[Rhodes22-list] National registry.

[Joseph Hadzima]

I do concur Brad.

When the ACLU called the other night and requested I renew
my membership early so that could use my money to defeat
some of the people I plan to support next week with my
vote.  I told them I was reconsidering whether I would
renew at all this year because their focus seems to be off
the real targets lately.

The guy working at the dry cleaners next to our old flower
shop was going out with his HS sweety.  Funny how after
dating for two years, you can go to jail, and need to
register as a sex offender two months after your 18th b'day
if your girl-friend is a few days shy of 17.

And moving to a new town doesn't help, since the local cops
are required to post fliers in a 1/2 mile radius of his
address each time he moves.

As a side note: Mental health sources say you can't cure a
pedophile, so if someone is convicted of that crime - why
do we let them out?

I don't really want to start some long exchange of
emotional emails all over agin.  But, I've had two close
calls that scared the shit out of me, and these type of
laws/websites are in the same category.

Maybe I need to get a bigger boat, should I need to put
some distance between me and whatever scary thing is out
there!   :-^)


joe/hadz.

--- Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rummy,
> 
> Well, it is interesting to play with.  Frankly, I have a
> problem with these
> sites and the laws behind them.  I knew a guy from my
> home area in Illinois
> that did two years on a statutory rape charge under
> circumstances that many
> of us could have been charged with during our youth.  It
> ruined his
> life. There is no 'corrections' in our corrections
> systems.  Get busted with
> a joint and see what it does for your career. You look at
> what has happened
> to the kids at Duke and one realizes what havoc a
> overzealous prosecutor can
> do to one's life.  The criminal justice system here in
> Shelby County
> Tennessee is downright scary!  I have very mixed emotions
> about the mixture
> of the digital age and crime.  I worry more about the
> local yahoos watching
> me than I do the Federal government watching foreign
> currency transactions.
> 
> Brad
>