Welcome to the Third Reich known otherwise as the U.S.of A.

"well mon fuehrer, how do you like the way things have managed to turn out? "
"Very good, Frodo. We have begun the elimination of the inferior race in the United States.  We have managed to take a few random cases of sexual abuse commited by less than five people in this wonderful country and managed to turn it into the third reich."
"But how did we do that Mon fuehrer."
"Well what we did is we got a few female politicians on our side and managed to pass about 10 million illegal laws against all sex offenders regardless of their dangerous and regardless of how trivial their crime actually was. "
"Well that sounds great Mon fuehrer." How did we manage to do that? "
"Well what we did was created a phony atmosphere of fear in this country that people were committed sex crimes and getting away with it, so we got everyone angry at a targeted class of people and now have been able to conquer them."
"But is that legal or fair, mon fuehrer?"
"Well legal and fair have no meaning in this country now. The only thing that matters now is the elimination of that problem. So we passed five billion new laws and statutes to punish an inferior race of mankind so noone will ever have the nerve to break a law in this country. "
"Sounds good, mon fuehrer. But aren't some of the people on the registry innocent and weren't some of the crimes committed consentually with a willing, and eager participant? "
"Well that doesn't matter Frodo. This is the United States of America and the constitution is buried somewhere in someone's backyard. We can pass whatever retarded and unfair laws we want now. We have the female politicians are on our side and they like to punish men for all eternity regardless of who suffers now because of it"
"But mon fuehrer isnt punishing people for life illegal especially when they served their time admirably and completed their sentences without delay?"
"No Frodo, the sex offender is our modern day scapegoat so we can pass whatever retarded and illogical laws we want to regardless of the expense and regardless of the illegality of it. In the absense of due process. "I see Mon Fuehrer. But haven't some of these people turned their lives around and become good citizens?"
"Some of them have, Frodo, but unless we keep punishing these people for all eternity these lessons will never be fully learned." "What we need to do is pretend that sex offenders re-offend and that this happens all the time, even though it is in all actuality a rare occurrence and most of the people are as dangerous as a golden retriever. "
"oh i see. So we never give them a chance to get off the registry and ruin them and their family lives for all eternity. "
"Yes Frodo. We never forgive and forget in this country. That is Christian-like and we don't want to be accused of being that. We have already wrecked the lives of 750,000 and most of them are innocent anyway or only guilty of trivial offenses but we will punish them for all eternity anyway because this is America where people have no civil rights and have no freedoms anymore. "
"oh I see mon fuehrer we pretend we have a problem even though it doesn't exist so it allows us to ruin the lives of million innocent people and their families everyday."
"now youre getting the light, frodo. We pretend we have a problem that doesnt exist and that allows us in the name of public safety to destroy the lives of all these one-time sex offenders. "
"well sounds like a great plan, mon fuehrer why didn't we think of thise before. Well before people were too concerned with following democratic priniciples and doing what is right for individuals but we have managed to overcome that obstacle by paying off the judges and making the ACLU disappear from this problem."
"Oh i see, so now we have nobody fighting these illegal laws because those people are too complacent and willing to have their lives destroyed over trivial offenses. "
"yes, now you are catching on. Yes we can pass all of these illegal laws and arrest innocent people now all in the name of public safety and destroy these peoples lives for all eternity since some retarded lawyer told them to make a plea agreement instead of fighing their case in court like they should have. "
"yes and we can pass new laws day by day to destroy their lives even if their original agreement said that they only had to register for ten years. We can destroy them forever because, Frodo, this my friend is America and in America you don't have to follow the bill of rights or the constitution you can pass anything you want as long as it is done in the name of public safety."
"oh i see, but arent we wasting billions of dollars in monitoring non-dangerous people."
"so who cares we can do whatever we want now. We got the homeland security thing passed and people have no constitutional or civil rights anymore . They have to do what we tell them to for all eternity."
"yes people have more rights in North Korea, Egypt, and Libya." Too bad my grandparents immigrated over here in the 20s, I could have enjoyed my freedoms more fully by the Bolsheviks or the Gestapo. "

The end.

A Plan to enable ex-sex offenders to become citizens again of this great democratic nation

You are a reputable man and that is why I respect your opinion.  You said that people deserve a chance to start over once they leave prison but how about sex offenders?  Why are they denied the same privilege?  Did they commit a crime? Did they serve their punishment? Then how come they are not allowed to have a new life once they have changed their ways and started acting like good citizens?

The answer is simple.  First off,  Megan’s Law doesn’t stop crime and it doesn’t prevent repeat offenders from getting in trouble again, so what does it actually do then?  It prevents  low- risk offenders from blending back into society and starting a new leaf on life.  Now if there is no evidence or proof that labeling people for life reduces or prevents crime, why do you allow this?  There is evidently a few flaws in the current system, to put it mildly. Basically, the system in place currently doesn’t allow ex-cons to start their lives over on equal footing.  More specifically, the safeguards that police put in place prevents the ex-sex offender from re-entry into society.

