Just Kill Them Then
If society hates sex offenders so much, and fears them so greatly that it passes laws that essentially deny them a Constitutional right to life and well-being, why doesn’t it just go through with this destructive logic to the bitter end and execute them for their crimes?
Roadside Camp for Miami Sex Offenders:
Due to a county ordinance, sex offenders cannot reside anywhere near 2,500 feet of where children gather. Parole officers, in the course of doing their job, typically struggle to find any acceptable residence for sex offenders. The result is a disaster like this one in Miami, where they live homeless existences, “off the grid”.
These laws are usually driven by politicians seeking to bludgeon their opponents with hysteric charges of “soft on crime”, created with little concern or thought about the effects of the law on society in general and the offenders in particular. The extreme laws passed in Georgia in 2007 were so absurd that multiple law enforcement schools in the state not known for their “liberal” tendencies in law enforcement decried them as counterproductive and harmful.
So while state and federal courts continually have to overturn these outrageous laws, the effects are crystal clear on the impedance of law enforcement officials to fulfill their responsibilities and on society’s responsibility under the Constitution to all members, even those who committed a terrible act.
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I wonder if they’ve ever been challenged as cruel and unusual punishment if you are basically denied living space anywhere.
Some successful court challenges have occurred in Georgia, Washington and Arizona. The issue is that the politicians just pass them again anyway, looking for ways to subvert the court rulings and Constitutional rights, all in the name of getting re-elected and punishing criminals even more because its so damn popular with the public.
Another thing to bear in mind that not every sex offender has necessarily molested a child or committed forcible rape. Consider the absurdity of sentencing a 19 year old kid to this virtual life sentence after he’d (or she’d) been convicted of statutory rape for concensual sex w/his 17 yr old girlfriend.
We should be focusing on the problem not the laws being passed. We need to protect pour children and the current sex offender registry laws are not enough. I agree with the level of sex offenses should be weighed differently depending on the severity of each crime. But as a employee of a Criminal Background check company, IntegrScan, I see a of of honest people hiding a lot of bad things, Not telling their employers leaving them at risk and liable.
This is an addiction and a life long problem that cannot be cured and the public has the right to know if these criminals are in our schools, churches and near or children at parks and youth organizations.
Non-profit organizations can get free background checks from IntegraScan from our safe kids program.
The need to know is absolute.
T. Sweet
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Jay,
I absolutely agree with that sentiment. There are some efforts ongoing in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia (the states I’m aware of) to change that, given the economic costs of high imprisonment rates, trials, etc. This is certainly in addition to the reality of teenagers having sex, irregardless of what law exists.
(Personally, I really despise this aspect of the law, because the fear of Maryland’s punitive law regarding this compelled an undergrad to terminate a relationship with me when I was 16.)
T. Sweet,
I can agree with the need for a better system, as well as the obvious problem of some states having lax laws in this regard. I just can’t see destroying their lives after they get out of prison, which then forces the police to have to do a lot more work than they should. If society weighs their addiction/problem and finds it unsuitable for treatment that society and the individual are willing to pay for, they should choose the death penalty for such cases and save children and society from greater harm.