Group wants Wake sheriff to allow registered sex offenders at NC State Fair

even if they have a way to track a NC sex offender, how would they know a sex offender from out of state?
 
noway2 said:
As my wife asked when this came on the talking box this morning: how would anyone know?
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Thats true. There have been sex offenders, drug dealers, wife beaters, thieves, and alcoholics going to the state fair for years. (and I'd imagine most of the people working the rides have rap sheets as well)

Unless we start a nationwide program of branding criminals on the forehead as part of their release from jail, we'll never really know who's who.
 
If they are too dangerous to be at the fair, then they are too dangerous to be out of prison. Personally, I think anyone who sexually assaults a child should be hung. I also think that any murderers and rapist should be hung. Problem solved with them being at the fair then.
 
If they're not screening for weapons, then they won't know about CCW any more than they will about kiddie diddlers.
Whereas if they are, just find a bunch of very young-looking people to do the screening.
Bam!
You're welcome!
 
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RedneckFur said:
Unless we start a nationwide program of branding criminals on the forehead as part of their release from jail, we'll never really know who's who.
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SPST said:
Personally, I think anyone who sexually assaults a child should be hung. I also think that any murderers and rapist should be hung.
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When "they" call me about this for their Poll...….I'm voting Oh Hell Yeah!!!
 
If someone is SO BAD they need to be on a registered list, with all the associated restrictions, THEN WHY DO WE LET HIM/HER OUT OF PRISON? Even better, if those people are that bad, why don't we execute them?

The cognitive dissonance involved in such things as a registered sex offender list is staggering. We need to fish or cut bait. Either someone has paid his debt to society, or he hasn't. If he hasn't, he shouldn't be on the streets.

/rant off
 
We let them out because they have done there time. Does that mean that I am going to start trusting them? Not a chance.

They often let them out early. This is so that they aren't let out with no supervision at all. they can be on parole/ probation and at least someone has the ability to check on their activities from time to time. Because they are not trustworthy.
 
J R Green said:
They often let them out early.
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It’s not like there’s any reform going on in those rape pens anyway. Prison is just a sanitized way for people to feel good about abdicating their responsibility to actually deal with real criminals.
 
The state fair isn’t exactly a safe haven with or without sex offenders. I don’t think they should be there but then I don’t think they should be breathing either.

If we aren’t going to kill them they should at least have their genitals eaten off by a hungry rodent. Or maybe feed it into a belt sander. I’m good with either one.


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JimB said:
I gotta say that I always acted as if the fair workers were all aberrant in some way, having a few wandering sex offenders doesn’t really change the calculus fo me.
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^^^this^^^
 
tanstaafl72555 said:
Becoming more and more of a misanthrope and isolationist.
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You mean there's more you're doing?? ;)

Hey, if I could I'd be there too. My wife keeps me from living as a hermit (so she says). I say I'm a hermit living as a socialized person.
 
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SPST said:
If they are too dangerous to be at the fair, then they are too dangerous to be out of prison. Personally, I think anyone who sexually assaults a child should be hung. I also think that any murderers and rapist should be hung. Problem solved with them being at the fair then.
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We can hang them at the fair!
 
I took one of my kids to the fair when he was six, at like 10 o’clock in the morning. Only time I’ve been in over thirty years.

Oh, and hang them at the fair, if we are taking a vote.
 
cubrock said:
If someone is SO BAD they need to be on a registered list, with all the associated restrictions, THEN WHY DO WE LET HIM/HER OUT OF PRISON? Even better, if those people are that bad, why don't we execute them?

The cognitive dissonance involved in such things as a registered sex offender list is staggering. We need to fish or cut bait. Either someone has paid his debt to society, or he hasn't. If he hasn't, he shouldn't be on the streets.

/rant off
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The bigger problem I have with the registry is that there is NOTHING to indicate the nature of the crime, and if you look at the kind of things that can land someone on it, it's pretty frightening. The assumption that everyone on the registry is a child molestor or a rapist isn't accurate

One example I know of is a boy, 18, who was hanging out with his 17-year-old girlfriend the night before her 18th birthday. At around midnight, they took some nude pics of her. He ended up a sex offender, because the pics were timestamped a couple minutes before midnight.

