In general there are way too many laws and way too much "punishment." We live in what could be accurately characterized as a "police state" with more men in prisons than any other nation at any other time in the history of humanity. Victimless "crime" is not a crime at all. The government should mind its own business. If the prosecutor can't find a victim to appear in court and demonstrate their injuries, then the prosecutor should be slapped with a penalty. And police don't count as "victims." They aren't there to create "crime." Annoyances are not crimes. The government should not get involved. That leaves crimes against other people, murder, robbery, assault, etc. Again, if the person isn't harmed, then no crime is committed. Most fights are offsetting penalties, no government penalty involved. Robberies and other property crimes need restitution, not punishment. The criminal needs to be an indentured servant to the victim until the debt is paid back. That leaves serious injury or death crimes. If its a whiny MIL he should get a medal, not a punishment.

Good thought. The punishment should fit the crime. Arrogant young A**holes who want to "punish" everyone SHOULD be put in a public stock with a supply of whips available to the public.

A terrorist organization that will use internationally banned "WMD" poison gas (CS) to anhillate a whole village of American men, women, and dozens of children, and then burn the bodies, will not blink at merely robbing computers from honest men. The FBI and all their agetnts are the enemies of a free nation.

By "raped" you mean the young women got laid. The **Average** age for initial sex in the US is during the young woman's 14th year. You say she was on the net looking to get laid. It is a huge lie to call that "rape." The whole "internet rape" thing is another anti-men hate program. It does not protect young women who are never hurt by getting laid on the internet any more than at home. It is young men who are being hurt by the aggressive hate program. The numbers of young men destryed by the varsious rape-hate campaigns are beginning to make the medieval witch hunts look like a sunday school picnic. The real perverts in this whole story are the hate mongering bigots who use "the children" as an excuse to focus on sex and hate.