http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2007/8/21/7123/85050

There are ZERO ways to defend this.

And turning a blind eye to the failures of a system set up to defend innocent people by keeping the bad guys locked up isn't only irresponsible, it's reprehensible.  

People are literally dying (apologies to the Governor who insisted herself earlier this year that people WOULD die unless the state raised taxes... which it hasn't... and no one's died as a result).  

I'd never think to speak for these women or their families but they deserve something be done to prevent this sort of thing from ever happening again.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070901/NEWS06/709010346

Sandra Eichorn was killed just down the street from my house.  Glad I bailed out of town 2 months ago.  Also glad that I made a rule of keeping a pistol within arm's reach at all times.

Thanks to the "leaders" that Lansing has had for the past few decades, there's another Michigan city going the way of Detroit, Flint, Bay City, etc.

Even if this guy had been locked up for his entire sentence, he still would have been out on the street in a few years. From what we know now, it's likely he would have done something similar once out on the streets. So then what? Are you ready to lock up every felon for life and throw away the keys?

No?

I keep reading excuses and excuses.

I find it appalling you're willing to continue to make excuses, after being confronted several times, for your Governor and her failed leadership.  

Granholm used to be a prosecutor in one of Michigan's most crime-ridden counties.  You're telling me she has no clue, no solution, on how to keep murderous "early parolees" off the streets?  

Why?  

Because the Demoncrats don't need to play nice here.  They can come in, troll, poop in the pool, and go back to MichiganLibel where they claim they're "winning the blog wars".

All the while they demand us to hold ours accountable, to declare our folks crooks, and tell us WE'RE responsible for the ideas on keeping the public safe... they can retreat and "ignore" posts asking them for answers.

They can ignore the posts asking direct questions, only to pop up two hours later and pee in the pool again.

NoviDemo doesn't want to find a "solution' that would fit everyone.  They don't want to play nice, and get along.  For all his bellyaching about "scoring political points", he's just as guilty and three times as often.  

Now if we could get back to hangings in the town square - I think that people would take breaking the law a bit more seriously.  

You've got to admit-some of those Middle Eastern/Asian countries don't have huge crime problems, like we do.  However, you've also got to admit that a lot of their punishments are what we'd consider "severe".  

I'm not a huge fan of flogging or the death penalty, but what we have in place isn't obviously is not working.

If you don't value your life and those lives of people around you, then it might be more of a service to let you die than hang out in jail for 30-40 years- if you are a young person and you've got no chance for parole-no need to keep these people housed for decades.