What about the people that are on that registry and have spent time in prison through a plea deal because of the fear that was put in them by the police and others in power. All because of someone getting pissed off and pointing a finger…That is all it takes. there is no such thing as being innocent until proven guilty. It is guilty with no chance of proving innocence. No DNA no physical evidence. you are just guilty and you are sentenced to a life sentence.. Even though it was a specified number of years. It is a lifetime sentence and don’t ever forget it.

Absolutely correct.

Further, Registries are of no use at all. It doesn’t do me any good in any way to know that one of my neighbors is listed on the Registries and another is not. I don’t know which of them has committed more $EX crimes. I don’t know which of them is more dangerous to my family TODAY. I certainly don’t know which of them might shoot my child with a gun! Or drive drunk with my children in their car and murder them.

I can’t treat either of those two people differently. Just because one of them is not listed, I’m not going to let my children hang out with him. And I could let either of those people babysit my children without issue and with the risk not being significantly different. Because I just don’t know who has or could do what. The end.

If Registries were used ONLY so that people were “informed”, and ALL other Registries that must exist did (e.g. Gun Offender Registries, Impaired Driver Registries, etc.), then maybe/possibly/conceivably we good Americans could consider if it is worth it to waste piles and piles of limited resources on them. Maybe.

But we’ve all proven that we can’t responsibly have and use Registries. No American will ever think they are acceptable.

As far as pedophilia being a thought process rather than disease empowers the individual to change that thought process which, if successful, is the cure.

The cure then is found in ones conscious.

As for me, I am a free man living in a free society. My success and failures are mind and mind alone. I am unbound except for my self-imposed limitations. As a free man I am guided by my conscious and the understanding between Right and Wrong. No Government imposed regulation will prevent a free man in a free society from doing wrong.

Maybe it is true? What is there to be cured of? People treat $EX like idiots.

Are we worried about “curing” people who break into people’s homes and stick guns in their faces? Why not? Because that is not as dangerous as a person who looks at illegal pictures?

It makes no sense at all that a person who commits a $EX crime needs “therapy” and yet people who do other, even more anti-social behavior do not. And I think the hang up about it is only because it involves $EX. Only.

We don’t need for people to be “cured”. We need for them to not commit crimes. I guarantee you that there are a LOT more people who think like people who have committed child molestation crimes than these Registry Nazis want to believe. Guarantee it. How are they going to be “cured”? They don’t have to be. For the same reason that we don’t have to cure people who have thought about gunning down their neighbors. We need for them to not do it. The end.

Registries make people want to commit crimes. Registries encourage and promote it and yet do nothing to hinder it. Pure stupidity.

But big government specializes in stupidity. Look at their War on Drugs. Total failure. Don’t they care? Of course not. Results aren’t important at all. The point of the war is to create a business for them, make them feel better, and grow big government. They love the games. Same with the Registries.

“…the article reads like it was written by a seven year old. ”

Maybe this is a silver lining. People will be more likely to dismiss it if it appears amateurish :).

In the town where I live, the local flasher thought about retiring, but he’s decided to stick it out for another year.

This article combined legit info about protecting your kids from sextortion, with free advertising for the sheriff and the “Innocent Lives Foundation” (?).

At least it was not dumb enough to target persons required to register, the way KYMA is doing.

The bill is about flashing. That hasn’t required registration?

Prosecutors will use this law to go after those who forgot to close their window while getting dressed. I’m not familiar, though, what the implications are of changing a first-degree misdemeanor to third-degree felony. I thought some misdemeanors required registration in FL, but I could be wrong.