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- Fhwqhgads, on 04/07/2009, -7/+774Here's a logic question for ya about the sex offender registry: Why don't I get to know that a murderer has moved in next to me? Instead I will get told about the guy who just couldn't hold his urine anymore, or a guy who turned 18 before his girlfriend did. Who do you think I'd rather know about? Fascinating society we live in.
Zero Tolerance: They don't mind kids doped up on Ritalin though do they? Makes life easier for the teacher. No more independent thought. No more questions. Blind obedience. Just sit and shut up and repeat after me. - GregLoire, on 04/07/2009, -1/+491Why do we live in a society where Cracked makes far more sense than serious media outlets when it comes to issues that really do affect our lives?
- Hobbes24, on 04/07/2009, -5/+347"Policemen and 911 operators that could be out saving lives and arresting minorities for driving nice cars "
***** dugg :P - smack1700, on 04/07/2009, -4/+325The sex offender registry hypocrisy just demonstrates how America is more sensitive to anything related to sex than violence.
You don't have to let your neighbors know you're a convicted murderer, but you have to let them know you're a sex offender. We're more scared of sex offenders than those who commit acts of violence.
It makes sense, considering our media. Blood-shed and violence in video games and movies/tv is more acceptable than 1 shot of nudity. - hawkspur, on 04/07/2009, -2/+301***** speed bumps.
- ElGubrush, on 04/07/2009, -12/+188I'm amazed the war on drugs isn't on here. That's pretty much the biggest feel-good dumbass law after three strikes and is combined with that as cause of the overpopulation in California's jails.
- zirconx, on 04/07/2009, -6/+180Why are people digging this down? Does anyone really think that mass murders have walked up to a mall or school with an AK-47 only to turn around when they saw the Gun Free Zone sign on the door?
I think its a pretty clear cut case of a "feel good" law that does nothing.
We had a mass shooting at a mall in my city last year. There were Gun Free Zone signs on all the doors. - Shawn4168, on 04/07/2009, -15/+180Surprised they didn't mention "gun-free zones" on that list.
- Otto, on 04/07/2009, -0/+148The Zero Tolerance is definitely the worst thing ever. My sister got suspended from school, almost expelled, and had to go to counseling for a while because one of the teachers caught her "doing drugs" in the girls bathroom.
Problem with this: My sister is a diabetic. She was taking her daily insulin injection.
The amount of grief we had to go through to convince school officials that taking prescribed drugs that you need in order to, you know, live, was not really covered under the Zero-Tolerance Drugs policy. We tried to get them to make some sort of a concession, like having her go to the health office to get her shot, but many of them couldn't grasp the idea that she needed a daily shot, period. At least one teacher claimed that she was somehow faking it.
Finally, the counselor they sent her to had to go to the school himself and threaten them with legal action before they relented. We made the same threats, of course, but it's different when even the people who you think agree with you are willing to call the cops on your ass.
People are stupid, school officials even more so. But when you give them a "Zero-Tolerance" policy, then it becomes simply a way to cover their own ass, because nobody gets fired for "implementing the existing policy". - MrZaiko, on 04/07/2009, -3/+148Hey teacher! Leave those kids alone!! *guitar playing*
- Origin415, on 04/07/2009, -0/+129To their credit, speed bumps are extremely effective at making people drive the speed limit within a 5 foot radius.
Thats probably canceled out by the heavy breaking followed by heavy acceleration right outside of that radius though. - drmangrum, on 04/07/2009, -0/+118The Zero Tolerance laws make absolutely no sense. They effectively remove administrative powers away from the school administration. Most school principals have a Master or PhD in education. If they can't be trusted to weigh circumstance and mete out punishment that fits the offense then why the hell are they administrators?
- Schizotypal, on 04/07/2009, -7/+123Am I the only one concerned that Cracked makes more sense than most other sources of information?
- offdachizzane, on 04/07/2009, -4/+105stk198323- Do you really think a "gun-free zone" sign is going to make a criminal nervous? Of course not. It's going to make him think, "Hey, I'm the only one here with a gun. I can do whatever the frick I want!" Geez.
- Obsidian743, on 04/07/2009, -3/+104Where's the Patriot Act?
- Chompy, on 04/07/2009, -0/+95No, the problem is that the "Sex Offender" label is too broad. I'm down with complete ostracization for the pedos that abuse 4 year old kids, but as Fkjhfkwe said, an 18yo guy who had sex with his 17yo GF shouldn't be on that list.
- ElGubrush, on 04/07/2009, -6/+85America is really sexually repressed.
There's a danger to that.
