Comments on: Hang ‘Em http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em Live, Laugh, Love Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:57:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nick http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-131823 nick Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:58:42 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-131823 The great majority of sex offenders were themselves molested as children. This does not excuse what they do but it helps explain it. As for the lyncy mob mentality and hang em all beliefs, consider that there are thousands of recovering registered offenders and very, very few re-offend. Kids are more at danger of being killed by guns in the home, drunk drivers, second hand smoke than they are by a registered offender. As for laws forcing registered offenders to move away from society, many will no longer register and may no longer get the treatment for addictions they have which makes us all less safe not more. If this guy had moved away from a bus stop, it would likely have made no difference. We need for grandstanding politicians to attack this problem seriously instead of a knee jerk, fire from the hip stupidity they now possess. The great majority of sex offenders were themselves molested as children. This does not excuse what they do but it helps explain it. As for the lyncy mob mentality and hang em all beliefs, consider that there are thousands of recovering registered offenders and very, very few re-offend. Kids are more at danger of being killed by guns in the home, drunk drivers, second hand smoke than they are by a registered offender.

As for laws forcing registered offenders to move away from society, many will no longer register and may no longer get the treatment for addictions they have which makes us all less safe not more. If this guy had moved away from a bus stop, it would likely have made no difference.

We need for grandstanding politicians to attack this problem seriously instead of a knee jerk, fire from the hip stupidity they now possess.

]]> By: Shelley http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-130945 Shelley Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:28:00 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-130945 One of the posters said there should be a one strike rule for sex offenders. If that were the case, Michael Barrios would never have been born. His father is a registered sex offender, who apparently committed statutory rape 10 years ago, four years before little Michael was born. Then if you say that all registered sex offenders should live x number of feet from school bus stops, where would that have put six year old Michael? In a Georgian swamp perhaps? When is society going to get it that not all registered sex offenders are the same and that law enforcement needs to spend the money it has with the dangerous ones, not all, many like Michael B's father who pose little or no risk? If you track, put GPS, force to register, etc all registered sex offenders, who end up only using half measures and kids get hurt. Ironically, the child molester who killed or helped to kill the kid had moved from another area due to the law. One of the posters said there should be a one strike rule for sex offenders. If that were the case, Michael Barrios would never have been born. His father is a registered sex offender, who apparently committed statutory rape 10 years ago, four years before little Michael was born.

Then if you say that all registered sex offenders should live x number of feet from school bus stops, where would that have put six year old Michael? In a Georgian swamp perhaps?

When is society going to get it that not all registered sex offenders are the same and that law enforcement needs to spend the money it has with the dangerous ones, not all, many like Michael B’s father who pose little or no risk? If you track, put GPS, force to register, etc all registered sex offenders, who end up only using half measures and kids get hurt.

Ironically, the child molester who killed or helped to kill the kid had moved from another area due to the law.

]]> By: another mom http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-130748 another mom Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:56:46 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-130748 no prison terms, why spend my tax dollars on these people? they are evil and evil has no place in this world. hang them and re use the rope. if you liberals want to allow them to live then have them in your house, oh but think about putting some kind of tracking system inside their bodies, the kind of device that explodes if they try to mess with it. no prison terms, why spend my tax dollars on these people? they are evil and evil has no place in this world. hang them and re use the rope. if you liberals want to allow them to live then have them in your house, oh but think about putting some kind of tracking system inside their bodies, the kind of device that explodes if they try to mess with it.

]]> By: suzanne http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-130698 suzanne Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:26:27 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-130698 It's true that most children are abused or molested by someone they know. I still support the Megan's Law. However we have to also worry about these perverts that the authorities know nothing about as well. I still think we need to go back to having all adult apartments and neighborhoods for these idiots. As a mother of a 14 year old girl and an 8 year old autistic son it's scary to let your kids even play outside alone. The older one is not allowed to walk over to the dollar store half a mile away. She's had a close call at another discount store in a low crime town. Thankfully she's bee listening to what her father and I teach. I think child molesters need to be thrown in a swamp AFTER someone stirs up the gators and cottonmouths. It’s true that most children are abused or molested by someone they know. I still support the Megan’s Law. However we have to also worry about these perverts that the authorities know nothing about as well. I still think we need to go back to having all adult apartments and neighborhoods for these idiots. As a mother of a 14 year old girl and an 8 year old autistic son it’s scary to let your kids even play outside alone. The older one is not allowed to walk over to the dollar store half a mile away. She’s had a close call at another discount store in a low crime town. Thankfully she’s bee listening to what her father and I teach. I think child molesters need to be thrown in a swamp AFTER someone stirs up the gators and cottonmouths.

]]> By: rich http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-130682 rich Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:37:41 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-130682 public lynching public lynching

]]> By: Jo http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-130593 Jo Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:04:25 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-130593 I spent 15 years in the legal system ... hysteria my ass, these monsters once convicted should be hung outside the courthouse for all to see. I spent 15 years in the legal system … hysteria my ass, these monsters once convicted should be hung outside the courthouse for all to see.

]]> By: nick http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-130584 nick Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:54:21 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-130584 Ok, lets go ahead and hang em. now what happens when someone can't control his urges and so he molests a kid but otherwise wants to let the kid go. If we have a one strike law or even the death penalty, he may panic and kill the kid. The hysteria over sex offenders is ignorance. Strange danger is an over played myth. Most abused kids are abused by someone they know and someone never caught. The great majority of registered offenders never repeat their crimes and not because of several laws. But what we are doing when we limit where they can live, and work, and make them live in fear is, they will stop registering. Then we won't know where any of them live. And we don't have the resources to go and find them. Ok, lets go ahead and hang em. now what happens when someone can’t control his urges and so he molests a kid but otherwise wants to let the kid go. If we have a one strike law or even the death penalty, he may panic and kill the kid.

The hysteria over sex offenders is ignorance. Strange danger is an over played myth. Most abused kids are abused by someone they know and someone never caught. The great majority of registered offenders never repeat their crimes and not because of several laws. But what we are doing when we limit where they can live, and work, and make them live in fear is, they will stop registering. Then we won’t know where any of them live. And we don’t have the resources to go and find them.

]]> By: Gidgee http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/comment-page-1#comment-130539 Gidgee Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:07:47 +0000 http://joscafe.com/2007/03/16/hang-em/#comment-130539 I say your dammmm right, this happens much too often and something needs to change before it happens again! I say your dammmm right, this happens much too often and something needs to change before it happens again!

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