Comments on: “Sex offender registries don’t make us any safer; abolishing them would”

By: RD

RD — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:24:44 +0000

Why stop with Sex Offender Registry to keep the public safe? Let’s take public safety further and have a Mental Illness registry. Wouldn’t that help keep the public safe? How about a drug addiction registry since drugs are mind altering and addicts could cause harm to others? A DUI registry..…. How about in the 1980’s we could have had a a homosexual registry (does anyone remember the fear mongering associated with the AIDS epidemic? I do. I lived it. It was terrible!! These things that I mentioned would be cruel and unusual punishment and cause people to look at someone as less than human. SOR is no doubt extended punishment, it’s crippling and possibly be a lifetime sentence. What I have read and learned is the laws have expanded so drastically, described in one article as sex crimes on steroids, our children, our society are in danger of destroying their lives and they nor parents are even aware of the danger is there. We know the dangers of drugs, DARE at least made children and Parents aware of the dangers of drugs. The conversation of sex this day and time in our schools is safe sex and an emphasis on sex identity and not nearly enough discussion on dangers of what is a sex crime the broadness of the definition and how it can destroy a child’s life, a young adult’s life, an adult’s life. I am not tech savvy but I know today’sTechnology has provided children and young adults and adults with a lifeline that can be good but it can also have a noose attached to it, can become an extreme danger to them and we hear nothing in public discussion or education in teaching our kids. .

By: MrT

MrT — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 05:12:21 +0000

Registration and the quarterly/annual information updates/or change of info such as new job, or housing and the time frame that it must be completed, in my opinion is a forceful waiver of 5th amendment right. You are compelled to report your changes, and could subject you to further punishment for “failure to register.”
Why should someone be compelled to provide statements against themself, if let’s say you didn’t report your change within the time limit?

By: Tim in WI

Tim in WI — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:44:31 +0000

In reply to w. Yep, domestic surveillance, the alternative purpose stated in ruling after ruling, to assist law enforcement. But if you affect a police state dominated by popularity against disfavored groups it soon becomes a populist crap show. Precisely what we see today.

By: w

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 05:54:20 +0000

In reply to Tim in WI.

Smartphones
Cloud computing
Social media
Internet of things

Basically they’re putting the tools for spying and mass surveilance into people’s hands and lives and watching the experiment unfold, all the while selling people on the bells and whystles and youtube.

Progressivism.

So you have to back away. Resist.
Do without.

By: Tim in WI

Tim in WI — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 20:04:30 +0000

If indeed ” level of dangerous” was rejected by the Rehnquist Court as to the intent of the Act ( Smith V Doe 03) what makes her believe “public safety” could result from the adoption of the electronic registration regime. Identifying the dangerous person in proximity is precisely invented to put affirmative restraint upon potential interpersonal attack. That is to say in a prophylactic way. Through informed circumvention, it was thought the SOR database would impact recidivism rates. However the database and associated infrastructure has enabled far more crimes than it has circumvented. We see an avalanche of evidence of this fact especially in terms of human sexploitation. Many many kidnappings have occurred that were in fact wholly enabled by the power of the internet! Never before in the history of man, had a bad actor on one side of pond or nation been able to groom a victim clear on the other side of the pond or nation at will. The internet made “Pimpin” more possible, popular and profitable and certainly enabled expanded networks to operate in ways never before possible.
American telephone networks didn’t suffer the incessant robot dialers it does today with scam ad nauseam are evidence of lessor evils. Americas head first dive into the internet age was totally irresponsible with respect to liberty and we will suffer it.