Bill aims to boost satellite tracking:States that monitor sex offenders co

[Judi Lynn]

Bill aims to boost satellite tracking


States that monitor sex offenders could receive grants.

May 7, 2005
The Associated Press

MIAMI · States such as Florida that enact laws to improve tracking of sex offenders would be eligible for federal money under legislation proposed Friday by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.

Nelson, D-Fla., said the bill would authorize up to $30 million in Justice Department grants for states that use satellites to track offenders convicted of preying on children if they get out of prison.

Responding to the killings of two Florida girls, allegedly by convicted sex offenders, Gov. Jeb Bush last week signed into law a measure toughening penalties on child molesters and requiring many of them to wear satellite tracking devices for the rest of their lives if released.

"To be effective, however, tough laws must be properly funded," Nelson said.

Nelson said his bill would authorize $10 million in grants this year and $20 million next year to be shared by states that adopt satellite tracking of sex offenders. The measure will be introduced in the U.S. Senate on Monday.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fsex07may07,0,7767982.story?coll=sfla-news-florida



Bill Nelson

Adding photo:



If you remember, John Kerry's worst photo from this trip with Bill Nelson to Cape Canaveral was used exhaustively by the MSM, when they could have just as easily used this one, in which he looks terrific, all things considered.

How would any of THEM look in one of these outfits? Cheap entertainment for right-wing dipsticks.

@$$####$!

[jukes]

1. even more frightening

because even liberals are swift to judgement on ANYONE whose name appears on these trumped-up lists.

the "list" has been linked irrevocably w/ child molestation in the consciousnes of the public, by misrepresentation and yellow-journalism. FACE IT, folks: child molesters are rarely caught, because MOST choose their victims based on custodial control and victims seldom come fwd.

the "list" is bulked out by "peripheral" offenses, such as "indecent exposure" and "lewd & lascivious behavior"; blanket offenses that allow local cops to take justice into their own hands and preferentially charge homosexuals for offenses they wdnt apply to hetero couples, for instance.

the neocons, dominionists, & fundies WANT to confuse this in the public's mind w/ REAL sex-offenders such as rapists & child molesters to muddy the waters

flame away, moles & trolls, i won't bother fencing w/ the "outraged" in this thread. strawman arguments, emotional rants, and reviving the thread to post rebuttals after i've gone offline are childish tactics that aren't going to impress anyone whose mind isn't already made up. and if your riposte consists of "I don't care; I want ALL these freaks punished/labelled/castrated/killed", then jukes doesn't care about your desire to control, you theocratic puppet!

now, back on topic: why do i find this frightening? "SATELLITE". TV & movies have made this seem an easy task. in actually, a GPS tag of some type; bracelet, anklet, or sub-cutaneous implant wd be necessary to actually accomplish this.

the conservative right, esp fundies, love to drive a wedge of "precedent" by infringing on the civil rights of a "pariah" group (once, linking marajuana w/ dark-skinned people; now labelling "sex-offenders" innapropriately) to create a "list" of "sub-humans" that society will thank them for oppressing. once we've allowed them to electronically "tag" this outcaste group, they hope to demonize some other group so we'll accept them being branded. like, maybe, "drug-offenders". (any realistic person realizes that the bulk of prison inmates are serving time for using less dangerous or addictive mind-altering chemicals than the ones that have been chosen for approval. as a retired federal LE professional, and an expert witness on addiction & substance abuse, i ASSURE you this is true.)

where do we draw the line? when "political dissidents" are tagged? too late, boys & girls. WAY too late.

sad fact is, it's probably already too late.

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