Ravenwood - 11/18/02 01:14 PM
Britain is considering tagging sex offenders with a tracking device. You can imagine the horror this instills in civil libertarians. Today it is sex offenders, but who will it be tomorrow?
The Observer article notes that not only can movement be tracked, but vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure.
Sexual predators are easy prey for impositions like this, but I am in zero danger from a sex offender. I'm in far more danger from a convicted murderer. So where do you stop this nonsense?
Posted by: todd at November 18, 2002 1:20 PMReady for me to piss you off?
I believe, 100%, that when you have committed acrime and you've been convicted of that crime, you lose all your rights. How's that? You take away my right to live by killing me, you no longer have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of diddly-squat. You rape me and deny me the right to piece of mind, a sense of security, a sense of self (and believe me....this is the very least of what is taken away from you for a good amount of time!) and you should lose your rights to the same thing.
Fuck the offenders! What about the victims? I'm not talking about "victims"....I'm talking about VICTIMS! Their rights are taken without warning. At least those committing the crimes have fair warning. You do the crime, you do the time, and forfeit all right to anything.
Okay. Go ahead. Fisk me. I know you want to.
Posted by: Da Goddess at November 19, 2002 1:09 AMGoddess, I'm not upset. I understand how my position as being tough on crime might seem to clash with my position on electronic tracking of humans.
First of all, I feel that if a person commits a heinous crime, there shouldn't be any tracking necessary. They should be right there in their prison cell or grave site. That is especially true for predatory crimes and murder.
The fact that a person is out of prison and walking around among the living, to me, implies that they are fit to be welcomed back into society and shouldn't need to be tracked. At the very least it should imply that they are no longer a danger to society. IF they are, why are they being released in the first place.
Sexual predators are easy to pick on. Nobody likes them, and people with children tend to really, really hate them. That is why I think that this is just a first step in the tracking of all persons. They already assign everyone a unique number at birth and use it to keep a lifetime "permanent record". To me, this just seems to be the next logical step.
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