Comments on: Couple found guilty of having sex on Florida beach

By: fac-admin

fac-admin — Wed, 06 May 2015 11:47:00 +0000

In reply to MJ. Truly idiotic. Lifetime SO registration thereafter. I wonder how much it costs to maintain the SO registry. Now, with all the IN PERSON updates that need to be made, I imagine it's expensive. We should ask for the data!

By: MJ

MJ — Wed, 06 May 2015 04:36:17 +0000

In reply to fac-admin.

I’ve heard the average cost per year per inmate in FL is $20,000. So it will cost taxpayers $300,000 to “send a message.” They’re sending a message alright! These idiots don’t realize it should have the opposite effect on potential tourists. Why would I want to come to a state where I can’t even go to the beach and enjoy it with my wife or girlfriend or engage in any half way decent PDA?? Isn’t that what going on romantic vacations is all about??? And I’ve been to South Beach before and seen far worse on the beach than what this couple was supposedly doing.

By: fac-admin

fac-admin — Tue, 05 May 2015 20:28:08 +0000

This story is getting a lot of press. One of the more interesting articles was from Dan Savage who wrote, “So… back in 2008, a British couple was sentenced to two years in prison for having sex on a beach in Dubai, and that was held up as an example of the insanity of sharia law—and crazy, repressive sex-negativity.

On Monday, an American couple was found guilty of having sex on a beach in Florida,,,

Pamela Geller would be shrieking about this on CNN and Fox News right now if it was happening in Saudi Arabia or Dubai.

The judge has no discretion in sentencing—the State of Florida is sending Caballero to prison for 15 years for having sex on a beach. Or looking like he was having sex on a beach, as it wasn’t established definitively that Caballero and Alvarez were actually having sex. Witnesses did not see “genitals or penetration.”

How much does it cost to lock someone up for 15 years? Because whatever that figure is, officials in Florida are arguing that the expense—to say nothing of the injustice—is worth it because it sends a message:

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/05/05/22168382/florida-couple-faces-jailtime-lifetime-on-sex-offender-registry-for-having-sex-on-a-beach

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 05 May 2015 17:48:07 +0000

Well, we can thank the old DHS campaign “see something, say something” for stuff like this. Pretty soon holding hands or any PDA will be outlawed in Florida and labeled as a “sex offense.” This state is obsessed with keeping the “criminal justice engine” running….prisons, judges, lawyers, DOC, therapists, etc… It has become such a major job provider for this state which is why poor guy’s like Alvarez are getting crazy sentences like that. He will keep several DOC officers employed for at least 15 more years. But the populace here is so “brainwashed” by these Republican lawmakers who are convincing them that FL is the toughest state on crime (and needs to be “tougher)which is all a farse. It is the state with one of the biggest criminal justice industries in the country, that’s for sure. This is over the top for sure, and I again would like to refer to that article on here a few weeks ago: “The Overpolicing of American Sex.” Good article.