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Felons on the Loose

Courts need to put a stop to their revolving door policy.

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"Drive or I'll cut her," demanded Tayse, holding a knife to the child's neck, according to court testimony.Tayse then forced the woman to drive to Ohio, where he robbed and repeatedly raped her.

Tayse had prior convictions for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old and raping an 11-year-old multiple times. At the time of the Waterworks kidnapping, Tayse was also a wanted fugitive in nearby Cambria County for not showing up for a June 2006 trial.

William Pietragallo, the lawyer for the rape victim and her husband, maintained that Gumberg was Tayse's "enabler," citing the lack of security cameras and guards in the parking lot.

Down at the courthouse, unsurprisingly, they'll blame the parking lots rather than their own revolving door. Similarly, true to form regarding the killing of agent Hicks, no one at the courthouse will be sued for being the "enabler" who repeatedly put Korbe back on the streets.

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Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (10) | Leave a comment

Marc Jeric| 12.2.08 @ 5:44PM

According to the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory our criminals are the victims of the unjust capitalist society and of the churches which dispense the opium for the masses. The teacher union is the main dispenser of such theories to our uneducated and illiterate youngsters. In their thinking there are no born criminals - only the misunderstood victims who should be rehabilitated through socially responsible community services.

Alan Brooks| 12.2.08 @ 8:20PM

Little Red Riding Hood was raped and murdered by the Big bad Wolf, but Johnie Cochran got him off on a technicality and he wrote a book about it.

Alan Brooks| 12.2.08 @ 9:04PM

poor little Big Bad Wolf.

C. S. P. Schofield| 12.3.08 @ 6:06AM

While it is all very well to get bent out of shape over the courts' breezy treatment of Korbe, there is another aspect of this that wants consideration. Hicks died because the authorities pulled a commando-style run-and-gun raid in the middle of the night on a house containing small children and their mother. Hicks was killed, not by the targeted drug dealer, but by the mother of those children; a woman woken from sleep by armed men blowing through the doors of her house in the middle of the night. Furthermore, having shot Hicks, she called 911.

I guess what I am saying here is that we need to make up our flipping minds. Either the "War on Drugs" justifies the tactics that lead the the shooting of Agent Hicks, and the courts are horribly wrong to allow a drug dealer out on bail, or the courts have a point and the person who decided to re-enact The Raid on Entebbe is an imbecile who should be charged with Hicks murder (rather than Mrs. Korbe).

I know what I think; the War on Drugs has struck me for years as a singularly stupid excuse for government sending and intrusiveness. In the Victorian era Marijuana, Cocaine, and Heroin were not against Federal law, and our biggest social problem with drugs was with alcohol abuse. I frankly don't see how billions of Drug War dollars and thousands of paramilitary raids (many with tragically stupid results) has changed matters.

I don't use illegal drugs (yet; I do smoke and that's headed for Prohibition). Most druggies I've known were pathetic losers. Drug dealers are scum. Nevertheless the War on Drugs strikes me as an authentic menace to society, at least as bad as the drugs it fights.

Gazinya| 12.3.08 @ 12:05PM

"The government has decided....." These can be the scariest words ever uttered. When the Feds decided to 'control drugs' it stole from the cities, countys, states the Constitutional duties to regulate behavior. The citizens of each state can and should decide what they want to do with drugs and the distrubution or prohobition of such drugs. The drug dealers make billions to distribute drugs and the Feds spend many more billions to keep the dealers working.

What happens when I die? If I become nothing, like the evolutionist would declare or go out and come back, what is the down side? If I go out and become part of the universe or wander the planet as a ghost, what changes the scheme of things? If I go and their is a judgement of my life, how does that affect those still alive? We keep those who have created a horror for us in our society because some really fear death. I say, if a person in this reality even me, creates true fear to my other and their family then send that person on and let me and mine enjoy this reality. The death penelty should be used not after five or six or even two hienous crimes but swiftly after ONE. I can live with that.

Annoyed citizen| 12.5.08 @ 3:39PM

C. S. P. Schofield - how can you say that this monther is innocent? What respectable woman lives with a dug dealer and exposes her children to that? Hmmm maybe a woman that reaps the rewards of his mega sales.
People like you make me ill. Always looking for the way out for people who are guilty. And you seem to have forgotten the very large detail in which Christina Korbe called 911 AFTER she shot him. Seriously?
You probably believe O.J. Simpson is innocent as well.