The Dobbs Wire: Cyber vice squads and neo-Puritans

The latest issue of Reason Magazine has much about sex!   Pleasure, alas, has a price.  As Katherine Mangu-Ward explains, “the legal risk of many common sexual choices is skyrocketing.”  Several essays exploring that theme are now available online.  Cyber vice squads and neo-Puritans run amok, see below.  –Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire     American Sex Police With sweeping trafficking

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“The Untouchables” Film Highlights Inhumane treatment of Sex Offenders in Miami-Dade Florida

Weekly Update 2017-03-14 Dear Members and Advocates, If you are in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe or Palm Beach Counties, we encourage you to come out to the special screening of the film, “Untouchable” that will be taking place tonight, at 7:30PM, at the corner of Northwest 71st Street and 36th Court, in Miami. The event will be important for a number

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Reporter Vaughn interviewed source of “High” re-offense myth.

In the past couple of weeks, large mainstream news outlets, including the NY Times and Washington Post, have reported on the significant myth perpetuated as a result of the US Supreme Court’s statement that sex offender recidivism rates were “frightening and high.”  As we now all know, that was a huge myth. The Washington Post went as far as to

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The Dobbs Wire: How did the stakes get this high – LWOP?

Oregon:  A man is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the crime of public indecency. “Getting caught masturbating on a MAX train,” the local mass transit system.  How did the stakes get this high?  There are some prior convictions, but no dead bodies, and there’s a “mental health disorder.”  Life in prison without parole (LWOP)

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