Was reading the local news today for Tucson. Here's a pickle for you. Say you have people moving into the area, and you know they've done time for committing sex crimes. Would you try to keep em out? Some would, without giving it a second thought. The 'system' says they've paid their debt, but have they? WE make the laws, but obviously some don't think they are enough, as is evident by this article I read.

It seems we have law makers that want to punish these people further, take away their freedom to live where they want to live. It's a bad step, dangerous. How far does a community go to restrict people that have done crimes they can't stomach? Here's they way I see it. If a person has done a crime, any crime, and pays the penalty set out by our system, that should be the end of it.

A few years ago there was a system set up to warn people of others living in their area that have committed sex crimes. You might as well tattoo a red letter on their forehead. There are no rights violated, strictly speaking, but these people are definitely singled out in the community, and treated differently. NOW, some want to restrict their liberty in some ways, by putting restrictions on where they can live. Let's be reasonable, if their liberty needs to be restricted in any way, THEY SHOULD STILL BE LOCKED UP!!!! Sorry, didn't mean to shout. There is no way around it. If a man is free, he is free. If he shouldn't be free the laws should be changed to reflect that. THOSE are the laws that need work, we don't need new laws on top of the old. We start getting wishy-washy about it, pretty soon we'll be burning witches and books again.

Anyway, here's an excerpt from the article I read.....

Bills seek to reduce threat to neighbors
By Joseph Barrios and Patty Machelor
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

In Tucson, more than half of the most dangerous sex offenders released since 1996 live within quarter-mile stretches of each other - a clustering effect some legislators would outlaw.

Hey, if they're living close together, aren't they easier to keep an eye on?

A "cottage industry" has sprung up of Arizona landlords catering to sex offenders, says Sen. Jim Weiers, a Phoenix Republican. Two proposals moving through the Legislature could force offenders to move.

This man doesn't have enough real work to keep him busy, he probably has too many people working for him, people that are paid out of tax dollars. Of course, he's a republican....

Tucson has two sites where clusters of high-level sex offenders are living together in housing not recognized as a treatment center, an Arizona Daily Star mapping analysis shows.

In a former apartment complex at 724 N. 10th Avenue, near Downtown, a pastor ministers to seven such sex-offender residents. It's near six day-care centers and two schools.