The Japanese camps had some self rule and the men could volunteer for military service - 442 combat unit was all Japanese. the Nazi camps were just for human experiment (Bayer drug company benefitted greatly) and murder.

Yes, this guy is an idiot.

Rew - you are absolutely correct, to accept living in a special environment is to accept becoming less of a person. We pay taxes, we do have rights (yet being whittled away), I agree with you that by accepting such a notion as living in a colony means that we state that we are too dangerous to live among the "rest" of the populace.

i, for one, will never accept such a solution.

I agree with you REW - 100 percent but I also think that something like this could raise awareness for some - they idea of "colonizing" groups of people is not treated well in history

advocate, i have thought about that off and on since is posted that. wouldn't that be an awesome thing? to set up a community where so's could live safely and go about all of life's little necessities without being started at, pointed at, harassed and all the other crap.

a community where you could get a job to take care of self and family and not worry about a background check for sex offenses.

Yeah, Echo, and it would be a ghetto. Can you imagine city funding for sewerage and roads for THOSE people? Just think of what the schools would be like!

Actually, this is really already happening. If you look at the maps of where sex offenders live, I know that in my area these are all poor and lower middle class. Probably not because all sex offenders are poor, but because these are the people who can't afford to sue or put in pocket parks.

I wrote a "letter to the editor" at the Sac Bee and they sent me a form for publication (although it was slightly edited as I was over the word limit). Hopefully it will be published around Tuesday.

I suggested as a joke that if we are going to be shipped off to an island, then let us choose the island, and I pick Hawaii. Aloha.

i agree that it wouldn't be a good place if anyone were 'forced' to go there.

but a place that would be open and welcoming to a person who would go there voluntarily because they want to, could be a good thing. not everyone has the strength to weather all the crap being an SO causes and registry storm. not every SO who is homeless because they simply want to be. but because they can find no where else to live and jobs are very hard to find.

someplace that a newly released SO could live to learn about and come grips with living as a registrant and all the rules.

I think I know where you are going with this, Echo. What there really needs to be is more community support. Community notification is a dead-end game. Its not about integrating people back into society. As we all know, it has become a tool for fear mongering and discrimination.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/06/circles-of-support-and-accountability_n_4912535.html

I wanted to mention Circles of Support and Accountability in Canada as a model, but it seems like fear mongering has gotten to them, too. I'm going to post this article as a separate thread as well because there are multiple news clips attached at the bottom from all over the country that may be of interest. Mostly what the clips capture is, quite frankly, the incredible stupidity we all know about.

One story is about a guy who was running some group homes that had sex offenders in them. Someone decided all of a sudden to shut them down. Now "dozens" of sex offenders are homeless.

Its not sex offenders living in group homes that is dangerous. It is the willful ignorance of the people who shut them down. Of course, I am preaching to the choir here.

makes me think of that pastor/church that had a group home for SO's in either AL? or MS? people around that area got together and shut it down and all those SO's were S.O.L.

but support from a community at large is basically non-existent. this forum as a community is awesome but it's online.

there is a need for communities that offer real time, real world support and stability. so if that means someone would/could set up some kind of safe/stable community where an SO could live until they managed to get on their own 2 feet??? i would count that as freaking awesome.

i'm thinking of that ?? community in FL where the SO's live together. granted it isn't the greatest and it was rather forced into being by FL crappy laws. but i know that i read that there was a waiting list of SO's who were highly interested.

Looks like there's an update that CoSA will remain funded

What is CoSA?

The article about CoSA was on another post: News clips of interest.

I just wrote on that thread. Each state has a professional organization that supports sex offender treatment providers. Perhaps is would be useful to joint with them in some way to develop paths of community support.

Advocate, COSA is Circles of Support and Accountability. They have a high success rate on those deemed high risk to society.

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article13125026.html

My response to the SacBee OpEd has been published. It was slightly edited but most of what I wanted out there was still in the article.