Community Vigilantism against Paedophile

[Unterzagersdorf]

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[Pope Joan]

We have a local family in which the husband and father is a convicted sex offender (consensual sex with a 15 year old girl) who has done his time.

His wife stayed with him; they have two children.

They have nowhere to live, even though he has a paying job.

This place is too close to a school, that one is a mile from a daycare center, another is a mile from a church.

They live out of a camper van, parked by the edge of the road. The kids cannot go to school because they "have not established legal residence".

The paper asked the oldest girl how she felt about all this. She said "we could have a normal life and go to school like everybody else if we didn't live with daddy, but I missed him and don't want to be away from him any more."

[Lunatic Goofballs]

Why stop with pedophiles? Anybody read 'The Scarlet Letter'? Why not tattoo symbols onto everyone's forehead to represent every crime they've ever committed? That way you can tell at a glance who is a shoplifter and who assaults people and who sells drugs? Why the hell would I want to live next to someone who stole a few candy bars when he was sixteen? He might steal my stereo! We can't trust them to not be repeat offenders.

We should also deprive them of tacos. Criminals don't deserve tacos. *nod*

[Unterzagersdorf]

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[Gauthier]

We have a local family in which the husband and father is a convicted sex offender (consensual sex with a 15 year old girl) who has done his time.

His wife stayed with him; they have two children.

They have nowhere to live, even though he has a paying job.

This place is too close to a school, that one is a mile from a daycare center, another is a mile from a church.

They live out of a camper van, parked by the edge of the road. The kids cannot go to school because they "have not established legal residence".

The paper asked the oldest girl how she felt about all this. She said "we could have a normal life and go to school like everybody else if we didn't live with daddy, but I missed him and don't want to be away from him any more."

Jail time for consensual sex? That's messed up.

Welcome to the American Sex Offender Registry system, where anything from public urination to consensual sex can have you labelled the same as serial rapists and child molestors.

[Messonia]

They brought themselves to a criminals level.
Well...that's retarded.

What's retarded is equating their "crime" to child molestation.

[The Romulan Republic]

Pedophiles should be tortured.

Please explain exactly why you think that pedophiles should be tortured.

[Bitchkitten]

Pedophiles and rapists should do very long prison term, since they have done very long term damage to their victims.
They should neither be tortured or executed.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

They brought themselves to a criminals level.
Well...that's retarded.

What's retarded is equating their "crime" to child molestation.

I wasn't equating their crime to child molestation .
They are being criminals as they are committing a criminal act.
They are now criminals just like the molester.

[Neu Leonstein]

You are mistaking a mob for a crowd or a community.

Oh, the difference isn't very marked. The way to distinguish between mob rule and community rule is that the latter gets things written down on paper, and that's pretty much it.

As far as I'm concerned, someone needs to stand up for this Ferguson person here, as much as I hate what he did in the past. Basically, if people don't want to be his neighbours, they're free to move out, and the local council or government has to make that clear to them and the media.

[New Heliopolis]

We have a local family in which the husband and father is a convicted sex offender (consensual sex with a 15 year old girl) who has done his time.

His wife stayed with him; they have two children.

They have nowhere to live, even though he has a paying job.

This place is too close to a school, that one is a mile from a daycare center, another is a mile from a church.

They live out of a camper van, parked by the edge of the road. The kids cannot go to school because they "have not established legal residence".

The paper asked the oldest girl how she felt about all this. She said "we could have a normal life and go to school like everybody else if we didn't live with daddy, but I missed him and don't want to be away from him any more."

Jail time for consensual sex? That's messed up.

Welcome to the American Sex Offender Registry system, where anything from public urination to consensual sex can have you labelled the same as serial rapists and child molestors.

Sigged for truth and humor.

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

I think they should generally never be let out. I will reiterate my view on the reforms the Justice System requires: it should stop imprisoning people for minor offenses and then paroling them out again as hardened criminals. Instead, prison should be reserved for serious crimes (ie, paedophilia) where the offender represents a credible threat to public safety, and in those cases it should be very hard for the offender to ever get parol, if not outright impossible in some cases.

No one should be hounded by vigilantism or state encouragement of the same after they have been let out. If they've "paid their debt" and they're safe to let out, they should be free to go about their lives. If they're a serious threat, they shouldn't be out at all.

[nitpick]Pedophilia isn't a crime. Child molestation is.[/nitpick]

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

QFT

I'm afraid I don't see what quantum field theory has to do with this problem, at least not directly.

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

Individuals can make mistakes, but the people never do.

If you knew anything about social psychology, you'd know that "The People" make MORE mistakes than individuals. It usually takes a group to bring out the stupidest behaviors of mankind.

There is a reason vigilantism has been positively portrayed in popular media for a century.

Because popular media is nothing but shameless pandering to the lowest common denominator. It's not like the media takes large amounts of time to discuss deeply intellectual issues like quantum gravity or the mind/body problem, and whenever it does discuss such things it always dumbs them down excessively.

The reason being that it works.

Annnnd, no.

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

Pedophiles should be tortured.

And this will accomplish what, other than give every red-state redneck an enormous erection?

[Desperate Measures]

Why stop with pedophiles? Anybody read 'The Scarlet Letter'? Why not tattoo symbols onto everyone's forehead to represent every crime they've ever committed? That way you can tell at a glance who is a shoplifter and who assaults people and who sells drugs? Why the hell would I want to live next to someone who stole a few candy bars when he was sixteen? He might steal my stereo! We can't trust them to not be repeat offenders.

We should also deprive them of tacos. Criminals don't deserve tacos. *nod*

I know this is sarcasm because I know that you would NEVER deprive yourself of tacos.

[New Kereptica]

QFT

I'm afraid I don't see what quantum field theory has to do with this problem, at least not directly.

I don't know about you, but those vector bosons always make me want to have sex with children.

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

I don't know about you, but those vector bosons always make me want to have sex with children.

Do they make you want to spray your glue on them?

[New Kereptica]

I don't know about you, but those vector bosons always make me want to have sex with children.

Do they make you want to spray your glue on them?

So much...