Thief River Falls Alerted About Sex Offender

The Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | December 3, 2003 | Terry Collins

[johnny7]

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MINN. -- Betty Olson came to Tuesday night's community meeting about a Level 3 sex offender moving to this northern Minnesota town for one reason. "It's simple. Fear," said Olson, 43, holding her toddler foster daughter. "I'm afraid for myself and my children. We have a safe community and we want to keep it that way."

[johnny7]

"We're bringing this not to scare you, but to inform you,"

Translation; Get over it! These people have to get on with their lives. Besides... they take up too many prison cells. We only have so many you know.

[Disgusted in Texas]

Excuse me ,are you married? Do you have children? "These people " can get on with their lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific. It would be a much more suitable place. They give up ALL rights when they committ their crimes." These People" can't be rehabilitated. They don't recover. It isn't the flu.Herd em up amd ship em out!

[Heatseeker]

"We're bringing this not to scare you, but to inform you," said Stephen King, a community notification coordinator with the state Department of Corrections.

Yo Steve - when making comments to the press like these, consider using an alias. :)

[thoughtomator]

methinks the initial comment was sarcasm

[WorkingClassFilth]

In my Minnesota town, we had a sex crime spree a short while back. I went to the 'informational meeting' and listened to the LEO's say nothing of any real importance. The purpose was to demonstrate some sort of public contact, minimize information distribution that impinged on their investigation, and offer the neutered and submissive suggestions that the left constantly pushes as advice for victims in the face of mayhem by their coddled criminal revolutionary vanguards. The political cop's advice: Lock your doors and windows and call the police if you see anything suspicious. Fair enough, but hardly revelational, or helpful, should the criminal strike again.

What they studiously avoided was mention or discussion of the Minnesota Personal Protection Act, or MPPA, that is the Minnesota version of concealed carry reform. The cheify didn't like to speak about that option - nosireebob!

I'm not saying that had this woman been licensed it would have saved her life (and hopefully, she's still alive), I'm just saying that it definitely gives the selected crime victim another chance. If the gun isn't there, the victim has one less advantage to defend herself. In this case, instead of crying out "Oh my God!" and dropping the phone, it could very easily been the report of lifesaving gunshots that followed the exclaimation.

Of course, the low-life scum sucking Red Star would never suggested that. If that HAD been the course of events in this case, the Red Star would have been loath to even report the incident.

[johnny7]

I live in MA... vacationland of the 'preverts'. The bastards flock up here like the bums flock to San Francisco. Cops up here are good at writing tickets, denying pistol permits and losing track of convicted sex offenders. The tickets bring in lots of revenue. An armed, law-abiding citizen is just as dangerous as a criminal and busting sex-offenders costs the state money.

Good screen-name by the way.

[WorkingClassFilth]

What are the carry permit laws in MA? It took seven solid years for the MPPA to pass in Minnesota. The final vote in the state Senate was memorable. I attended just to see the weeping and crying and I was not disappointed. There were literally tears being shed in the Senate chamber and hallways amidst the smiles and backslaps of the victors. It was, perhaps, the sweetest day of politics in my life.

It has seemed to me that conservative success has been due to a convergence of things, but looming largely in the mix has been the organized, motivated and active 2A element. For out state MN, even the unionized RATs are pro-2A and will default in their voting to support that right. Urban RATs are as heavily dug in and hostile to 2A rights as anything you might have and, of course, the metropolitan area has traditionally controlled most debate and legislation. What turned the tide was the gradual complexion change of the legislature due to a solid decade’s worth of grassroots work in sending conservatives up the pipe.

The urban-rural division is worth exploiting for all its worth since a critical mass may be achieved that can alter the politics of a region permanently. The steady flow of seats to the conservative side in minor races eventually added up to a major coalition. I know several folks form rural MA and they are as a conservative as it comes and they claim to be fairly representational of the rural areas.

While rural votes certainly counted, the key for us was constant pressure on the imploding RAT positions on issues of budget control, personal freedoms, taxes and the miserable educational morass. The common sense of sound conservatism eventually held sway over the shrill lunacy of RATs smelling the sea-change coming.

I would venture a guess that MA may mirror MN in many of these issues. If Minnesota can engineer such a turn around, I would encourage you in your struggles to regain your freedoms in the socialist hell of MA.

[aeb]

In reply to everything I have read so far about what you have to say, I completely agree. I grew up in a small Minnesota town myself, where no one really heard of anything like "sex offenders" until I came into the picture.
I was a victim when I was very young, some say that I was too young to remember any of it, but trust me I still have nightmares about it.
But what I wanted to say about it all was that yeah these people are taking about space in our prisons and they should ahve a second chance whatever, but in my case, he was given his second chance, third chance, whatever. He's a repeat offender and after Dru Sjodin disappeared and everything, he was released, but as soon as they found her, he was back in. Now he wasn't the one to kidnap her, but he was one of the offenders who is being looked at for a life sentence for what he has done.
He has ruined more lives than one, and needs to pay for it all. I just want the word out saying that in order to keep our families safe, and our community safe, I don't care if they go to therapy for thirty years, they will never change, but we can. We can change the way they are looked at. They may be people too, but they are the lowest out there.
And speaking from a victims point of view, when he was released, he lived no more than 20 miles from me.....You seriously think that makes me or any of the people I was warning feel safe?!

[Joe 6-pack]

"...you have a right to get a [concealed] gun permit. . . . if you know how [to use a gun] and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief."

- Former LA Gov. Mike Foster during the Baton Rouge serial killer hunt

[Hacksaw]

These People" can't be rehabilitated. They don't recover. It isn't the flu.Herd em up amd ship em out!

I think that recovery for these people is entirely possible through faith in a higher power and the ability to be honest about their problem. If they are a threat, they shouldn't be let out in the first place - let the potheads out instead if crowding is a problem. And if sex offenders are let out, conditions should not be imposed on them that may likely drive them back into their old pathology.

[aeb]

I believe they can change but it is up to them. Just like any other disease out there, you have to work hard and keep yourself sane. But with "these people" I don't believe they have the heart and mentality to change.
I was searching for information about my case (which happened many years ago) and came across that he had nine different charges against him. And that was all after he had been let out after mine. Who knows who else is out there too scared to say anything. I almost didn't say anything, but I was so young that I didn't know why he was doing this all to me.
I don't believe he can change, but I believe someone out there can. They will fight that urge EVERYDAY and it will never go away, but I believe that some can change...He won't, but some will.

[JimRed]

"These people " can get on with their lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific.

One of the barren Aleutians, preferably.