tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11461767.post115160606764536084..comments2023-10-08T16:13:53.045+03:00Comments on The Last Ditch (Archives): Is Megan's Law a vigilantes' charter? - Law - Times OnlineTom Painehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01254163054362676487noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11461767.post-1152308566020275522006-07-08T01:42:00.000+04:002006-07-08T01:42:00.000+04:00As you see John, I did. Sorry. For some reason I d...As you see John, I did. Sorry. For some reason I didn't get the usual Blogger email notifying me of a comment to moderate.Tom Painehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01254163054362676487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11461767.post-1152058715519917342006-07-05T04:18:00.000+04:002006-07-05T04:18:00.000+04:00Did you get my post to this thread on 02/07/06?Did you get my post to this thread on 02/07/06?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11461767.post-1151941813529780182006-07-03T19:50:00.000+04:002006-07-03T19:50:00.000+04:00Tom, Just because I take a simplistic view does no...Tom, Just because I take a simplistic view does not mean I see it as a simplistic problem. I'm not claiming that children would be removed from risk, just that some of the risk would be transferred to the convicted criminals.<BR/> <BR/>I have a friend, a schizophrenic in his 50’s who lives alone on a housing estate. He is already perceived by his neighbours as “not one of us”, and has been Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11461767.post-1151912616640120752006-07-03T11:43:00.000+04:002006-07-03T11:43:00.000+04:00John East, if the problem were quite as binary as ...John East, if the problem were quite as binary as that, I would agree. But the children will be at risk anyway. There is no perfect world. <BR/><BR/>Some of the people punished by vigilantes would be innocent - remember the paediatrician targetted by the mob after the News of the World started the first British "Megan's Law" scare? Others would be paedophiles who have, after punishment or Tom Painehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01254163054362676487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11461767.post-1151872534596006412006-07-03T00:35:00.000+04:002006-07-03T00:35:00.000+04:00I take a rather simplistic view.As things are now,...I take a rather simplistic view.<BR/><BR/>As things are now, innocent children are at risk. As things should be under a Megan's law regime, adults, most of whom would be paedophiles and perverts not in control of their urges, would be at risk instead. (From vigilantes.)<BR/><BR/>This redistribution of risk is surely to be preferred. Society could then debate measures to protect peadophiles at itsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11461767.post-1151684229220245762006-06-30T20:17:00.000+04:002006-06-30T20:17:00.000+04:00You omit to discuss the issue of gradations.Not ev...You omit to discuss the issue of gradations.<BR/><BR/>Not everyone on the register is someone who has actually sexually assaulted a child. Recall that Pete Townshend is now on the register (I think). Many men accused of a minor offence might choose to go on the register rather than go through the courts if this choice was made to them. This opens the possibility that some people on the register Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com