Try This On For Size

On our latest podcast, with John Wirth, we talked about sex offenders and how to deal with them. It's a touchy subject, because there's no where you can put a predator or hardened criminal and feel good about it, until now.

I'm ready to build the "island" of hardcore criminals. It doesn't have to be an island in the literal sense, just a place where nothing gets in or out unless we want it to, like the raptor cage on Jurassic Park. We would stock the island with all of the repeat offenders and other riff raff that have defeated the prison system, yet still aren't fit to be part of suburbia.

The real genius of this plan is that we have created an isolated society, a laboratory if you will, for liberal theory! We let the liberals experiment on these people until their blue in the face. Let the liberals try to cure all the social disease in the place. Give them all $10 an hour to work at the Super Walmart on the island, force them to drive cars that run on pure ethanol or hot air, have them all pay high taxes to support their free hospital on the island. Let them try to make their theories work in practice. It'll be a great learning experience for everyone.

When I mentioned this plan to T. and L. at State Fair yesterday, L. had an addendum. He said we should build a second island. The second one would have stockades and other rigid penalties (like the death penalty) for its citizens. If they screw up again, they will be strictly dealt with. There are two questions that I would ask anyone who's still reading:

1. Which island do you think the criminals would prefer?


2. Which island would you feel safer taking your family to visit?

Once you have your answer, think about why it is that we insist on trying to rehabilitate people again and again, and then release them into our neighborhoods.