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Originally Posted by recluse
The very existence of this book, out in the open, indicates exactly how much child molestors fear the Law.
Decent people have to obey the letter of the Law.
Because the penalties don't fit the severity of the crimes.
Something is wrong with this equation.
Got a funny feeling that the Law is what is wrong.
Which side should be afraid?
Which side should have their liberty restricted, if not completely removed?
I am a great believer in human rights.
It's time to redefine "human".
If it preys on the young of humans,
it is not human.
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Well said.
And if people had not responded to all the media buzz the way they did, the pedophiles would have been even more emboldened.
If you follow crime boards, you see so many horrors committed by repeat offenders who had no business around kids, it's an atrocity. Our system is broken.
This is a little off topic, but one of my other pet peeves about sex crime laws is that it lumps in things like statutory rape
between teens with actual pedophilia and rape. Some states are worse than others; a few at least have Romeo and Juliet clauses.
That failure to distinguish just dilutes the usefulness of the registry, and worse, subjects kids to being tagged forever with the same scarlet letter as the rapists and pedos.