I would like to begin this letter to my fellow citizens with a question: What are the first thoughts that pop into your minds when you hear the words “Sex Offender”? Child molester/predator, freak, outcast, monster? Someone who is incapable of ever changing, of rising above this label, and is someone always to be feared and watched with gross prejudice? Ever heard the term, “Once an offender, always an offender”? These are people, who in the words of a particular politician in a new news describe, belong only in a place like Gitmo, far away from our “civilized” society. Separating them from our mainstream is the only way to keep our children and ourselves safe from these deplorable and sick individuals. And in the wake of recent tragic events, the deaths of these precious children in our own backyards, has sent all of us into a frenzy of fear and panic. I understand this all to well, being the mother of three astounding children, who are the center of my universe. I would go to the most extreme measures to see to it that they are always safe, as would any parent. You grew this wonderful life in your womb for 9 months, nurtured and loved your child for all their young life, and along comes the real boogeyman, snatches away and extinguishes the life of your child. There is no greater anguish than the loss of a child, especially under such horrible circumstances. I pray every day to God that I am cold and dead in my grave long before my children are. What parent doesn’t?
So after these tragic events took dwelling, we cheered and supported our government officials in toughening up the old sex offender laws, and creating new ones, all in the name of the safety of our children. All parents know that when it comes to your children being in any kind of disaster, we react on instinct, knee jerk reactions where little understanding goes into our actions. I know I don’t hesitate a second if I look one of my children in disaster – I jump to the rescue with no opinion whatsoever. So we questioned nothing when our politicians started writing the modern laws. We unprejudiced assumed that everything they do is for the assist of all the voting public, and supported them wholeheartedly. They offer us a seemingly simple and easy solution to this problem, and you know there is nothing we like better than simple and easy. They tell us that all sex offenders are a danger to society, they lurk and plot and look for victims – your children – always looking for an opportunity to do them harm in the most depraved ways, the real boogeymen of your worst nightmares. They need to be controlled, ostracized, and completely excluded from society. Out of inspect, out of mind. They have given us tools (the Sex Offender Registry) to monitor if any of these freaks are living in or near our homes, schools, and parks, and want to pass legislation that would prevent them from living anywhere near where children congregate or live. Sounds like a good idea. After all, we don’t want these violent, vicious criminals anywhere near our kids. As a parent, I have to agree. As the child victim of one of these predators, I have to agree.
But lets dig a little deeper here. The approved belief is that all sex offenders are predators; monsters and freaks that do not deserve the right to live a normal life like the rest of us. That is the only description of them we get from the politicians and the media. And you have to believe that, don’t you? It is after all, the politicians and the media – they are never known to lie or mislead the American public by omitting facts that go contrary to what they are trying to inform you of on the news and during election time, do they? They never over-blow or over-react situations or out right lie (“Iraq has weapons of mass destruction”; “I never had sexual relations with that woman”; “All sex offenders are predators and are more likely to re-offend than any other type of criminal.” etc.) But what is being left out of this story? What are we not being told by the media and politicians we are supposed to trust?
I am the mother of 3 children, the child victim of a child molester, the aunt of a juvenile sex offender, and the wife of a registered sex offender. I hear the collective gasp. I can’t blame you. I watch the news, and I know the only information about these people is what you hear from your TV. They don’t exactly educate you on the facts of this matter. They feed on your fear and panic to further their own agenda – re-election. That’s their job, so I cant blame them either. I blame the violent, predatory sex criminals who prey upon defenseless children. I blame whatever is causing this country to forget its values and the constitution itself – and here is something that is sure to come by me in trouble with the majority of the population – I blame the ignorant, uneducated public who by either the poor state of our system of justice, politics, education, and morals, or by their own choice, throw themselves gleefully into the realm of the “sheep mentality” which is becoming so prevalent in our society today. It sickens and saddens me to see that most people are unable, or unwilling, to see what is truly going on behind the scenes here. I will try to yell you to the other side of this memoir.
