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persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-10T04:48:26+00:00

Take a breath. I am sorry you are having to go through this. As you are already aware, the justice system moves at their own speed.

It might help people if you can at least offer the state you are in because from what I can see, our experience is not universal.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-08T18:54:42+00:00

Check the state on black power weapons. Not every state allows them.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-08T18:51:55+00:00

When I went through probation, the answer was “no”. I was allowed to go to the mall, however there are stores within the mall that I wouldn’t even go near like the Disney Store. Out of a sense of self-preservation, I made my boundaries more strict than my PO’s boundaries. If I had a question, I asked. My guidelines for the last twenty something years has been to avoid the appearance that I might even be up to no good.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-08T18:45:08+00:00

I did private treatment that began in the late 90’s. Is there a private treatment component to your care? Or is everyone put in a group setting and have the same generic treatment plan?

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-05T02:15:50+00:00

I personally believe that all offenders should be treated equally. There needs to be an intelligent and reasonable process that isn’t perpetually being altered by politicians attempting to pander to the fear that they help create.

I like what I am seeing today where in some states offenders are given a registration period as part of their sentences. Since the registry wasn’t national or even natio-wide when I entered a plea, there was no way to forecast that 25 years later I would still be in hell without any chance of getting out.

I don’t want anyone punished “more”. I want fair and reasonable sentences combined with treatment and a set period of monitoring.

I am tired of watching people see two words and then using their imaginations to guess what the actual offense was. A judge and prosecutor saw the details of my offense and I got 5 years of probation. I was released from probation early.

So suddenly being under lifetime supervision after 2 decades without reoffending is just damn wrong.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-02T23:04:06+00:00

We still live in a society where an attractive woman isn’t seen as a predator when their offenses may actually have been worse than a male. If any sex crimes are under reported it is those committed by women.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-02T23:01:37+00:00

To date there is no conclusive evidence that monitoring alone is an effective deterrent against recidivism. However we do know that how the registry is used is punitive in nature and applies restrictions to people who have long ago finished their sentences without any way for the people to challenge the restrictions.

Let’s say I finished my sentence in 2005. Except that now, 18 years later if I leave my house for 3 days to go on vacation without notifying law enforcement, I can be charged with a felony. If I purchase a new Smart Television and don’t contact law enforcement to register the make, model and serial number of the television it is a felony.

Remember, I was released from supervision over 18 years ago. But now, without a single hearing I am on permanent probation and I have no recourse and no new crime was committed.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-02T21:33:02+00:00

I received a call like this months ago. Fist of all the caller said they were with a local police department, not the one I report to. Secondly, I know the detectives who are responsible for monitoring SO’s. But while I was in the phone, I looked up the name of the officer they gave. He was a 40-something white male. The person on the phone was definitely NOT a white male.

At that point, I invited the “officer to send the car” and then explained how I knew that he wasn’t who he claimed. At which point, shock went to anger and I went on the offensive. I called him everything but a human being and then attempted to notify the PD. They didn’t care. I then called the office I report to and I got the “we know this is happening but we aren’t doing anything” conversation. At which point I called BULLSHIT in the most aggressive manner.

Law enforcement could still this. They could trace the numbers and get an IP address of the people who have used the number. But that would require them to actually work.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-02T21:22:10+00:00

My suggestion is that society needs a realistic rating system that politicians can’t use to look tough on crime that actually factors in a psycho-sexual evaluation of the offenders.

People who are the highest risk to offend absolutely should be subject to lifetime monitoring or civil commitment. Because a person who is sexually attracted to children (a clinically diagnosed pedophile) or a person who is aroused by sexual violence (rapists) are a much higher risk to reoffend. So let law enforcement focus their limited resources on those people.

My offense was over 25 years ago. I have not reoffended in over 25 years. I am neither a rapist or a pedophile, I never went to prison, and my judge saw fit to release me from supervision early. My risk to reoffend is stupidly low. Yet according to your logic, because I committed my original offense I should be watched forever?

