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Skriven 2006-06-18 08:10:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB ACKLEY
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-=> Quoting Bob Ackley to Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-

 MvdV> Ridiculous. What good did it do? And to who. (Others than the career
 MvdV> of the prosecuting attorney general)

 BA> It made the very self-righteous very happy.  We'll see if it gets him
 BA> elected governor.
 
 BA>> and a lifetime of having to register with his local authorities,

 BA>> wherever he lives, as a sex offender (and note that many if not most
 BA>> local authorities post the names and addresses of registered sex
 BA>> offenders on web sites, which has caused houses to mysteriously
 BA>> catch fire in the dead of night).

 MvdV> So not just prosecutors who lost all sense of perspective but people
 MvdV> taking the law into their own hands as well. :-(

 BA> In point of fact a year or so ago in Omaha (Nebraska) a fellow was
 BA> awaiting sentencing after having been convicted of a sex crime (I've
 BA> forgotten precisely what he did).  In any case, one dark night the gas
 BA> feed pipe to his furnace was mysteriously re-routed to dump the gas
 BA> into the crawl space under his mobile home.
 BA> The gas exploded and the explosion and resulting fire killed the man -
 BA> and his wife,
 BA> who had not been accused or convicted of anything.  Obviously a case
 BA> of premeditated
 BA> murder, two counts; no arrests and not much of an investigation.

 BA> Various cities in the US have passed laws restricting where convicted
 BA> sex offenders
 BA> may reside - not within a half mile of any school, church, park or
 BA> playground, for
 BA> instance (which effectively bans them from living anywhere in the
 BA> city).  Some smaller
 BA> cities and towns have flatly forbidden them from living within the
 BA> city limits. Of course, the county sheriffs are required to check on
 BA> those registered sex offenders
 BA> to insure that they are in fact living at the reported address, and
 BA> according to an article
 BA> last winter in the Des Moines (Iowa) Register some were living at a
 BA> highway rest stop -
 BA> and the sheriff found them there (in their cars, trying to keep warm
 BA> in freezing weather)
 BA> every night.

 BA> Note that the definition of what constitutes a sex crime varies
 BA> between jurisdictions, not all involve children and not all involve
 BA> forcible rape.  But a conviction lumps *all* into the
 BA> same category, regardless of the act committed.

Rather than going through this sex-offender registrations 
nonsense, why not just keep the sex-offender in *prison* if he's 
considered a hazard?  Else, he's paid his debt by serving a 
prison sentence and should be freed as is a bank robber, 
embezzler, pick-pocket, etc.  After all, there's no law 
preventing a convicted bank-robber from living, say, one thousand 
feet or less from a bank.  And like the registered sex-offender, a 
convicted bank robber is likely to rob a bank after serving his 
sentence.  Consider Willie Sutton, for example.

... "And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so well ... " ÄÄ Anon.

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