Because, when you make a society really, REALLY sexually repressed, you get Japan.
inb4 hivemind btw - kamakazitp, on 04/07/2009, -0/+67FCC guy reviewing a tv show:
"Ok, we've got a psychopathic killer, kidnapping children, killing them en mass. This is pretty entertaining. Lots of blood, no problem. Gang members, awesome; domestic abuse, who respects women anyway?; this is all pretty standard. Ok, we're at a club now, lots of illegal drug use, pretty awesome party. Now we're outisde a strip club....uh oh....stripper runs out, HOLY ***** DID I JUST SEE PART OF A NIPPLE???? WHO DO THESE GUYS THINK THEY ARE?? I DONT WANT MY KIDS WATCHING THIS FILTH!" - codyman, on 04/07/2009, -1/+62I definitely agree with any "zero tolerance" policies - they are way over abused these days
- Valyn, on 04/07/2009, -0/+61The girl who is being charged for child pornography could be labeled a sex offender as well. She was under 18 and took pictures of... herself.
- Bloodwine, on 04/07/2009, -6/+64Speeders aren't usually dangerous. In fact, unless you are in a drunken tirade, you pay more attention to your surroundings when you set your car to ludicrous speed.
the real danger are the slow pokes that drive below the posted speed limits. they are the cause of a lot of traffic accidents. - LacY, on 04/07/2009, -0/+56They've been overused/abused for a long time. A kid I went to high school with was kicked out because he had a set of knives in his car (parked in the school parking lot). A set of steak knives, still in the heavy plastic casing & box they came in, and it was discovered that his mother had bought them and forgotten them in his car (he didn't even know they were there). Didn't matter--the school had recently enacted a zero tolerance policy for weapons on campus, and they needed to show they "meant it", and kicked him out of school about 4 weeks before graduation.
- tdclark23, on 04/07/2009, -0/+53The problem is the whole "one size fits all" attitude of writing laws. What results is one size that doesn't really fit anyone.
We seem to have forgotten, in our days of mandatory sentencing, that the Judge is sitting at the bench to make those decisions based on the individual criminal and the specific crime. With all the mandatory sentencing we don't even need judges. Just the DA, Defense and the jury. The sentences are automatic and probably not appropriate for the crime.
It is time to eliminate these stupid laws and go back to the basics. Let the judges decide the sentence for the crime. They do a much better job than those legislators do.
I have often thought we should split our legislatures into two parts. One to make new laws and one to eliminate old ones. The last I looked it was still illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket in Lexington KY. - jasdf, on 04/07/2009, -0/+51Dugg for photos.com guy.
- Flipperbw, on 04/07/2009, -0/+51No, the guy about 10 comments up apparently does too.
- rockrapdude, on 04/07/2009, -1/+51Because the jester can talk the truth.
- Suricou, on 04/07/2009, -2/+47Thhobbs, it's only repressed because the reaction is not proportionate to the risk. Sex offenders, espicially pedophiles, get singled out for a level of hatred that even serial murderers arn't subject to, and forced to comply with laws which are written in such a way as to make them effectively impossible to employ and to prevent them from socialising even decades after they complete their sentence. Many counties use a system of exclusion zones intended to make it impossible for any convicted sex offender to live in them at all - even serial assault would not get such harsh treatment.
- Shadic, on 04/07/2009, -1/+43***** Ebaumsworld.
- drmangrum, on 04/07/2009, -0/+41You should have hired a lawyer. You can bet at least one hard charging lawyer would work cheap or pro bono just to get his name in the paper. At the very least, he can sue the school for endangering her life by not allowing her to taker her shot. Hell, could even go so far as to a discrimination against people with disabilities ( I call not having a working pancreas a pretty big damn disability) from receiving an education.
Barring that idea, call the local news. Every town has some form of "trouble shooters" that shove a camera in administrations face to make them look like idiots. - MrZaiko, on 04/07/2009, -12/+52"Help the Children, what abut the children, save the children. You know what I say? ***** the children!"
-RIP George Carlin
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/704824/ - Misterberu, on 04/07/2009, -8/+47But someone please think about the children!!!
- drmangrum, on 04/07/2009, -1/+40The reason the registry doesn't make sense is because it's punishing the person twice and it doesn't take circumstances into consideration. A drunk who pisses on his neighbors lawn is facing the same follow up punishment as the guy that took pictures of a little girl through a window.
Then you have the double punishment factor. Jail is there for a reason. After you serve your sentence, your debt to society is SUPPOSED to have been paid. The secondary punishment ( and that is what it is ) makes it nearly impossible for them to move on with their lives. I would LOVE to know why the practice hasn't been label unconstitutional. - jefbob, on 04/07/2009, -0/+39But thats the problem with the sex offender registry. It doesn't differentiate. I get a card in the mail saying I have a new neighbor who was guilty of "Gross Sexual Imposition" and that could be an 18 year old found guilty of banging a 17 year old girlfriend or it could be some 60 year old fondling little boys. The 18 year old really just got hosed by someone and the 60 year old may really have a problem.
