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On June 22, 2012 the Illinois Governor signed into a law, a Bill that prohibits sex offenders from participating in such holidays as Christmas, Easter, in addition to Halloween, where such involves anyone under the age of eighteen. The law became effective on January 1, 2013.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocTypeID=SB&DocNum=3579&GAID=11&SessionID=84&LegID=65419
Additionally, the Huron County Sheriff's Office, in Ohio, is urging private businesses to check the states sex offender registry to make sure Santa is not a child molester.
http://www.norwalkreflector.com/article/3820476
Furthermore, the City Council of Tulsa Oklahoma will consider a Bill for next year to ban sex offenders from participating in any and all holidays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZfOoSyGabP0
You guys know how this works --- when one starts others are sure to follow. After all, we all know that Santa is just a deviant child molester who zealously awaits for some child to sit on his lap in a shopping mall so he can molest them. Give me a break.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocTypeID=SB&DocNum=3579&GAID=11&SessionID=84&LegID=65419
Additionally, the Huron County Sheriff's Office, in Ohio, is urging private businesses to check the states sex offender registry to make sure Santa is not a child molester.
http://www.norwalkreflector.com/article/3820476
Furthermore, the City Council of Tulsa Oklahoma will consider a Bill for next year to ban sex offenders from participating in any and all holidays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZfOoSyGabP0
You guys know how this works --- when one starts others are sure to follow. After all, we all know that Santa is just a deviant child molester who zealously awaits for some child to sit on his lap in a shopping mall so he can molest them. Give me a break.
In the context of laws themselves, they will likely be seen valid because the Halloween law is adjudicated by multiple courts as being valid. Notwithstanding this, in Missouri, the state Supreme Court ruled that the Halloween law applies to RSO's convicted before the law was enacted. Therefore, unless a federal court intervenes to say otherwise, your argument might very well be idealistic on the level of the individual states.
I do not think I ever mentioned a Christmas / Easter law. In fact, my post had nothing to do with the
Christmas or Easter laws. My point was that when the lawmakers continue to add law after law and enhance the regulations for the registrants, at some point it becomes punitive instead of civil---and that would create problems for the registry.
I fully understand that the Oklahoma situation focused on a retroactive application of the law and would not affect those convicted after the law was passed. But the SORNA portion of the Oklahoma law only became punitive when they kept adding not only more and more laws year after year, but also the tier levels.
I do not know about an idealistic argument, but it is hardly idealistic for the thousands of registrants who were dropped from the registry because of the Starkey decision.
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No, I was just bringing up the situation we had here in Oklahoma, but I do understand and agree with your logic and the points you were making regarding the Christmas and Easter laws.
I agree that I did get off topic and that might have caused the confusion.
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