Flaw #1 – All sex offenders re-offend.  The actual rate of re-offense is 5.3% which is the lowest recidivism rate for any known criminal in the country.  So that premise is clearly false.

Flaw #2 –  Knowing  where sex offenders live prevents crime.  Most crimes are committed by new sex offenders,  so  Megan’s Law doesn’t actually prevent crimes or lower occurrences of new crimes.

Flaw #3 – Most crimes are committed by strangers.  I don’t know what the actual statistic are,  but crimes committed by strangers among young children is very small.  Most sex crimes are committed by somebody who has already developed a long and grooming relationship with the victim.  It could be somebody that babysits the child once a week, or the uncle, or the sports coach, but in very rare cases, the neighbor or some stranger.  So if the probability of an actual crime being committed by a stranger or neighbor is so small, why do we have prevent sex offenders from being people’s neighbors or being allowed to blend back into society?

Another tough question to answer I know.  What I do know is labeling a person a “sex offender” and making them stick out like a sore thumb doesn’t prevent crime.  It only emotionally hurts a person who gets classified as one.  But the real problem becomes greater than that.  It’s like a snowball effect.  As the snowball  rolls down the hill it gathers more and more snow on it until it becomes a giant boulder upon reaching the bottom of the hill.  The laws against sex offenders do the same thing.  First they label people as sex offenders and make it a requirement that everyone knows where they live.  So now they are set up as “sitting ducks” for any group of people that hate sex offenders.  So  people come to their house and torment them.  Ask them to leave or else they will burn their house down, or poison their dog, or cause them physical harm.  So now these people are antagonized not by any present or future actions, but merely because they have been singled out as sex offenders by law enforcement.  And law enforcement is not watching their house to see if they are protected from these vigilantes.  So, horrible things happen to them.   Nobody cares because the victims are sex offenders so everyone feels like they got what they deserved.  But is this how the government protects people?

 I sincerely hope not.  I don’t think the government wants to take responsibility for setting people up for physical harm and watching them get it in the process.  So how do we eliminate this problem?

Well,  the answer is simple.  Since there is no actual proof that Megan’s Law stops crime or decreases it which I’m sure it doesn’t.  I believe that the number of violent crimes committed before the passage of Megan’s Law and now after the law has been implemented is actually the same or very close.  So that being the case we can say that Megan’s Law is a failure and repeal it. The basic reason that I am asking you to repeal Megan’s Law is because the law basically sets up sex offenders for physical assault and other abuses by people with an ax to grind by people who hate all sex offenders and not someone with a personal grudge against an individual.  In addition to that, being classified as a sex offender basically prevents a person from starting his life over which he is entitled to upon the release of prison.  If he has reformed himself and he proves it during the time he is supervised on probation or parole then he is allowed to live a normal life again after it is over. No matter what crime he committed.  Unfortunately,  Megan’s Law doesn’t allow a person a chance to start his life over.  It stops it several ways.  The first way is it makes it close to impossible for the person to find a job because he now has sex offender listed on his criminal rap sheet.  So no one wants to take the risk and hire him because they can get bad publicity or customers  can avoid going to that business or store because they don’t like it that an employer has a sex offender working there.  So now  he can’t get a job and provide the money he needs to buy the things he needs.

 Now the second problem is just as severe.  He tries to get an apartment for rent and they run his background check and see he is a sex offender and they tell him, “ I’m sorry, but I can’t rent to you.  There are kids in the building or I can’t afford the bad publicity this may bring me and then I may lose all my tenants. “  So now he can’t get a job and he can’t find a place to live not because he is actually a menace to society, but because law enforcement classified him as such.  But the government will help him get a place to live, right? No. The federal or state programs that help people with public housing will not rent to sex offenders so they are now excluded from all private households and public ones too.  So where do they live?  They move at home with Mom and Dad or live under a bridge.  These sound like great options.  So the government classifies this person as a sex offender and now he has all these new problems.  No place to live and no place for employment.  So what is the solution? 

The solution is so simple it makes me want to laugh.  We no longer classify anyone as a sex offender and we don’t allow people to discriminate against people convicted of a sexual offense.  Great!  So how do we accomplish that?  Basically, we repeal  Megan’s Law.  Nobody gets stigmatized with a sex offender label  anymore.   Nobody is required to notify police of where they live or where they work or where they go to school, so they merely blend back into society and fit in and get what they need to survive.

