Project Proposal For The ACLU

July 10, 2006 in ACLU, Crime and Justice, Democrats & The Left

Cross Posted from Stop the ACLU 

It is the same old story in a different state. The state makes a law to protect children from sex offenders and the ACLU oppose it.

Sex offenders across Kentucky will be unwelcome neighbors to schools, public playgrounds and day care facilities, under a new state law in effect this week.

Advocates say new residency boundaries — which prohibit sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of those locations — should help protect children from sexual predators who may stalk them from their nearby homes. Others, however, caution the law may be too restrictive and ban sex offenders from living in large swaths of communities throughout Kentucky.

Some also worry it may prompt some to live in hiding, under law enforcement’s radar.

Lili Lutgens, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said Kentucky’s new law targets sex offenders whose chances of re-offending are considered low risk while over-regulating those more likely to strike again.

“It is good for the General Assembly to want to regulate the risk that registered sex offenders pose on the community, but the problem is this doesn’t seem to be a very effective risk management that they’ve created,” Lutgens said. “And it’s going to be the noncompliant offenders who are precisely the ones who will not register.”

I don’t know about you, but it would make me feel a lot safer sending my kid to the playground or school knowing that registered sex offenders, many of which are pedophiles, don’t live right next door. Of course the ACLU see it differently.

I have a proposal for the ACLU of Kentucky. Since you are so concerned about sex offenders having a difficult time finding somewhere to live, why not start a project to house them? You could move them next door to you and your children. Get a membership drive going and call it “Adopt A Sex Offender”. You could appeal to all of your supporters to help a sex offender find a home. It could be kinda like Habitats for Humanity where you take the donations and build them a house except you could build it right next door to you and your loved ones. Maybe after they get settled in you could ask them to babysit one night.

We could just keep them housed behind bars for good. If they are still a danger why are they living among us anyway? The punishment for sex offenders, especially those that violate children, should be much more harsh. There should be mandatory minimum sentences. Of course the ACLU oppose that too.

Just because a sex offender has served their prison term does not mean they are rehabilitated. If we are going to release them back into society, children have the right to be protected from the potential harm they may cause. I really can’t conjure up any sympathy over a convicted sexual criminal having to make a little extra effort to find somewhere to live that is more than 1,000 feet from the local playground or school. It isn’t punishment as the ACLU argue. Why is the ACLU fighting for such a dangerous individual to live right in the middle of temptation, and right next to society’s most vulnerable? I know not every sex offender is a child rapist, but they have done a terrible crime, and one of the consequences of that is a total loss of trust from society. The ACLU doesn’t even want the public to be notified if a sex offender is living next door.