We, the comrades of Unit 1012, will
remember Polly Klaas every year on October 1 and also January 3. We will show
our love and support to her father, Marc Klaas. We urged everybody to donate
money to the KlaasKids
Foundation to learn more about protecting your children from
pedophiles.
We will post Pro Death Penalty
Quotes from her father, Marc Klaas, who is a VFFDP:
 |
|
Marc Klaas (left) &
Polly Klaas (right)
|
QUOTE 1: Marc Klaas of Sausalito, whose daughter Polly was
murdered by Richard Allen Davis in 1993, said anti-death penalty activists have
a troubling effect on the families of the victims and society in general.
"It
diminishes the victims when people burn candles and mourn someone who has
committed a heinous crime," Klaas said. "People on death row are some of the worst individuals
that appear on the face of the earth.”
QUOTE 2: "The abolitionists refuse to
acknowledge that evil exists and evil has to be put down."
 |
|
Marc Klaas
|
QUOTE 3: The best way to illustrate that is to point out
that there are maybe 750 or more individuals on death row in California, a
state that's executed 13 people in the last 30 years. That's what I mean.
There's various mechanisms to do that. The one
that's being utilized right now is the idea that the administration of the
lethal cocktail in the execution process may cause pain to the
individual being executed.
For the life of me, I don't understand
why anybody is concerned about the last 10 minutes of a death row inmate's
life, about whether that individual is feeling pain or not. It doesn't make any
sense to me. These are people who are being executed for having committed
absolute atrocities against innocent people.
[Interview: Mark Klaas, Father of
Murder Victim Polly Klaas, Speaks in Support of Death Penalty Friday January 13, 2012]
QUOTE 4: But we do know that guilty people on
death row who have been released back into society have killed again.
These
individuals on death row have no consideration for other people's humanity.
They tend to be psychopathic and show no remorse for the crimes they have
committed. I believe that as they walk that last mile and contemplate their own
fate, they perhaps do understand better the value of life. I believe that's a
hard-earned lesson, but if it's learned, then I think that's added value to the
death penalty.
[Interview: Mark Klaas, Father of
Murder Victim Polly Klaas, Speaks in Support of Death Penalty Friday January 13, 2012]
 |
Marc Klaas with his daughter, Polly.
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://klaaskids.org/]
|
QUOTE 5: Thursday March 1, 2012
- Victims advocate Marc Klaas is opposed to the
measure. His 12-year-old daughter Polly was murdered in 1993. Her killer,
Richard Allen Davis, confessed and is on death row.
"I
want the guy that murdered my daughter to be executed and I suspect the
majority of Californians would like to see the guy that murdered my daughter
executed, as they would so many other of these monsters and goons and creeps
that exist on death row," Klaas said.
 |
Marc Klaas with his daughter,
Polly.
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.klaaskids.org/blog/?p=1248]
|
QUOTE 6: Tuesday April 17, 2012
- Anderson’s primary support came from Marc Klass, a
well-known advocate for victims whose daughter, Polly, was kidnapped, assaulted
and killed by a parolee who has been sitting on death row for nearly 16 years.
Klass’
frustration boiled over after the committee rejected Senate Bill 1514 and was
on the verge of voting against Senate Constitutional Amendment 20.
“You
people don’t care about my daughter, You don’t care about any of the victims,”
Klass told the panel. After he was admonished and told part of the solution
involved money, Klass demanded: “How much does it cost
to do nothing? How much does it cost to let this go on year after year? How
much does it cost to have Richard Allen Davis on death row for 30 years?”
Davis stole into a bedroom of Klass’ suburban Petaluma home, kidnapping by
knife point and later killing the 12-year-old Polly. It took nearly 13 years
for his automatic appeal to reach the state Supreme Court, which summarily
upheld his conviction. His appeal is now before a federal court.