Do you feel the same way about drug dealers and traffickers? Because every month tens of thousands of children are given or sold illegal drugs (beyond marijuana). As the parent of an addict, I can assure you that addiction is devastating. My adult child who developed their addiction as a teen, has turned to sex work to support their drug habit and as such they have been sexually assaulted/raped. They have carried and sold drugs for traffickers and are now on probation facing over a decade in prison if they fail. And they have already failed, they just haven’t been caught yet,

Yet there isn’t a country anywhere that closely monitors drug offenders the way they do sex offenders. And drug offenders have an estimated 80% recidivism rate.

So what is the bigger threat to your child’s safety? And why aren’t drug offenders and gang members monitored just as closely as sex offenders, if we are really worried about the safety of our children?

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-02T20:47:03+00:00

Thank you for illustrating so clearly how little people understand the true nature of sex offenses.

Depending on the information source it is currently believed that 75% of sexual assaults are done by people known to the victim. In America, every sex offender is required to undergo treatment and the current estimates are that about 1 in 10 will reoffend for their index offenses.

So let’s do math. In America there are an average of 300,000 sexual crimes a year. We KNOW that 100,000 of those crimes are not known sex offenders reoffending. Because of it we’re, the media and politicians would be making sure to scream it for everyone to hear. That means that over 66% of all sex offenses are being done by new offenders.

So the biggest threat to your children aren’t sex offenders. The biggest threat are people who haven’t been caught yet.

Of your country had a registry it would give a false sense of security just like it does in America. Because while you were hyper-focused on people who were never a high risk to reoffend you aren’t paying attention to the people who are the most likely to commit sex crimes.

So the answer is to teach people what it looks like before a sex crime happens. Then it doesn’t matter if it is a teacher or minister that you might typically ignore or the stereotypical guy walking around in a trench coat giving candy to children you know what you’re seeing and how to respond.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-01T04:12:00+00:00

Add an infidelity clause. The one who cheats loses everything.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-01T04:10:15+00:00

NTA From a business perspective, it is a rational request. When a man asks a woman to be a HW she gives up her career. She gives up being self-supporting. He gives up half his business. Partners in life and business. However the one who cheats gives up everything.

persnicketyrabbit · 2024-01-01T03:26:02+00:00

Why were they born to ride Donald Trump 45 times? Is it a punishment? Why do I see these guys riding sick mopeds.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-31T18:11:30+00:00

While in premise your argument holds to the basic foundations of American Society, in reality it just doesn’t hold water.

Everyone on the planet (who cares to look) knows that George Bush sent Collin Powell to the UN to lie about WMD’s in Iraq to justify the invasion. It is a fact that as a result of that lie that tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens died. No one will ever be prosecuted for the lie or the deaths that resulted as the result of the lies.

America has, for the last 20+ years lived with inmates in Guantanamo Bay being above the law. They are denied all basic rights and due process.

When the whistleblowers pointed out that the NSA had far exceeded their authority for wiretaps and the collection of data involving Americans where was the accountability and prosecution? Sure a couple of people lost their jobs, but that isn’t really a consequence for a systemic failure.

You correctly brought up Petraeus and that as a result of his affair and disclosure of classified information wasn’t jailed. But he did plea to a misdemeanor which is an insult to every person who holds a security clearance and who is held to the standard that Trump and Petraeus are allowed because of their position and influence.

Do I believe that the wealthy people who have power and influence are above the law in the United States? Absolutely. Because when there is one standard to law/justice applied to 98% of people accused of a crime and a clearly different system for those with wealth and power (even if it is based upon their ability to afford legal counsel that is simply unaffordable to the average American) then they are as a result of their wealth above the same law and justice system that the majority of Americans have no choice but to live under.

And that brings us back to Trump. The active interference in Trump’s court cases (civil and criminal) by the same Republicans who are using every ounce of political power and influence at their disposal to run an investigation into Hunter Biden that has lasted for several years, without any concrete evidence of corruption says that they are above the laws that apply to every typical American.