So how does this prevent crime?  It’s simple.  We, as a society, give people a chance to turn their lives around.  We give them a chance to remain anonymous so they can have a fresh start.  They get a chance to start a new job  and find  a new place to live.  Yeah, but won’t they re-offend?  They won’t because they have money to satisfy their primary needs:  food, housing, clothing, essentials, and they get a chance to make new friends.  They actually lead normal lives again like anyone would given a fresh start at life.  So they become successful at doing things normal folks do that make them happy so there is no motive for them to commit a new crime.  Maybe they find a companion and live ordinary lives again.  Blend back into society and no one knows them  from  Adam.  Sounds like a plan.  So how do we achieve it?  We repeal  Megan’s Law and come up with a new way to re-integrate sex offenders back into the community.  We don’t single them out as monsters and allow people to set up walls to keep them out.  We minimize what they did and we offer hope and support that they have learned their lesson and reformed.  We allow them to anonymously blend back into society without letting anyone know where they live or what they did, but we make sure they complete sex offender counseling before releasing them and we make sure they successfully complete probation before we let them blend back into society and that is the plan.  And we don’t exclude them from public housing and we don’t require them to tell everyone where they live and what they are doing.  Sounds like a plan. When can we get started? How about right now? This only solves half of the problem. Now what is the second part of the plan to reform criminals?  To allow them to get off the registry as quickly as possible.  Making people register for life is not the answer.  Not by a long shot.  Same reasons as before.  Law enforcement assigns them a limited time to be on the registry and if they complete that reasonable time frame successfully. They have a hearing and if they can convince someone they are safe, we let them get taken off registration and have their prior records sealed.  Sounds like a plan.  When can we get started?  How about right now.  Please help.  I know you can help me become a free man and I am unable to do it by myself. Please set me free again.  Thank you.

Modifications to My First Blog

1) Sex offenders are human beings. They deserve to be treated like ones and not animals.. Every state needs to modify their laws so they punish people fairly for whatever crimes they commit. Registration on the Internet is Punishment. Make no mistake about it. Having your information publicly available allows people who hate sex offenders to take it out on you personally. Public notification has to stop. It's a waste of tax dollars. It doesn't prevent new crimes from happening and it generally doesn't promote good will. Anyone that commits a crime of statutory rape 2nd degree meaning ages 13-15 victim, without force should automatically get only a ten year registration requirement. Jacob Wetterling Act only mandates that states have 10 yrs for first offense. Let's make the 10 yr requirement the maximum for all fifty states in the USA.
At the end of the 10 yrs. if you have not re-offended (meaning not committed a new sex crime) you automatically get off the registration and have your records destroyed forever. 46 states have budget deficits. lets save everybody a little money and get everybody off the registry that poses little or no risk. Let's make null and void any state law passed which restricts where sex offenders live because this does absolutely nothing to prevent crime. Let's eliminate any law passed after 1992 that has anything to do with sex offenders. Let's take the Americas Most Wanted tv show off the air. Let's limit first time sex offenses to 10 yrs for CORI - criminal background history. Any more suggestions or comments please feel free to add them. diehard25fl@yahoo.com

Change Sex Offender Laws

2011 New Plan To Be Implemented in Sex Offender Monitoring

1) Survey every single sex offender on the planet.  Have to survey sex offenders on probation and county jails.   What do I mean by a survey ?  We need to find out if being  on the sex offender registry has caused that person to lose jobs, be prevented from jobs, and not be able to turn their life around. If we can show that it does, then we can make it come to an end.

2) We need to get our own data on how many sex offenders are re-offending?  Without statistics, our arguments are unsupported.   By re-offending I don’t mean getting re-arrested on the ability of somebody to follow the ten million rules that have placed on them upon their release. I mean not getting into trouble for a real reason, like robbing a bank or something.  If a person gets in trouble because he was unable to register because he was homeless, doesn’t count as re-offending.

3) We need to get our data on how many people are becoming homeless as a result of the new laws.

4) Once we have this data we can do something with it. Basically you can argue that these new laws just force people to become homeless, unemployed, and unable to function in society any longer.  Maybe even go further, and argue that the laws make people resistant to getting help because they feel helpless and can’t feel that there is anything anyone can do to make their life worth something again.

5) Maybe we can show that the new laws don’t protect anyone but just prevent new criminals from starting over because they don’t feel that anyone will allow them to be successful again. I basically mean that the person will feel that he is shunned or excluded from every organization or functional group that will make him feel welcome and home again. It’s possible that the new laws have prevented people from starting their lives over again because the doors have been shut in their face too many times by too many different people.

6) Maybe we can show that sex offenders are actually human beings with feelings that need to be loved and respected like all human beings and the current business prevents them from being accepted by anyone.

Need to get the data first from all walks of life.  The data has to be genuine, verifiable, and documented.