I will start from the beginning. From the age of 5 until 8, I was the victim of molestation, not by some faceless monster lurking around the corner of the playground I frequented with my friends, but by a family member. When I was 8, I finally told a police officer who came to my school during one of those community sponsored events that relieve teach young people to never talk to strangers, discontinuance drop and roll, and always issue an adult you trust if someone has touched you in a way that was “Inappropriate”. I didn’t know until then that what had been happening to me was awful and wrong. I told the officer about what was happening. The results were he was brought in for questioning, charges were brought up, and the judge sentenced him to counseling. He never again touched me in “inappropriate” ways. So he was deemed “cured” after finishing the court ordered counseling, and nothing happened after that point. The case was closed. I was sent to counseling of my own, where I was forced over and over again to report every small detail of the abuse I suffered. I didn’t feel truly traumatized until after I began counseling with the court’s psychologists and physicians. But he was off Scot free, and many years later, was discovered molesting my nephews, his own sons. Even then, he received only 30 days in jail and a 20 year suspended sentence. Hoorah for justice. Many years after that, one of those nephews was convicted of molestation and served several years in a juvenile facility. Neither of my nephews ever received any serious therapy for their trauma as children. He (my nephew) didn’t receive any in depth counseling for his own underlying trauma until he himself became an offender and was sentenced. The therapy he received while serving his sentence was thorough and really helped him, and now he is free and trying to rebuild his life and disappear beyond a terrible mistake. I cannot say that what he did was not his own fault, and the punishment he received was indeed just, but he doesn’t have remarkable to look forward to since he is a convicted sex offender, even though he served his time, was released with good reports, and paid his debt to society and his family many times over.
I know you are saying, considering what my family and I have been through, I should be at the forefront of this battle to pass and support these new laws. I’m crazy to be married to a registered sex offender and have children in his presence. I should be taken out and shot along with them, or have my children taken away because of my husband’s position, or because my nephew was here for a visit over the Fourth of July holiday. I must be crazy, true? Because as we all know, all sex offenders are child molesters, and by living with one, I am willingly and knowingly placing my own children in danger. Look these people up on the registry; the crimes they listed are in plain sight, in shadowy and white. Anyone can look them up and know exactly what their neighbor did to deserve being there.
But have you ever really read the descriptions of the categories they list people in on this registry? The definitions vary from spot to situation, and I strongly recommend that you lift the time to read them over if you really care about your children’s safety, as you claim to. The descriptions are broad and all encompassing for the people convicted and forced to register. All Offenders are lumped into two basic categories: Habitual and Aggravated (According to the station of Oklahoma, but this can vary from state to state, and even county to county, so be sure to check your local statutes). Now I have to admit, I am very interested in who is listed as being a habitual offender, as those are the predators to be on the lookout for. They have already been convicted at least once for a sex related offense, and obviously their time behind bars did not deter them from going out and repeating a sex crime upon their release. I definitely want to know if one of them is living next door to my kids’ school or me. That’s just common sense. Everyone needs to be vigilant (not vigilante, mind you) for the safety of their family and themselves, as not all of these offenders have chosen only children as their victims. The other class of sex offenders covers everyone else, and makes up the highest percentage of registered S.O.’s. Aggravated sex offenders have many classifications, ranging from serious one-time offences such as sexual relations with a minor to urinating in public. Sexual relations with a minor, even if consentual, is a sex crime based upon the belief that people under a certain age are incapable of making the decision to participate in a sexual act. Kids aren’t stupid. They see that their parents are not the true authority anymore, and all they have to do is scream abuse if they don’t get their way. That’s a different topic, but it does have a lot to do with the events that have brought us to where we are now.
