Here's the deal, our helpful friends over at the Iowa Civil Liberties Union has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a 2002 Iowa law forbidding sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and day care centers. Because after all, the rest of society should feel perfectly fine about the sex offenders scoping out victims from the safety of their bedroom windows. Why should they be expected to drive across town, possibly being noticed as a creepy lurking pervert and have their plans spoiled? I know- heartbreaking isn't it? (See link for THAT story)
It's not bad enough that a anti American group formed to cause chaos and havoc with our freedoms while insisting that we bow to the ideas of lunatics has decided to take this cause on, and has high hopes of restoring "haunting grounds" to these perverts- now joining the circus is an actual sex offender. Surprise surprise.
So this sicko, Dave Spencer, 52, of Elkhart Iowa- has decided to lobby lawmakers, explaining in his own disgusting words the effects these laws have on sex offenders. Because really- that's who we should be concerned about. How dare we confuse ourselves enough to think that the safety of children is more important. Now let's all take a moment to thank the Iowa ACLU for making this possible.
"We're trying to introduce some balance here," Spencer said. "We're trying to
help the legislators understand that we're not all stupid out here. We do have
input on this thing that makes sense, and that they need to be looking at
this."
Spencer is with a small lobbying group representing sex
offenders. He will be in Des Moines on Wednesday to speak to a legislative task
force which is meeting to discuss sex crimes and their penalties.Spencer is part
of a group called RARE PEARL -- Requiring Advances and Rehabilitating Errants
and Promoting Education and Activism to Reform Legislation.He said their intent
isn't to protest. Rather, it's to address the legislative committee and ask that
the members revisit this year's laws that place harsher penalties on sex
offenders and a 2002 law that bans child molesters from living within 2,000 feet
of schools and day care centers.Spencer said the 2,000-foot law and the
electronic monitoring is "absolutely meaningless when it comes to preventing the
crimes or protecting anybody, or repairing any harm done to victims."
I'm really feeling his pain here. And really who better to help make the laws on sex offenders, than a sex offender. Because they, after all would have no alternative motive in this, right? What I find most interesting is the last comment- because the law isn't made to repair harm done to victims. In honesty it gives little attention to the mental condition of the victims. It's about preventing victims. The time served for the crime was for the actions, the rest is meant to prevent the actions. To keep them from moving in next door to a school, watching the kids playing and waiting for that one day, that one perfect chance where a parent is five minutes late picking up their kid, or that one little boy wonders off away from his class.
I'm sorry but this is too much like asking a gang banger to help write laws against gang bangers- they have too big an interest in what benefits them, rather than what would promote the safety of others. No one should be able to pick and choose their sentence- that's what we have juries and judges for.
The last lines of the news story read this way:
"Nobody's trying to say there shouldn't be some consequences for this," he said. "But the consequence should first of all fit the crime and should also
be something that is really going to make some difference. Not just to
punish somebody, but in order to make a better, safer society."
Just those words- I agree with. Most likely not in the way he meant them. But I'll read them as I want. In order to make a better, safer society- we do have to make sure that the punishment fits the crime. Which is why I am so supportive of life sentencing. Because the deviant unacceptable acts of sexual assault that these monsters commit on the innocent has a lasting life long effect. Sex offenders make a choice to commit these heinous crimes- with no interest in the effects that it will have upon their victims. It is not a matter of if they will do it again- it's a matter of when, and whether they will be caught the next time around.
Source here
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