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Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid
pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that a new wristwatch called num8 has a GPS tracking device and satellite positioning system concealed inside so parents can locate the wearer to within 10 feet with Google maps. The watch sends an alert if it is forcibly removed. The makers of the watch claim it gives peace of mind to parents and makes children more independent. 'Losing your child, if only for a brief moment, leads to a state of panic and makes parents feel powerless. The overriding aim of num8 is to give children their freedom and parents peace of mind,' says a company spokesman. Critics of the watch say tagging children is a step too far in paranoia about child safety. 'Is the world really that unsafe that parents need to track their children electronically? I don't think so,' says Dr Michele Elliott, director of children's charity Kidscape."
Not always, but the "paranoid retard" market is certainly what they're aiming for; "people who have a legitimate use for something like this" is an insignificant speck by comparison. Don't kid yourself into thinking they're making this out of compassion for the few people it would actually help. They're just in it to make a lot of quick and easy money by playing into the ridiculous delusions of the masses.
Yeah, it works great, globally. IF there is a service provider. John Q. Citizen isn't invited to purchase some hardware and tap into the system. How do those cell phones work with GPS, exactly?
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5) Drug sex offenders to kill their sex drive. Similar to drugging the mental cases as we do now (both are mental problems.) This would possibly even help with the #1 cause of the problems. Makes more sense to have the sick people pay to treat themselves than everybody else pay to see where their kid was before / during victimization.
The only way I can think of to do this effectively is to chemically castrate these men. Sounds great to me, but that can't be done because the liberals and ACLU will all be up in arms over their "civil rights". Child molesters have basically a 100% recidivism rate, but apparently the liberals are more worried about their rights than their victims'.
As this link states, the recidivism rate is MUCH higher (30-40% over 20 years), and that only accounts for offenses that are detected. Phillip Garrido abducted and held Jaycee Duggard for almost 20 years before being caught, so he wouldn't even count in your bullshit statistic of a mere 5 years. So the actual rates are likely much higher than what I've stated here, since most sex crimes are never reported. As stated in my link: "When an offender is caught and has a thorough evaluation with a polygraph backup, he will reveal dozens, sometimes hundreds of offenses he was never apprehended for."
There's nothing delusional about blaming the ACLU and liberals for protecting these worthless humans, because they're the ones who do. And again, what's the problem with castration? You still haven't answered that. We all (at least the responsible ones among us) do this to our pets, and no one seems to have an issue with that. What's the problem with doing it to humans who have committed a horrible crime? How's it worse than rotting in prison and being beaten and gang-raped every day?