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Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords
mytrip writes "Privacy advocates are questioning an aggressive Georgia law set to take effect Thursday that would require sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses. Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track Internet addresses of sex offenders, but it is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16,000 offenders to turn in their passwords as well."
'Cause everyone knows that an adult who would abuse sexually abuse or rape someone is otherwise a perfectly law abiding citizen and wouldn't even THINK of using an anonymous account or a proxy.
As for the non violent offenders that no one is really worried about, well, too bad - they should have waited until her 18th birthday.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
good fucking god, you dim-witted ignorant yankee, who the hell do you think you are?! how dare you be so ignorant and demeaning concerning europes history!! I don't just weep for you, I weep for the idiotic mods that actually deemed you +5 insightful!
I don't even *KNOW* where to start to undermine your point! NSDAP Germany didn't have a constitution 1936! No Germans had rights back then, no Jews had rights back then, no minority you can fathom had rights back then!
Germany earned its constituion AFTER world war 2!
now here's something interesting about western europe: apart from the united Kingdom, Europe has incredibly strong individual rights. Europes greatest problems, apart from the fukcing financial crisis and idiotic yanks claiming problems we don't actually have, is islamic immigrants forcing their way of life upon us. that is europes greatest problem. and while we sit here taking it up the arse by imams dedicated to a muslim europe, we even have to put up with yankee idiots still thinking that hitler is alive and friendly fire is part of the game.
and here I stand reading your incredibly idiotic drivel, at the same time feeling sorry for myself and every other human being - get the fuck off the intertubes, you ignorant prick!
It's not about fate, it's about character.
there be no shelter here, the frontline is everywhere!
Once upon a time, I saw an old drunk piss on a bus's tire at a transfer point/bus stop where I lived, while middle and high school kids were around. Grossed everyone out and he was arrested. Sex offendor? not imho but needed a long time away from kids until he learned appropriate behaviour in public. Lifelong sentence? Perhaps, if it happened multiple times.
Aside from the whole constitutionality and fifth-amendment issues with this, what about plain enforceability? "Oh, I don't use MySpace. Prove I do."
Some time ago, in a high-profile case, a 22-year-old lawyer's daughter ran a red light and killed two Hispanic children crossing the street as their mother watched. She spent 20 days in jail, paid a $60 fine for running a red light, lost her license for three years, lost her job as a teacher because of her shiny new criminal record, moved back in with her parents, and she and her parents settled a lawsuit with the victims' parents for an "undisclosed amount"--I heard that they wanted $15,000 at first, but they probably wound up with millions.
If she moved in next door to me, I'd be more concerned than if it was some guy who had a too-young girlfriend years ago and has since done his time. Statistically, living next door her would be more dangerous than living next door to OJ Simpson. OJ's victims were chosen. Hers are random, and you could be next.