Many teenagers now have little to no respect for authority, if they ever have. For as long as history has been written, teenagers have used their adolecense to drawl their independence from parents and push for the wrong of adulthood. If you did a capable job and set a good example for your children, their decision-making abilities during the teen years should be excellent. And, yes, Teenagers are perfectly capable of making decisions. If they are not capable of making life decisions by the time they advance their adolesence, I feel sorry for them when they turn 18 and they are on their own. By stating in law that they are not capable of making their hold decisions, we are basically telling them that they are incompetent and not held responsible for their actions, therefore they can do almost anything they want, and being so close to adulthood, that will carry over. We are dooming our children to failure by holding this belief. Objective look at the numbers of children now who fail miserably when they strike out on their own, and end up either benefit home with Mom and Dad, or worse, in jail or the graveyard. You have to let your teenagers make their mistakes and suffer the consequences of them, or to reap the rewards of good decision-making. You should open early in their lives educating them about sex, drugs and alcohol, not let the TV educate them. Not to mention the mixed signals we send our kids by providing them “sex education” and free condoms at school, basically giving them permission to be sexually active (as long as they do it “safely” of course) and then criminalizing them when, oh my gosh, they go out and have sex (and sometimes use those free condoms that are passed out at school)!!! If you cultivate high morals in them while they are young, the likelihood of them falling to the temptations of sex, drugs and alcohol as a teenager are greatly reduced, and quite honestly I would have to say, the numbers of people on the sex offender registries would drop dramaticaly. It is a fact that a high percentage of sex offenders on the registries are people who participated in consensual sex with an underager – some dumb Joe Shmoe who fell for the line, “I’m 18” perpetrated most of those “crimes”! Even those who knowingly participated in a sexual act with someone they knew was under 18 (and the under 18’r was an active, consentual participant and even the parents knew of the relationship and allowed it) is branded for life in the same category as other, more violent sex criminals. And the listing of the type of crime they were convicted of is vague in its description and leaves mighty to the imagination, and face it, in the harsh reality of the latest events, our imaginations are running wild.
Take for example this legend of a man whose live-in girlfriend’s daughter would walk into the bathroom without knocking while he was showering or using the toilet. He told the girlfriend, and she laughed it off. After a painful back injury and subsequent surgery and on pain medication, she came into him room and put her hand down his pants. Again he told the girlfriend who did nothing about her child’s behavior, and was the mother was permissive in allowing her daughter to have sexual relationships with boys right there in the home. Her biological father had sexually molested her daughter as a child, and in my plan, her promiscuity and inappropriate behavior with men was a direct result of not receiving proper care after her trauma. She herself had become a sexual offender in her own way. There was a lot of psychological history to her pickle. But the mother seemed unconcerned. The man felt that this was not a normal or healthy environment to be a part of, so he left, and took the credit cards with him. Over a year later in the city he moved to, police came to his home and arrested him for sexual abuse of a child, stating he had been on a wanted list of alleged sexual abusers, reported by his ex-girlfriend. He was honest and open with the officials at his questioning about all the events that happened in the household. Unfortunately, this honest man was taught a very painful lesson that honesty is not always the best policy, especially in this arena. Since she was underage, she was not responsible for her actions, and since he was there, objective by his presence he was actually the one guilty of abuse. He was given a public defender, and after a joke of a trial where the lawyer advised him to plead guilty to lesser charges in order to avoid a more serious punishment (even though he had not even committed the crime he was accused of and since he was not in the financial situation necessary to pursue a further right action), he was convicted and sentenced to a prison term of 3 years and required to go through all the prison counseling for sex offenders and upon release, continue this counseling at his own expense and also register with the local authorities his set as a sex offender for 10 years. He served his time, complied with all the demands of the court and even was released from parole/probation and would have no longer been required to register once a year for 10 years after September of 2011.
Last year, he received a form letter from the state of his residence informing him that under new sex offender laws, he would now be required to register every 90 days for the rest of his life as a result of his status as an aggravated sex offender. This came as quite a shock to the man, who had just started to put his life back together. He had managed to get an average job, doing something he enjoyed (fixing cars), in spite of the fact that it is nearly impossible to bag decent work when you have your name on the sex offender registry. The sites that publish the registry have a disclaimer that state that just because someone is listed there does not give anyone the right to deny employment or discriminate against them. It is in the fine print and unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done when this happens, and it did to this man. He has little hope of ever getting anything more than a minimum wage job, if he is lucky, and he was. He cannot receive any public assistance to help him offset the cost of living on such a small paycheck. Housing options are limited as well. He met someone and got married and had a family to support now. He was honest and up front with everyone about his situation, including his wife, before they even began a relationship, as she had 2 children from a former relationship and didn’t want to regain her in trouble. Things had been going as well as they possibly could considering his branding as a sex offender. He felt he could handle it and “grit his teeth and possess it” until Sept. of 2011, when it would no longer be distinguished to register and life would TRULY go on. It was a constant worry that someone, in the name of “justice” and in the interest of public safety, would turn vigilante and use the registry as a kind of hit list. Since his address and other information were listed there, his fear for the safety of his wife and children from these kinds of people was always on his mind. Not to mention, his apprehension of losing his job and being unable to get another one. They were already living paycheck to paycheck; always worrying about how to pay next months bills, but always blessed with the ability to do so, by the skin of their teeth.