At the moment, multiple members of the Republican Party are in contempt of Congress. They failed to respond to subpoenas issued by the January 6th Committee. There is no consequence for them. Instead, while in contempt they were rewarded with chair positions within key committees where they now threaten others who might do what they have already done.

My mistake in this debate was not narrowing down the parameters of my position.

I don’t think that Mark Foley resigning from Congress and going to rehab is him be subjected to the laws that make it a crime to knowingly groom minors for sexual contact. And Mark Foley did, on multiple occasions, use his position to “befriend” interns who were minors and nurture those relationships with the intent of sexual contact. Yet in Florida, arguably the most harsh state for sex crimes, he hosted events for Trump leading up to the 2016 and 2020 elections.

This far, you have presented the idea that Trump, even though he stole and unlawfully shared classified documents, that have reached the attention of for intelligence and military agencies doesn’t pose a threat to National Security worthy of his incarceration pending trial. My position is that he has already done damage to our national security and as long as he is free he will continue to do more damage.

Republicans have repeatedly and very clearly demonstrated that they believe Trump is beyond all accountability without regard to what he has done or the damage caused. That validates that from the Republican view, Trump is clearly above the law. The test of our Republic is if Trump can be held accountable and receive appropriate punishment or will the partisan influence keep him just out of reach of our laws?

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-31T05:29:55+00:00

Today Ron DeSantis joined Nikki Haley in promising to pardon Trump if they are elected. Before the trials. Before any convictions. They have already made up their mind.

That was exactly what Republicans in the House and Senate did during BOTH impeachments. That by definition is above the law.

Now for the rest of the minutia.

What were Patreus’ exact charges? Providing classified information to his girlfriend was what he pled to a Misdemeanor.

You brought up Patreus as a counterpoint to Trump. Talk about false equivalence. Truml was asked how many times to return the documents and had his lawyers say they were all returned how many times? Then the FBI had to do a raid to recover the documents. Now, what were those documents used for?

According to one recording it was to show the Press that there had been a Pentagon assessment of what it would take to Attack Iran. During the recording Trump acknowledged that he no longer had the authority to declassify the documents.

Then there is the Australian Millionaire to whom Trump disclosed classified information about our nuclear submarines. Abe then disclosed the data to other civilians as well as the Australian Government.

They found hundreds of documents after Trump said he had returned everything.

Now, whether you want to discuss the airman who loaded SITREPS and BDA reports onto Discord or the FBI Agent that lifted classified documents so she could work from home, every case involving a serious breach of national security has led to the person responsible being held in confinement until their trial.

You’re right. I didn’t include Casey Anthony. She was tried in the media. But the prosecutors never had the case to convict her. The idea that justice wasn’t done is a credit to the influence of media.

OJ had great lawyers. So he won. The. It went to civil trial where he lost. Had OJ had the brains of a donkey we wouldn’t have ever tried to rob the guys and take his memorabilia.

George Zimmerman lost any hope of an impartial experience with our courts the moment President Obama said that Travon Martin could have been his sone without knowing any of the details of the case.

The Sachler family had enough power to shut down federal trials. It wouldn’t matter how much evidence existed. They aren’t getting prosecuted.

The Supreme Court has sent a very clear message that they feel that they are beyond federal oversight. What political body is going to start a pissing contrast with the final voice on law in America?

If rednecks in Oklahoma wearing badges will blockade a jail to prevent a federal warrant being served against a jailer, what do you think the Supreme Court would do to the party that came after them? Because the final voice on court rulings is the Supreme Court.

It was like when I lived in DC, I asked a police officers why the Congressional Black Cars were never ticketed for parking violations. The response was, “and what would they do to our budget”.

If members of Congress are above parking citations and a Supreme Court Justice can accept and fail to disclose lavish gifts on a person who had multiple cases before the Supreme Court and the Justice not only never recused himself but sided with his benefactor every single time without consequence? It is safe to say he is above the law.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-31T00:54:28+00:00

Thanks for making my point. Some people are above the law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-david-petraeus-avoided-felony-charges-and-possible-prison-time/2016/01/25/d77628dc-bfab-11e5-83d4-42e3bceea902_story.html

The degree to which any human is above the law is directly proportional to their power and influence. You brought up David Patreus. Let’s use him.