Possession of child porn is a crime whether you are aware of it or not. So if a 14 year old sends you nude pics and tells the police you have them, guess what? If you don't have a damn good lawyer you're screwed.
 
random said:
The bigger problem I have with the registry is that there is NOTHING to indicate the nature of the crime, and if you look at the kind of things that can land someone on it, it's pretty frightening. The assumption that everyone on the registry is a child molestor or a rapist isn't accurate

One example I know of is a boy, 18, who was hanging out with his 17-year-old girlfriend the night before her 18th birthday. At around midnight, they took some nude pics of her. He ended up a sex offender, because the pics were timestamped a couple minutes before midnight.

Possession of child porn is a crime whether you are aware of it or not. So if a 14 year old sends you nude pics and tells the police you have them, guess what? If you don't have a damn good lawyer you're screwed.
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A guy in Georgia wound up on it for peeing outside at a rest stop off the interstate that had no facilities. It was at night and he walked into the woods to do it. There was a sting operation going on that night trying to nab people having sex in the woods at the rest stop. He peed in view of one of the cops, who arrested him. In Georgia, that landed him on the registry.
 
random said:
One example I know of is a boy, 18, who was hanging out with his 17-year-old girlfriend the night before her 18th birthday. At around midnight, they took some nude pics of her. He ended up a sex offender, because the pics were timestamped a couple minutes before midnight.
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Never happened, classic internet myth. Prove me wrong and I’ll donate $100 to the forum.

Not picking on you really, I’m sure that you didn’t make this up, you know a guy that knows a guy that heard about is and so on and so forth. I believe that you believe it to be true, I just think you were told a fib.
 
cubrock said:
A guy in Georgia wound up on it for peeing outside at a rest stop off the interstate that had no facilities. It was at night and he walked into the woods to do it. There was a sting operation going on that night trying to nab people having sex in the woods at the rest stop. He peed in view of one of the cops, who arrested him. In Georgia, that landed him on the registry.
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Neil Boortz used to go on about a couple in GA that wound up on the list because they were having sex in their bedroom and the neighbor’s 4yo peeped into their window and complained to her parents about what she saw.
 
noway2 said:
Neil Boortz used to go on about a couple in GA that wound up on the list because they were having sex in their bedroom and the neighbor’s 4yo peeped into their window and complained to her parents about what she saw.
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The Georgia man story was reported by Boortz, as well. I really miss him.
 
JimB said:
Never happened, classic internet myth. Prove me wrong and I’ll donate $100 to the forum.

Not picking on you really, I’m sure that you didn’t make this up, you know a guy that knows a guy that heard about is and so on and so forth. I believe that you believe it to be true, I just think you were told a fib.
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I can't "prove you wrong" because it was over ten years ago when I lived in California and I have no idea how I would find the story at this point. But it was a story that was reported by John & Ken on KFI 640 for at least a few days, with a couple followups, so it wasn't a "heard it from a guy" type of situation. The actual incident didn't take place in CA, and I can't even remember where it was - midwest is the best I can recall.

ETA: I just knew someone would say the story was fake. I know, it's hard to believe that our laws can be abused by those in power.
 
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There's also the teacher who was arrested, tried, and convicted because she opened a link on the classroom computer and got hit with a porn storm. Once again not something I can "prove" because if you try to look it up - well, just imagine what you get with "teacher" and "porn" in the same search phrase. But I clearly recall following the story in the news, from several sources.
 
random said:
There's also the teacher who was arrested, tried, and convicted because she opened a link on the classroom computer and got hit with a porn storm. Once again not something I can "prove" because if you try to look it up - well, just imagine what you get with "teacher" and "porn" in the same search phrase. But I clearly recall following the story in the news, from several sources.
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I’m sure that more than a few members would be willing to help with the search!
 
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