Heritage Foundation Sticks Up For Violent Sex Offenders

[babsbunny]

http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200911090001

5 hours and 42 minutes ago by Chris Harris

The Heritage Foundation's True Colors

As we have mentioned before, the conservative Heritage Foundation produces the website Overcriminalized.com, which advocates the theory that "as a result of rampant overcriminalization, trivial conduct is now often punished as a crime."

Heritage claims the website:

[SteppingRazor]

1. I agree with the general premise...

that we have overcriminalized a great deal of conduct in this country. It's the leap from there to sex-offender laws that I find both asinine and horrifying.

[Warpy]

3. While I dislike that organization intensely

there should be degrees of sex offender status, from the drunken frat boy busted for exposure when he's taking a whiz in an alley outside a bar to the man who rapes and murders children.

Right now, they're treated exactly the same and that is wrong.

[SteppingRazor]

4. And even for serious sex offenders, there are some real problems...

for example, here in South Florida, we have an entire community of them living under a bridge -- some of them have been there since 2007, and there are now more than 50 living there. But because the law in Miami-Dade says sex offenders cannot live within 2,500 feet of places children congregate -- which includes schools, parks and bus stops -- they're effectively barred from living almost anywhere in the area.

Now, I certainly don't want registered sex offenders living anywhere near places where children congregate. But there has to be a better solution than cramming them all under the Julia Tuttle Causeway.

Further reading: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29918460/

[BOSSHOG]

2. And if its the heritage foundation

we know its a "well researched" argument. Yeah conservatives shouldn't have trivialized having sex with children in the Dominican Republic. Don't want to overcriminalize the actions of conservatives.

[customerserviceguy]

5. I went to the site

and looked up each of the items listed, I didn't see any advocacy against any of the listed examples. In fact, I saw listed an anti-abortion measure that conservatives would likely favor.

This just looks like a listing of summaries of various laws, without comment as to why they are either good or bad ideas from any political point of view.