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Some of this I gather since I have a friend who is a "sex offender" for frivolous reasons, amounting to talking to a girl online that he met at a party who lied about her age. The parents checked her computer and filed charges against him. They never actually had sex, to which both him and the girl testified. But because it was "suspicious" the State came down hard on him. Talking to my friend he has had to do counceling and psychiatric evaluations and all sorts of crazy stuff. He says at the group meetings most of the people we convicted just like him when they were young for stupid situations with a girl a couple years younger, or for doing something stupid (and harmless) while drunk, taking a leak and someone taking offense, and all sorts of nonsense.

Rethinking registries

I'd hate ot be this guy

Don't take a leak

Prison is for convicted felons. Indecent exposure is a misdemeanor. Furthermore, you would have to be caught urinating in a public area, such as a park, to be cited for it. But keep up the FUD.

Are you insane, trolling, or just misinformed? http://www.eagletribune.com/nhnews/x1876416971/Lawmakers-Public-urination-shouldnt-lead-to-sex-offender-status

Lawmakers: Public urination shouldn't lead to sex offender status By Gordon Fraser , Staff writer KINGSTON - Starting next year, urinating in public could land you on the sex offender registry.

http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2007/03/florida_banishe.html

There's lot more if you look for it. The economist had a huge report on the whole sex-offender hysteria. Feel free to change your mind.

Why? According to your own argumentation you could not do anything wrong. If they clearly do not deserve it, it helps fighting against an insane law. If they possibly deserve it, they just get what they deserve. And when I read something like this: http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2007/03/florida_banishe.html It 'feels' for me totally 'natural' in insanity to slap them down with a sex offender registration.

Shouldn't we defend ourselves against them it the lawmakers obviously don't?

Hear, hear bring out the pitchforks and torches, burn down every brewery, distillery and liquor shop as they are major accomplishes in sex offences.

It is part of their sentence. They are sentenced to register as a sex offender.

No, they are not.

http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2007/03/florida_banishe.html

There was no "registration" 20 years ago. I can find plenty more examples, because the registries were specifically created as "not a criminal sentence" in order to evade the ex post facto law ban.

I'm sure everyone who supports this bullshit will regret it when someone discovers that the same rules can be applied to gun registries, after all, being banned from living 2500 feet from a school does not infringe on your right to own a gun, just like it does not infringe on any rights of rapists.

Name one such person, and I will personally call the circuit judge and fix it.

You lose. http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2007/03/florida_banishe.html