QUITE SICK
I’m no softee on sex-offenders but basically banning them from civilization after they’ve served their time is wrong. And this proposal is even more wrong:
What should Colorado do? We have a few counties that have been losing population. Why not find some fading and isolated town, and establish a reservation for convicted sex offenders after they’ve served their prison time? The place would be tightly policed and no children would live there. Since the offenders would be pretty much stuck there, they’d work cheaply, and there must be companies interested in a supply of low-cost labor. So it should quickly become self-supporting, while meanwhile protecting, to some degree, the rest of Colorado.
I believe those are called prisons. BTDT, remember? And this column isn’t from some Neanderthal at LGF or the FreeRepublic. This is from a regular columnist for the Denver Post.
One Response to “QUITE SICK”
 Comment by Christine January 10th, 2006 at 11:44 am |
Des Moines has done the same thing – it is actually a law that offenders can not live within 2000 ft of schools, parks, day care centers, etc. This pretty much forces them out of town or to live a very small neighborhood or two. The ACLU has a good summary, but since then, the Supreme Court has refused a hearing on it. Besides the questionable Constitutionality, my feeling is that laws like this give people a false sense of security. These are only the offenders that have been caught and convicted. What about all the ones that haven’t? They’re out there, on the playground, at your work, and, shock, even at your church. |