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Message 131154 (In Reply to Message 131069)

Posted by MrTruth on Apr 22, 2004 01:44 AM | Also by MrTruth

Gender: Male, Age Bracket: N/A, State: N/A, Country: United States

The analogy I like to use is from a Larry Niven novel titled "Footfall." Science fiction, alien invaders attacking Earth. The aliens look like baby elephants, but are vicious warriors. When they surrender, they go belly up. To them, that is the ultimate humiliation, and once they offer that sign to whomever has vanquished them, they expect to be taken in and will even change sides. What causes the aliens to go beserk is that the humans don't recognize this act of contrition and continue to shoot at the aliens (naturally, the humans are a little PO'd about being invaded). I went belly up a long time ago, and it pisses me off that I'm still being shot at.

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Posted by exoffender1 on Apr 21, 2004 03:36 PM | Also by exoffender1

Gender: Male, Age Bracket: N/A, State: Georgia, Country: United States

<blockquote><span class="mb-quote">Boy, I am so happy SO's only re-offend at the rate of either 5 or 10%. How much more can we handle, really? I just can't understand why society wants to keep a short leash on them [sarcasm].</span></blockquote>

You have said something similar many times before.  To me this implies (so I may be wrong) that you think this justifies Registries and likely its follow-up laws.  It doesn't.  It does not make sense to have laws that cause so many problems for society in general and specifically for the 90-95% of law abiding FSOs in the hopes/dreams that those laws will prevent perhaps .1% of the crimes committed by the 5-10% of FSOs who re-offend.  It certainly makes more sense (but probably not enough) to apply that same effort to different crimes where the recidivism rate is much higher.

The Registries are a joke.  The follow-up laws are even more ludicrous.  I can see that perhaps the Registries do provide their .1% prevention of the 5-10% of FSOs that re-offend (so what is that of the total sex crimes - maybe .01%?).  But anyone who thinks the follow-up laws are preventing anything needs to have his/her head examined.  They are laws to pacify the idiots.  Nothing more.

Society wants to keep a "short leash" on FSOs because by and large Americans are morons who "think" with their emotions.  What they need to understand is that passing new laws that do nothing but punish FSOs or retroactively affect FSOs is unacceptable.  It doesn't matter if they think it is or they tell each other it is.  It's not.  There are people who will legally nullify the laws' effects, exacerbate what they were trying to prevent, and provide negative retribution.  I am one of those people and I am constantly encouraging and supporting more people to do the same.  Registering me has not prevented ONE single crime.  But I've caused plenty of damage and there is plenty more to come.

I'm sorry my message is always so negative.  But I feel I've been forced into this position.  What I initially did to become an RFSO was offensive.  I paid a high price for those transgressions.  That was the legal and fair punishment.  But it's not okay to keep adding more punishment.  It's just not acceptable and there's no way I'm going to allow it.

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131002, dp1, Apr 21, 2004 02:55 AM
      131007, orolan, Apr 21, 2004 03:05 AM
            131010, dp1, Apr 21, 2004 03:15 AM [Orolan]
                  131086, orolan, Apr 21, 2004 06:21 PM
      131039, Silverthorne, Apr 21, 2004 08:06 AM [Evidence?]
      131069, exoffender1, Apr 21, 2004 03:36 PM
            131154, MrTruth, Apr 22, 2004 01:44 AM
                  131473, exoffender1, Apr 24, 2004 04:04 AM

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