More Sex Offender Mass Hysteria

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Good article, and the comments are great too. The article and comments go beyond the sex offender bit into other ridiculous and absurd excesses of law enforcement and punishment.

Reading stuff like this, I am starting to understand why the libertarians and anarchists hate the state so much. It seems we do have an out of control Injustice System in this country. It's not just sex offenders, it's all sorts of offenders. Little did I know that a felony conviction nearly screws you for life.

Little did I know that the system is set up for the purpose of making money - that the entire law enforcement, corrections, treatment, monitoring and parole system is designed to milk money out of people who are mostly too poor to even pay for it. As if the conviction wasn't bad enough, the system extracts profit from you like a slave on a plantation.

When I lived in the mountains a couple of years ago, a friend downstairs did 6 weeks in jail. For what? For being poor. He had some old DUI and he had to pay all these $1000's in fines and I guess he was just too poor to pay them. He got pulled over and hauled into jail essentially for the crime of being poor.

There's a fellow here in the complex who has a similar mess. He was driving a car without a license. Why? He didn't have the money to pay for the license. He kept driving the car anyway, because he needed it to get to work. He got a ticket for driving without a license. Now he's apparently got a felony conviction.

Both of these guys are White. I shudder to think of what Blacks and Hispanics must go through.

We are one of the world's leaders in imprisoning people. You can say what you want about that, but that the criminal justice system has been turned into just another capitalist industry, making its money off convicts and parolees, is downright sickening.

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