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NZ Wiser Than UK Wiser Than USA

Friday, 27 April 2012, 9:46 am

Sex Offender’s Register will Increase Public Fear

 "The UK system would create more problems than it solves, and result in the costly and time consuming surveillance of people who are at a very low risk of offending. In the UK, two teenagers engaged in under age consensual sex could end up on the register. Treated sex offenders with, with a likely recidivism rate of 4 – 8% could be included. Not all sex offenders are paedophiles, but there will be a tendency, even by officials, to treat them as though they are – the recent Piha case is a good example of that.

The UK experience shows that there is no control over what people will do with the information, once they have it. Sex offending is a highly emotional issue, and the information can be used to harass [o]ffenders who are determined to go straight, get a job, and get on with their lives.

While the UK system is better than the public registers common to the USA, they are still likely to do more harm than good. Driving offenders into hiding increases the chances they will offend. It is also likely to result in offenders being re-imprisoned, not for reoffending, but for failing to register. The result is a further marginalisation of offenders from society."

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1204/S00312/sex-offenders-register-will-increase-public-fear.htm

Lobby warns against sex offender register

http://www.3news.co.nz/Lobby-warns-against-sex-offender-register/tabid/423/articleID/252040/Default.aspx

Thursday, 26 April 2012, 4:12 pm

Sex Offenders Register raises complex issue

"Mrs Meynell believes that we can learn much from the experience of other countries which have sex offender registers. “The trend and thinking in the UK now is towards them being for the use of authorities only. Authorities in the UK can let approved local groups know if a paedophile has moved to their area.”

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1204/S00305/sex-offenders-register-raises-complex-issue.htm

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Comment: So long in coming, so obvious the case.

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Poser

2:40pm Wednesday 25th April 2012

Sarah Payne killer Roy Whiting opens up in prison letters

"Sarah Payne’s killer opened up in a series of letters to a prison pen pal.

Roy Whiting wrote dozens of letters to Bernard O’Mahoney, who was posing as a woman called Emma in a bid to coax the child killer to confess.

In his letters, Whiting could not even bring himself to write the name of his eight-year-old victim, who he abducted from near her grandparents’ home in Kingston Gorse in 2001, only writing her initials ..."

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9669161.Sarah_Payne_killer_Roy_Whiting_opens~ _up_in_prison_letters/

Good News Always Welcome

12:13, 25 April 2012 | UPDATED: 14:48, 25 April 2012

Jailed sex offenders to be given days out on the town with their families in rehab programme led by security firm

"Town visits to be run by security firm GS4: Families living close to the jail say they knew nothing of the plan: Goal to integrate sex offenders with prison population at new multimillion pound jail: Rules state each prisoner will be vetoed ..."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134897/Jailed-sex-offenders-HMP-Oakwood-given-days-town-rehab-programme-led-security-firm-GS4.html#ixzz1t7RgFdG8

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Comment: Excellent.

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Who Caused 'The Shame', Who Continues To Do So?

23:06, 25 April 2012 | UPDATED: 01:49, 26 April 2012

Jamie is 13 and hasn't even kissed a girl. But he's now on the Sex Offender Register after online porn warped his mind...

"And it was only when the police came knocking one morning that Jamie’s secret life was exposed.

After identifying that someone in the house was accessing child porn, they took Jamie’s laptop away for examination. Jamie is only 13 — and he still hasn’t even kissed a girl, let alone had sex. Though he is only a child himself, the result is that he has been put on the Sex Offender Register [sic], blighting his life for the foreseeable future. Even with intensive therapy, Jamie still suffers from deep shame — ‘as if it is written across my forehead’ — which has led him to fear he will never be able to form a healthy relationship with a woman."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135203/Jamie-13-kissed-girl-But-hes-Sex-Offender-Register-online-porn-warped-mind-.html

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Comment:

The Daily Mail (via a stooge [i.e. psychoanalytic psychotherapist], from the Child 'Protection' Industry) continues its usual scare tactics, again, avoiding the real issues.

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She Does

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

 If you knew I loved a sex offender...would you feel the same way?

 "By supporting the public sex offender registry and consciously remaining unaware of the facts, society is telling me that I have no right to safety or security; that it's okay for me to be ostracized; and that I do not deserve to be happy with the person I love. They would never know it if they passed me on the street - or even if they interacted with me. I look, act, and talk like almost everyone else . Not the fact that I am a human being, an American, or a woman are enough to grant me the right to freedom or basic privacy - the darkest day of my loved one's past is the sole determining factor of my worth."

http://iloveasexoffender.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/if-you-knew-i-loved-sex-offenderwould.html

Dangerous Ends and Disgusting Means

April 23, 2012 8:00 PM

 "The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot

"Welcome to the hidden side of yur soul, where you view the yung and innocent. We have been around since 2002, offering the best of private and series Child Pornography (CP), (hardcore/soft core) all for FREE! All you have to do, enter in the password, and you'll be viewing free CP for days. We move around when we have to... congratulations for finding us. Yur old password won't work, so get the new one and you are IN!!!"

"But thousands of miles away, deep in the belly of a data center, his online visit had tripped a silent alarm. That click on the "download" button had logged his IP address, the video file he attempted to view, and the number of times he tried to watch site videos. The law enforcement warning on the site's front page had done nothing to keep the FBI away; indeed, the FBI ran the site."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/the-hidden-side-of-your-soul-how-the-fbi-uses-the-web-as-a-child-porn-honeypot.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

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Comment:

Play with mens' 'souls', and you will create something you really did not want to be created.