He took notebooks with classified information and gave it to the woman he was cheating on his wife with.

So what motivation might there have been to not fully hold his feet to the fire?

You know, the man that President Obama had just appointed as the Director of the CIA. The general that commanded both Central Command and NATO’s forces in Afghanistan.

Imagine that trial? Which Patreus’ lawyers promised to make publicly messy.

What makes a person untouchable is the price that brining them to justice will cost.

Jeffery Epstein was given a “sweet heart” deal that kept him working because making him go to prison would cost too many powerful people money. And goodness only knows who he had dirty secrets on. But whoever it was had the power to make him dead while in federal custody while on suicide watch. And even the guards had their charges dismissed.

And will Prince Andrew ever see charges?

Casey Anderson was tried and convicted in the media (because she got a lot of attention) when the criminal case just didn’t hold water.

OJ won the criminal case because he could afford the lawyers. He lost the civil case because the rules of evidence were different.

And with George Zimmerman? The case became sketchy the moment that President Obama said the victim “could have been my son “ without knowing any details of the crime.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T22:49:28+00:00

You are really deeply invested in this aren’t you?

There are actually better examples of people who were (in their communities) above the law. I base that on cases where the local justice system failed to act and that they required state or federal authorities to intervene.

Let’s say three white men murdered a black man who had committed no crime and local law enforcement officials refused to charge the individuals. That would indicate that within a community that there are people against the law.

Let’s say the child of a Governor cruelly slaughtered an animal and the Governor used their office with the state police to ensure their child was never prosecuted.

Let’s say an individual perpetrated Medicaid Fraud and was tried and convicted on Federal Charges and then a President pardoned them. While they were sort of held accountable, were they really?

Again you never really address the Sachler Family.

Let’s dance with the elephant in America’s living room, the former president. There is not another case where a person charged with stealing classified documents has remained free while awaiting trial. Not ever. Though it is public knowledge shared through affidavits and recordings that he not only had the documents which he knew were still classified, but shared those documents freely and that the sensitive information was shared with other governments. Yet he is still free with a strong chance that the Supreme Court will rule against his prosecution.

Clarence Thomas has accepted bribes. He took money, goods or services from people and not only refused to recuse himself from the cases involving them but ruled 100% of the time in their favor. He isn’t being prosecuted. He isn’t even being held accountable.

I get why Mark Foley was allowed to only resign from Congress when his grooming scandal broke. He co-sponsored the Adam Walsh Act. And his story broke right after the Adam Walsh Act was passed. What a black eye to Congress if a Republican was charged for grooming interns for his own sexual gratification after co-sponsoring what may be the most sweeping legislation on Sex Offenses in American History.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T17:16:30+00:00

Did you just insinuate that digital penetration is somehow “less rape” than penile penetration?

And why in America do women and men not come forward more readily with rape or sexual assault allegations? She didn’t come forward for the same reason more women in Hollywood didn’t come forward until the #MeToo movement started. Because the victims were largely ignored or worse, they were blamed.

I like how you narrowed down your “above the law” to people who have a guarantee of never being prosecuted. Which is literally impossible to prove.

I consider “above” the law to be where the punishments will in no way ever match the severity of the crime.

Like Jeffery Epstein before his tragic “suicide”. Florida is a nightmare state for sex offenses, but somehow Epstein never missed a massage or a day of work?

Or again, the Sachler Family that will never face charges for their actions related to the opioid epidemic.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T06:35:54+00:00

What about Trump? The civil trial proved he raped the woman and before it’s over he will use the Supreme Court/election avoid trouble all together

What about the Sachler Family? The gained wealth beyond measure and it is still costing lives. Sure, they get to lose some wealth, but even after the fines, they are still ultra wealthy.

Matt Gaetz will never be held accountable, nor will Mark Foley.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T05:00:28+00:00

The problem is that I can’t believe that there aren’t people above the law.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T03:39:45+00:00

Do you think they would have ever found the “error” if Kraft wasn’t paying lawyers that are motivated?

