Feel like committing a Hate Crime? It’s open season. According to easily accessible White Supremacist web sites, all that is necessary is to pick a name from the National Sex Offender Registry and have at it. There are approximately 750,000 names on the National Sex Offender Registry and pick is apparently just what Jeremy Moody did when he killed the family of Charles Parker.
According to the New York Times article,(www.nytimes) Double Murder Seen as Part of a Man’s Quest to Kill Sex Offenders, dated 7/30/2013, Mr. Moody told Charley Parker just before he pulled the trigger, “I’m not here to rob you. I‘m here to kill you because you are a sex offender.” Fair enough, you say? Maybe you would not personally kill. But what if you, too, are infected with the same virus, the same prejudice that makes hate crimes like the murder of Charley Parker and his family increasingly familiar?
One report, congress-courts-legislation.blogspot.com /2010/12/killed-by-laws-former-sex-ffenders.html, examines the deaths of registered sex offenders and those related to them. It also reports of people directly or substantially made vulnerable to hate crimes. As of July 1, 2012, a total of 38 deaths occurred directly or substantially due to laws passed against adjudicated sex offenders. Deaths occurred in California (12); Michigan (6); Washington (4); Maine (3); Wisconsin(3) and Florida (2). In New York the report notes (2); in Georgia (1); Delaware (1); Missouri (1); Ohio (1) and Texas (2). As of July 1, 2012, when the death count was last updated, North Carolina had only one (1) hate crime substantially related to sex offender laws but with the July 2013 death of Charles Parker and his wife in Jonesville, S.C., add another two deaths to the Carolina hate crimes total. Perhaps you remember more hate crimes recently committed in your state.
As the July 30, 2013, New York Times article by reporter James Swift points out, “Mr. Moody is not the first person accused of targeting sex offenders. As recently as last month (6/2013), a California jury convicted a 36-year-old man of killing a neighbor who was a sex offender, and a Washington State man was sentenced to life in prison for a pair of similar killings.”
So why shouldn’t all these adjudicated sex offenders and their families be declared fair game? Are all registrants to be despised equally? No, because once a person has been adjudicated, paid their price to society and living a law-abiding life they should be allowed to re-integrate into society. On the other hand, there are some who should be viewable to law enforcement only and that would be after a process including assessment and a judge. We are a nation of laws, not lynch mobs. As citizens we believe in the Constitution and their crimes were judged as NOT worthy of death by hanging or lethal injection.
The home addresses of family members merely associated with any registrant, male or female, assigned to the public national registry are put on the internet for all to see and harass. Did the Parker family deserve to be murdered merely because they happened to be on a “hit list” for members of a group known to seek-out people at which to spew their venom? Although the commission of these type crimes is not officially classified as a “hate” crime it should be even though it would not win a legislator any new election votes to say so. Vigilante justice may be popular on the internet but remember it could be directed at you someday by someone who places themselves above the law.
As citizens we are not innocent bystanders. Our taxes allow all these names and address to be made available to anyone trolling for victims. Access to the Sex Offender Registry should be limited to Law Enforcement.
Let’s not support and thereby encourage these crimes.
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