ACLU Protecting Pedophile Predators
ACLU Protecting Pedophile Predators :evil: :evil: by Jay on 12-05-05 @ 8:43 am Filed under Child Exploitation, News Via WND Amid increasing evidence that child molesters are sexual predators for life, Florida lawmakers are considering life for sexual predators. State Rep. Bob Allen, R-Merritt Island, hopes to seize the opportunity of a special legislative session, that begins today and runs through Friday, to make headway with his “Sexual Predators Elimination Act.” The measure, HB 251, seeks mandatory life sentences without parole or eligibility for gain time for individuals designated as sexual predators. Under Florida law, these are individuals convicted of sexual battery on a child 12 or younger, repeat sexual offenders, sexual offenders who use physical violence and sexual offenders who use or threaten the use of a deadly weapon. “We need to lock them up and throw away the key,” Allen told WND. Otherwise, he says, they continue to prey on children and teenagers to feed a need that never goes away. “I’ve done a lot of research on it. I’ve gone with the officers and probation officers to the homes of sexual predators,” Allen continued. “One of the sexual predators said it the best: ‘I want to do better. But, sir, it’s like if someone tried to sit you down guaranteeing you’ll do 15 sessions of counseling, and in that 15 sessions I’m going to talk you out of your sexual preference and get you to do something else.’” Lets face it, sympathy for scumbags like this is not very widespread or popular. Not only has there been little, to no significant evidence that people of this sick nature can be cured, there has been increasing evidence to the contrary. As a responsible society, it is in our best interest to protect our citizens from their rights being violated. To allow child molesters, and repeat sex offenders back on the streets without any kind of significant evidence they will not strike again is irresponsible and dangerous, in my opinion. According to Florida Department of Law Enforcement statistics, the number of convicted sexual predators increased from 471 in 1997, the year the state began posting information about them on the Internet, to 5,492 today. The number of convicted sexual offenders has gone from 8,000 to 30,735 over that same time period. Why are there so many cases? “We’re letting them out on probation,” answered Gallagher. The ACLU has a problem with this. “Mr. Allen is out to get votes,” responded George Crossley, president of the central Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “I’m reasonably cynical enough to know that these folks really don’t care one way or another about what happens to children, they care what it’ll take for them to win the next election.” Crossley told WND he’s concerned about the 170,000 family members of sex offenders across the state being adversely affected by what he views as a building hysteria. “About 3 percent of the people that we’re talking about here are sexual predators who deserve to be watched,” he said. “The other 97 percent are sexual offenders, some of them who 20, 25, 30, 40 years ago did something, and in many cases it was underage sex. … The facts are in most of these cases, you’re not talking about people who are a threat to anybody. And yet, since Jessica Lunsford’s murder, which was basically the fault of law enforcement in more ways than one, we’ve had one Draconian statute proposed after another.” (Jessie's murder was the fault of law enforcement????????????????? these people are NUT CASES! jmo) Talk about cooking the numbers. This 3 percent he is touting was obviously pulled from his magic hat of numbers. Most legitimate research leads to much different numbers, and we are talking about child molesters and repeat offenders here. Dr. Louis Schlesinger, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, maintains the no-parole idea is appropriate for pedophiles, whom he calls incurable. “You cannot change their sexual-arousal pattern,” said Schlesinger. “You cannot take a heterosexual and make that person a pedophile by therapy. It can’t work. So why would the converse be true?” “Lawmakers need to understand that preying on children is a way of life for these sexual offenders,” McGowan stressed. “Unless they’re being incarcerated, they’ll be out in the community molesting our children.” Schlesinger said crafting government policy boils down to assessing how much risk society wants to tolerate. “You can teach someone to control their urges, but then you’re relying totally on the offender to control himself. If society wants to let him out, it should not come as a shock when you see what you see happening in the news all the time.” The ACLU’s view on this isn’t really suprising. After all we are talking about the organization that defended NAMBLA, and advocates the legalization of child porn distribution. Not only will the ACLU oppose life sentences for repeat sexual offenders, they are actively fighting for the ones already out to have access to to parks and places so they can prey on your kids. So to hear an ACLU representative state that someone else that is actively fighting for better protection of our children doesn’t really care about children, and is only out for votes, makes me absolutely sick. Lets take a look at the record on who really cares about the kids. http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2005/12/05/aclu-protecting-pedophile-predators/