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Nesquehoning, PA

Jun 30, 2008

Town tells sex felon to move

An ordinance that Nesquehoning passed last year limiting where convicted sex offenders could live is being enforced for the first time, after a New York man recently moved into a prohibited area, officials ...

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The reality of it

Saint Johns, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
More NY trash being dumped in to PA
Winston

Allentown, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
When are you not 1500 feet from at least one of those places?

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Jun 27, 2008
 
Winston wrote:
When are you not 1500 feet from at least one of those places?
Who cares about what "difficulties" it may place on the sexual offender.
Rich

Catasauqua, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
Another BUM the world would be better of without. Why not just put all these offenders on an island and let them offend themselves. How did they find out he was a sex offender. Is there a website you can go to and find these things out at.
mom 0f 5

Bethlehem, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
I think we should take all sex offenders, round them up and ship them to an island to live. Then they can spend thier days and nights taking turns being the "offender" and the "offened"!
thinking and typing

Coplay, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
"He is classified as a Level 3 offender, which means he is considered a high risk to commit another crime."

Then why the he!! is he allowed to be free.
RonMania

Easton, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
Rich wrote:
Another BUM the world would be better of without. Why not just put all these offenders on an island and let them offend themselves. How did they find out he was a sex offender. Is there a website you can go to and find these things out at.
Yes there is & it shows the location of each within your community, but I can't remember the name??
wtrsh7

Emmaus, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
RonMania wrote:
<quoted text>Yes there is & it shows the location of each within your community, but I can't remember the name??
megan law at pa state police site
TRIPLE K

Allentown, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
I blame Bush, I blame Bill Gates, I blame Al Gore the internet king, Gates for allowing porn sites and Bush for just being a jack @ $ $
John

Allentown, PA

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Jun 27, 2008
 
TRIPLE K wrote:
I blame Bush, I blame Bill Gates, I blame Al Gore the internet king, Gates for allowing porn sites and Bush for just being a jack @$$
I think you need to read up on things. Bill Gates really had nothing to do with the internet other than trying to beat out some on the little companys that came out with web browers.

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Mount Airy, MD

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Jun 27, 2008
 
Ship his a$$ back to new york where he belongs.
Rudy

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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Jun 27, 2008
 
Apparently America is not so free. History shows this is just the beginning of the oppression. Everyone realize that to truely regulate sex offenders you are going to have to ignore your own Constitution? Sex offenders had better get out of the country quick. There are going to be lynchings and murders. Congratulations America, in the name of "public safety" you've broken your own sacred laws. 2.6 million of your own citizens are in prison. 1/3 of your black male population are in the justice system. Your country is going to be the pariah of the world. Despotic, paranoid and repressed. Congratulations on selling out your own principles for "public safety"
Truth

Bangor, PA

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Jun 28, 2008
 
Good!! He should meet the same resistance everywhere he moves - he should be forced to become a nomad with no home - I agree with the island suggestion becuase the only people who should be around are other offenders - I don't think the constitution says we have freedom to molest children - maybe in Brazil but not here....
Rudy

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Jun 28, 2008
 
No, the Constitution doesn't say you have freedom to molest children. It does say that everyone has due process. What does that mean? Normally that means the process is fair and individualized. It also says you can't pass ex-post facto laws. It also says you can't put someone in double jeapardy or increase their punishment. It also says you must give equal protection under the law. Hmmm. Most of the first 10 ammendments have to do with the criminal justice system. Why did they do that? Your country has, to the astonishment of the world, held people without charges, lawyers, secret evidence, loss of habeaus corpus. Why would you do that? Because at the core, your country hates freedom. Because freedom is not easy. Because freedom protects those that the majority loath. Soon you won't even have the money to hide the oppression and all you will be left with is a police state. What a slippery slope you are on.
Maryweather

Lehighton, PA

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Jun 28, 2008
 
Rudy wrote:
Soon you won't even have the money to hide the oppression and all you will be left with is a police state.
Rudy, I noticed that your ISP location is listed as Brazil. I found this interesting item from Human Rights Watch about Brazil:

"Police violence continues to be one of the country's most intractable human rights problems. Faced with high levels of violent crime, especially in the country's urban centers, some police engage in abusive practices rather than pursuing sound policing policies."

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"Brazil continues to face major problems in the area of public security. The country's metropolitan areas, and especially their low-income neighborhoods (favelas), are plagued by widespread violence, perpetrated by criminal gangs, abusive police, and, in the case of Rio de Janeiro, militias reportedly linked to the police. Every year, roughly 50,000 people are murdered in Brazil."

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/04/10/global...

Are you fighting against your own police state, too, or just looking out for us silly Americans?
Sound Reasoning

Allentown, PA

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Jun 28, 2008
 
Just wait until such "zoning" laws get overturned, and the town of Nesquehoning not only ends up having to pay this guy something like $100,000,000.00, but have to permit him to move right back in.

I would think that ANY town or city which passes laws like this, and start to enforce them, before the courts rule on them, is taking one mighty big risk.
Impeach Bush

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Jun 28, 2008
 
I don't get it. If this guy was in jail, than he did his time. If it is proven that he is a risk, why was he let out?

Why doesn't this township pass the same ordinance concerning murderers, wife beaters, armed robbers, etc???? I have a feeling that this has more to do with feel good politics than concern for safety.
Rudy

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Jun 28, 2008
 
I never said I was Brazilian.... Brazil is a developing country. Violent, corrupt and learning. The "rule of law" is a major part of what distinguishes a developing country to a developed one. But no one puts their citizens in prison like Americans do. Brazil is taking steps forward, America backwards.
Ruled by Regime

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Jun 28, 2008
 
Impeach Bush wrote:
I don't get it. If this guy was in jail, than he did his time. If it is proven that he is a risk, why was he let out?
Why doesn't this township pass the same ordinance concerning murderers, wife beaters, armed robbers, etc???? I have a feeling that this has more to do with feel good politics than concern for safety.
I agree. All convicts should be banned from the borough.
Impeach Bush

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Jun 28, 2008
 
Ruled by Regime wrote:
<quoted text> I agree. All convicts should be banned from the borough.
You may be surprised whom you are banning.
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