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Atheists Bottom Of The List?

April 24, 2012, issue of May 04, 2012.

"Orthodox Abuse Suspects Get Exemption

Brooklyn Prosecutors Deny Request for Identity of Sex Suspects

Orthodox Jews charged with child sex abuse in Brooklyn should have their identities protected because of the community’s “tight-knit and insular” nature, prosecutors claim in a remarkable response to demands for information about the cases."

"Rejecting a Forward request under the state’s Freedom of Information Law, the Brooklyn district attorney made the startling claim that Orthodox Jews deserve a blanket exemption from the usual public disclosure rules. Prosecutors claimed that Orthodox Jews are “unique” in that releasing the names of suspects would allow others in the community to identify their victims."

http://forward.com/articles/155197/orthodox-abuse-suspects-get-exemption

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Comment: God works in mysterious ways. 

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The Pariah Factory

Wednesday 18 April 2012 17.13 BST

The counterproductive catch-all of supposed sex offenders

"Misplaced anxiety about child protection makes judicial policy on sex offenders a blunt instrument that needlessly blights lives."

"None of these categories of offenders is likely to harm a child. Studies have found that only 1% of men convicted of viewing child pornography have gone on to commit a hands-on sex offense, yet they are among the most severely punished group of offenders. The money, time, effort and manpower required to keep such broad categories of offenders (and so-called offenders) under surveillance is money, time, effort and manpower that is being diverted from monitoring those who pose a genuine threat. The argument, of course, is that when it comes to protecting children, you cannot take any chances. But there are sophisticated risk assessment tools available, and in use, that are far more effective means of identifying danger than making hundreds of thousands of people's lives unliveable.

"It's easier, though, and politically more palatable, to declare zero tolerance for sex offenders and to keep passing laws that look good on the books. Never mind if they are actually counter-productive when it comes to actually keeping children safe."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/18/counterproductive-catchall-sex-offenders 

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Comment: Self-explanatory

What follows, is an insightful response to the piece.

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:14 pm
Post subject: Here is the 2009 study referred to in the article posted by Stephen above:

http://kops.ub.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-85482/Endrass_etal_InternetPronogr.pdf?sequence=1
 
A very significant number of "offenders" whose lives have been irreparably ruined by this vindictively "non-punitive, purely administrative" measure, it would seem, are not remotely dangerous and should never have been tortured by inclusion in it in the first place.

By dropping the compulsory derangement and hysteria defining the dominant discourse of "child pornography" and looking more sanely and calmly at the issue, it becomes obvious that these people have actually "committed" something entirely trivial: clicking on a mouse. This, of course, is the inevitable consequence of "panic law" - laws created on the back of gigantic, media-fanned moral panics.

The imaginary monsters of moral panics really are only imaginary; but irrational and delusional laws designed to eradicate them (such as the poisonous and hysterical PCA 1978, which has seeded so many other developments in authoritarian populism ever since) will inevitably ruin harmless, gentle individuals who have hurt no one and never will. Foolish and naive rather than wicked and depraved, they peeped at pictures on the Net, quite possibly after having their curiosity stirred by the campaign against child porn itself, or accidentally coming across material that would ultimately hang them even though they were looking for something else. They have violated preposterous and fanatical statutes rather than human beings; but for that, they must pay with their futures and lose all of their personal achievements.

They did not realise that the internet, at least as far as pornography is concerned, has become a police state. Neither did they realise that that they would be ritually "monstered" and irretrievably ruined by an out-of-control, unaccountable, and ruthless prosecutorial system interested only in boosting favourable statistics (i.e., getting "successful" prosecutions, rather than securing justice).

It seems to me that the myth of prospective danger was actively constructed by reactionary victimologist campaigners and ambitious cyber-cops eager to build new empires; grossly biased advocacy research and briefings to a corrupt and servile media are great ways to spread useful (and mendacious) propaganda when you wish to build new ideological state apparatuses.

These saviours of the vulnerable and pure have gleefully destroyed many people on the basis of what the latter might do at some unspecified (and, of course, unspecifiable) point in the future, rather than what they actually did, with no other grounds for doing so than an ideologically convenient fiction, repeated enough times to take on the status of a pseudo-truth.

In the UK in 2006, there were 29,973 people on the Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR), a rise of 4 per cent on the previous year (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6076664.stm). As of March 2012, that total had risen to 60,490 people, of which 31,800 are registered for life (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201212/cmhansrd/cm120322/text/120322w0007.htm).

In just six years, the number forced to register has more than doubled.

The number of life registrants alone now exceeds the total for the entire register recorded in 2006.

Lumping together people who have done no more than click on a mouse with those who have committed GBH or rape is either insane or corrupt and serves only to foster the irrational and destructive illusion that everyone so registered is a malignant menace to society.

As Judith Levine put it, this vicious knavery may well not stop until everyone personally knows a valued friend or a loved relative who has been symbolically exterminated by being designated a "sex offender." With the numbers on that evil register expanding as crazily as this, that day is fast approaching.

http://forum.obu-investigators.com/viewtopic.php?t=2630&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

'Unintended' Consequences

23 April 2012 Last updated at 21:25

Murder trial told accused had 'paedophile hit list'

"A man accused of murdering a 57-year-old supermarket worker had a hit list of men he planned to kill in an attempt to rid the world of "paedophiles", a court has heard."

"Philip Katz QC said there was "not a shred of evidence" that Mr Bick was a paedophile."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17811391

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