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Just because I’m a criminal defense attorney who has fought like hell to defend child molesters as part of my job, that does not mean I approve of the practice. If the charges are proven — and, yes, I fight like the dickens to make it hard for that to happen to my clients — the convicted child molester needs to be imprisoned.
I feel just as strongly that those who aid and abet in child molestation — the enablers – should go to prison, as well.
The United States Supreme Court the other day decided that the United States Constitution should survive 9/11.
The Court ruled1 5-4 that detainees at “Gitmo” — the military base the U.S. military built in Cuba to try to avoid having to honor the Constitution — have rights under the Constitution. As one writer responded,
This is unbelievable! These people should have the same rights our victims of 911 had and all the soldiers who are trying to protect us from further attack! Just when you think this Court can’t get any more stupid, surprise!
I assume the second sentence was supposed to end in a question mark, because otherwise, it doesn’t make sense. I’m sure this writer did not believe that Gitmo detainees were supposed to have rights. And I have to agree. After all, who would have thought that the Founders of the United States of America would have wanted the Constitution to survive 9/11?
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