An interesting form of pest control

Say you have a large number of sex offenders living in an area, and say their mere presence bugs you. They are legally allowed to stay there, as it is nowhere near any schools, churches or daycare centers. Yet, you want them gone. So, what can you do about it?

Well, if you’re the self-righteous bitch in this story: purposefully build a daycare center right next to them with the sole intention of forcing them to pack up and leave. And, of course, say that it’s all “for teh children”, even if it’s your own irrational paranoia and obsession with these harmless, police-supervised “criminals” that pushes you to meddle.

Clever, no?

What began as concern over a school bus stop located on Orange Blossom Trail near a mobile home park that houses more than 90 sex offenders became a plan to push them out in the name of children’s safety after a proposal to move the bus stop didn’t work.

The woman who came up with the plan, Barbara Farris, said she wants them out and away from the public school bus stop. In fact, Farris has been sitting down the street, protesting their presence.

“We’ve been out here for eight nights, slept out here, watching these sex offenders,” Farris said. “We watch them do crack, pick up prostitutes.”

Such reliable testimony: one obsessed nut, who actually camps out to keep an eye on these “criminals” and who obviously has a seething hatred for them, claims that they take drugs and enjoy getting laid. (I’d also like to examine how many of them actually do so, if even any.)

Regardless of what these sex offenders may or may not have done, this is pure self-righteous paranoia. Criminals or not, sex offenders are people, and they should be treated as such, not forced to move around all over the place all the time because some angry pharisees don’t like the fact that they breathe the same air. Take into account the fact that arguably a large number of sex offenders have done absolutely nothing wrong, and the general hatred and contempt with which they’re met despite their lives already being ruined forever, and frankly, I start to feel sympathetic to their plight. Yes, many of them have committed horrible crimes. But, guess what? They deserve a second chance. All do. The saying of “once a criminal, always a criminal” is about as bullshit as it’s possible to get. People change, and they should be given the chance to do so rather than be continually run into the ground.

(via The Agitator)