Does our judicial system still work ? I wonder at times especially when I see a convicted murderers get their death sentence commuted to life, or when we see a rapist get his prison time cut in half for "good behavior".  Better yet, when I see two bit criminals like Mary Prantil play the court system for damn near three years.

We let pedophiles and killers out on early release to walk the street and some times even allow them write books in how to carried out their unlawful acts such as in the O.J. Simpson case.

Our system of law seems to be burdened down with so many rules and regulations that it actually impedes the the due process of law, in my opinion.

Most persons being processed through the courts on various charges, or through the criminal justice system, have several opportunities to plea out for reduced sentences, or no actual sentence aside from community service or paying a few fines.

I believe that justice must be tempered with mercy and further, that the crime must fit the punishment yet, in today’s courts the justice we speak of seems to be watered down to a dangerous level when it comes to certain crimes.

It's watered down as a result of excessive lobbing under the civil rights codes outlining societal civil liberties. Again, I will just say that one can adhere to the law so rigidly that they themselves can actually violate the law in which they so earnestly try to enforce.

It's time for us as a Nation to recognize that some individuals simply can't be rehabilitated no matter the educational resources you offer them in a prison setting or rehab center upon release.

It doesn't matter how many church meetings you force them to sit in on or how sorry they come off to the victim or victim's family in a parole hearing.

The time has come when we as a Nation must recognize that some folks only wish to feed off of society while refusing to yield to any of the laws that make up that civilized society. These folks not go against the tide of a peaceful society but further add parole to those of us that attempt to live by the laws passed by our government.

Example:  Do you really think our newest assassin feels compassion for his victims?  Or that he even thinks about the long term damage he carried out against the innocent fallen?  I for one believe he  is very sorry he didn't kill more folks from the sickening smile on his face.  Perhaps this is his look of sadness and remorse for the cameras.

Do you think he will find Jesus once he's locked away in a very clean federal prison?  Maybe so, but he should know that there are some crimes against humanity that are unforgivable by both God and man.

Will the parole board feel compassion for him thirty years down the road after his lawyers have filed one partition for continuance right after another. Perhaps the Governor will commute his stay on death row to life in prison once the names of the victims have been forgotten by all except the grief stricken family members.

Doesn't these possibilities concern or scare you? That something like this could even occur in the United States in 2011. Well, It happens everyday. Doesn't it bother you that a psychopath, or lunatic like Jared Loughner murders all these innocent folks and seriously wounds several others, then smiles at us all from behind prison bars.

It bothers me greatly and I hope that justice against him works in this instance, and I don't mean twenty or thirty years from now.

Do we think that this broken personality can be fixed?  I don't think so, what do you think?. We also have several problems plaguing us in America to date that we as a Nation must contend with, as you all ready know.

We have high unemployment, health care issues, overseas terrorists and apparently confused factions of government here and abroad just to name a few things.  Do we really need home grown terrorists like Jared Loughner? Or the long line of home grown terrorist that preceded him? No would be my answer to this.

Ok, let's take another look at Miss Prantil's records below after a few initial statements made on my part. Mary Prantil has a long history of being suicidal and suicide attempts along with a lengthy criminal record going back three years at least in New York.

Prantil has several restraining orders against her in the state of New York, issued by the state of NYC. She's been sent to Rikers Island for two court ordered Psychiatric Exams, as the record shows. And was subsequently picked up on a warrant for violating her Parole that was eventually Revoked. Please view records below:

Case Information Court New York Criminal Court 
Case # 2010NY022485 
Defendant Prantil, Mary

 
Date
Part

Judge

Calendar
Section

Arraignment/
Hearing Type

Court
Reporter

Outcome/
Release Status

03/30/2011
B

PENDING

No Type


01/11/2011
B

Whiten, M

PENDING

No Type

Johnson, D

Case Continued (adjourned) - Temporary Order Of Protection Issued
Bail Continued

06/14/2010
B Burke, J PENDING No Type Maira, D
Psychiatric Exam Ordered - Temporary Order Of Protection Issued
Remanded

05/18/2010
B Mennin, F PENDING No Type Morrison, S
Case Continued (adjourned), Returned On Warrant - Temporary Order Of Protection Issued
Released on Recognizance 05/07/2010

03/24/2010
B Burke, J PENDING No Type Riccio, C
Parole Revoked,warrant Ordered - Temporary Order Of Protection Issued

01/11/2011
APAR3A Coin, E PENDING Pre-Arraignment Deposition Given Tejada, I
Psychiatric Exam Ordered - Temporary Order Of Protection Issued
Released on Recognizance

01/11/2011
B Whiten, M PENDING No Type Johnson, D
Case Continued (adjourned) - Temporary Order Of Protection Issued
Bail Continued

Now that you've viewed these records above, or possible the entire report provided by the New York Unified Court System perhaps you can see some similarities between Mary Prantil and Jared Loughner.

Another point I would like to elaborate on is in that apparently Miss Prantil was on Parole to which indicates that she was convicted and spent time in prison. Please don't confuse Parole with probation as these are two different legal actions.

Please be sure to read the following link regarding the differences between parole and probation at:http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-parole-and-probation.htm and http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/parole_probation/probation_parole_pardon.htm. Miss Prantil's parole was Again, Revoked and she was sent back to prison.

