender. Because he's committed a sex offense in the past, and now he's committed another, that just proves that all of them will eventually. There's no mention of his extensive criminal past, how he's already proved he's some sort of psychopath, just that he's a sex offender and now we have to make sure this never happens again.

The real question is: How are you going to do that? Obviously registration laws aren't working, since Couey was registered, although not actually at the address he was registered with.

So what's the next step?

Floridians are all up in arms now saying that we have to keep better track or registered sex offenders, and their best idea is to make all of them wear GPS bracelets so they will know where they are all the time.

Great idea. One problem with it. How do we know where the kids are all the time? Florida, you need to consider what are you going to do next time this happens. When some registered sex offender wearing a GPS bracelet kidnaps and kills a kid. When the real proof hits you smack up the side of the head and shows you that regardless of any steps you take, it will happen again.

So, what's the next step? Round up all the sex offenders and ship them off to a camp? Keep them all in chains twenty-four hours a day? Or maybe we should just go ahead and kill them, since everyone knows they're going to offend again.

Registration laws obviously aren't working, GPS bracelets aren't going to work either, and any further measures taken to find a solution are going to run into other problems. Because there is one thing you have to remember, even though they have committed a crime and paid their dues, they are still citizens of the United States. They are still supposed to be afforded the protections of the constitution, and if anyone decides that there's a problem with that then there's only one final solution.

Throw the Constitution of the United States into the trash heap of history and burn it, becuase we're in the process of becoming the People's Republic of Amerika.