Comments on: Paying to Be Punished

By: mike Slater

mike Slater — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:27:40 +0000

This began decades ago with charging $80 a day for county jail.

You cant pay, they place you for collections, your credit is screwed making it even more difficult to be gainfully employed. Now you are more likely to fall back on criminal behavior.

Its job security for all the pikers sucking on the federal, state, county and local tit, with their well paid & benefitted, tax money funded law enforcement jobs

By: obvious answers

obvious answers — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:11:39 +0000

I Hope you dont mind but I have to let out a rant here. I do understand America has some of the dumbest most criminal imbeciles in the world as its governance (cortez/pelosi are examples). I also understand some blindly follow these idiots and even go as far as to defend them. (my apology to you) .
My wife is an international justice and as such she has trained in the American justice system etiquette by the American government, and UN sponsorship and she even shakes her head and laughs..Every justice in her country I have spoken too laughs.. Pretty bad when justices in 3rd world country’s can see the obvious hypocrisy of the American system.. Its even worse when they are correct. how is it they can see the elephants in the room but no one else can? Does it really take someone who speaks English as a third language to point the obvious out to morons that barely speak it as an only language?
At least for crying out loud has even one person in the judicial system picked up a Websters dictionary or any English dictionary and bothered to learn the English language? How have you accomplished getting an entire legislature and supreme court toilet that is either 110% criminally negligent or 110% criminally ignorant? Maybe it is 220% both? Hey lets keep piling on after the fact restrictions on citizens dumb enough to approve them while neglecting congresses 200 million plus dollar sex horror trafficking slush funds..and lets not talk about what congress and some of your high ranking justices do when visiting third world country’s …sick ..sick…sick…

“penal” in English adjective- of or relating to PUNISHMENT given by law.
“civil” related to legal disagreements between people or businesses as regards to financial, rather then criminal activities..Example plaintiffs seek financial compensation.
Internationally accepted United States English Dictionary.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:05:44 +0000

In reply to Gerald.

“What’s the difference between a fee and a tax?
Firstly, a tax is a compulsory payment levied by the government on its citizens and various business firms. … On the other hand, a fee is a voluntary payment to the government for the special services rendered by it in the public interest, but conferring a specific advantage on the person paying it.”

http://www.economicsdiscussion.net/government/taxation/difference-between-tax-and-fees/17448

I ask economic scholars to determine, based on the definition above: “Is this a fee or a tax?”

In states like Illinois with $100 per year tax, I recommend sex offenders go door to door to collect the fee. Fliers can be passed out on Columbus Day letting them know that they can pay online or wait for an in-person visit about three weeks later.

In one way, the registrants do benefit from adding themselves to the sex offender registry, much the way the German Jews benefited from the identification tattoos they received. Those Jews complained they had to move from their home. But they just moved to a camp! Camp can be fun! Since receiving the benefits of being on the registry, lots of folks in Florida are enjoying camp too!

Copy and Paste URL below:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sex+offender+camp+florida

One of the reasons our government has a registry is so that: Sex offenders know where every day care center is. Most sex offenders probably never knew where all those children were! It is only a matter of time before a clever soul makes a list of all day care centers so that sex offenders can find where not to be.

Sex offenders addresses are available for other sex offenders Think of it as a unique club! If a nationally organized flash mob demonstration was to show up in, let’s say, Butts County GA on Halloween, it can be set up for a fun surprise without the possibility of muggles to ruin the fun!

No worries when buying cheese either! You can be assured you are safe buying from a registrant!

Want that armrest all to yourself on your next flight? Just show proof of registration!

Our friend in Racine, Wisconsin has some recommendations for you: If you are a woman thinking of getting a divorce, and you enjoyed the movie or book, “Gone Girl”, how about enrolling your husband into the club! All you need is to reword the text from a law book that when added to any picture makes it pornographic. Search the Lexus-Nexus for the word, “sylphs”. As a woman attend “Adult Little Girl” night at the fetish club. Our Racine friend recommends “Galaria Domain 2”. Invite a man you meet there to use your husband’s computer. A little “Attribute Magic Pro” and the files were downloaded when you were out of town!

Remember: To the right prosecutor, the “Leave it to Beaver” 1959 Halloween episode is evidence gold!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:44:46 +0000

Just when you thought debtors prisons were a thing of the past. Now that low level drug offenders are making room in prisons, they’re going to try and fill that space with as many RSOs as possible. Under Bush I expected RSOs to be in FEMA camps, and that’s probably not out of the question considering our dwindling rights as of late, but I can see an endless swath of cells eternally replete with sex offenders with no hope of getting out. Ever.

By: over and under it

over and under it — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:39:14 +0000

Unbelievable enough is enough this crap is stupid I’m so sick of this s*** I’m so sick of having to go in there once twice a week 4 times a month this court process is so slow before any of us get any relief we’ll all be dead for a hundred years.

By: DMC

DMC — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:28:55 +0000

Regardless of whether it is a few or a fine, I think a bigger issue is the waiting to be called for my setting with “Olan Mills”. I go in once a quarter, wait for a minimum of 2 hours, sit for a photo that is 3 months newer than the last one, give them the same info I have given for the last 9 years because I own my home and pay $25 for the service. I am 66 and it should be real fun when I am too old to drive or too decreped to do the old man shuffle into the PD.

By: BRIDGET

BRIDGET — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:06:38 +0000

My husband is a registered sex offender – charge happened in Michigan 17 years ago. we now live in Whiteside county in Illinios. I believe it was 2 years ago they added a $100.00 registration fee to be paid yearly for my husband.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:48:51 +0000

So if you’re indigent , that you literally can’t pay the registry fees, that is a an offense that carries jail time and more additional fees. Forced to pay for something that you are forced in itself to do – register!

By: Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:46:01 +0000

The truth is that they shouldn’t be allowed to refer to it as a “fee” in the first place. When you are forced to pay something or be arrested, it is a “fine,” pure and simple. Fines are a form of punishment, period. I wish the courts would step up and rule correctly.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:44:34 +0000

In person reporting – just like probation…. paying a fee – just like probation. in violation of terms when registering – just like probation.

How is this administrative registering that we do, not like probation ? And probation is a punishment.