COME ON!!! Registrants shouldn’t be bouncers or go near conservation areas?
I’ll end this week by sharing a bit of ridiculousness that is being thrown around the water cooler.
I’ve said this before, but it seems like hysterical people and political opportunists are running out of ideas for “sex offender laws” and really grasping at straws sometimes. I can understand a person required to be registered as sex offender prevented from teaching preschool or running a day care – there’s at least some rationality to that ban, but we’ve also heard of registrants prevented from becoming a garbageman, and now people in the UK are suggesting registrants shouldn’t be allowed to be bouncers at clubs either! Yes, there’s a call to ban registrants from being bouncers at night clubs, calling it a “loophole” in the law. A loophole? Bouncers? Come on!
Another far flung idea that is actually a Bill making its way through the Missouri Legislature. They want to add “state conservation areas” to their exclusion zone. That’s as in, people on the registry can’t go within 500 feet of schools, parks, public swimming pools, children’s museums… and now state conservation areas. Conservation areas are essentially forests and wetlands. It might be where someone would go bird watching or to fish in a pond, but not where you’d find unaccompanied children to abduct. Would you believe the Missouri senate ok’ed the change 34-0 yesterday?
It just goes to show that if you attach the words “sex offender” to a piece of legislation, you’ll be able to get anything through. Should registrants be welders? Clearly that’s another “loophole” that needs to be closed or they may fashion a “childlike sex doll” out of metal scraps. Should registrants be allowed within 500 feet of trees? Lets add that to the list, just in case one decides to molest an oak or pee on it for some paraphilic reason.
Come on people… Let’s be real!
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I keep hoping for the day that it gets so ridiculous that any idiot can see how wrong it all is. A recent ludicrous outcome: the State believes and is telling the public they have the right to be protected from a class of people whom the government has declared as “dangerous.” We don’t have the right to be protected from anyone save a temporary restraining order. It’s a right assumed.
Rich
When I worked in law enforcement, I would have nightmares and sometimes cry myself to sleep. Not because of the blood and guts I saw all the time (That too though). No it was the stuff that was done to people like George Floyd.
I worked in Law enforcement in the 1980s for a huge department. There was a lot of things going on that made me sick. When I tried to speak up, I was told if I reported something against another officer, my career would be over.
I transfered to homicide just so I was not dealing with live people anymore. After a while I resigned because even that took a toll on my mental health seeing all that death. The lies, cover ups and back stabbing would have made most movies you see unbelievable.
Some join to make a difference in the community like I did, others join because they want power and control. I found out real quick I was kicking dead horses with my efforts.
I solved my first homicide within a month of being hired. The credit was given instead to a senior officer. Only one person in a department of 1000s even acknowledged my efforts to help solve the crime. I was a nobody in a sea of vultures.
True humiliation to get Bounced by a Sex Offender
The Missouri Legislation is Missouri House Bill 2142 Sponsored by State House Representative Hannah Kelly, A Registered Republican from the Mountain Grove Area.
-It Bans Sex Offenders from going within 500 Feet of Conservation Open Space where children are said to frequent….
What About the Grocery Store, The Doctor’s Office, The Dentist’s Office, Subway, McDonalds, The Chinese Restaurant, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, All Airports, ..Hospitals….Places of Worship….etc
Soon, the Only Place will be the Liquor Store and the Porn Shop….Over 18 yrs of age?….Correct?!?!?…What a Fckin OXYMORON!
Every dumb a— politician that has no clue what there doing and wants to get their name on a bill that will be sure to pass because every no guts politician is afraid to challenge it , just puts the words more restrictions for sex offender on it and there you go.
Just like the hype about Governor Cuomo who is probably a disgusting flirt and vulgar and probably was before he became Governor . Every other politician is jumping on the band wagon telling him to resign. From what I’ve seen in the news ,what he has done is inappropriate and out of taste and all of the above but not illegal and could be applied to a lot of men in positions of authority. Women at the time go along with it to further their ambitions , then later when that time is over they turn like a rattle snake on there victims . After all there both just harmless snakes.
*Hospitals
Oh, but they already DO clandestinely screen for people forced to register at their so-called “welcome centers” in the lobbies of most Hospitals now.
Facts
Yes, I have been a victim of that at a large florida hospital that I shall not name (But you know who it is if you live here). I never mentioned my status but when of the nurses whispered in my ear that she was going to make me pay for what I did.
I grabbed the emergency pull string and when the other nurses came in I demanded a management staff come in and that nurse was to not come near me or I was calling my parents, a lawyer and the news.
Not punishment but we are punished every single day of our lives with the label stamped across our heads called the registry. Very few people are going to look up your charges but anyone who googles your name will instantly see your registry profile.
We are not allowed to be on social media but we ARE on social media, it is called the registry and you cannot opt out.