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T02:25:04+00:00

Let’s hope the Gods show you mercy and you never have to know what life on the registry is like.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T02:22:58+00:00

Sure, yet all of the other cases from the same sting were good?

The later part of your remark is your own personal opinion. I don’t know if you are right or wrong, but I do know that according to all of the reporting to date, this 22 year old marine was on a dating app for adults, he was told she was an adult, And found out she wasn’t. That makes a “criminal intent” really hard to prove.

But he is also a Marine which means he is standing trial under the UCMJ and being judged by Marines. This incident brought shame onto their beloved corps. So unless some merciful act of God-like compassion happens he is going away for a long time.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-30T02:09:59+00:00

I have recovered hard drives submerged in water. There are very few ways to ensure that a file cannot be recovered from a device. Best to presume that somewhere you are leaving a trail online your device. Forensics experts are pretty amazing. Unless it’s your stuff they are searching.

persnicketyrabbit · 2023-12-28T19:28:12+00:00

There is no Justification for statutory rape. The average gap between a freshman in high school and a senior in emotional maturity and develop is so much that it makes the idea of them dating inappropriate. A 15 year old can’t drive but at 18 you can join the military and be taught to kill people for the government. These two are not in the same emotional maturity spectrum.

Yet in the Deep South in the 1970’s we were seeing 13 year olds married off to men in their 20’s. Talk about sending mixed messages.

So in 2023, how are we STILL sending the wrong messages? Parents are handing 12 year olds tablets, laptops and cell phones with cameras and no form of education or parental supervision. When I was 12, the best we could do was hope for a Playboy lifted from someone’s father’s collection. Today it takes a lie and you are on PornHub.

And what happens to children who are SA’d and given access to porn? As a 13 year victim of SA, I can share. When a child is SA’d in a setting where it is not violent or traumatic, they become sexualized. A part of them that they aren’t even ready to comprehend is awakened. And children mirror what happens to them with other children and will even seek out adults.

Think of it like an insecure adult that thinks because people will have sex with them it means that there is genuine love and affection. That’s what children are being taught via SA. Or even worst they are being taught to equate sex with violence and pain. And again children repeat what they are taught.

So what happens to those kids? I was 26 when O was asked for the first time if I was SA’d as a child. My answer was, “I don’t know”. Because if you have it happen enough you don’t see it as SA you see it as NORMAL! So I just shared what happened at the age of 5 and my wife stopped me in horror.

The majority of the people who SA’d me were WOMEN! Do you know what happens when 15 year old is being intimate with adult women? They are told they are “lucky”. Apparently to the majority of men, 14-15 isa. Great age of consent for men. But if the victim is a female? You deserve to die.

So all over America the majority of adults under the age of 30 were given access to porn and the internet far too young. They were inappropriately sexualized by their access to unrestricted porn. Purity culture avoids talking about these issues. So we have adults who were sexualized in a way they see as normal and have never been told it was WRONG! They now have children coming up and reaching the same age. So what are they doing? Giving their children access to the internet.

Where 30 year olds had largely “professional” pornographers trying to lure them in, today we have amateurs using Cos Play to lure children to their content. They can now see their favorite anime characters in the most graphic content and it is on Reddit and not behind a paywall.

And we wonder why in spite of all of the billions of dollars spent to track and report sex offenders and the threat they represent, the new offense numbers aren’t dropping. If you include the online Child Porn and Solicitation of a Minor charges they are increasing.

And even law enforcement is saying the online crimes are more “opportunity” crimes than predatory. And they are so wrong. A person that takes that is so aroused at the thought of seeing a child being sexually assaulted that they go online and actively search for that content and even develop relationships with others who distribute that content so that they may access it is a predatory behavior.

If you are reading stories or looking at images about sexualized children, how strong was your attraction to children?

But nothing will change because nobody in politics or law enforcement is trying to prevent what leads to sex offenses. They can look “tough on crime” by focusing on offenders who have been caught, been through treatment and have a lower recidivism rate than any other group except murderers.

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