7) We have to show that sex offenders are being singled out like a scapegoat, and that this all has to change.  A person who commits a sexual offense is no different from a robber, arsonist, embezzler, con-artist, etc.  And that to pass laws which only punish persons of this type of crime is discriminatory. We have to show that the laws passed do more harm than good. That they don’t actually prevent crimes and that all they do is prevent  ex-felons from living decent lives again.  Maybe someone can argue that if you prevent a person from getting work and being included in any organizations that he was a member of before his arrest that in essence all you will be doing is making him a permanent criminal. And you will not have achieved your goal of reducing crime but actually increasing crime by taking borderline people who can do both good and bad and making them do only bad by removing everything good from them.  No different than raising kids and instead of rewarding the kids when they are good,  you just punish them all the time when they are bad.  It’s no different.  You can never achieve good results with negative reinforcement.  It only reinforces the bad behavior but doesn’t encourage the good behavior. The only way you can encourage the good behavior is by reinforcing it. But if all you do is punish the bad behavior and ignore the good behavior the child or young adult will adopt behavior that is bad so he can get reinforcement since he won’ t get reinforcement from the good behavior.  It’s the same with sex offenders.  If you have bad expectations about people being able to get better,  they won’t try.  But if you have good expectations, they will work hard at trying to achieve the results you want from them.  You have to reward the good, as opposed to punishing the bad.  So how do we set up a system that works like this?

1)      You only put people on the sex offender registry for ten years.  Why ten years?  Because any longer than that and the people on it won’t feel like they have any incentive for getting better because there is no reward for them if they achieve what you want from them.  So we change the sex offender registry to ten years and if people on it are good for ten years then we give them a chance to get off of it so they can blend back into society and live normal lives. But don’t they already have that in place in some states?  No they actually don’t because in NH you have to apply to the board of governors to get off the registration after 15 years and waste money on a psychologist to testify to them that you are really worth it.  I just think that’s a lot of work for someone to do who has been struggling to make a living for fifteen years prior to that time frame.  I  think  the laws should be modified so that the person automatically gets off the registration upon his tenth anniversary.

2)      You eliminate the public registry because the only people who need to know that a person is convicted of a sexual offense  is the police department.  They have the technology to solve crimes even if they are the only people who know who the actual sex offenders are.  They don’t need public notification to solve crimes.  So we push that the sex offender registry is made for only 10 yrs for 1^st offense and that while a person is on it they only have to register for ten years.

3)      And the only people who know they are on it  is law enforcement.

4)      We also ask that a person’s criminal record gets wiped out after ten years.  Why ten years? Same argument as before.  If a person feels that he has a chance to be successful,  he will make all efforts to be a good citizen, whereas if he feels that no matter what he does, he will never wind up with anything he will just give up and break the law and become a career criminal.

5)      We ask that in addition to making the registration ten years for single offenses and the information kept private (meaning only law-enforcement have it). And that at the end of the ten year period that person gets off registration, has his records sealed, and starts his life over for good.

6)      In addition to that we do away with the public notification of signs when a level 3 sex offender moves to a new area. We also do away with any type of residency restrictions. We also ask that they do away with any laws that prevent sex offenders from joining YMCAs or churches where they live. These are just stupid laws that make it harder if not impossible for a person to feel  accepted by his community again. In addition to that we ask that sex offenders not be excluded from dating sites on the internet because once again nobody is actually being protected,  you are just making it harder for that person to resume a normal life again once he has learned his lesson and become a model citizen.

7)      I would suggest we try to have “America’s Most Wanted” taken off the air because it just engenders hatred against a certain targeted group of individuals which I believe is counter-productive to enabling people to be successful once they leave prison or probation or parole.

8)      We need to show that the efforts  taken by lawmakers  is counter-productive.  They are not achieving the results they want because they are not allowing people to lead normal lives again. They are reinforcing the bad behaviors rather than encouraging the good behaviors so the people exhibit bad behaviors more often to get the wrong reinforcement.  

9)      Lastly we need to show that by taking away from new criminals any chance for success in life after prison that he will become what they don’t want – a career criminal. But if they allow a person to be successful, be loved, and be encouraged not discouraged from leading a normal life than they will actually be able to stop crime and make people model citizens by giving them a chance to believe in themselves and try to do better.  This can only be achieved by getting rid of all the public notification laws and allowing a one-time criminal  change his life and become a good citizen again and blend back into society. You can’t enable a person to do this by telling them he can’t live next door to you or he can’t work here. Or he can’t exercise at my gym. This is not how civilized people make other civilized people feel. I would suggest that they do away with the sex offender term and classify criminals as criminals and not call anyone sex offenders anymore.  Just get rid of the whole name labeling thing in the first place.