New York legal definition http://www.nysegov.com/citGuide.cfmques_id=1087&superCat=129&cat=436&content=relatedFAQs and the Revocation of Parole at :http://www.globalpolitician.com/print.asp?id=6306

http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcrim_attorney/CaseIdentifierSearch?txtCaseNumber=2009NY002655&txtSummonsNumber=&cboCounty=30&pageNumber=1&fromEmail=Y

Remanded

Charge Information

Docket:

2010NY022485

Indictment:

00000 0000

Charges:

120.50 FE (STALKING 3RD DEGREE E Felony)
240.30 MA (AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT A Misdemeanor)
240.30 MA (AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT A Misdemeanor)

Docket:


Charges:

240.30 MA (AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT A Misdemeanor)
205.30 MA (RESISTING ARREST A Misdemeanor)

Docket:

2009NY046033

Indictment:

00000 0000

Charges:

240.30 MA (AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT A Misdemeanor)
240.30 MA (AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT A Misdemeanor)
215.50 MA (CRIMINAL CONTEMP- 2ND A Misdemeanor)



 The Rose M. Singer Center is where Mary Prantil is incarcerated, which is one of TEN jails on Rikers Island.

Ten Jails on Rikers Island
List Part 2 

Rose M. Singer Center

Address:
19-19 Hazen St.,
East Elmhurst, N.Y.
11370

Mary Prantil is likened to Jared Loughner http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/10/jared-loughner-mugshot-released-photo/ in the ways that they are both are antisocial, both have mental health issues or histories, both violent, both lack the ability to communicate, both have criminal records, and both are stalkers.

And lastly, Both of these persons have distorted rantings posted on their personal web sites that are moreover accusatory and lashing out in dark ways at innocent others.

Miss Prantil is a bomb waiting to explode.  It's not a matter of if, more so then when?  Will society let this one slip through the cracks as well?  Will everyone point their fingers at one another when this bomb explodes? Who's fault will it be when it finally happens?

Will we make excuses and blame it on the lack of health care or possibly a over filled prison system?  Tell me, will she be quickly processed or pushed through the court system as a result of their full docket, and who will be responsible when this individual decided to take her vengeance out on a completely innocent person or group of people?

Will we say that it just happens and that no one saw it coming or worse yet, will we just write it off to some isolated freak snapping for no apparent reason?  Well, general public, law enforcement, legal and law enforcement communities and media, I will say this, in advance:

You can't say that you weren't warned in this instance as we have piles and piles of proof and official records indicating that Mary Theresa Prantil is a very unstable and mentally ill person whom needs immediate long term psychological assistance.

This person has around twenty victims to which four or five of them are facing off with her in court. Prantil has wasted tax payer dollars for three to four years now via filing motions for continuance when it comes time for her hearings regarding the 8 criminal charges she faces.

Yes I said eight criminal charges against her currently ranging from stalking to aggravated harassment, resisting arrest, criminal contempt and more etc.

Does this sound like a law abiding citizen who has a passive personality? Or a person that should be running free amongst us on the streets? Or does this sound like a Jared Loughner waiting to happen?

Perhaps the media should check int the New York criminal case of Mary Prantil to see why it's taking them three years to prosecute this individual and further, why they keep letting this person back out on the street.

It is exactly persons like Miss Prantil that should be red flagged in society. This isn't someone acting a little weird every once and a while.

This isn't someone having a bad hair day, or doesn't feel good because their coming down with the flu, more so then a very troubled person whom has consistently carried out malicious or harmful acts against others going back twenty years.

Where do we begin and when do we as a Nation stop making excuses in not confronting the problems of mental health and other issues?  I wonder. We opened up our Institutions back in 1980 to 1985 because of lacking of funds concerning the private sector and the mentally ill poured out onto our streets.

Most of the folks became homeless and abandoned and yet others filled up our prison system. Some live a reasonably clean and safe existences and others God only knows where their at.

The folks like Mary Prantil that severally need help are slow in receiving this assistance and moreover left to their own devices a good deal of the time and so, you get what we have here today in mentally ill crazy people all over the place.

Yes, left to their own devices to squaller in a world of conflictual fantasy in troubling times no less.  As I've stated in other articles, most emotionally troubled people aren’t violent, or tend to hurt themselves over anyone else yet, there exist the percentage to whatever it is that remains the threat to the over all common wealth.

Please don't think that if we bury our heads in the sand that this problem will go away, because it won't. In fact, we as Americans have many issues to deal with both nationally and internationally.

I don't believe that we as a nation need to throw all this off on the government more so then take personal responsibility in cleaning up our share of the mess that we made for ourselves.

Instead of becoming divided as a Nation it would be more prudent to unite and work together to solve the problems in which we face. We press on through sacrifice and courage in the face of opposition and adversity while doing the job for the sake of our children. Do we really want to leave a world like this to our young?

Speaking of our young people. You know, we have direct TV, and as I was flipping through the channels looking for a nice movie to watch guess what I saw on TV? Can't guess huh? Ok, I'll tell you since you forced me.

It was a wonderful movie called “Rampage” that involved a 20 year old Caucasian male running around in what looked like ATF black body armor with a variety of weapons on him. I guess it was suppose to be a paint ball uniform.

This kid ran around the throughout the entire movie robbing banks and cutting the throats of bank tellers, catching blowing up vehicles into fiery balls and shooting or stabbing everyone in cold blood in including policeman.

Of course, not leaving out shocking his best friend with a stun gun and then placing a 9mm to his friend's head and pulling the trigger. I'm speculating that this boy was wanting to frame his friend for the bank robbery he had previously commuted etc.

Do you think Mr. Loughner would appreciate this movie?  Would you like to know what my review was for this movie?  All I can say is (Disturbing).  Is this what our kids are watching these days? Hollywood needs to find another way to make whatever statement their trying to the world if you ask me.

This is the type of media that feeds the despair that our children fell on a daily basis. This is where they get the idea. I mean, the guy in this movie did get away with all the looting and carnage after all.

This particular movie is just one of many that I've seen this week having to do with killing, robbery, murder and worse, if that is at all possible. Of course a lot of these shows have New York or other large city themas to them. I think we have a big problem, Houston.