Chelsea King

Chelsea King, as most of you have heard on the news, disappeared after going for a jog in a San Diego park. While family and friends worried and and thousands of friends and volunteers searched, many wondered and worried what had happened to the seventeen year old Chelsea.
Her car was found in the park with car keys and cell phone inside.
Chelsea King was young, beautiful and an honor student at her high school. Thousands of people who had joined the search, then mourned the Poway High School honor student at a candlelight vigil Tuesday night.

Brent King thanked supporters on the lawn of St. Michael's Church in Poway.

"She's my angel forever," he said.

Five days after her disappearance, her body was found in a shallow lakeside grave in the very park where she had vanished. Thirty year old John Albert Gardner III has been arrested and charged with her death and rape or attempted rape. Gardner is a convicted sex offender who served five years of a six year prison term for molesting a thirteen year old girl in 2000 and is also suspected of a December attack on another female.

Chelsea's death was horrible and sickening in the extreme because it did not have to happen.
How long before the law and courts understand that sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated?
How many more women will we lose this year? Next year? And the year after?

Chelsea's life, so full of promise, was cut short in the most beastly way by a man who should have never been let out of prison in the first place. An animal of a man who preys upon women and who will always prey upon women. It's in his brain, part of his nature and who he is. A beast...
You cannot change that. You can only lock the beast up and away so that he doesn't harm anyone else. Or you put him down.

I pray he gets put down....

RIP Dear Chelsea and know that we mourn your loss, your beauty and your life of promise.
God Rest your soul...

Until next time,

Love and Light to You All,
LadiofZen

Alan Turing

Alan Turing was a mathematical genius and cryptographer. He was also reported to have thought up an imaginary computer. While attempting to crack a Nazi code during World War II, he ended up actually building one. Not a small feat by any means and his work helped to defeat the Allies.

Now here's where this becomes a horror story. In January 1952, Turing was openly homosexual when homosexuality at that time was considered either a crime or mental illness. Picking up a young man one night, he took him home. The young man burgled Turing's home and when Turing went to the police station to report it, he was arrested for homosexuality which was then illegal in England. He was tried and convicted and given the choice of two sentences; two years in prison or chemical castration.

He chose chemical castration. He was to receive hormone injections once a year to render him impotent, which it did and caused humiliating anguish. It caused his body to bloat and as he told one of his friends in horror,"Look at me! I've grown breasts!

Two years later, Turing committed suicide by biting into a cyanide covered apple.   No doubt the treatment he was subjected to was enough to cause the despair which would lead him to take his own life. 

Because he was homosexual, this genius of a man who was brilliant enough to build one of the world's first computers, a leader in artificial intelligence, was forced to undergo a horrible fate. One that he could not live with. The story is tragic in the extreme.

But it brings up an interesting point. What if all rapists and child molesters were given this treatment? Even though they would have no sexual desire, would they still be able to hurt someone, if only with their hands? Would they still have the need? And if this was implemented, would it help solve the extreme over crowding in prisons? Would this be the answer to terrible problem of killers, rapists and molesters being set free over and over to commit their atrocities on yet another victim? Is it barbaric to consider such a thing in this day and age? Or is it a fitting justice for the victims of such crimes?

Alan Turing was a lot of things; eccentric, brilliant and openly gay but he not a killer. He was not a rapist and he was not a child molester. He was a homosexual.

Therein lies the difference...