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"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Bobby Jindal takes matters into his own hands
Red State reports on a bill LA Gov. Bobby Jindal signed yesterday shortly after he issued his statement expressing outrage at yesterday’s USSC ruling on the case of Kennedy v. Louisiana, where the USSC ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional in cases of child rape:
Today, Gov. Jindal signed the “Sex Offender Chemical Castration Bill,” authorizing the castration of convicted sex offenders. They get a choice: physical or chemical. Oh, and they don’t just get castrated and leave – they still have to serve out their sentence.
More below the fold:
From the release:
“SB 144 by Senators Nick Gautreaux, Amedee, Dorsey, Duplessis and Mount provides that on a first conviction of aggravated rape, forcible rape, second degree sexual battery, aggravated incest, molestation of a juvenile when the victim is under the age of 13, or an aggravated crime against nature, the court may sentence the offender to undergo chemical castration. On a second conviction of the above listed crimes, the court is required to sentence the offender to undergo chemical castration.”
Gov. Jindal made it absolutely clear that signing this bill today was about more than just sending a no-tolerance message across his state: “I want to send the message loud and clear – to the Supreme Court of the United States and beyond – make no mistake about it, if anyone wants to molest children and commit sexual assaults on kids they should not do so here in Louisiana. Here, we will do everything in our power to protect our children and we will not rest until justice is won and we have fully punished those who harm them.”
I like this guy more and more everyday.
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Now that is one ballsy move by this guy!
Isn’t this a little cruel? Or at least unusual? What’s next? Are thieves going to have their hands cut off? I don’t see how it’s any less justified.
Thieves getting their hands cut off is in front of the Supreme Court now? Oh my! What will the Supreme’s do??
I’m guessing they’ll give clemency to child rapists yet rule in favor of cutting hands off of thieves…
What a mind set!
I won’t disagree that this is cruel, but with the amount of pedophiles in this country, it should not be considered unusual. Also, since it is only mandated on the 2nd conviction, I don’t really think it is all that cruel, from the victims viewpoint. Hopefully this law will give pedophiles pause. I guess for a baseball paraphrase, 2 strikes, no balls. – Lorica
Jindal went down a few notches in my estimation for his support for teaching “Intelligent Design” in school science classes, but I like the stand he’s taken here. The majority’s opinion in the Kennedy case is just an incoherent bunch of hand-waving to cover the majority’s real reason: they don’t like the death penalty and want to act like a legislature. Justice Kennedy’s blather about evolving community standards is nonsense: what better reflects a community’s standards than a decision by their elected legislators and a jury?
Not at all. Strapped down to a gurney. Given an injection that puts you to sleep. Sounds good to me.
Want to hear cruel or unusual? Listen to a child describe the rape he/she endured at the hands of a pedophile, then come back to me and talk about cruel and unusual.
Look into that kids eyes and realize how completely damaged they are, for the rest of their lives, then come and talk about cruel and unusual.
This is justice, nothing more, nothing less.
Well for 60 years the schools have been teaching the theory of evolution as if it were fact, so I really have no problem with the teaching of a new theory. – Lorica
Good for Jindal and the Louisiana legislature. They’re on the right track. But forced castration for the monsters who prey on the innocent is not enough in my opinion. I hear inmates can be very rough on child predators in jail… How about a frontal lobotomy to go with that… done in the cell… with a rusty screwdriver… I think that would permanently change the way they think about children in the future.
Good for him. Altough the castration should be for the first offense and the penalties stiffened (pun intended) for the really brutal cases. (I don’t think a 18 year old sleeping with a 16 year old is the same as a molester)
You don’t have to sympathize with child molesters to object to putting the power of castration into the hands of the state. As a conservative, I believe in limiting the power of the Government, and this is a big step in the wrong direction.
Then, Guest, do you object to the death penalty? That’s a far more serious power in the hands of the state.
While I appreciate the sentiment behind the governor’s actions, this is going nowhere. It’s clearly “cruel and unusual punishment.”
I don’t believe one can “rehabilitate” child molesters. They do what they because that’s what they are. Perhaps eventually it will be possible to modify undesirable behavior (and I dearly hope that I never live in a time when the government, or any other authority, has the ability to do so) and make them safe in society, but until then a released child rapist is merely a freed child rapist who has not raped a child recently.
The castration will not stand up (uh-oh… okay, that isn’t supposed to be a pun, guys), it’s doomed to fail in the courts. And while one might hope that by putting it on the table Jindal has opened up a useful debate, this issue is going to degenerate very quickly into a screechfest. On the one side, lefties who believe that no bad behavior is the individual’s responsibility, on the other… well, everybody else who hates the idea of pretending human predators are just like everybody else. Looks like an uneven fight, but remember which side owns the media and has a major foothold in the courts.