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To Jess & Tilly

lisaweisenstein@embarqmail.com

Thank you for your comments on Kennedy vs Louisiana and Megan's Law. Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, was also quite enraged by the inadequate liberal majority of the high court. The very day of the decision he signed in to Law SB 144 providing for the chemical castration of these convicted wastes of flesh. But this punishment too may very well find it's demise in the weight of a liberal gavel. There is a very fine line between Justice and vigil anarchy and it appears the high court tempts orderly society with its ambiguity.

The 8 yr old that was brutally raped is now a young woman entering Law School; sleeping with a night light, reliving the savage attack with every horrendous nightmare, and perpetually peering over her shoulder in fear of his return to someday kill her. As agonizing as these emotional and psychological effects are, she is one of the fortunate ones.

Seven year old Megan Kanka (for whom Megan's Law is named) was found discarded in a plastic toy container. The vibrant and much loved little girl was raped and strangled by a paroled sex offender. Irrespective to the challenges of the 1996 federal statute, Megan's Law has availed and continues to help guard the children of watchful and loving parents. Opponents of, ascertain that Megan's Law violates the Constitutional Right of privacy (which originated from the ACLU's amicus brief to Poe vs Ullman, and implored by Justice Harlan's dissent thereof in 1961­not the Constitution) of the convicted. If this law is appealedd to the Supreme Court to decide Constitutionality thereof, Heaven help us. With the approaching retirement of two possibly three Justices in the next administration, Constitutional Law should be an a priori of the November elections. Ironic, but the press refuses to bite.

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