But now, he is faced with the indefinite sentence of paying for his “crime.” What little hope he had of really living a normal life is dust in the wind. He often falls into depression and is on medication to treat it. He still has problems with his back, but is not eligible to collect disability due to his conviction and registry. He cannot vote, he cannot determine where he and his family can live without prior approval, and he cannot apply for assistance if they fall upon hard times. He is screwed. Not to mention the emotional roller coaster he is being put on by the Dept. of Corrections in his situation, who sent him the letter stating the rules had changed, but still lists him on the registry as being released from the registry in Sept. of 2011. And No one there can seem to give him a straight answer on which is correct. He leaves messages, and gets no responses. So he is given no certainty as to what is required of him, and as the laws are, even if the mistake is on the bureaucratic side of the line, he would be penalized for the mistake. And there are countless many who are in the same hopeless dwelling. A new underclass with no chance of success in life, because of one mistake, or alleged mistake, that will haunt them forever, whether they deserve it or not. But you don’t hear about these people, who make up the majority of the “monsters” that you hear sex offenders are as described on TV. But the common mentality of today is, “ You have to break a few eggs…”
My husband is a kind decent man. His biggest mistake was staying in that situation for as long as he did. Second to that, the way he was raised, to be honest, trustworthy, and compassionate to people in need, was his downfall. It’s a sick, sad society we live in where honesty can get you into more trouble than lying, where professing your notion in God or the 10 commandments or praying in public is almost illegal, where morals are defined by primetime television, cheating is the easiest route to success, and politicians prey upon the worry and fear of the public to further their enjoy agenda and derive re-elected by passing all these “feel-good” laws that do little to nothing to ensure the safety they promise. My husband is not a child-molesting monster, even if he is obscurely listed in the registers as a sex offender. He is not the boogeyman of your nightmares. He is my best friend, and a great father to my 3 children even though the oldest 2 are not biologically his. He did his best under his circumstances to choose care of us and provide us with all the things we needed while he was able to work. He is now unable to work because of the deteriorating condition of his back, but is unable to get on disability or any financial abet from a government entity because of his status. That was okay though, because I had 2 jobs I worked 7 days a week to support all of us and it was sufficient, until I found out recently that I had a brain tumor. Thank God I found a good neurosurgeon that performed surgery and was able to remove the whole tumor, which was found to be benign in nature. Unfortunately, it had already caused hurt, which may be permanent and renders me unable to work for the foreseeable future if at all. Now, with zero income and patiently waiting for my disability from social security to be approved (which will take at least 6 months minimum I was told), living off of food stamps and the kindness of Godly people, I am told I can’t get any help with housing assistance or utility assistance from the local housing authority or DHS because of my husband’s status. To top it all off, we were recently informed during a trip to our son’s school due to a behavioral predicament he was having, that my husband was forbidden to be on school property. You see, I cannot drive myself to such things as parent teacher conferences, emergencies at my children’s school, or even to the store or to the doctor due to distress to my vision and coordination because of the tumor. My husband is my chauffer for such things, not to mention he is also a parent with an interest in our children’s education and problems they may have at school. He wants to be involved in their lives, something that we as society should encourage considering the fact that fathers like him are becoming a rare thing. He also wants to be able to come to look his kids in any school play or program they may catch involved in. I trust him completely with my children, as his crime in the first region had nothing to do with molesting a child, even if they describe it, quite vaguely I might add, in that context. The next time you read your local registry, try to select the opportunity to actually meet these people before you judge that they are unsafe. Even the Registry has a disclaimer that basically says that most of the people listed here are not deemed a major threat to society and specifics of their crimes are not listed in detail. You might just obtain out some surprising information about that individual if you unbiased took the time to educate yourself beyond what you read on a poorly maintained Internet site.
