Ladies and gentlemen, watch what the authorities do to child molestors, because they will eventually take those same measures with other offenders.
- Registries and posting their names on the Internet? Already crept to prostitution and arsonists.
- Permanent institutionalization beyond the sentence imposed by the court.
- GPS tracking of previous offenders.
Because the crimes are so repellent, citizens will accept these measures and parents will clamor for them. But as the first item shows, once these rights are abrogated to protect the children, law makers and law enforcement officials will use those mechanisms to persecute other criminals who might commit the same crime in the future.
Sure, Westchester County only wants sex offenders to wear a bracelet; but sex offenders can take those off. Countdown to mandatory microchipping has begun.
