Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, of Fargo, N.D., a convicted sex offender on the run from an earlier child molestation count, was charged Tuesday in 1st District Court with two counts of first-degree kidnapping. He’ll probably be charged with multiple murders in the very near future. Turns out that Mr. Duncan was a blogger.
Purportedly from the blog of a murderer and child molester:
If you knew without doubt that closing 9 out of 10 prisons and releasing the 9 least violent out of 10 prisoners would reduce new crimes by more than half in less than 5 years, would you be for it?”
An interesting question.
Be sure to read the comments to his last entry. Joseph Edward Duncan III is very sick, but so is the lynch mob fan club he’s attracted. I guess evil attracts passionate stupidity and coarse idiots like a magnet attracts metal filings.
Here are some sample comments, since I’m sure the Fifth Nail blog is going to be taken down shortly:
My only wish is that could log on one last time and tell us how she was.
# posted by Anonymous : 2:12 PM
Excuse me Anonymous as 2:12, your IP address is showing….your next.
# posted by Anonymous : 2:19 PM
See, crimes like this wouldn’t even happen today if it werent for them damn democraps. the democraps stand in the way of everything. in 2006 elect nothing but republicans so america can get back on the right track.
# posted by Anonymous : 2:54 PM
He deserves a BIG THANK YOU. He got rid of two drug addicts and two future prison/welfare losers. He showed the young girl how to live a productive lifestyle and taught her how breakfast was important. I think a parade is in order for this guy.
# posted by Anonymous : 3:06 PM
Some days I wish Internet access was prohibitively expensive. That would keep out most of the riff raff.
Visit Urban Grounds for more perspective on Joseph Edward Duncan III.
You may notice that I tagged this entry under Privacy Issues. That’s because Mr. Duncan was using PGP encryption to keep some sort of secret diary. I’ve argued in the past that encryption is a good thing, and want to reiterate that. Just because bad people use encryption doesn’t mean that authorities should be able to punish everyone else for using it. What Duncan has apparently perpetrated is tragic, and it’s likely he’ll pay for his crimes, despite having encrypted whatever it was he had to hide.
Society has zero right to curtail my privacy because people like Joseph Edward Duncan III happen to exist.
For the record, anyone who blames their problems on “demons” is highly dangerous, and not to be trusted. That’s my wisdom gem of the day, free to you, dear reader. The devil cannot make you do anything you don’t want to do.