True, I gain that schools above all else should be a “safe zone” for our children. And I have to admit that what happened at the school recently- being pulled aside during a conference with our son’s teacher regarding his behavioral difficulties in class (He has ADHD) and told in no uncertain terms that we were to leave and not come back onto school property (I say “we” because I cannot go anywhere without my husband due to my disability, so I too, am effectively banned as well as my husband)- makes me feel that my children are truly safe there and the staff at their school is not lax in their duty to protect them from danger. I wouldn’t want some stranger to just walk in off the street and have access to the children there and no one notice. But you peruse, we were never unattended while on the school grounds, we went directly to the office upon our arrival and they were aware of why we were there. We even had our 4 month old son with us. Tell me why they can’t make special arrangements for families such as ours(There are many, you may be surprised how many), arrangements that would allow me and my husband to be active participants in our children’s education and activities without being considered a “threat to the safety and security” of the rest of the students in the school? How do they seek information from us to clarify to our kids that we cannot arrive to see them in the school play or come to have lunch with them on the special days the school has planned (Parent’s Day, Father’s Day Mother’s day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are days the school sets aside for parents to come and have a special lunch with their child(ren) at the school). All they would have to do is see to it that we are escorted during the duration of our stay in the school, we would have no problem with that. As a matter of fact, it would be a wise idea to make sure anyone coming into the school for any reason should be escorted by a member of the staff, objective to be safe, because you never know. Just watch the news; look at how easy it seems to be to gain access to a public school for violent purposes. Look at how many tragedies and losses of young lives have happened at schools across the country in the last few years. Tragedies that may have been averted but for such simple solutions as escorting all visitors, parents or others, and enforcing stricter security on school grounds for visitors and students as well. It’s not too much to ask considering it is for the safety of the children, and my husband and I would have no quandary with being escorted or heavily scrutinized by school security while we are at our children’s school for critical purposes, because that would also serve to verify to us that our own children are really salubrious there. It seems a logical solution, but unfortunately, logic and reason no longer seem to be a part of the mentality of greater society anymore when it comes to matters such as this. We choose to react out of fear of the unknown or misunderstood instead of making informed decisions based on the real facts. Read on.
Fact: the majority of the people you really need to worry about do not keep up with their registry requirements. How else do you explain why so many states are in an uproar about the lack of follow up on keeping tabs on RSO’s? They give false addresses, or move and not notify the proper authorities. Those are the ones to be scared of, because they are obviously not following the rules for a very good reason, and are the most likely to re-commit a sex crime. Makes you wonder, how is the registry keeping you and your children safe then? The sex offenders listed on the roles are either one time, non habitual, totally not hazardous, law abiding citizens who do follow the rules, some of whom really did commit a sex crime but are re-habilitated and no longer pose a threat (Yes, it is possible to re-habilitate even a sex offender, contrary to popular belief), and most of whom didn’t do anything truly sick or even wrong, but were punished anyway because they did not have the money or the power to defend themselves in a court of law against false accusations or ridiculous trumped up charges; then you have the truly sick people, as I mentioned above, who register falsely, and because of lack of funding, the ones in charge of keeping up with the maintenance of the registry cannot possibly originate to keep track of them. So when a truly tragic event like what has happened in Florida to little Jessica, the dread and mob mentality takes over. Instead of fixing the problem that caused this awful tragedy, we search for to pass more laws that do nothing to improve the system itself.
