Ha! OK. Very few people like to comment about sexual predators. Especially those targeting children. THAT’S FINE! I UNDERSTAND! NOT EVERYONE HAS MY OBSESSION.
and oh yes, it is an obsession. I watch Dateline Tuesday like a dope fiend. (are there still dope fiends? Do they watch Dateline?) I get a dark deep thrill from watching the expression on those creeps’ faces when Chris Hansen comes around the corner. Watch them stutter and sputter and try to come up with a lame excuse for the KY jelly in their back pocket. I squeal with GLEE if they try to run! Or beg from mercy from Mr Hansen! Who only wants an explanation for what they meant when they said they wanted to “run my tongue over your *bleep!* and make you feel good” to a 13 year old girl.
OH YES! TAKE THAT PERVERT DOWN! And I don’t care that people have questioned the methods they use. I don’t care that some jerk killed himself rather that surrender himself to the police. BAD! GET HELP OR GET IN JAIL! HAVING SEX WITH KIDS IS WRONG WRONG WRONG! Don’t ever stop, Dateline Tuesday.
I have a theory why watching these perves get what’s coming to them brings me so much joy. Because online predators who target kids? Are wrong. Very wrong. There is no gray area there. It’s very black and white. You want to have sex with a 12 year old? That is WRONG. VERY WRONG. GO TO JAIL NOW. DO NOT PASS GO.
And there is so very much gray area in the world today, isn’t there? The war is bad, yes? But we can’t just pull out, right? There are people there who’s lives have been shattered completely who would would not survive without our help. And we need to give them help, because it’s our fault in the first place, right? Or was it Saddam’s fault? Or is it their own fault? Maybe we should just pull out completely?
I don’t even know anymore. I’m so sick of politics and knee-jerk reactions of republicans=bad, democrats=good, when democrats haven’t covered themselves in glory lately, either. There is so much gray area, in politics, in religion, in almost every facet of life I am faced with. It is almost too much for me - I crave happy endings, which is so naive. So uncool. But there ya go. I’ve never professed to be cool. Well, maybe I have, but I was lying.
But…there is one thing I KNOW TO BE TRUE: sexual predators targeting children is bad, mkay?
So take ‘em down for me, please, Mr Hansen. It is the only thing I know is right, right now.
Take ‘em all down! And, life is varying shades of many colors…
There IS a third option, one that makes sense, but I don’t know if it can work, any more. Station troops outside of the country. In Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
Let the Iraqi government know that if they need cruise missiles, gunships, or anything else, all they need is to call. Let the Iranians know that we haven’t left, we’re just regrouping.
Any incursion over the Kuwaiti, Saudi, or Turkish borders will be crushed. If the Iranians are mad enough to try anything on their border, Bad Things Will Happen.
If the Iraqi government fails to keep control in a certain area, we go in and regain control. Then we hand control to the Iraqis. In a matter of days.
No insurgency to worry about, because we aren’t there.
Two things will ultimately either happen; Iraq will eventually run out of disaffected 15 to 45 year old males… because we kept setting them on fire from a helicopter, or the disaffected 15 to 45 year old males will see enough charred husks that once were their peers to decide that working with the government is the only feasible option.
Or… Iran will invade, Turkey will attack our troops, and invade, and 300,000 Iraqis and 20,000 Americans will die in a month. However, that’s highly unlikely.