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To: summer
And, by that I mean: voters do care about who will fight crime. If the ACLU should fight any of these new laws, they will be attracting more voters for Gov. Bush.

Perhaps, and perhaps not.

I did not see a similar thing happen in New Jersey when the ACLU challenged Megan's Law on behalf of someone who wanted to continue raping and killing kids in anonymity.

10 posted on 04/23/2002 8:50:53 AM PDT by Houmatt
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To: Houmatt
"I did not see a similar thing happen in New Jersey when the ACLU challenged Megan's Law on behalf of someone who wanted to continue raping and killing kids in anonymity."

There's no evidence that Megan's Law ever prevented a crime, especially since no child molester would be crazy enough to get within ten miles of a property posted as the home of a ... well... child molester. What Megan's Law did accomplish is a couple of vigilante actions where people where brutally beaten in cases of mistaken identity or guilt by association, as in an innocent parent or sibling of a child molester. Again, it comes down to "victim's rights" running counter to true criminal justice.

12 posted on 04/23/2002 11:23:40 AM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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