Who will be the first to tell me I'm indulging in paranoid fantasies?

[TheKentuckian]

47. Jackpine, never give the "sensible centrists" and "pragmatic progressives" a bye

You know they will go to about any length to dig up a distraction and you already had a tough row to hoe to overcome visceral knee-jerking when the sex offender subject is an important jumping off point to have this discussion and to bust out FEMA camps when you are trying to have an attempt at a serious topic is post suicide.

These tactics are stunningly familiar and it is a shame you can't feel at home and put your feet up but it isn't really like that, is it? It is what it is but it is sad to have to be in hammer meets nail mode all the time instead of free flowing but you have important things to bring to the table that will stir some thoughts and it does no good to go off the rails and allow the meat to be ignored.

You are fuckin' A right about the building of a consensus of exceptions from the rule of law based on the accusation of the crime and/or because of the type of crime and you are deadly on target when you identify sex crimes as a powerful tool to build a beachhead to implement "preventative detention" policies. Of course now we have extended or even doubled down as a standard operating procedure in regards to terrorism where the accusation or even proximity to an accused can buy you all the hellfire missiles you can eat.

I think we have been wrongheaded in this broad area a long time, one a person has served out or finished probation then it should be finished. All rights restored, no having to check felon on applications, no nothing but rejoining society which would go a long way as a carrot to do just that rather than going back into the system, returning to crime, or even just quietly failing in a life of poverty.

The penalty should have ALWAYS been the penalty. If people think penalties are to lenient then argue that instead of all the extra judicial crap and the pseudo judicial monkey business you have brought to the table.

I guess forty years of slick, tough guy cop shows and a fake cowboy President or two have degraded justice into vengeance and reaction to instincts.