Part II: Civil commitment and the courts’ historic march toward genocide

[FAC NOTE: Since we posted Part I, we are including part II, though this part goes off on a bit of a tangent and the concept of the registry being tantamount to a genocide may be offensive to some of our members. Below are cut and pasted excerpts of what I believe are relevant sections of the article we wanted to share]

As Hart says, people will never stop using drugs. Law enforcement will always fail. I think the same is true about sex. The U.S. is a nation built on sex phobia, and such can make sexual trauma all the worse. Now that we are reducing those imprisoned for drug offenses, we need to replace bodies with other bodies.

What the drug war has in common with the sex offender witch hunt and its lifelong incarceration of SVPs is that a politician first tells the truth and then adds a falsehood on to that truth, as a journalist noted in The Place I Live In. We have to look no further than the sex offender or “pedopanic” to see our Department of Justice’s and our Courts’ troubled history of deliberate abuse and intentional misleading of the public.

The truth is that kids do get abducted, exploited, and killed; however, many facts are missing, or the stories are made to appeal to the general public, to win political points. Almost none of these trafficking stories or the stories we equate with “pedophiles” and “sexual predators” turned out to be accurate.

What can the sex offender registry do when recidivism rates are extremely low? They can scare people and keep our dear sheriff and judge in office.

Do our lawmakers care about kids? They think they do. If they did, they would actually read the research and stop misinforming the public. Our legal system would base its decisions on valid research and unbiased expert opinions, something even the Supreme Court could care less about. They would stop charging people for having a sex doll, story, or cartoon and pay attention to real disparities that make all children vulnerable and put the billions or even trillions they waste into effective treatment and sex education.

They would stop thinking that only bad people have sexual thoughts about kids and have the courage to see a truth that may challenge their reputation, investments, and resumes.

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