Tag: Sex Offenders
Legislative Pre-Game Show-Jan. 12: Demagoguery On 1st Agenda of Session
What do you do if you’re a politician and you’ve got nothing but bad news to run on and you’re facing re-election? Simple. Conjure up potential ‘horribles’, create simplistic legislation attacking said ‘horribles’, and run as if you bravely stood up to said ‘horribles’, even if what you did was simply to create horrible legislation […]
DE’s Sex Offender Registry-Good News/Bad News
In one case at least, common sense has finally won out. From today’s News-Journal: For the second time this year, the Delaware Supreme Court has found that a person legally can be removed from the state’s sex offender registry — implicitly finding that the registry is not a permanent life sentence without exception and that […]
These Laws Only Apply To The Little People
I don’t know how many people have been following the Roman Polanski case this weekend. Roman Polanski, who has been a fugitive from the U.S. for 30 years, was arrested in Switzerland this weekend. The U.S. and Switzerland have an extradition agreement. I find this case particularly infuriating because not only has the media shown […]
Sex Offender Registry: Good Politics=Bad Policy?
On Sunday, Read All About It In the Sunday Papers featured this as its lead story: “LEAD STORY-The (UK) Economist: Unintended Consequences of Sex Offenders’ Laws? It is easy for politicians to push for tougher laws on sexual offenders. It is even easier to demagogue against anyone who would dare suggest that, in many cases, there […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-BILL ‘This Is A Stupid Country’ MAHER Edition
The Beast Who Despairs of His Country’s Future is inspired this week by a classic rant from Bill Maher in the Huffington Post. Based on the mouthbreathers who have migrated here seemingly (could CRI or those phony industry health reform people have sent them?) to intentionally dumb down the quality of the discourse, El Somnambulo agrees […]
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