There's a big hullabaloo the past few days surrounding the acquittal of Casey Anthony, who was accused of murdering her three year old? daughter, Four? I dunno, Tiny girl-child. Anyways the nation is up in arms naturally because everyone is convinced that Casey Anthony did it. Whether or not she actually did will probably never be revealed except by the few that actually know, or even Casey herself. Me? I'm inclined to think that she did do it. But in all honesty I'm not going to get into that at all. All those angles were covered by the media, whose sole purpose was to smear this person. The negative publicity garnered from this fiasco is exactly what has prompted caring parents and U.S. citizens to dream up this knee jerk reaction law, "Caylee's Law" The knee jerk response is my primary reason for not signing this law. The website puts it as such, "Caylee's Law, contact your Senator and Representative: there should be a new federal law created called Caylee's Law that will make it a federal offense for a parent or guardian to not notify law enforcement of a child going missing in a timely manner."
This in itself is far too vague. Especially with regards to divorced parents. If a mother lets her kid stay with her dad and dad keeps the child longer than what was originally planned, is it wrong of the mother to wait an extra week to see how it goes down? Perhaps dad went on an extended trip without his cell phone. Maybe he killed and ate her, do we still punish mom in that case as well? I mean this is just one what if. If i really felt inclined to think more about it, I'm sure I could think of different instances where an innocent parent can be thrown in jail over a misunderstanding.
People that are for less government should really look at this harder as well. You know what other knee jerk reaction laws have really screwed us over? Prohibition. and more recently the patriot act. I don't know about you, but I don't need a law to govern something that's common fucking sense. Just because one idiotic bitch cant call the cops doesn't mean we're all suddenly culpable. It really takes the "innocent until proven guilty" and rubs its nose in shit. Maybe I'm crazy. Actually, I am. But I really think that people should wait about a month or so after cooler heads have prevailed and sit down and work this thing out properly. Maybe I've chosen the wrong law to stand against in my tirade against government control. But to use a quote from mainstream christians against homosexual marriage, "It's a slippery slope" and quite frankly I already feel as though state and federal governments are already way too far up our asses about how we raise our children. So nope, no "Caylee's law" for this savage.....
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