Fact: The percentage rate of recidivism of sex offenders is not as high as you are led to believe. What I am about to say may seem harsh and heartless, but it is true; the acts of a few sick people resulting in the deaths of a few children, does not reflect the majority of sex offenders nationwide. The media and Politicians all over the country have steered the public plan into a belief that “once a sex offender, always a sex offender” “it is not possible to re-habilitate these people” “They are ALL dangerous” “They are ALL sick pedophiles who prey on children.” This is blatantly untrue. The recidivism rates amongst released inmates convicted of ANY sex crime are 5-7%, nationally. They do not yet have definite numbers on how many of these people were returned to incarceration for another sex crime. Here’s a question to ask your representatives in the government: “ How many of these inmates were returned for another sex crime, and how many were returned to prison for a completely different offence? ” Consider about it. These people must have been released for a reason. If they were such an imminent threat, why would ANY sex offender ever be allowed to walk free? What kind of government would knowingly release an individual that is an obvious anxiety to public safety, the same government that is now crying out on every street corner and news program on TV that their highest concern is for the safety and well being of their constituents, the voting public that pays their wages? I ask again that you think about it. Aside from the monsters who committed the murders of those precious, defenseless children, could anyone else be responsible for what has happened? Ask this to the people in charge of writing up the budget for the bureaucracies in charge of keeping tabs on them when they are released, who cant afford the time or manpower to do this vast task. As for recidivism rates among S.O.’s, take into consideration how many were returned for non-sex offenses. They are released into a situation where most are doomed to fail. They have to register an address within 24-48 hours after release with the local authorities, depending on the stipulations and regulations of whichever state or county they are in. The station of residence has to be approved by the parole officer. Also depending on location, if the address is within anywhere from 1000ft to 2500ft of anywhere children congregate, they cannot live there. If they already do, they can be sent back to prison if they do not leave immediately. Try to think of anywhere now days where anything is that distance from where children congregate. That leaves options very limited. That’s why so many are left homeless, and even that is unacceptable to some parole officers. If you do not have a registerable address, you can be found as unwilling to meet the requirements of registry rules, and go back to prison. Most shelters now do not even allow S.O.’s from seeking shelter when homeless. They cannot apply for housing assistance, or food stamps, or federal aide of any kind. Getting a decent job is like trying to ice skate uphill. Most employers, even if they do not admit it, as it is against the law to discriminate, do discriminate against this new under class of our society. So where are they to live, how are they to eat, pay bills, become a contributing member of society? Considering this scenario, it would not surprise me in the least that of those offenders returned to incarceration, most are there for petty crimes like thievery. How else can they get what they need to survive? We have effectively prevented them from being able to do it in the usual and right ways, and an individual’s instinct to live can sometimes override their ability to be law abiding. Isn’t that ironic, we have created a new potentially criminal element that has nothing to do with repetition of a sex crime.
Fact: The majority of sexual predators that prey on children ARE NOT the stereotypical stranger lurking around the corner waiting to pounce. They are family members or close friends of the family. The majority of those go unreported. Those that do, the perpetrator (if he or she is an immediate family member) is convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned. During the time of imprisonment, they are required to participate in very strict therapy programs. After time is served, most return to their families to try to execute amends and move on with life, others move on to a different life, depending on the crime. But most social services institutions encourage family re-unification through strict supervision and continuing therapy for all those affected by the crime. The only way to fix this problem is to never let it happen. Always let your children know that you are available to them if they have ANY problem, especially one like this. Educate them from a young age that some touching is good, and some is bad, and make clear that they know the difference. Reassure them that they will never get in trouble or hurt if they do tell someone that they have been abused. Many abusers use threats to keep their victims quiet. I speak from experience there. And the best draw to protect your children from those “lurking strangers” (there are those out there too), is to always Gape YOUR CHILDREN. Be involved in everything they do. Keep your doors and windows locked at night, and check the locks twice, three or four times or more, whatever is necessary to be sure no one can get in from outside. Yes, it is a shame we have to live life in lockdown. It shouldn’t be that way. But it is. It’s a fact, and not to sound heartless, but how many of the latest crimes spellbinding sex offenders killing children happened because of an unlocked door or window? These criminals only look for the easy way to commit their crime. Very few want to go to too much trouble. So don’t make it easy for them, use your locks, common sense, and your gut feelings!
