California Democratic Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman stands up for children who are the victims of trafficking. And while she stands up for the children, she also admits that the Democratic Party has been protecting pedophiles from receiving worse consequences of the law for their bad actions. Imagine that, a political party who appeared to support reduced or smaller consequences for sick criminals who harm children. Hmmm... makes you wonder why, doesn't it?
Finally, after 12 years, this senator has had enough. Yeah, that's great she's had enough, but she should have been like this from DAY ONE on the job - not sitting back and letting pedo criminals run the streets in California. Here's a transcript of what Senator Eggman said:
Thank you, Mr. President and Members. I'd like to say as a progressive, proud Member of this body for the last 12 years, I'm done. I'm done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children. I'm done. I don't want to send more black and brown men to prison. I don't want more people in prison.
But I don't want people buyin girls. I don't want people buying little girls anymore. And I'm tired of saying it's okay and that we have to protect the men who do it. As a mental health professional and as a social worker, I can tell you I've spent my entire career working with people who have been wounded.
I'm not going to say beyond repair, but they have been wounded to their core by the abuse that's been heaped on them, oftentimes by those that they love and look to protect them. And if their parents won't do it, then by God, we should.
Again, I am not arguing that we open the gates to flood our prisons with people, but I am arguing that we have a moral responsibility to say, enough, enough. We have given away enough on this area and we've got to move back into the center or we all look like fools and laughing stocks and what do we stand for?
I asked all of you to watch the documentary that Senator Grove was in, Senator from Kern County was just in that talked about this very place in Sacramento where girls are being bought and sold.
Men are being given a little slap in the hand or a couple days and then they're back out again and they do the same thing. They get caught over and over and over again. And somehow that's okay. It's not okay. It is not okay anymore. And no more am I watching. Like I said, I'm leaving.
But the rest of you who are going to be here for a while, let's get our stuff together and really start focusing on some of the important things. We talk about learning and we talk about being safe. This is like at the core of it. And a lot of these kids can be throwaway kids.
They're poor kids, they're kids of color, but they shouldn't have to live a life determined by what happens to them by others at a very young age and by having the Democratic Party of California say, it's okay. It's not okay. And I'm not doing it anymore. And I hope none of you do, too. We have to be able to draw a line. And for me, I'm drawing a line. I urge your aye vote.
