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Thread (Discussion): [The Edmonton Sun] Mom alarmed by pedophile's presence at slumber party

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Message 121210 (In Reply to Message 121094)
have you read any.....

Posted by myoung on Nov 07, 2003 02:30 PM | Also by myoung

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

Hi exoffender.....
Have you read any of my other posts? I am a very active mom who is probably way too open with her kids. I never hold back and I tell them too much sometimes but I think it's important. And yes....I am very open about talking about sex, drugs, crime, decision making, child rearing.....etc. I do worry about people who make bad decisions and have poor judgement where kids are involved. I agree that there are many, daily encounters to worry about but in my state, we have no public access for anything and I think it's unfair. I have run background checks on prospective tenants....yes. The funny thing is, when the request is placed, there is an authorization period I have to go through so the state police ensure I am a person who should have this information. I don't know if just anyone can do a check. It took me over 10 days to get the information. I guess they did a background check on me too:) I can't tell you how many times I have "eaten crow" when someone has lied to me about a possible criminal background only for them to commit, yet again. Quite frankly, in dealing with the thousands of people I have dealt with, I don't trust anyone anymore. It is sad because I was always one to give the benefit of the doubt upfront. That idealism has burnt me too many times and I felt like I wasn't teaching my kids good decision making through my experiences. You have to understand that, as a person without a record and has never committed a crime, I believe the choice to act is yours and if you do......take the consequences that come from it. If you know you will live out a life of hell and embarassment, then don't do it (easier said than done in some cases, I know). I know there are gray areas like orolan's but that isn't the majority.....it is a very very slim minority.

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Message 121094
Registries are not useful enough to justify their existence

Posted by exoffender1 on Nov 06, 2003 04:04 AM | Also by exoffender1

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

I'm not sure it is your "right as a human" to "have tools supplied" to you.  But I am sure that if you are part of a group that gets such tools created, it is your OBLIGATION to pay for the tools and deal with the myriad problems that are created by them.  The obligation exists as long as the tools and the problems they create exist.

You have absolutely nothing that is of use there in PA?  Can you not do background checks on people?  Since you are so concerned about your kids that you think a public Registry would be worth all the problems it will cause, I assume that you have done background checks on people already.  Is that the case?

After all, I know you are concerned about people's past behavior with regard to a lot more than just what a s*x crimes Registry will show you.  For example, I can tell you undoubtedly that you should be a lot more concerned about a person that would put your child in a car and then drive it recklessly than someone who would touch your child.  That person is far more common and far more dangerous and destructive.  But it's a lot harder to get hysterical about that person, isn't it?

The answer lies with educating your children, not keeping them away from a few people.  It doesn't lie with creating a huge underclass of people and making it difficult for them to live lawfully.  Those people WILL lash back in some manner.

exoffender1

Advocate for ensuring that useless and destructive laws directed at people who have committed sex offenses in the past exist only at the largest possible cost of time, effort, money, and other tangibles and intangibles

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120498, admin, Oct 26, 2003 01:00 AM [Introduction]
      120577, myoung, Oct 27, 2003 06:50 PM [yet another example]
            120648, Silverthorne, Oct 29, 2003 04:21 AM
                  120695, PVulcan, Oct 29, 2003 11:13 PM
                  120715, myoung, Oct 30, 2003 04:43 AM [how does this help me here?]
                        120719, Silverthorne, Oct 30, 2003 08:12 AM
                              120830, myoung, Nov 01, 2003 04:43 AM [silver]
                                    120833, lj, Nov 01, 2003 05:20 AM [Politicians use public uproar to pa...]
            121094, exoffender1, Nov 06, 2003 04:04 AM [Registries are not useful enough to jus...]
                  121102, steve, Nov 06, 2003 05:23 AM [Pennslyvania does have online registry]
                        121209, myoung, Nov 07, 2003 02:16 PM [yes....but]
                  121210, myoung, Nov 07, 2003 02:30 PM [have you read any.....]
      120578, Rejected
      121205, poetsdreamscape, Nov 07, 2003 07:07 AM [what you don't know]
            121211, myoung, Nov 07, 2003 02:31 PM [I agree]

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Forum: In the NewsThread (Discussion): [The Edmonton Sun] Mom alarmed by pedophile's presence at slumber party

Message 121210 (In Reply to Message 121094)have you read any.....

Message 121094Registries are not useful enough to justify their existence

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Forum: In the News

Thread (Discussion): [The Edmonton Sun] Mom alarmed by pedophile's presence at slumber party

Message 121210 (In Reply to Message 121094)
have you read any.....

Message 121094
Registries are not useful enough to justify their existence