My Neck...

Jukebox: Elliott Smith

My back hurts like a bitch today.

Did anyone read about that vigilante in Washington? This dude killed two of the three level three registered sex offenders living in a house together. The third guy was at work when it happened.

The killer, who turned himself in, said that he did it because of what happened in Idaho the other month with that Duncan dude. Duncan was a registered sex offender who was on bail or something from Minnesota for, I think, molesting a boy. His buddy fronted him the bail money, that was ridiculously low for that on top of being released from prison for 12 years for raping a kid. Then he skipped bail and ended up in Idaho. Then that whole thing.

Anyway, the Washington thing has this policy with registered sex offenders where anyone can go to a site or something and look up information on the person and get loads of information including their address, name, what they did (in detail), and where they did it.

I'm all for safety of the public and all that shit, but I'm also one who likes people to be forgiven for something they've done if they've learned from it. The thing the papers say about these guys is that they're "level three sex-offenders," meaning that they're very likely to do a similar crime again.

So if they are, why are they being let out into the public? It seems to me that they should be getting help, because if they're are "very likely to commit those crimes again," then they shouldn't be let in public. And if they are allowed in public, that means they shouldn't be risked to do these crimes again and therefore should not need to register or have people know of them as sex offenders.

I don't know, it seems as if this is a simple obvious thing to do, but maybe I'm just not seeing the bigger picture or something. I just read about this last night and it kind of bugged me.