QUOTE 7: Wednesday April 25,
2012 - "The only reason I think about
Richard Allen Davis at all is because these people who oppose the death penalty
keep throwing this in our faces," said Marc Klaas, whose
12-year-old daughter, Polly Klaas, was kidnapped from her Petaluma home, then
raped and strangled. Her body was discarded near an abandoned lumber mill in
Cloverdale.
Davis was
sentenced to death in 1996. He awaits execution.
 |
"There are no
guarantees whatsoever, not even an inkling of a guarantee, that replacing the
death penalty with life without the possibility of parole will guarantee these
people will stay inside." - Marc Klaas [PHOTO SOURCE: https://quozio.com/quote/45r7fxgdxgrn/1092/there-are-no-guarantees-whatsoever-not-even-an-inkling-of-a] |
QUOTE 8: Klaas criticized the backlog of death penalty
appeals cases for causing ballooning costs.
He also
worries that the system would become more lenient if the death penalty is
abolished, eventually allowing some people to eventually be released on parole.
"There
are no guarantees whatsoever, not even an inkling of a guarantee, that
replacing the death penalty with life without the possibility of parole will
guarantee these people will stay inside," Klaas said.
QUOTE 9: Klaas said that he will be able to stop thinking
about his daughter's killer once the man is executed.
"Who
the hell do they think Richard Allen Davis is? Don't they get what he did,
don't they know that Salcido slit the throats of his own daughters?"
Klaas said. "Why are they so hell-bent on
protecting these individuals?"
 |
| Polly Klaas |
QUOTE 10: Monday August 20, 2012 - Davis is one
of over 700 inmates currently awaiting death in California, which hasn’t
executed anyone since 2006.
That year,
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ordered a moratorium on executions in the
state, after hearing complaints about how lethal injections were to be
administered.
Klaas
believes the moratorium is an example of a roadblock to execution engineered by
death penalty opponents.
“Baby
killers, cop killers, mass murderers; I mean really the worst people in society
have been deemed worthy of the ultimate law of the land, the death penalty,”
Klaas said. “But the abolitionists have created barrier
after barrier.”
QUOTE 11: When Klaas knocks death penalty opponents, he makes
clear that he understands what motivates many victims’ survivors who take the
opposite view.
“I
know that the ones who deal with it best are those who find the will to fight
back, whether it’s for the death penalty, against the death penalty or
something else” he said.
 |
|
Polly Klaas A.K.A Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 – October 1, 1993)
was an American murder victim whose case gained national
attention. At the age of twelve, she was kidnapped at knife point from her
mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California,
on October 1, 1993. She was later strangled. Richard Allen Davis
was convicted of her murder in 1996 and sentenced to death.
|
QUOTE 12: It has been 20 years since Richard Allen Davis was
sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering 12-year-old Polly Klaas
of Petaluma in 1993, bringing to a close a case that shocked and outraged the
community while cementing a legacy as the most horrific crime in the city’s
history.
But for Marc
Klaas, Polly’s father, the case is not closed as long as Davis is still alive.
The Marin County resident and president of the KlaasKids Foundation, which aims
to stop crimes against children, also is an advocate for the death penalty.
Klaas said he
is closely watching two competing state initiatives on the November ballot —
one that would abolish the death penalty in California and one that would
expedite the process. He said seeing Davis put to death would bring a sense of
finality to the case.
“It
would give me satisfaction. It would give my daughter closure,” he
said. “I think she deserves closure. The only way to
get that is for Richard Allen Davis to be put down.”
QUOTE 13: “These are the worst killers — cop killers, serial killers, child
killers. They set a standard for evil that needs to be acknowledged,” he said. “If you give Polly’s killer what he wants — his life — that’s
not punishment.”
 |
| In this Oct. 30, 2015 file photo, Marc Klaas, far left at podium, father of Polly Klaas, who was kidnapped and slain in 1993; Scott Jones, Sacramento County sheriff; L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and Sheriff Jim McDonnel join other victims' rights advocates, community leaders, and elected officials to announce efforts to place an initiative on the 2016 ballot to streamline the death penalty in California. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) |
QUOTE 14: Marc
Klaas lost his daughter Polly in 1993. The 12-year-old was taken from a party,
raped, and then murdered.
