Okay. I didn't really mean to come across with the attitude that ''this is all okay, be okay with the change'', but at the same time ''if you don't like it you have to do something about it. And I can understand how it sounded like that.
My opinion on the sex offender issue specifically is this: These people have 'done their time'...and it's completely unfair to continue persecuting them afterwards by saying ''you can't live in my neighborhood''. These people have to live somewhere. On the other hand, I'm not saying, deal with it, or move. I agree that if you want change, then you educate yourself about your political leaders, and you vote. What I was trying to do in my original letter, was to explain that this is how it is right at the moment, and the best thing to do right now is 'this'. In the mean time, yes please find out which politicians you best align with and vote for them. But right now, there are going to be sex offenders where are children are. Our children go to school. They go to friends houses. They go to sporting events. And they're going to continue to do these things more and more as they grow, and there are sex offenders in every zip code. We can't ship the offenders off to Antarctica, as much as we may want to =) These people have to live somewhere. So I guess people are always going to be complaining about them since they do have to live somewhere. Did you know that someone who gets caught peeing in public (not that I think this is a correct or okay thing to do) can be known for the rest of his/her life as a sex offender? That's ridiculous in my opinion. It's not very regulated, and I guess that is something that I think needs to be changed.
You ask about victims of sex offenders and if I think it was fair to them. No, it was certainly not fair to them. It was not fair that it happened to you. It's not fair when it happens to anyone. It's a disgusting thing. However, we can't pull our world out from underneath the feet of ill people for our benefit. Our country is supposed to be a free one. So whats next, not selling beer in such and such neighborhood because this is the neighborhood filled with recovering alcoholics? Or how about not having any shopping stores in such and such zip code because that is where all of the recovering theives live? Or how about not having any children in the neighborhoods where sex offenders live? So where pray tell, do you put them? They are human beings. They have supposedly served their sentence. I'm just trying to show you that they have to live somewhere. If you don't let them live in our neighborhood they are going to live in another neighborhood that is just like ours: it will have children, and schools, and parks, and day care centers, and concerned parents. These people aren't going to get shipped off somewhere. Even if they go live at a rehab house somewhere for a specific amount of time without children nearby them, they are still known as sex offenders for the rest of their lives - and *they* are the ones having to live with that.
By Another Mom
My opinion on the sex offender issue specifically is this: These people have 'done their time'...and it's completely unfair to continue persecuting them afterwards by saying ''you can't live in my neighborhood''. These people have to live somewhere. On the other hand, I'm not saying, deal with it, or move. I agree that if you want change, then you educate yourself about your political leaders, and you vote. What I was trying to do in my original letter, was to explain that this is how it is right at the moment, and the best thing to do right now is 'this'. In the mean time, yes please find out which politicians you best align with and vote for them. But right now, there are going to be sex offenders where are children are. Our children go to school. They go to friends houses. They go to sporting events. And they're going to continue to do these things more and more as they grow, and there are sex offenders in every zip code. We can't ship the offenders off to Antarctica, as much as we may want to =) These people have to live somewhere. So I guess people are always going to be complaining about them since they do have to live somewhere. Did you know that someone who gets caught peeing in public (not that I think this is a correct or okay thing to do) can be known for the rest of his/her life as a sex offender? That's ridiculous in my opinion. It's not very regulated, and I guess that is something that I think needs to be changed.
You ask about victims of sex offenders and if I think it was fair to them. No, it was certainly not fair to them. It was not fair that it happened to you. It's not fair when it happens to anyone. It's a disgusting thing. However, we can't pull our world out from underneath the feet of ill people for our benefit. Our country is supposed to be a free one. So whats next, not selling beer in such and such neighborhood because this is the neighborhood filled with recovering alcoholics? Or how about not having any shopping stores in such and such zip code because that is where all of the recovering theives live? Or how about not having any children in the neighborhoods where sex offenders live? So where pray tell, do you put them? They are human beings. They have supposedly served their sentence. I'm just trying to show you that they have to live somewhere. If you don't let them live in our neighborhood they are going to live in another neighborhood that is just like ours: it will have children, and schools, and parks, and day care centers, and concerned parents. These people aren't going to get shipped off somewhere. Even if they go live at a rehab house somewhere for a specific amount of time without children nearby them, they are still known as sex offenders for the rest of their lives - and *they* are the ones having to live with that.
By Another Mom
