I have a question – why is everyone dumping on Bruce? While I think he could have been a little more eloquent with his choice of words he was trying to point out to MJ that he was doing the I am better than those “real sex offenders” – I hate that too and it is and will remain one of my pet peeves.

And MJ, you’ll do good to remember…. you are one of us too. You don’t have a victimless crime. Even if it was a CP sting THERE WERE VICTIMS. So don’t think you are any better than the person sitting next to you….. Because you’re not. Help the fight to end the registry, and don’t worry about what one guy did or didn’t do. As I said before we are in this together.

Bruce, you are way out of line. Someone needs to reel you back in. This platform, ( my personal opinion) is to discuss and vent about bad lawmaking, bad lawmakers and bad government and how we might help change the current laws that weigh us down. Not try and degrade each other, because like it or not WE are in this fight together.

@MJ

Hey friend, and I have read enough on here to call you my friend, I have to agree with the others. We don’t need to tear each other down. I went through therapy too, and the polygraph, and the limits on being around a minor. All of this before SORNA. In fact, all of this before Smith v. Doe. But we are all in this together. No one is better than another and no one is worse just because they had contact. We’re here to fight for our freedom and our rights….that’s all man. Our freedom and our rights. We can all do this together no matter what got us on “the list”.

Bruce , there is no need to an asshole. Climb back into your hole and stop the self righteous bullshit

You people are crazy. I even said I do not pass judgement on any of the guys in there because I’m in there too. I was further commenting on how good the article was and highlighting the problems with group therapy. My point in the first paragraph is that group therapy should be separated into categories. Sting operation guys in one group. Guys with Victims under 12 in another and so on. That was point. Dear God so sue me for not making that more clear. The second paragraph was to point out how they keep you in there just for the money with open ended curriculum. And my main point was that I just don’t think it’s the best thing for a female therapist to deal with male sex offenders if they aren’t emotionally strong enough to handle it. Furthermore, that’s what frustrates me about our “camp. ” were supposed to be in this fight together, but if some of us have a different opinion or a different style like Derek logue we distance ourselves from them and talk about how we don’t agree with their words or methods. Also, I’m pretty sure all of us have taken responsibility for the ONE mistake we made and paid the price for. But that doesn’t mean we have to sit back and cower in fear or put up with the govt bullcrap and let them just trample all over our civil liberties and drag us out in therapy and add law upon law that we should just bend over and say yes massa and not get pissed about it. So hopefully now I spelled out things mire clearly in my first post.

Agree!

I think what Bruce – regardless of who he/she is, trying to say is that you are kicking down a guy just to help justify yourself. I read your entire post and it seems desperate and all over the place. Defending your own case when you should be defending everyone in this situation regardless of the details of their own personal case. Kicking down a guy just to make you look innocent is not cool. Not cool at all. I don’t give a shit what he did. Because in my eyes, you’re both in therapy, just like I was in therapy as well. You either defend our cause as a whole or get the fuck out of here.!

I owned up to what I did. I was sentenced and successfully finished. Not once did I complain. I kept my focus on the goal. I knew what I had to do to successfully complete it and I did it without taking down anyone else in the process.

Have a great weekend.

That’s not what I don’t get the most. What is mind boggling to me is that you finish your probation and your court ordered sex offender treatment – both successfully, but you still have to register and be monitored. If I’m off probation and finished the therapy, why Am I still treated as a risk by still having to register for life ? That’s what probation and court ordered therapy is for and to determine whether you are or not. Is probation and court therapy not enough, are the officers and therapist so incompetent at their jobs – even with 20-30+ years experience – that they can’t tell who is dangerous or not ? Mind boggling and bazaar.

Actually Bruce I take that back. You’re not a troll. You sound like a government contracted therapist. And that’s probably what you are trolling us on here.