Text 32336, 55 rader
Skriven 2006-06-20 08:02:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB ACKLEY
Ärende: (1/2) Pickled Pirates Pro
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-=> Quoting Bob Ackley to Frank Scheidt <=-

 BA>> Various cities in the US have passed laws restricting where convicted
 BA>> sex offenders may reside - not within a half mile of any school,
 BA>> church, park or playground, for instance (which effectively bans
 BA>> them from living anywhere in the city).  Some smaller cities and
 BA>> towns have flatly forbidden them from living within the city limits.
 BA>> Of course, the county sheriffs are required to check on those
 BA>> registered sex offenders to insure that they are in fact living at
 BA>> the reported address, and according to an article last winter in the
 BA>> Des Moines (Iowa) Register some were living at a highway rest stop -
 BA>> and the sheriff found them there (in their cars, trying to keep warm
 BA>> in freezing weather) 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 same category,
 BA>> regardless of the act committed.
 
 FS> Rather than going through this sex-offender registrations 
 FS> nonsense, why not just keep the sex-offender in *prison* if he's 
 FS> considered a hazard?

 BA> Because it costs money to house people in prisons.  It's much cheaper
 BA> to kick them out on the street and forbid them to live anywhere.
 
It might be cheaper to free them, but it makes more sense to keep 
dangerous people locked up ...

 FS> Else, he's paid his debt by serving a prison
 FS> sentence and should be freed as is a bank robber,  embezzler,
 FS> pick-pocket, etc.  After all, there's no law  preventing a convicted
 FS> bank-robber from living, say, one thousand  feet or less from a bank. 
 FS> And like the registered sex-offender, a  convicted bank robber is
 FS> likely to rob a bank after serving his  sentence.  Consider Willie
 FS> Sutton, for example.

 BA> I happen to agree with you on this - probably the only thing I can
 BA> think of where this is true.

Good!  That shows you are growing in intellect ...

 BA> I also happen to think that the "precious chilllllldrrren" would be
 BA> much better protected if the words "professional politician" were
 BA> substituted for the words "sex offender" in the applicable residency
 BA> laws. 

Wow!  Great idea but I doubt the pro pols who (by definition) 
infest all legislatures and the Congress ...

... "Damnable iteration ... able to corrupt a saint." ÄÄ Shakespeare

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