Senate Bill 90, sponsored by Senator Lauren Book, contains an important observation from the Senator. The bill contains the following , “…recognizing that the parent-child relationship is the foundation of child well-being…”
How ironic is it that this language would come out of a bill sponsored by a Senator who spearheaded several other bills seeking to destroy the parent-child relationship of people required to register! If the parent-child relationship is the foundation of child well-being, why are children whose parents are required to register as sex offenders deprived of their parent-child relationship? Effectively, a child of a registrant cannot have their parent participate in their educational process or most recreational activities. Some are forced to live separately from their parent because of residency restrictions.
This is not a commentary on the bill, which authorizes circuit courts to create early childhood court programs, it merely points out an irony. For a senator who claims to be ‘all about the children’, she seems to value certain children less than others.
Adam Smith made two positive claims about slavery in the context of developing economies. “First, Smith explains that slavery is in general highly inefficient. By his account, the net product under freedom is 12 times larger than under slavery. Second, he observes that, despite its inefficiencies, slavery persists in most of the world. Taken together, these claims create a fundamental puzzle: Why do elites – owning slaves and holding political control – fail to make themselves better off by freeing their slaves? (This first view also also observed by Fredrick Law Olmsted while writing dispatches to the New York Times in the mid 1800s)
Smith gives two very different answers to this puzzle. The first is psychological. Smith asserts that people have a fundamental desire to dominate others, and slavery provided that opportunity for slaveholding elites. The first explanation is the most commonly advanced in the literature.”
Such objective findings are rare today where rhetoric entertainment fill the media. The scheme of the 25 year old registry for what ever purpose today seems lost. Back ground checks, DNA, computer forensics, due diligence, rehabilitation, awareness and transitioning halfway houses are the surest form of protection against recidivism for all crimes. Yet there are less than 1/2 the these programs today from 20 years ago. Inmates are released into the community with 100 dollars or less, educated in crime and hustling. What good is a system where hundreds of thousands of none sexual offenders have been arrested the number their years of age remain free? What good is a system that gives supposedly dangerous men probation or 1 year in prison and then life time on a registry for first offense and a set of rules so ambiguous tax payers contribute to re-prosecute these men for what isnt even a crime (failing to update license plus 30+ other arbitrary similar rules) in a snare set so big it captures his family and tax payers in one snap. The sex offender scare, resistant to objection pay the public, seems to be the new glomming of money of our time trumping the revolving door. Whats more intriguing is the stigmatism devised by lawmakers that 747,000 thousand men and women nation wide are ever ready todo the crime the legislative act is so named for.
Hiring, renting, leasing, loaning, ministering, socializing, protecting, aiding even using in the torch of capitalism to make a profit off a demand, of someone who in the past took sexual gratification beyond the boundaries of their state, which might not be the boundaries of other states or developed countries…yet association of these “designated” is enforced by fear of taboo association which is proven to result in loss of share by the media and public, a fear so great it defies even the foundational greed of capitalism, Americas system of freedom. This civil death exerted by exclusion of capitalism for the profit of a few elite and lower elite which hold the bondage commitment mirrors slavery. Not all slavery was absolute. Schemes were devised to contain it, emancipation was a two fold scheme to continue the domination. Promises were made, altered hope was given, liberties were held ever high to retain power over man.
However innocent the registry began schemes were devised enabling profit off of the glum with disregard to facts, studies, and contrary to its warrant is anti American. Fixing a broken wheel that deteriorates by rot is pointless . A mans life is limited to health a number of years. A lifetime banishment robbing 3/4 million people of God given journey is just as deviant a pleasure for lack of better understanding or words as we’ve seen in our time.
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (14th Amendment USC).
This is by far one of the most logical, rational and fact filled comment I have read on this site. Using simple logic and facts it is CLEAR that the registry is counterproductive.
It is fundamentally Anti-American in every way from using oblivious stereotyping of vast numbers of people who have nothing in common and turning them into a faceless label of “sex offender” to hate, score, and feel superior. To the total lack of a way to integrate back into American life once being labelled as this and becoming a permanent second class citizen with no way to improve your situation.
The concept of a second chance is fundamental to our American society (or once was) as mistakes are made throughout life unless you are simply a mindless robot and not a thinking human being.
Are we now going to cut off hands of those who steal? Is there no place for compassion or even logic in America any longer? This registry is simply wrong – Period. It helps no one (except to enrich corrupt politicians such as Lauren Book) and does everything to spread hate, rip families apart, and give vigilantes a handy road map to their next target/victim!
Shame on ALL those American “leaders” for not only allowing but taking advantage of this unfair and clearly un-American abomination.
Yes, the hypocrisy is astounding. Since the bookends don’t consider registered citizens as human, it’s no wonder she touts such a noble cause, ignoring the fact that their combined legislative efforts have decimated registered citizen’s families – taking away their children and putting them into the hands of the real paedophiles (D¢F), as well as driving families into bankruptcy and homelessness.
It is also curious how the bookends let Epstein get away with a magnitude of sexual abuse of teen girls, in their own county, that would have yielded the death penalty or life in prison for a poor defendant. He got 13 months in jail.
https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/west-palm-beach/settlement-reached-in-jeffrey-epstein-civil-lawsuit
Follow the money…….
“Justice is just another commodity. The more money and power you have, the more justice you get.”
JZ, not to get off track, but Epstein’s case was more than a decade ago. Lauren Book was barely 20 at the time and not in politics.
Yes, the case was in 2008, but the article my link is to was written in the past 24 hours showing how Epstein avoided a civil trial by cutting a sweetheart deal in which he paid off the victims and silenced them. BTW, daddy has been a lobbyist for more than 20 years.
Oh, and speaking of blondie, she will now lead the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs. That committee focuses on domestic violence, sexual violence and sex trafficking, among other issues, so you can expect more legislation from her targeting registered citizens.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/281973-lauren-book-manny-diaz
Where was her father will she was being abused?
To busy lying and making money than spending time with his kid or being involved in her life….. that’s where!!!!!
what do you expect? Talk out the side of your mouth for one issue — while denying the main issue she is touting. (excluding sex-offender parents)
She is a hypocritical, lying and again she is using her “POSition” as an alleged victim to further her cause.
Why doesnt she help ALL “Parent-child relationships” including sex offender parents?
Oh wait…. she is just like her father… Pick and choose who he (Ron Book) wants to help…. EX. Homeless in Miami VS. homeless sex offenders in Miami.
Lauren Book is a one trick pony who (along with daddy) have made a career out of an alleged unfortunate incident in her life – poor parenting was that incident in case you are wondering.
Now her trick is to exploit the natural innate drive of parents to protect their offspring at all costs (including the suspension of logical critical thinking) – mention children and their logical brains turn and their emotions take over…
They are easily manipulated by this technique and Book knows it! This is her one trick. She uses this over and over to instill fear and hate. Fear and hate of people she has never met.
Worse still are the lies told to instill this fear and hate. Lies based on proven false statistics which courts ignore. Lies that hurt more families and CHILDREN than all the actual “sex crimes” combined!
Lauren Book and exploitative politicians like her who base their entire careers on lies that exploit and use lies and hate are the problem.
This type of bill coming from a person who herself is not even a parent and will never understand that parent/child relationship from that angle. “All about the children” and she is not even a mother. Have some children first and see how you would feel with “the thought” of them being taken away from you and then see if you still want to destroy that relationship from an actual parent, no matter who it is.
Mary – Lauren book is the mother of two children. Twins, actually.
She’s an established hypocrite. Period.
“All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others.”