- jtbell04, on 04/07/2009, -18/+57How about the Assault Weapons Ban?
- garlicdeath, on 04/07/2009, -0/+36I believe the sex offenders registry is one of the most ***** up things we have right now. Despite that,I can easily understand why it was enacted and why it is still around and why it will probably be around for a many, many years to come. But if your life is essentially over once you're on the list, this isn't where you commit armed robbery and have to only worry about your employment situation. You become a pariah. With how their lives go after they are convicted, I'm honestly surprised more don't commit suicide.
Also, I recall an article here on Digg that somewhere in Europe, I'm thinking England, that they want to implement a violent crimes registry. I'll try finding it and post it in this thread. In the US, I read Indiana signed a violent crimes registry and I think that that type of registry is much more beneficial to communities.
While this wasn't a hilarious article like some of their others, I think cracked did a great job on this one, although I wish the Drug War was listed. - acknotSW, on 04/07/2009, -0/+35It hasn't been labeled unconstitutional because, like in so many other situations, somebody "thought of the children" before using an ounce of common sense. The left and the right have been using this "to protect the children" ***** for the last couple decades to erode our rights. The sex offenders list is a perfect example of, what looked like, a good idea and a slippery slope combined to make a giant ***** useless mess.
- speedk0re, on 04/07/2009, -0/+35I agree.
MORE BOOBS ON TV! - diggydougie, on 04/07/2009, -0/+35This is probably seen as a comedy piece by most people. I wish our legislators would read this and take it seriously.
- madeingermany, on 04/07/2009, -0/+34Good points.
Another problem:
A friend of mine's next door neighbor was a boy scout leader and molested little kids.
That guy is not on the list, because he cut a deal. Go figure. - SACubeMonkey, on 04/07/2009, -0/+32I call it..."The Daily Show Effect."
- TVarmy, on 04/07/2009, -0/+31Yeah, I used to ignore those signs, right up until I skidded out of control going 40 on a somewhat old road that had a 25 MPH yellow sign for the curve coming up. The fact they don't always matter makes it that much more difficult to know when to take them seriously....
- Logrusmage, on 04/07/2009, -2/+33But... if the government doesn't do it, who will save us from our horrible, horrible selves? It isn't like we could actually take responsibility for our lives... could we? I'm not sure... I mean that would require us to be non dependent on the state.
What am I saying? That could never happen. - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -13/+44#6 Gun Controll
- rizzin, on 04/07/2009, -0/+30Stormwern I think you need to read that again. It was not saying the all the sensible people drive at the same speed but that most people drive at a speed they feel is sensible. For you that might be 60, for me its about 80 (in medium traffic levels anyway).
If there is nobody on the road for as far as I can see on a bright clear day why should I not be able to push the speed up to a higher level. I am in no hurry to kill myself and will only go as fast as I feel comfortable driving at. That internal limit I will impose on myself is different in different driving conditions so why set a specific limit that fits the lower end of that scale? - kamakazitp, on 04/07/2009, -0/+29they do control most of whats on TV, though, which sadly in some households does more parenting than the parents.
- stk198323, on 04/07/2009, -0/+28''Depends what the crime is - in rape cases, the sex offense is most definately an act of violence.''
Yes and I think we pretty much all agree that in those specific case then a sex offender list should be a good idea. But when you throw every person that has made any act even remotely connected to sex on the same list that's where the problem arise!
It would be the same as having a violence offender list where you first put murderers but then end up with every violent offense you can think of, even when it's as stupid as an 8 year old person pulling the hair of another one during school recreation! - richgustavson, on 04/07/2009, -4/+32THE DRUG WAR
- Dankoozy, on 04/07/2009, -6/+33A sex offenders registry is for the government a much better alternative to actually doing anything about the problem.
The government needs paedophiles, how else is it going to get support for new invasive and far-fetching laws and surveillance? - rizzin, on 04/07/2009, -4/+31STK, What ever your smoking you should pass some around. Others might like to visit your fairy land world as well.
Somebody willing to commit armed burglary is not going to be turned off by a stupid little sign on the door. Criminals dont think they will ever be cough so why worry about any silly little thing like a "No guns" sign on the door.
All "Gun Free Zones" do is ensure all the potential victims are nicely unarmed so the criminal may go about their work with little to nothing to fear from anybody in the near vicinity. - plainOldFool, on 04/07/2009, -1/+27Bacon Sundae?
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