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Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law
As noted in Wired yesterday, tragedy in chaos writes, "Senator and Presidential-hopeful John McCain has managed to get a new bill signed into law, in the hope of ridding online social networks of the sexual predation of children. The 'Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008,' as it is called, calls for a database to be made in which all registered sexual offenders must also register their e-mail addresses so that MySpace, Facebook, etc. can run current and hopeful users through it, and eliminate access to the offenders. Though a noble goal, this is not very well thought out in methodology. They are asking known criminals to be honest, and are expecting them not to utilize any of the free and readily available e-mail services that exist so as to circumvent the system. There is also a potential for the crafty sex offender to possibly cause false positives by just registering an address that does not belong to them, thereby drawing in innocent bystanders."
perhaps that is going a bit to far to have them banned from social networking sites and who knows what else in the future simply monitoring there actions when registered minors is involved is probably best. I'm not in support of child molesters but if they have served there time they deserve the same rights and freedoms as the rest of us including the ability to socialize online with there legitimate friends, perhaps even dating sites.. (adult dating sites ;)
I guess that's the crux of it. Why are cruel and unusual punishments so bad, as long as they fit the crime? You rape a kid, you get you junk sawed off. Cruel? Not really, because you're protecting the shitbird from himself. And it wouldn't be very unusual if we did it all the time and made it usual. I don't really understand why as a culture we're scared of being cruel to bad people.
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All men are rapists, and all women are innocent victims. All heterosexual sex is rape.
Didn't you get the memo?
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he admitted himself that he can't even use a computer! He has to ask his wife for help!
You do realize that the reason he doesn't "use a computer" and "needs help" is that he cannot use his hands and arms to type on a keyboard, because of the permanent damage and disfigurement when he was tortured for defending your right to post on Slashdot, right? And he does have people who use computers for him (people to press buttons, staff of experts to do research for him, create his web pages, read his ten thousand non-spam emails each day, as well as his snail mail, etc.), you know. Anyway, this is not McCain's bill -- it is sponsored by Charles Schumer [D-NY], and co-sponsors include John Kerry, Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, and a bunch of other people including ...Barack Obama.
I don't see anything wrong about that. Having stupid people's genitalia sawn off will remove them from the gene pools. But what about female sexual offenders?
so which lefties doctored the intelligence reports for iraq, authored the patriot act, and established "internment camps" off shore in places like gitmo for "extraordinary rendition"?
an incredibly stupid law vs out-and-out tyrrany, global war crimes, and fraud.
The left certainly is as bad as the right isn't it.. oh wait.
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