Bud wrote on September 12, 2008 04:35 AM: After reading these comments, I am completely convinced that truly naive people are the only ones paying attention to this. So you run your rapist out of town?.... where do you think he's gonna go? THE NEXT TOWN. Capital punishment needs to be enacted, and 90% of these hysterial SRO laws need to be repealed and never entertained again. And btw, why would you want to pay tax dollars to this guy for 20 years because he'll be on welfare and disability? put him out of everybody's misery. We're so ready to banish these people, but we can't just execute em? Get real.

Bud wrote on September 12, 2008 04:32 AM: Well, it's about time. But hey, let's disenfranchise everybody that we don't like. That way, only the naive people who think the world is pure and beautiful can go into power, and make more hysteria laws to put U.S. citizens away whenever they feel like it. does this kind of government ring a bell, guys?

Mamamia wrote on September 11, 2008 10:43 PM: In my humble opinion, there shoud only be two types of Sex offenders: one should be for the truly insane who hurt children. They should undergo intense psychological reprogramming.

The other is the brutally cowardly rapist. They should be publicly denounced and made to sweep our streets for twenty years, then run out of town. Anything in between should fall within these two catogories, and the cowards who commit these crimes ought to be forced to attend prayer classes and learn forgiveness and mercy.

Mamamia wrote on September 11, 2008 10:43 PM: In my humble opinion, there shoud only be two types of Sex offenders: one should be for the truly insane who hurt children. They should undergo intense psychological reprogramming.



The other is the brutally cowardly rapist. They should be publicly denounced and made to sweep our streets for twenty years, then run out of town. Anything in between should fall within these two catogories, and the cowards who commit these crimes ought to be forced to attend prayer classes and learn forgiveness and mercy.

lryrdr wrote on September 11, 2008 08:38 PM: now we can all thank dina titus, et al, at the next election, for the millions of tax dollars wasted on the attempted unlawful and malicious infliction of punishment.

Eli wrote on September 11, 2008 04:31 PM: Registration lists are pretty much useless. They don't help cops solve crimes or prevent crimes. They create fear and hysteria when all we see is a name without knowing if the person is actually a risk to the community, and they tend to keep offenders from successfully reintegrating back into society. The UK doesn't maintain any public sex offender registry, and they have a much lower recidivism (repeat crime) rate than any of the US states do. Registries would be fare more effective if they were limited to people likely to re-offend and who are actually dangerous. The 20-year-old with the 15-year-old girlfriend or the guy who took a leak in public isn't a danger to us. If we wanted a useful registry, we'd register repeat offender who commit such crimes as car theft, drug dealing, domestic violence, and burglary.

Herb wrote on September 11, 2008 04:15 PM: Reality, I would never take the law in my own hands. The government, not private citizens, should execute dangerous criminals.

"Tier 3" offenders don't deserve execution by any means, however the community should have the right to know who they are so they can protect themselves and their loved ones. Knowledge is power.

turkeys wrote on September 11, 2008 03:14 PM: Murderers get less time, no supervision and no registry what's up with that-you don't have to be a sex offender these days to go to jail and get on the registry you just have to pi$$ off a girl and have some DA pound you with charges

warlocks abound wrote on September 11, 2008 03:10 PM: The Word of the Day for September 11, 2008 is:
arcanum • \ar-KAY-num\ • noun
*1 : mysterious or specialized knowledge, language, or information accessible or possessed only by the initiate -- usually used in plural
-Someone finally says No
If I were them I would check out the lives of the ones trying to get these unlawful laws passed -they probally have more to hide than one knows about

reality wrote on September 11, 2008 12:42 PM: Bravo and everyone,

The tiers are currently and has been measured on risk assessment which is more specific to the individual offender rather than a matrix which is more a draconian witch hunt blanketing everyone and placing them at the same risk level as a violent predator even though their offense may be non violent and 'hands off' with no prior history and complete compliance with the terms of the sentence and no further incidents.

The consequences, risks, and implications are deeper than the Constitutional effects.

Some redneck like herb can go postal, attack and kill one of these people as it has happened in incidents around the country simply by looking them up on the registry.

The shift in classification puts the non violent offender in the same classification as the violent predator 'ex post facto'.

Studies and investigations are uncovering the fact that some of these registered offenders also were railroaded by over zealous prosecutors and that the 'offender' was not even guilty such as is being discovered in some of these dna cases, the 'doe 2' case, and others being investigated.

Now, let's say anyone convicted of felony or misdemeanor DUI is now deemed a risk to the community because so many more innocent people and families have been victimized and killed by drunk drivers than have been at the hands of sex offenders and should have added consequences.

It makes more sense, after all drunk drivers are everywhere and many people have been killed including children and whole families because of them, but is it right?

Maybe we should add speeders and cell phone users to the list as well.

Then, the sex offender issue would be dwarfed in comparison; it makes more sense, but is it right?

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