One thing I do agree with the majority on is that the laws are not good enough. They need to be changed. People need to be educated on the long-term effects of short-term solutions. I do believe that the registry was a good belief. I do believe that it was created with the intentions of keeping us safe. But we did this too hastily. We have created a tragedy waiting to happen. We placed too much faith in people who said this was the answer. The fact is, we are no safer now than we were before. First of all, very few of the people you gaze on your registry are of any threat to you or your children. It is more uncertain now than before in the grand plot of things, because of the draconian, all-inclusive way they set up the registry. You have to sort through hundreds of non-threat S.O.’s and maybe one or two may be unsafe, and those one or two may not even be listed correctly. This has been proven. I occupy that only the most dangerous people should be listed there, and then I have that if they are so unsafe, they should not be walking our streets or living in our communities. If those were kept locked away, there would be no need for a registry that encourages fear and panic with microscopic information to back it up. If it hasn’t happened already and the media objective didn’t relate it, mark my words; someone is going to get hurt, or worse (NOTE: I wrote most of this article in April of 2005, and revised and updated it in Sept. 2006, and guess what has happened? Call it a premonition, and it has indeed come to pass). When the self appointed judge and jury, armed with the vague descriptions of an RSO’s crime and a very detailed description of the address now so easily accessible by everyone with access to a computer, decides to go out and “cleanse” our society of the “unwanted element” and ends up firebombing the home of that RSO, killing the RSO and any family that may live there with him/her, what will we do then? Even worse, this same person with list in hand, goes to the address listed as the offender’s residence, burns it down, killing all the occupants, only to find out later that due to lack of budget, or the sneakiness of the offender, the address was never actually confirmed to be the residence of the offender, and innocent people were killed. What will we say? “You have to smash a few eggs? ’
If things are to remain plot quo, or escalate further in this blatant disregard of constitutional rights of all Americans, I say go ahead and take it a step further. Be magnificent. If all Sex Offenders are risky criminals, keep the registry. But I want more. I want a registry for anyone convicted of theft, for they are a peril to society’s property that law-abiding citizens worked hard to bag. If one of those live in my neighborhood, I want easy access to a list so I can make clear I take proper precautions against them stealing from me. I also want to know if anyone convicted of murder of any degree or dealing drugs lives near me. Abolish and drug dealing, after all, have higher recidivism rates for the SAME OFFENSE than sex offenses do. I want to know if anyone living near me has ever been convicted of domestic violence. If I were single and wanted to date, or when my daughter is ragged enough to date, I would want easy access to a registry to see if the perspective date had ever hit someone, because it is common knowledge that these types of people are violent and usually continue to be an abuser. I want to know if any people of Arabic descent or people of the Islamic faith live near me, because they could be potential terrorists. They are a clear danger to society(Oh, but that is so not PC! Since we are so obsessed lately of being politically correct, I must vow you that I have nothing personally against anyone of Arabic descent mind you, but who’s to say that this will not happen eventually the way things are going now? I use this as an example and boom it with maybe a bit of sarcasm. Think about it, especially those of you Americans reading this that are of Arabic descent. I urge you not to take this fragment lightly. If we don’t pay better attention to what is going on, it could happen, yes, here in America) Why stop there? I want to know everything about everyone. Every filthy detail of everything they have ever done or are likely to do in the future. What’s so bad about giving up all rights of privacy and liberty if my government tells me that that will form me safer? Small price to pay, don’t you believe?
I don’t ask that you “come over to my side,” I only ask that you please educate yourselves on all the details and all the possible consequences of the legislation that our government is trying to pass, before it is passed, then originate your decision based on the FACTS, not what the media and politicians tell you is fact. Didn’t your parent(s) ever tell you not to believe everything you hear? Before you vote on anything, or let your representatives’ vote on anything, take the time to read about what you or they are voting for. Read every sentence, every line of fine print. Notice it for loopholes and discrepancies, and if it is truly in accordance with the Constitution. Think for yourself; think of how it will affect EVERYONE on the long term. Ask yourself if you really need the government to tell you what you need to do to be righteous. You do have something called common sense, right? Then you should know that the only person who can keep you safe is YOU. Not the government or the draconian, big brother laws they are passing fair under your nose with the excuse it is for your own salubrious. If you don’t start your eyes to it now, it is more than likely you will be leaving your children a country where democracy and freedom, and everything we stand for and what many have died for, will no longer exist. And I’m not just talking about Sex Offender Rights; I’m talking about all rights. We are at the beginning of a process that is all too familiar (anyone pay attention in history class when Nazi Germany was discussed? ). But it’s not too late. Wake up, America, you have been misled.
Remember that tyrants and dictatorial governments flourish in societies that are uneducated. Don’t let that happen in our country. God Bless America.
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