The Zoo offers the basic concept of captivity that we are used to visiting with animals, but instead of animals, they house the human ones. The one's society has no use for anymore because they are sick and perverted. It offers two levels of visitation. Level 1 is the basic walkthrough, a self-guided tour through the different wings. Each wing presents a different type of criminal, from murderers, thieves, and drug dealers to the wicked ones, human traffickers, pedophiles, and rapists. Each exhibit, like the animal zoo, has an interpretation guide posted in the window to read about the crimes that exhibit committed and the time we sentence them to. The Level 2 visit is a more intimate affair. Behind the panes of acrylic, the exhibits are punished and put on display! Level 2 is for the strong stomached, vengeful ones. Like anything good in life, you must pay for it, so I haven’t seen an L2 visit I didn’t like. It’s worth every penny.

 When I heard about the Criminal Zoo, I couldn’t have written my congressman fast enough. I wrote about the lasting effects that bastards’ actions would have on me. I advocated for why we needed to send this fucker and the others like him to the Criminal Zoo. Then I begged for the opportunity to explain why we needed a CZ in our community to protect its citizens. I was ignored, taunted even, as to why the great state of Montana will never house such a savage institution. These people didn’t get it, they couldn’t, they didn’t go through it. They were the reason so many victims stay victims. The missing resources misallocated funding. The lack of intelligence is a major factor, empathy and courage are a fraction of fallacies the system has. The callousness is bred and so is the ignorance. The system never had justice in mind, just votes, and revenue. I’m not sure if the whole group equaled a single brain. They didn’t have nightmares or cold sweats. They didn’t hyperventilate at the mention of a name. They didn’t have to renew the restraining orders. They didn’t have the health issues, the mental breakdowns, the sporadic and unhealthy relationships. OCD, depression, addiction disorders. These things people like me endured day to day weren’t part of their day-to-day. Waking up, contemplating why wondering if it got better. Perhaps that was the only reason I stayed, wondering if tomorrow would be better. Perhaps I would never know, what I did know is I needed to go to the Zoo. The Zoo had access to the people that I demanded answers from. The Zoo offers a different level of justice that my hometown doesn’t.

 I want someone else to be in control, to say when to eat when to sleep, when to shower. I want to see all the dignity stripped away, leaving the only thing to cover up with is guilt and shame. I want a brutal humbling. No more manipulating the system with fake sincerity and misshapen chaos is well seeming forms. I want to see it for a long time! Let’s add years for the time it took investigating, and the time taken to build the defense. 

 

How about more for all the time he spent playing games with the court systems. Thirteen continuances, four judges, four attorneys all of which I pay for. There is no measure of time that could balance the scales of justice in this case or any others. Thank you again for your time today letting me speak. But before I go there is one more thing I’d like to say specifically to the defendant.

 

I've spent all of this time building you up in my head as some big bad monster, the truth is you’re nothing. Nothing but a sad, pathetic little man that has to beat and rape children to make himself feel big. You’ve got no power over me. I am not afraid of you. I have nothing to fear. I do have something to say, you’re not going to take this from me. Years of screaming in pain, years of anger and rage. I will not be your slave. I leave you in this moment. It’s time to strip you of this hold. I will shed myself of this memory, but you, you won’t forget me. I will haunt you ‘til your body’s cold.”