>Just so it's crystal clear, I have ZERO love of sex offenders. This is about general rights owed to all Americans under the Bill of Rights, among other things. It's not about individuals. If we start saying this particularly contemptible group is no longer entitled to this particular right, the only real question is which contemptible group and right will be next. Chip away and chip away and chip away, and before long there isn't a whole lot left. No thank you.

"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

-- Martin Niemoller (add an umlaut over the "o")

My parents had a framed copy of that in their dining room. When we moved my father into assisted living, it was one of the very few artworks from the house that he wanted to go with him.

Tamar