Johnson received death threats when he was running his stupid mouth about Genarlow Wilson. If he is elected governor perhaps whomever people made those threats will return with a vengeance. I had (and have) very mixed feelings about those threats. On the one hand, it is very sad that in the United States we can’t have good people be lawmakers and do their best to help the people and entities that they govern without fear of illegal reprisals. That sucks.

On the other hand, Johnson and many more of Georgia’s legislators, with respect to Wilson and also Georgia’s “Sex Offender” laws in general, are pretty much just criminal thugs and they often aren’t trying to help anyone or anything beyond themselves. They have definitely passed laws that they surely knew were illegal. They have definitely passed laws in direct opposition to all known facts. They have definitely conducted a propaganda campaign designed to incite hatred against a minority of citizens in order to benefit themselves. They have definitely deliberately spread lies and misinformation. Legislators who do that are criminal thugs. They need to be stopped. Johnson has acted like a criminal and I do personally believe Georgia would be better off without him around. We need real leaders. We need to get rid of most of the current legislators.

Game Fan: You are right that there are plenty of people on the Registry who should not be, but that’s a given. I really don’t think any informed people are even debating that any longer. Of course, based on the huge, lengthy history of the Georgia legislature’s completely idiotic mishandling of its “Sex Offender” laws, none of that means they will actually do anything intelligent about it. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did the opposite. They don’t really care much about facts.

But, the ultimate problem is that we probably shouldn’t be Registering anyone. There is just simply no doubt that it is very counterproductive. It could be useful if people would use it properly, but that will never happen in this country. Even if that could happen, all the rest of the laws that Registration has enabled (e.g. Banishment, e-mail Registration, Halloween BS, etc.) are clearly worse-than-worthless and need to go. And I’m sorry, but there are no decent Americans who support what the federal, Georgia, and thousands of local governments have been doing and that is retroactively adding punishments and harassments to this convenient group of people (i.e. Registered people) that they’ve listed for targeting. There just aren’t.

Also, if these Registries and the rest of the BS is so great, it is completely indefensible that we have not already expanded it to include most people convicted of felonies. In Georgia alone, I am certain that there are tens of thousands of people who have been convicted of felonies who are more dangerous to people around them, including children, than a very large percentage of the people on the Registries. It makes no sense at all not to Register those people and apply all of the retroactive restrictions to them.

And even further and ironically, most people who have committed sexual offenses, especially against children, are some of the people that we gain the LEAST benefit from Registering. That is because they don’t just simply attack children, they groom them. And that is fairly easily preventable by responsible parents or guardians. It really is. And even in the cases were it might be more difficult, there are far more effective methods for protecting your children than messing with the negligibly useful Registries. They are just a huge panacea that wastes a huge amount of resources that could instead be applied to actually trying to reduce sexual offending.

And yes, I understand that few people really give a damn about any of that or any other facts. They are perfectly content just gittin them there SEX OFFENDERS!!!

You better hope somebody doesn’t come out with a “name the candidates who aren’t ethically challenged” list.

Pandering?

“She was born into a family of sportsmen and first fired a gun when she was eight years old.”

“Marriage is between a man and a woman only. To anyone who thinks otherwise, I say, “Bring it on.”

“Karen is a strong supporter of the FairTax.”

Handel wins on experience, ethics, and proven track record of getting things done.