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POPSCuckoo's Nest Revisited Kids don't get in trouble, they're put in trouble. Adolescent sex offender treatment and registration laws become a modern witch hunt. Bad laws win elections, destroy lives.
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POPSSex Offender Registry Includes Consenting Teens Being labeled a sex offender has completely changed Ricky’s life, leading him to be kicked out of high school, thrown out of parks, taunted by neighbors, harassed by strangers, and unable to live within 2,000 feet of a school, day-care center or park. He is prohibited from going to the movies or mall with friends because it would require crossing state borders, which he cannot do without permission from his probation officer.
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POPSA Bad Law The recurrence of offense by rapists and pedophiles is well documented. But what about the multitude of teens that are branded with the scarlet letter of sex offender? The present laws make no distinction between a rapist and an adolescent experimenting with sex. Yet the consequences are the same regardless of the "crime". This is foolhardy and a tremendous waste of taxpayer money to say nothing of the devastating consequences of teens being caught with their pants down. What began as a law to protect children has turned children into lifelong pariahs and that is not right.
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POPSRep James Fagan (D-Ma & Loose Cannon) On Jessica's Law YouTube Video 1:29.....The father of a slain Florida girl pushing for mandatory prison time for child rapists in the Bay State is blasting a Taunton lawmaker who said he’d torment young victims on the witness stand to defend his perv clients.
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POPSPray Away Gay "What, if anything do you think Ted Haggard will say publicly about his experience? Certainly if the evangelical former pastor has not truly reclaimed his heterosexuality after the very strict re-programming, it would be a serious blow to the ex-gay industry if he were to come forward and say that he now realizes that his same-sex desires are neither evil or wrong and that these cures have nothing to do with getting right with God."
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POPSSex Offender Accused Of Raping Boy How in the HELL does someone get raped in a public library? How did this thing called a person slip through the cracks? Why wasn't the mother watching this child? OMG, this whole story sickens me from start to finish. I'll NEVER understand why anyone would want to rape another human being much less a child.
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POPSMegan's killer/rapist saved by NJ politicians The bill was introduced in November after a state commission concluded capital punishment was an ineffective deterrent to crime. New Jersey has not executed a prisoner since 1963. I bet jail wouldn't be a deterrent to crime in a state that hadn't jailed someone in 45 years either.
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POPSDoes America Really Need Its Own Holocaust?
You know, with all the public outcry against ALL sex offenders, it's not often that you find a voice of reason, or if you do it is quickly snuffed out by all the hysteria surrounding it. As bad as you may think sex offenders are, particularly ones involved with minors, they are still people. Murderers, among other criminal types don't suffer the same kind of oppression that sex offenders do, and yet plenty of times their crimes far exceed the damage of the sex offenders. So why do sex offenders get the short end of the stick? I say it's because of the American's need to have something to demonize, and whenever you can tie something, even loosely, to the loss of innocence in a child, you have a perfect candidate to attack. By oppressing sex offenders more and more, rather than creating a safer community, you are creating a large group that is far more dangerous than they would be otherwise. You, your family, and your children are being put at greater risk by oppressing these pe
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POPSMan sues Dallas suburb over sex club ban I kind of wonder why existing "disturbing the peace" laws weren't enough. I can sort of understand the frustration with a habitual offender, but what's next? Do you ban heavy metal or hip-hop music because parties featuring those can make lots of noise?
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POPSSex With a Bike? OK, the guy's a wierdo, but.... He was in his bedroom, doing his bike. For this he's been arrested and on the Sex Offender's list? Seems a little extreme :)
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POPSCanadian child-sex offender to be released on bail?!! Bail for this convicted child-sex offender who is wanted on similar charges now in Thailand??? WTF :mad: If the Canadian jurisprudence system doesn't want to keep this criminal locked up they should send him to Thailand to face the charges against him there. I doubt that the Thai court would release him on bail. Sheesh.