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  • #16
    Only certain kinds.
    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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    • #17
      Yeah, haven't you ever seen "Thank You for Smoking"? Who's going to defend guns and tobacco?
      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
      - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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      • #18
        Yeah, we only love lawyers that defend all of the above...
        "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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        • #19
          Personally I resent North Carolina exporting their scum to Georgia. It's like John "Fidel" Edwards just unloosed his prison refuse on us.
          "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

          “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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          • #20
            Whats the reasoning to bann former offenders from living near Schools, Churches, Parks or whatever anyways?

            I mean if they want to stalk children, they will. Having to drive a couple of miles certainly wont stop them

            So I dont see any benefit in this..
            If its no fun why do it? Dance like noone is watching...

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            • #21
              The lefties prevented us from branding them on their foreheads for first time offenders and castrating repeat offenders.

              The result was POS law compromise.
              "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

              “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
                The lefties prevented us from branding them on their foreheads for first time offenders and castrating repeat offenders.

                The result was POS law compromise.
                I'm a leftie. I'd like to see them locked up forever if they're still dangerous. What's the point of releasing people that haven't been rehabilitated? And what's the point of treating poorly those people that have been rehabilitated?
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                • #23
                  Well to figure out if someone has rehabilitated or not you have to release him and wait for him to strike again... or not
                  If its no fun why do it? Dance like noone is watching...

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                  • #24
                    You're no leftie. I cry foul. No leftie thee.

                    I knew Leftie, and you, Lori, are no Leftie.
                    "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                    “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
                      You're no leftie. I cry foul. No leftie thee.

                      I knew Leftie, and you, Lori, are no Leftie.
                      You're right, I'm not a leftie, but most online political tests think I am and I almost always vote Democrat.

                      I'm also not old enough to know which famous politician you're quoting, so your clever paraphrase is going to go over my head. Sorry.
                      Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                      "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                      • #26
                        TX Senator and Dukakis' running mate Lloyd Bentsen mate telling Dan Quayle in a debate that he's no JFK.
                        "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                        -Bokonon

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                        • #27
                          @ Lori,

                          No prob it was a dumb joke anyway.
                          "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                          “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                          • #28
                            Re: Life in Prison for being Homeless

                            Originally posted by Ramo
                            ATLANTA, Aug. 2 — A sex offender who was unable to register his address with state officials because he was homeless is facing life in prison for violating a new registry law that politicians in Georgia have hailed as the nation’s toughest.

                            The offender, Larry W. Moore Jr. of Augusta, was convicted in North Carolina in 1994 of indecent liberty with a child, a felony. This week he was convicted for the second time of violating a requirement that he register. Under the new law, a second violation carries an automatic life sentence.

                            “We have suggested that it is cruel and unusual punishment as it relates to the facts of this case,” said Sam B. Sibley Jr., the state public defender in Augusta, whose office represents Mr. Moore and is planning an appeal on his behalf.

                            The law requires offenders to register their address and forbids them to live or work within 1,000 feet of not only schools and day care centers but also churches, swimming pools and school bus stops. It expanded the definition of a sex offender and raised penalties for violating registry requirements.

                            Homelessness is not an acceptable excuse. “One of the requirements when you become a sex offender is you have to have an address,” said Sgt. Ray Hardin of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office in Augusta.

                            Sergeant Hardin said enforcement of the law required a dedicated investigator, a global positioning system and, each time an offender moves, hours of paperwork. At least 15 sex offenders have been arrested because of homelessness since the law took effect in July 2006, according to documents gathered through pretrial proceedings in a lawsuit brought by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union.

                            The suit argues that the law leaves offenders virtually nowhere to live. Sarah Geraghty, a lawyer with the human rights center, said she had scoured the state for homeless shelters that would accept male sex offenders and could find only one, which was full. A document from the Sex Offender Administration of the Georgia Department of Corrections, provided to a reporter by Ms. Geraghty, lists what it calls “offenders arrested for being homeless.”

                            Georgia’s law is not the only one that has made it hard for offenders to maintain legal residences. In Florida, the state authorized five offenders to live under a bridge in Miami after they were unable to find suitable housing that they could afford. In Iowa, a victims’ group found that offenders tried to comply with the registry law by offering addresses like “rest area mile marker 149” or “RV in old Kmart parking lot.” Critics of residency restrictions say they drive offenders underground and have little effect on the number of sex crimes.

                            As a tough-on-crime measure, the Georgia law was enacted easily, with supporters saying it would force sex offenders to leave the state. “Every sex offender in Georgia will now serve time in jail, and every sex offender in Georgia will be monitored after their release,” said the House majority leader, Jerry Keen, the bill’s Republican sponsor.

                            But the law’s opponents have called it too harsh in its penalties, too broad in its restrictions and too rigid, allowing no exceptions even when a day care center or a church opens within 1,000 feet of an offender’s pre-existing residence. One offender, Anthony Mann, was told he had to leave his house and the barbecue restaurant he owned when day care centers opened too close to both locations, according to a second lawsuit.

                            In the case of the 40-year-old Mr. Moore, the first registry violation occurred in 2005, when the penalties were much less severe. After spending time in jail awaiting disposition of the case, he pleaded guilty to missing a deadline to re-register and was sentenced to two years’ probation.

                            Records show that in March 2006, the month he got out of jail, he registered twice, according to officials at the public defender’s office. He registered again in April and June, and twice in July, when the new law took effect. He was left with only two places in Augusta, both hotels, that met the law’s requirements.

                            Mr. Moore, who worked at Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, could not afford the hotels for long, his lawyers say. An investigator at the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office told the court that when he checked several months later, Mr. Moore had moved out.



                            Wow, Georgia is a ****ed up place. This crap ought to be ruled unconstitutional.
                            Georgia

                            Not that I like child molesters, but putting ANYONE in such a catch-22 is a load of BS. This is the result of what happens when the MSM froths up public hysteria by making people think there is a child molester on ever street corner.

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                            • #29
                              The lefties prevented us from branding them on their foreheads for first time offenders and castrating repeat offenders.


                              Yeah, GA was the state that sentenced a 17 year old to 10 years in prison for having consentual sex with his 15 year old girlfriend (though, to be fair, the charge was reduced on appeal after tons of public pressure and media attention, but your AG is contesting that ruling). I don't think leniency in sex offenses is your state's problem.
                              "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                              -Bokonon

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Ramo
                                TX Senator and Dukakis' running mate Lloyd Bentsen mate telling Dan Quayle in a debate that he's no JFK.
                                Er, do I get to say own goal now?
                                Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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