Lost in Cyberspace!!!

Man, I finally got on the ball and spent the last hour writing a blog. In one second and the click of the wrong button all my thoughts were gone. Never to come back. People think I am crazy because I’ll handwrite my papers then type them. This is a perfect example of why. The blog I was writing may have been offensive so maybe that was God's way of censorship. I was really feeling what I had to say and once I said it, it was gone. I could not articulate what I was feeling again so this is my blog.

Rise in Gang Violence

I am enraged at the rise of violence in Salinas. There have been four shooting in which two people were killed. One male was 26 and the other 23. As a mother of two boys, I could not bury one of my children. Impossible! More and more mothers are being forced to plan funerals instead of weddings. I remember this girl I went to school with everyone hated her she was having a car wash, I stopped and asked what it was for and she told me her brother was murdered. The next day they were having a barbeque outside of a liquor store still trying to raise money for the funeral. I was so sad that I gave them the money that I had on both days. I could not understand how a family does not even have time to grieve over a loved one. When I showed up to the BBQ the family members were dressed out in their Norteno attire. I was confused and pissed off at the same time. Being in the gang is just what got your loved one killed now they were on the Eastside flaming. Put your shit down for a minute!!! People Please!!! I know the game, I understand why they dressed out, but that was someone’s child. Show respect to the family by not trying to incite more violence. Two kids under 18 died across the street from my house at a grocery store. Their bodies lay on the cold concrete parking lot for about 6 hours, I saw the mother pull up in a van and identify her son. This to me is heartbreaking, but yet normal. Please raise awareness, talk to the youth in your community, recognize the signs, become proactive, do something. By doing something you may save two lives, one from prison and the other form being taken.

Another Molester on the Loose

Once again another child molester will be set free in Monterey County. James Lamb a convicted child molester that admitted that he molested more than 50 children. According to doctors at Atascadero state hospital Lamb is no longer a threat to society because he has been chemically castrated, and has undergone extensive psychological treatment. When will we learn? These people are dangerous and there is said to be no cure, then why are they getting out of jail. The point of jail was to rehabilitate now its main purpose is to incapacitate criminals if we cannot do either then what is the point. The news said he spent 20 years in jail do the math that is less than 6 months for every child he has raped. The community would be outraged if a child molester was sentenced to 6 months in jail. Vigilantism would be the proper conclusion to that problem. Oh wait, he has to wear a GPS tracking device for our safety. How does that help if he touching kids in a store or God forbid he is another John Couey and has the neighbor kid at his house? Believe it or not there is a statute of limitation on these types of crime. That's why child molesters should get on strike and you’re out, mandatory life in prison. Why chance the safety of children the most precious resource all this extra safety measures the government places on these offenders is a waste of money. If it is that serious that they need to be micromanaged then for our protection then definitely they should spend the rest of their life in prison.