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You're equating shoplifting to child molestation/exploitation/rape... and I think I may have to beat you with a pole for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMKA
Aside from that, yes, shoplifters can't go back into a store they've shoplifted from. A friend of mine was caught stealing from the local Target and is banned from all Targets in our area. Should she be banned from every store everywhere? No. How is that fair? Because she didn't molest any children. :twak:
I think until people have children, or have a younger sibling they really care about, or are in danger of paedos themselves (I'm not so much a younger teen anymore, I'm 15, but I'm very short so I look like one a bit, and I'm very frightened by this) people don't really care about convicted sex offenders. Which is dissapointing, because if you do nothing now, when you do eventually have a child, there will be many more, maybe one next to YOUR child's school. I don't think you'll so be so happy to say "Oh, just give them another chance" then. I know I wouldn't.
Also, keep in mind that in the United States at least one in four females will be sexually abused sometime in her life. I think sex offenders are enough of an issue in general to warrant more extreme measures than any possible shoplifting crisis or some such nonsense.
Unfortunately 50,000 children are reported missing every year. Additionally, 1 in 4 children fall victim to inappropriate touching. Eighty five percent of the predators are known to the victim. Thinking that "it won't happen to my kids" or "I'm pretty aware of what goes on…" is exactly what pedophiles hope you think.
In the past 3 years in south carolina, there have been 364 cases of child molestation. Keep in mind that the poll was only from people who were willing to identify themselves, so the actual number is much higher.
How can anyone sit back and say, I really dont care about these children's lives because it doesnt effect me? That is one of the worst things I have heard in a long time. Maybe you need to be older to realize how stupid and dangerous it is to have no problem with a repeat sex offender living next to a school.
I agree with you tidus5. If we sit back and don't care, issues like this will become normal. I seen it said that this is normal for a peddo to get a house next to a school - that is very much not the truth. There have been a few - but it is DEFINATLEY not normal. The lesson learned here should be by the judicial branch. The sentance should not of been just for ramsey county and st. paul - how ignorant is that?
I do belive the man should be let free - able to live out his days. He should be subject to random checks, and inspections by the police. Any other preventable measure should be taken as well; Not letting him live by the school and daycare would be one.
On the business side, I do agree that business should (and can) choose whom to serve. However, I see it to be "bad buisness" exiling a customer on these grounds. If we all shunned him, think he would strike again? What if we welcomed him, and flat out laid our cards on the table? I think people prefer it the second way. I mean put youself in his shoes. If you were exiled from all the stores in town, people threw eggs at your house and harassed the hell out of you - wouldn't that make any chance of "curing" or getting away from what they have done wrong. I never disbane hope for anyone - Its the worst judgment any man can make.
Don't they neuter people in texas for molestation charges? I belive I have heard that before. (being serious here)Quote:
Originally Posted by talkleft.com
New information: The house was owned by him before his second offence (Flashing a college girl)
Bipper
neuter? you mean castrate? if it's true it wouldn's be a great suprise, torture, capital punishmentm, castration. it all fits into the same line. a sick sick horrible line but not that much difference from the usual.
let he or she among you who is free from sin cast the first stone.
These are people who are molesting children. I may not be sin free but I will gladly step up and cast the first smurfing stone right in their sick goddamn face!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fithos
I think this is like the 2nd or 3rd time I've said this in this thread, so I risk sounding silly, but Shlup has got it so right. It shocks that people don't feel so strong against child molesters.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
Isnt whenever a sex offender moves into a neighborhood, land value drops? So couldnt this turn into an economic thing also, and to add the fact that the sex offender is near a school?
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Originally Posted by Behold the Void
Don't publicize it. Problem solved.Quote:
Isnt whenever a sex offender moves into a neighborhood, land value drops? So couldnt this turn into an economic thing also, and to add the fact that the sex offender is near a school?
nik, I... I don't know how to even respond to that kind of... I don't even know. Every bit of respect I had for you is gone. I can't believe there are people out there who think sexual abuse against children is no big deal.
Dont worry i lost all respect for you shulp when you stopped thinking that they are people too D: Just because someone commited a crime does not mean they will do it again, as well as it doesnt mean that person is no longer a person at all. If he legally bought it there, then well thats too bad for you guys.
Yeah, they are people. People that should not be allowed near children for any reason because they have, on more than one occassion in the past and are likely to do so again (sorry, I know you said the fact that they did it once doesn't mean they'll do it again, but those silly little "facts" are against you on this one) in the future, sexually abused children. Is keeping people who molest children away from children really such a huge request?
"Wont somebody please think of the children?" http://www.luds.net/personnages/image_helen.gif
I typed Facts somewhere? O_o
I am likely to do many things as well, i am likely going to screw up driving or i am likely going to die next time i play a game, likely doesnt mean its going to happen and doesnt make the person any less. He served his time in prison, and while i understand the feeling people feel i just have to say thats just too freaking bad when he legally bought a house.
Everyone thinks of the kids, they are always put forth as first in this society, however no one thinks of the crimminal who is a person as well, and just because someone is a crimminal doesnt mean that they always stay that way. So is the person supposed to never get a second chance then? No person trying to right their wrongs are ever going to get the chance because people dont give one to them. Not to say they should have done the crime in the first place, but people screw up.
So i still understand the uneasiness, however that doesnt mean he doesnt have the right to live there and no one really (IMO only) has a right to kick him out of a house he legally bought himself. If you really want him far away you pay for a house for him farther away.