Oklahoma State Representatives Mike Ritze and Mike Reynolds are seeking removal proceedings against Judge Thomas Bartheld. Bartheld suspended 19 years of a 20-year sentence against a man who raped a 4-year-old girl.

Bartheld and District Attorney Jim Bob Miller defend their decision to let David Earls, 64, walk, saying that the victim was too young to make a good witness in court.

"Plea bargains like this are done every day," Miller says in USA Today. "It's very difficult for young children to come into the judicial system to testify. There's no real good way around it."

Well, there might be one good way around it in thousands of Oklahoma cases.

Last year, PROTECT provided Oklahoma's U.S. Senator Tom Coburn with a law enforcement map plotting the location of thousands of Oklahoma child pornography traffickers (Below: dots represent concentrations of computers). Experts believe at least a third of these known criminals have local child sexual abuse victims. Prosecuting these cases requires a hard drive on the stand, not a fragile child, and getting serious sentences is a slam-dunk proposition.

Yet Oklahoma lawmakers--like federal lawmakers--have refused to give law enforcement the tools it needs to stop them and rescue their victims.

So, if Oklahoma legislators like Ritze and Reynolds want justice for child rape victims, there's a better way to prove it than going after one judge: give state and local law enforcement the resources it needs to attack Oklahoma's thriving child pornography trade.

There they are boys, hiding in plain sight, ready to take the measure of Oklahoma outrage. Predators and unprotected child rape victims. Talk tough or saddle up and go rescue children. That's the real man's choice in Oklahoma City.