Sex offender debate turns into public pissing match

• Heres a good question? Has this experiment known as the sex offender registry PREVENTED even one single crime from happening??? I cannot seem to find a single story nationwide that claims these laws have prevented a crime?? Can someone help me understand?

• this does seem fishy; it's too bad Joyce Foster wasn't on the up & up, but the real questions are much larger than her or her brother ... society, and thus the law, has never done well sorting out sexual offences; in a sense, it's society's attitude that seems "incurable" many people have specific (non-sexual) anti-social behaviors that are never cured, and that thus result in repeated harm to others, yet somehow we don't have to brand all offenders of every type "incurable"

• No, Mike, I'm a taxpayer who doesn't like lies, no matter what side they come from. Joyce Foster lied. But she's far from the only one in this story.

• Anonymous, are you Joyce Foster or the pervert brother inlaw?

• What amazes me most is all the questions journalists are NOT asking: * Why aren't they exposing the for-profit therapy industry's "no known cure" scam, which plays on public emotion to guarantee these "therapists" a never-ending source of income, most of it at taxpayer expense? * Why aren't they probing the personal and business relationships between Greig Veeder and Peter Boyles, Caplis & Silverman, and/or Clear Channel radio? Why aren't they probing Joyce Foster's legislative record to see if she sponsored legislation that might run counter to Clear Channel's or KDVR's business interests and trigger this vengeance campaign? * Why are they letting Boyles and KDVR get away with outright lies about the Foster amendment? They claim the amendment would let an offender get to pick which program he wants. That's a lie. Under the amendment, his probation or parole officer picks three programs that meet what that officer deems best for the offender, and only then can the offender pick among those three. Boyles, Julie Hayden, and even yesterday's Denver Post lead editorial continue to lie about the amendment to whip conservatives into an emotional frenzy by erroneously making it sound like the perp picks his own treatment. Why is no one calling them on it? * And finally, why is no one's Spidey sense tingling over the outright lie we're being told about what happened in Wisconsin? We're asked to believe that a JAIL INMATE was allowed to go to Dr. Newman's office ALONE while deputies waited in the parking lot!!! THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN in any professional law-enforcement or corrections department, and Kenosha is far from a backwater. Ask ANY cop, and he'll tell you that in any case like that, a female officer would accompany the inmate into that office. An inmate would NEVER be left alone like that, with a private psychiatrist or anyone else. Journalists are (or used to be) paid to THINK, not just take a lawyer's word verbatim. Folks, if any of what I've written here stirs some reasonable doubt, PLEASE call or write someone at 9News or 4 or 7 or the Post or Westword or the Daily News, and plead with them to do some Paula Woodward-style digging. Don't call talk radio, because you'll never be allowed to get your point across. But it's obvious we are NOT getting the whole story. So far, unfortunately, most of our "journalists" are simply doing to Peter Boyles what Maria Miranda did to Dr. Newman. I know we're a cow town, but we deserve better.

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