Comments on: Be wary of emotionally charged laws named after dead people

By: Roger Chapell

Roger Chapell — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:39:10 +0000

I question whether these feel good laws are well intentioned. Author Roger Lancaster: “Sex Panic and the Punishment State” explores the motivation of “moral entrepreneurs” pundits, politicians, victim advocates and others who seize on the climate of desperation and impulse for revenge which infects people’s thinking in a crisis atmosphere to pose sweeping and drastic solutions which favor their careers and enhance their status, or simply satisfy their craving to punish.

I’ve heard commenters assert that sex offender registration laws were well intended but it is likely that the motivation for these laws encompases a need to enlist post sentencing retribution disguised as public safety.

By: FK

FK — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:41:25 +0000

In reply to Doug. Same here Doug! All this sex offender crap has alienated me from not only my family but from people I had known for years and thought were my friends. Only to find out that they were subverting me any chance they could behind my back. Amazingly enough, no one has had enough balls to talk to me about my situation face to face. They just assume the worst and are too cowardly and two faced to ask me about it. It is pathetic how the masses are easily swayed by lies and propaganda. Hard to find people today that can think on their feet and see beyond what is on the surface.

By: FK

FK — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:32:43 +0000

In reply to Doug. I understand exactly how you feel and what you and many of us like you in similar situations feel. I am an offender out of Florida but live in PA. Thank God that the PA Supreme Court ruled that SORNA is punishment and unconstitutional. Finally there are some cool heads prevailing and not afraid to make the right rulings. My point is that things can change over night. Never give up hope and keep doing the right thing. Eventually these laws will have to change on Florida too. Eventually people are going to get it that all these sex offender laws and registries are nonsense and do nothing to protect anyone. Just makes life very difficult for anyone that was unfortunate enough to wake up one morning to discover that they are now classified as a sex offender.

By: T

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:11:44 +0000

These emotionally charged people need to seek help and I mean professional help. If anyone has seen the 1981 movie Clash of the Titans you would remember in the scene where Calibos goes crying over to his statue mother Thetis saying “I demand justice” all because he lost his hand in fighting Perseus, and Thetis responded with “Justice or Revenge?”. Think about it!, these emotionally charged people crying out to their legislators for more justice and more strict SOR laws because they lost their love ones, and that “sex offenders are dangerous”, do they want justice or revenge? Maybe they need to think about what mistakes they could’ve made that led to that tragedy, however they need to learn to let their deceased loved ones go and learn to move on.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:45:45 +0000

In reply to Karen. They are based on emotion Karen. And people and families are being destroyed because of it. Mine included !

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:42:14 +0000

In reply to Robert. I'm stuck in that boat too. Sentenced to life on the shit list for something I did not do. It didn't even matter that I have three Honorable Discharges from the U.S. Army. I protected women and children all my life. I hurt nobody .I attempted to hurt nobody. But I went from hero to zero over night. If the criminal "justice" system has their way. I'll be on that list for life. I want my reputation and my rights back I earned them the hard way.

By: Lee C

Lee C — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 01:29:31 +0000

Don’t forget that males are just as susceptible to this sort of irrational emotional action.

John Walsh has made a career off his dead son. This trash enjoys his celebrity status and extended his 15 minutes to years manipulating others emotions having them relive this tragic event over and over and using others who had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE EVENT tormented and in many cases have been MURDERED THEMSELVES due to being on this very registry that this man has made a living advocating!

What a great way to have your son memorialized by tearing other families apart and making money off of it at the same time!!

Lee C

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:17:13 +0000

I am on the Florida registry,which is for life, you can’t get off.The hysteria created by just the words ‘Sex Offender’ is so hard to deal with.Don’t get me wrong I know that there are animals out there that prey on the weak,These animals should not see the light of day again.But there are so many people out there that ‘yea’ it was a crime,but we paid for it,we served our time.Although we paid it’s never over,once you have been labeled a ‘sex offender’ you are forever a ‘sex offender’.With no attention paid to what your crime actually was,you are now and always a ‘sex offender’.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 02:13:36 +0000

Laws should never be enacted based on emotion but instead imperical evidence