udderlyalady's Blog

Our wonderful justice system hard at work, here. PFFT!

As for as paying for the plates, the offenders do. It is one of the conditions of being able to drive. If I read it right, these plates are to used with only the most serious offenders. If this is the case, I have no problem with it because history shows these people never rehabilitate, and it would allow people around them to know a habitual offender is among them. However, these plates are of no use if they aren't on the car they're using, just as an ankle monitor is of no use if there is no IMMEDIATE reponse to a person violating their conditions of release.

I would agree. With all the nut jobs out there, chances are there are going to be people who will take matters into their own hands.

This isn't about fairness. It's about reality. Look at the stats, sexual predators do not rehabilitate. I'm not talking about all sex offenders, I'm talking about predators. Repeat offenders. That is why there are laws prohibiting them from living in certain areas, away from possible prey, or at least make them a little less accessible. The public has the right to know who these repeat offenders are, beause they will do it again. Just read the paper. It happens over and over again.

Green for sex offenders
Yellow for drunks
Purple for drug addicts
Blue for non child support payers
Orange for attempted murderers
Red for child abusers

Whats next?

Who will remember what colors for what if these hairbrained ideas continue.

People have paid their time, if they didn't learn from that and do it again, then really throw the book at them so they aren't in public and no plea bargans and paroles.

This way we won't go color crazy trying to remember all this nonsense.

OK Smoker,although extreme, your point is valid. We can't lable everyone, or keep track of them all, nor should we. But relistically, sexually oriented offenders are a different breed. Especially child molesters, with whom most of this is particularly targeted. These people prey on the least infomed and most trusting of the populace..children. Most of these people do thier time, and do it again. The plates are a warning, not a deterrent. If and when they commit their crimes again, the book is usually thrown at them. I agree with no pleading out. They need the maximum.

How about people know where their kids are? What they are doing and whom they are doing it with? Shouldn't parents take some kind of responsibility when this happens? A lot of parents don't even know where their kids are!! They let them run around like wild animals.

Bam - why is it that the parents are continually blamed for these criminals' actions? I cannot understand this concept. I am a parent and I ALWAYS know where my child is, but I cannot always be there to watch over her. Perfect example - coming home from school. Many kids walk home either from school or a bus stop. It only has to be a block away for a sex offender to grab a child to commit his/her crime. Why should I, as a parent, be held responsible for this person's actions? I KNOW my child is on her way home from school or I KNOW my child is a block down the street at a friend's house, so I am to be blamed for some nut case targeting my child?

Basically you are saying that parents should never allow their children to go anywhere or do anything because if a child is sexually abducted, then it's the parents' blame. And where is the fairness to the children in not being able to visit a friend's house down the street or to walk home from school because someone may grab them up? I just get sick and tired of people always blaming parents for the actions of these criminals out there.

I agree with Lady Rodeo. I can go one further with the "fixed" department. Make it slow and painful - potato peeler!

why dont you remember that when it is your child sitting on the witness stand saying what god awful things this freak did to them. It's a shame we have to teach our children about things that go on in this world to keep them safe.

i heard that if you are gay you have to have pink plates on your car. mite just be a rumor tho