NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404935,00.html

And no, I don't know if that's a real web address. Feel free to try, though.

I'm not clicking on that until someone else does it first.

Eager to protect children from sexual predators, Nevada and other states across the nation are adopting laws that publicize the names of offenders on the Internet.

But sex offenders say they have rights, too, and argue it's wrong to lump those guilty of minor offenses with the worst offenders. Some are challenging the laws.



i think they have a point. its crazy to lump them all together as if the guy who flashes women at the bus stop is equal to the guy who rapes and murders children.

and besides they have the same right as anyone else to put the question to the courts for the judges to decide if its OK or not.

I'm not clicking on that until someone else does it first.

Done. It would make one hell of a good Lastmeasure mirror, tbh.

Link doesn't work.

Which is strange as I though I bought the domain last month. Let's not get into why.

Do not click that link. It sounds like a link to child porn, which is not only horribly disgusting, but dangerous. The FBI monitors sights like that. Clicking on it runs the risk of you losing your job, and landing you on the sex offender registry. Any fucker who posts a link to child porn should be summarily banned.

Nah the link is authentic...never the less I do lose the respect of anyone who dares read fox news.

Do not click that link. It sounds like a link to child porn, which is not only horribly disgusting, but dangerous. The FBI monitors sights like that. Clicking on it runs the risk of you losing your job, and landing you on the sex offender registry. Any fucker who posts a link to child porn should be summarily banned.

Fox News hosts child porn now?!

Fox News hosts child porn now?!

well they do try to rape everyone who has a brain.

Hehe. Checked the site, to see if anyone was crazy enough to register it (Sirmomo I don't believe you :P). Anyone care to do a whois? I'm too lazy.

As usual, sensationalism trumps over fact. The general category of "sex offender" is a very broad one, and has as a legal category a very low recidivism rate, and includes mostly people who did something really stupid and not particularly harmful.

Ya, like indecent exposure.

Nobody owns that domain, for the record. Well, once you remove the apostrophe.

Anyway, I agree with TJHairball on this.

i think they have a point. its crazy to lump them all together as if the guy who flashes women at the bus stop is equal to the guy who rapes and murders children.

Or the guy who had sex with his 16 year old girlfriend on his 17th birthday. That is obviously a dangerous predator whose life one must destroy.

One night after a fairly drunken party at a friend's house and a game of strip poker which I lost, I decided(alcohol may have played a role in my decision) that I'd rather risk walking home in the buff at 2:00 am than crashing with my degenerate evil drunken friends. Well, a police car happened by and after a short attempt to hide in a hedge of thorns, they caught me. Fortunately, they were good sports about it and rather than arrest me and make this law a much more personal issue for me, they were kind enough to drive me home and deliver me to my parent's door at 2:30 in the morning drunk and stark raving naked. At the time, jail seemed mild in comparison to the mom bomb. :p

Or the guy who had sex with his 16 year old girlfriend on his 17th birthday. That is obviously a dangerous predator whose life one must destroy.
yeah

IF there is some need for a sex offender registry it should be strictly limited to those who are an actual danger to the public. not peeping toms and former horny teens.

All of your arguments are invalid, as we must protect the children. Further:
http://iputatextonimage.com/wp-content/windmill-in-my-beard.jpg

All of your arguments are invalid, as we must protect the children. Further:
http://iputatextonimage.com/wp-content/windmill-in-my-beard.jpg
So that's who's hoarding the mustache wax! FIEND! I WANT IT BACK! I must sculpt my beard!

All of your arguments are invalid, as we must protect the children. Further:
http://iputatextonimage.com/wp-content/windmill-in-my-beard.jpg

That has to be some sort of sex crime. It just .... has to be! :eek:

That has to be some sort of sex crime. It just .... has to be! :eek:

In 14 different states.

In 14 different states.

On the up side, he's generating renewable energy. :)

Apparently someone official didn't think my title was clever.

It's just as well, because I really don't know where it would have led.

Fox News hosts child porn now?!

don't give Rupert Murdoch any more ideas, O.K.? :tongue:

That has to be some sort of sex crime. It just .... has to be! :eek:

...only if you like a "Dutch treat" :tongue::tongue::tongue:

"Nevada was among the first to pass the laws that would allow the state to post on the Internet the names, photos, home and work addresses and vehicle descriptions of offenders who've served probation or prison sentences on convictions as far back as 1956."

Whoa, werent they ahead of their time, lmao...

U.S. Supreme Court rulings from 2002 limit sex offenders' ability to block the release information about their crimes.
This is why the United States isn't as free as it think it is.

This is why the United States isn't as free as it think it is.

Psh, yeah, its been 230 years and we're still makin Minimum payments, lol...

On the up side, he's generating renewable energy. :)

He can probably power his own car with the energy generated by that windmill!

What link is this? I can't find it in the article.

Fox News hosts child porn now?!

It wouldn't surprise me.

Whoa, werent they ahead of their time, lmao...

They were the first ARPANET trolls.

Things like the sex offender registry represent iresponsible, hypocritical, and frankly immoral behavior by the Government.

The registry, for example, lumps the most trivial of offenses in with serial rapists and murderers. Because of these high-profile graphic cases, the public in general may be apt to assume that someone on the registry is one of these offenders. The result is to stigmatize and condemn to a life time of harrasment those who have commited minor crimes, perhaps things that shouldn't even be crimes. It is a tacit encouragement of vigilantism by our Government.

When someone is let out of jail, we should consider their time served, in which case it is wrong to hound them and stigmatize them for life. Of course, I understand the public's desire to be informed if a dangerous predator is in their neighborhood, but if someone's so dangerous, shoudn't they still be behind bars? I suspect the problem here is a justice system which puts retribution before public safety, incarcerating so many people for minor crimes that it ends up paroling repeat child rapists to make room for more petty thiefs, dope heads, and, of course, the afformentioned horny teenagers.

If someone is such a danger, keep them behind bars. If not, consider their time served, and let them get on with a productive life. There, problem solved.

Of course, I understand the public's desire to be informed if a dangerous predator is in their neighborhood, but if someone's so dangerous, shoudn't they still be behind bars?
It always confuses me why many folks seem to wish to know where paedophiles live, but not where murderers, arsonists, burglars etc. are...

It always confuses me why many folks seem to wish to know where paedophiles live, but not where murderers, arsonists, burglars etc. are...

Because most people feel a greater feeling of revulsion towards pedophilia, and because their is greater public condemnation of someone who preys on innocent and vulnerable children?