Before her murder, Marc Klass opposed the death
penalty. But now he believes it is punishment that should be available for the
worst crimes -- killing a child, killing a police officer or killing more than
one person.
“The whole idea that somebody like
Richard Allan Davis, the guy that murdered my daughter, would be in a position,
after his extensive criminal history, to even get his hands on my child, is absolutely
preposterous. And apparently, the only way that can be stopped is
through his execution.”
Klass noted that Davis once said he gets sexual
pleasure in prison from thinking about tying up his past victims.
“Now, that tells me that the guy that
murdered my child is sitting in his cell on death row, re-victimizing her on a daily
basis. And the only way that re-victimization will ever cease is the
day that he ceases to exist. And I think that her memory and her spirit deserves
better than the consideration he has given her…”
[December
16, 2016]
 |
It diminishes the
victims when people burn candles and mourn someone who has committed a heinous
crime. People on death row are some of the worst individuals that appear on the
face of the earth. The abolitionists refuse to acknowledge that evil exists and
evil has to be put down. – Marc Klaas [PHOTO SOURCE: https://quozio.com/quote/kspp5czvzbmx/1011/it-diminishes-the-victims-when-people-burn-candles-and] |
AUTHOR: Marc Klaas - In the aftermath of the Oct. 1, 1993
kidnap and murder of his twelve-year-old daughter Polly, Marc Klaas gave up his
lucrative rental car franchise to pursue an aggressive child safety agenda. In
announcing the formation of the non-profit KlaasKids Foundation in September,
1994, Mr. Klaas said, "We can give meaning to Polly's death and create a
legacy in her name that will be protective of children for generations to come
by pursuing the singular mission of stopping crimes against children."
On June 8,
2001 Mr. Klaas cofounded BeyondMissing, Inc., a federally funded California
public benefit non-profit corporation. BeyondMissing provides America's law
enforcement community with a free and secure Website to easily and swiftly
create and distribute missing child flyers via broadcast fax, email and SMS
technology. Working with Texas Governor Perry's staff, BeyondMissing, Inc. has
created a state of the art high tech Amber Alert application that is
unsurpassed in efficiency, speed and dependability.
Through
federal and state legislative efforts Mr. Klaas promotes prevention programs
for at-risk youth, stronger sentencing for violent criminals and governmental
accountability and responsibility. Often times this advocacy takes the form of
legislative testimony.
Mr. Klaas has
appeared on most network television newsmagazines, syndicated talk shows and is
a regular resource for CNN, FOX and MSNBC, offering commentary on missing
children and victim's rights. He has written for Newsweek Magazine and
published editorial opinions for newspapers as diverse as the San Francisco
Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A sought after
speaker, Mr. Klaas has shared a podium with President Bill Clinton, New York
Governor George Pataki, California Governor Gray Davis; Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Mayor Guliani and many other distinguished civic leaders.
Mr. Klaas
travels extensively through the United States facilitating town-hall meetings,
encouraging innovative solutions and proven programs that positively impact
crime, abuse and neglect that plague children in so many of our communities. He
also counsels and advises numerous victim families and families of kidnapped
children.
Besides his
duties as volunteer president of the KlaasKids Foundation and president of
BeyondMissing, Inc. Mr. Klaas sits on the advisory boards of the Center for the
Community Interest; Fight Crime Invest in Kids and the National Children's
Advocacy Center.
CHECK THESE
PREVIOUS BLOG POSTS:
1. Polly
Klaas’s story
2. Quotes by
Marc Klaas
3. THE 20TH
ANNIVERSARY OF POLLY KLAAS’S MURDER
No comments:
Post a Comment