Some Justice **old blog 7-07**

I read about the guy in California, Jack McClellan , who claimed he was attracted to little girls.
There is alot about this I don't like. I don't like the guy at all. I don't like anything about him. I don't like what he is saying. I don't like the ideal of him living in this world. I especially don't like the ideal that he could be living down the road. He is probably one of the most disgusting persons on the planet. But I don't understand how the state of California can do the things they are doing. For all of the nasty stuff that he has said, he hasn't been convicted of a crime. He hasn't done anything to a child. So how can the state be subjecting him to a different set of laws than any other person? Sure we can think that he will do something but that isn't something that should be part of our court system.
All of this is just wrong. If we start doing things like this, Pre-emptive justice, where does it end because it can be applied to so many things in our world. If we start doing things like this, when a child is molested; the child should be put in jail because of the tendency of molested children to become molesters themselves. It's pre-emptive and it's logical in that way of thinking. Children that have parents with some mental problems should be institutionalized because of the chance of the problems being passed to the child. Children of violent parents should be locked up because of the tendency of those children to become violent. People caught speeding, should be locked away because of the chance that in the future they will kill someone in a car accident. People that drink alcohol or take any drugs should be put in jail for future deaths caused by accidents while under the influence.
Our world has become so muddled, so distasteful. And we seem determined to make it worse. Kids can be kicked out of school and put in jail for having a list of names on a piece of paper. Spoken words have become criminal. Written words have become criminal. People are being jailed because of something that has happened at other places by other people. People are being put in jail for talking to adults that are acting like they are children. People are being jailed for things that might happen. People are being jailed for fictitious crimes. Where does it end?
Future crimes are not something that I want our government involved in. I don't want someone looking at a folder trying to figure out what I (or anybody else) might do in the future. This presumption of future crimes destroys the idea of Presumed Innocent. The way things are going, soon we will be presumed guilty until we can prove we are innocent (it's almost like that now). But beyond all of that, how can you prove your innocent of a crime that hasn't been committed yet? What's next, Thought Police? Or maybe government forced abortion of "criminal fetuses"?
Maybe I am wrong in the way I see things. But I think that you can tell more about a nation by their laws than by anything else. If the government uses laws to control the citizens thru law enforcement then maybe the nation is already lost. It becomes more like tyranny protecting a corrupt entity than government by and for the people. Government should be a guideline to help not a way to control.