GOP bill would dump sex offenders in cities

This is a story that I think highlights the fact that the Far Right has never met a sex offender they didn't like.

Wisconsin State Rep. Donald Friske (yes, a Republican) has introduced a bill that would prohibit cities from passing ordinances that limit where registered sex offenders can live. Cities would not even be able to restrict where child molesters could reside. They could move in next door to you and your children, and the city would be powerless to stop it.

The authorities already try to dump sexual predators where the most people live and where the criminal has the most victims to choose from. If Friske's bill passes, that'll only give the system license to expand this practice.

Pedophiles are already given more rights than law-abiding citizens. If you shoot almost any person and get acquitted, you're off the hook. But if you shoot a child molester and get acquitted, you get retried until you get convicted - even if the shooting was to defend your children. That's how it works in a county in my area. Preying on children should not be considered a civil right, but there's a whole system in place that's allowed it to be considered one.

Law-abiding Americans can't always choose where to live. Many working-class families have been priced out of their own cities. Several communities have passed laws requiring a minimum house size, just because they hate poor people and want to keep them out. Some towns have paid apartment owners to convert their buildings into single-family houses, which also keeps the poor out. But in most of these places, pedophiles can move in with impunity. Is that fair? Donald Friske apparently thinks it is.

The cities of Wisconsin or any other state should not be a repository for sex criminals. The long and short of it is that we need to crack down hard on major sex offenders. Child molesters should never see sunlight again and should live out their years in tough prisons with no amusements.

Friske has other weird ideas besides his criminal-coddling bill. He's also proposed a "sin tax" on video games that would be used to rehabilitate juvenile offenders. In other words, he blames video games for juvenile crime.

What a beezweezer.

(Source: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080113/GPG0101/801130759/1207/GPGnews;
http://www.videogamevoters.org/takeaction/gametax/f2f)