Just found out a sex offender lives on my block (Bush: house, neighborhood)

[WhaThe]

I had heard the problem tends to be that there is not enough detail on those sites.

You can have a 19yr old kid caught playing touchy feely with his 17 yr old girlfriend who parents flip out. Then he gets branded the same as the worst case offenders.

[jdiddy]

Originally Posted by nb1968

Just watch out.
I was informed that the liberals rammed thru some b.s. legislation protecting sex offenders, and treating assaults against them as a 'hate crime.' Like they are some cherished protected minority.
Apparently, NOW, if a perv/pedophile is assaulting your child, and you use FORCE to stop them, . . . YOU could get a longer jail sentence than the perv/pedophile.
The opponents are calling it the 'pedophile protection act'
Can anyone SUBSTANTIATE this?

I was recently informed that nb1968 was a practicing pedophile, posing as an outraged denizen of the internet to provide him cover for his inevitable meeting with Chris Hanson. Can you verify?

[PokerPlayer1]

Originally Posted by nb1968

Apparently, NOW, if a perv/pedophile is assaulting your child, and you use FORCE to stop them, . . . YOU could get a longer jail sentence than the perv/pedophile.
The opponents are calling it the 'pedophile protection act'
Can anyone SUBSTANTIATE this?

Total fiction.
There is no place in the United States where a law would pass that forbade people from using whatever means necessary to defend their children who were actively under attack. I mean, that law wouldn't pass in Berkeley or Madison, 0.00% chance it would pass here. No one would even conceive of such a law.

I don't know this for certain and I don't know if there are or aren't laws out there "protecting" sex offenders, but I would imagine the spirit of such laws would be to prevent lantern-and-pitchfork mentality.

If anyone has a bit of time and wants to get actually educated on the issue: Lotke text

I agree that there are predatory perverts who should just be locked away forever, but someone who boinks a 16 year old girl is a world away from someone who pulls a 9 year old into an alley. This is one of those issues where the facts don't coincide with perception, but since it is SO emotionally charged (after all, it does involve "children"), people just don't care.

I'm a "lock 'em up forever or leave 'em the hell alone" kinda guy.

[Lookout Kid]

There are so many sex offenders living in Uptown that you just kind of assume they are around at all times. What a mess this system is.

[nb1968]

I was simply trying to add something that nobody knew about (and apparently you DID NOT know about it)
I wish to thank those of you who trashed and insulted me for doing so.
This was my first time ever on the Chicago thread.
Is that a true cross section of "Chicago"? Are people there really that mean spirited, rude and sarcastic?

Here are links relating to the 'Pedophile Protection Act'. It IS working its way thru.
PEDOPHILE PROTECTION ACT | Petition2Congress |
'Pedophile Protection Act' stirs 200K letters to Senate
Political Pistachio: Senate Bill S. 909, Pedophile Protection Act

HERE IS A QUOTE:
"As the bill stands, if it passes for law, if you catch an adult in the act of raping a child, and use force to remove that person from the child, the pedophile can turn around and accuse you of assault, and claim it was a hate crime."

ANOTHER QUOTE:
Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, then explained what it means:
"There are only 242 crimes where there is actually some – truly – an assault, and we just rejected an amendment to including pedophilia from being a part of this protected class. Do you realize what that means?
If a mother hears that their child has been raped and she slaps the assailant with her purse, she is now gone after as a hate criminal because this is a protected class. There are other protected classes in here. I mean simple exhibitionism. I have female friends who have told me over the years that some guy flashed them, and their immediate reaction was to hit them with their purse. Well now, he's committed a misdemeanor, she has committed a federal hate crime because the exhibitionism is protected under sexual orientation."

again, thanks for the negativity and hatred. Please continue to spend you time as such, . . . and dont bother to concentrate on the real issues, like getting this voted down ! ! !

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by nb1968

This was my first time ever on the Chicago thread.
!

Here's hoping it's the last.

Originally Posted by nb1968

Is that a true cross section of "Chicago"? Are people there really that mean spirited, rude and sarcastic?

Only to paranoid and provocative wingnuts. You came to provoke a reaction and you got one. And now you're crying.

[jdiddy]

One rule of thumb I've learned to follow is that if a Republican member of Congress claims there is something in a bill that sounds truly outrageous, its because that particular Congressman is either lying or stupid. Usually both.

It will not become illegal to hit a pedophile raping your child with your purse. Now, go calm down and nibble on some apple slices until the next Outrage Of The Week!!!

[lenniel]

Originally Posted by jdiddy

One rule of thumb I've learned to follow is that if a Republican member of Congress claims there is something in a bill that sounds truly outrageous, its because that particular Congressman is either lying or stupid. Usually both.

It will not become illegal to hit a pedophile raping your child with your purse. Now, go calm down and nibble on some apple slices until the next Outrage Of The Week!!!

How about putting a bullet in his head? Would that be considered excessive? Most of the bleeding heart whimp ass liberals would probably think so.

[jdiddy]

Originally Posted by lenniel

How about putting a bullet in his head? Would that be considered excessive? Most of the bleeding heart whimp ass liberals would probably think so.

Yes, killing someone is usually considered excessive and against the law. I know, totally gay.

[garfieldlover]

criminalsearches.com is the best site for this ... map view of all sex offenders in the city