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1) We the People [by Anonymous Citizen on November 5, 2007]Use some logic please. The reason these laws were passed in the first place is only for votes so that our esteemed law makers could make a house payment and drive a nice car. Let's find a hot button issue like sex offenders and put fear in the minds of the mindless people we govern. You think that you'll protect the people from the monster sex offenders and pass all these laws "wont we get elected now".
Well all you have done is saturate the list so that we can't find the real dangers the list was intended for. 4th deg CSC is bad but not as bad as 3rd deg but 3rd deg is worse than 2nd deg who was the brilliant lawmaker who thought up that plan up. By the way why don't you explain what the difference is between 1st, 3rd, 2nd, and 4th degree's? What you don't even know the differences? How do you expect us the mindless to know either if you care so much about our safety?
So let's put all the minors on the list, and we'll put someone who looked in a window once on the list for 25 years too. Hey while we're at it let's put the indecent exposures on the list no matter what they have done even if they pissed behind a bush. Let's put the dangerous 15 year old on the list for getting the B.J. and who must be a threat to society until he's 40 years old? That's a great idea while were at it we can put so many people on the list that nobody will ever find the dangerous person that the list was intended for. Wont Megan be proud. Idiots.
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government to 'protect' us from sexual predators?
is it the job of government to CONTINUALLY PUNISH IT'S CITIZENS?
once a sentence has been served, it's over, done, finished.
the law says we can't bother that citizen until he commits another crime. we can SUSPECT him, we can DISTRUST him, but we CANNOT PUNISH HIM.
to continue to punish sex offenders after they have served their time is to violate their DUE PROCESS RIGHTS. the DUE PROCESS is that they serve the sentence, and no more.
it works for murderers, it works for parking tickets. it doesn't STOP murders, or parking violators, but it DOES punish them properly.
is putting a person's name on some list the PROPER PUNISHMENT for committing a sex crime?
if so, why do we ALSO put the person in jail?
why do we insist on punishing people TWICE?
is it because we erroneously believe that we have the power to?
i am FOR properly punishing sexual criminals. i am AGAINST permanently punishing sexual criminals.
it is a long standing legal principle in this country that once a person has served his time, he has served his time. even murderers get that consideration. but not sexual criminals.
by the way, since when is public urination a sexual crime?
until we get back to 'basics' and establish what is and what isn't the proper role of government, we will continue to be trodden upon by the rampant power of the state.
i understand that very few people actually read the constitution, and that even fewer legislators actually FOLLOW IT, but until they do, we will continue to be the slaves to the state we are now.
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Can't you guys get off this overused bandwagon? Fix out automotive and jobs going overseas problem, fix our budget. If I keep hearing about these stupid waste of time, overkill sex offender laws I'm going to make sure thay I vote all of you out. Goto work and fix real problems! I think when all of you are done you will have killed all the sex offenders anyway with the current laws. Try going to church and reading your bible, if that doesn't work try asking God for guidance in your quest to torture. Wake up Michigan folks lets not condone torture and death. It's just not right.
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