Links to Further Reading and Noteworthy Content

• How Sex Offender Laws Circumvent the Constitution: Civil/Regulatory versus Criminal/Punitive illustrates why sex offender registries are a punishment, not a regulation, using case law as the reasoning instead of mere anecdotal evidence.
  
  
• MySpace Banning Sex Offenders: Online Predator Paranoia by Stephanie Booth. This pretty much says it all on the subject of sex offenders on MySpace. She quotes the following resources: [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ]
  
  
• Moral Outrage - Occasionally updated blog reflecting on news items to illustrate why most consensual sex acts should not be illegal.
  
  
• No Sex Offenders Need Apply - In its own words at the top of the blog: "Watching the sometimes silly and too often stupidly counter-productive world of sex-offender legislation."
  
  
• Justice For Matt - Your computer could be spreading child pornography behind your back--and guess who gets burned for it? You HAVE to read this one to believe it. I can see hundreds of computer geeks scrubbing their systems clean after reading it...
  
  
• Bill Seeks to Have Photo Processors Sound Child Porn Alarm - Another law loaded with bullets made of unintended consequences is being considered in North Carolina.
  
  
• Branding Former Sex Offenders - A basic breakdown of a less politically and/or emotionally driven discussion article about the truthful data from the USDOJ on sex offender stats.
  
  
• They called me a child pornographer - As quoted from the subtitle: "I took some photos of my kids naked on a camping trip. A drugstore employee called the police -- and my family's life became a living hell." An excellent illustration of what will happen more and more if laws are enacted to force photoshops to "report suspicious photos."
  
  
• Why Didn't the Kankas Know? - Discussion about how "Megan's Law wouldn't have saved Megan." Sex offender registries DO NOT WORK, and this news story about a registered sex offender that apparently reoffended illustrates that fact in a most subtle yet applicable way.
  
  
• Michael Fettkether, Arizona Creeper - Documents a case where consent once again doesn't matter, with some enlightening comments from your very own Angry Offender!
  
  
• Wisconsin considers an updated scarlet letter - Green license plates are supposed to make it harder for sex offenders to rape children in parks. Talk about a "feel-good measure."
  
  
• Predator Panic - Debunking the myths about "child predators" waiting behind every tree and shrub to rape your kid on the way home.
  
  
• Equality Now's attack on fictional expression is called into question.
  
  

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