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California lays the groundwork for permanent second class citizens
Here we go, making people into second class citizens. Emphasis added.

Proposition 83 would give California some of the nation's strictest laws governing sex offenders, increasing prison and parole terms for many crimes. Its most controversial provision would bar released offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park and permit local governments to make other locations, such as libraries or public swimming pools, off limits.

The initiative also would require released sex offenders to wear an electronic tracking device for life, regardless of their crime or level of dangerousness.

The measure, dubbed Jessica's Law by proponents, resembles laws that have been adopted or are under consideration in numerous other states. The trend was fueled in part by the death of the law's namesake, Jessica Lunsford, who was kidnapped and murdered by a sex offender in Florida in 2005.

The sex offender laws are just excuses.

I've written before about people who get accused and convicted of sex crimes for the slimmest of reasons.

So who defines what is a sex crime?

Soliciting? In some states, yes.

Non-hetrosexual intercourse? Almost certainly.

Sunbathing nude? Yep.

Selling sex aids on the internet? Oh yes.

Sex crimes is one of those really slippery slopes. It doesn't help that we lump them all together. Someone having the wrong kind of vacation photos ends up in the same category with serial rapists. Once the law exists, other "marginal crimes" will get their own monitoring devices.

Without strictly enforced guarantees of freedom, morality is just what the State says it is.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - October 2, 2006 at 04:41 AM  Tag


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