I have a serious beef with sex offender laws these days. Actually, let me cut straight to the chase: I don't think there should be any sex offender laws. I'm not going to hold my breath until anyone agrees with me, so let me just explain myself.

I believe that if you've committed a crime, you should be held responsible. I believe that if a jury of your peers has deemed you unworthy or incapable of living in a free society, that you should be incarcerated in a government (state for federal depending) penitentiary. I believe that when the time comes that said jury or judge deems you capable or worthy of returning to a free society, that you should be granted your freedom as you have paid your debt to society.

What I staunchly disagree with is granting United States citizens gradations of freedom based on the crime they committed regardless of jail time or "rehabilitation" status. Why do we feel it is necessary to track child rapists after they've exited the penal system? If we have that much faith in their inability to live in a free society, why in the fuck did we let them out in the first place? Apparently everyone's in complete agreement that they should be supervised twenty-four hours a day, so what fucking genius decided they should be able to traipse around like anyone else, only with limited freedoms?

While on the subject, why is sexual predation such a "magic" crime? If I murder an infant and am sentenced to thirty years in jail for it, why I am just released once I've done my time (barring parole of course)? Yet, if instead of murdering that infant, I stuck a finger in it's hoo-ha, well then I'm put on a list of people that once they are released, they are never really given all of their freedom's back?

Now, don't mistake me for being lenient on sexual predators, far from it. Like I stated before, my argument isn't that they should just be released into society without any precautions, but that they should not be released at all if no one is convinced that they are not able to lead a non baby-raping lifestyle. If bank robbers are released from jail and everyone still thinks they are going to rob banks, do we still release them on the condition that they don't go near banks?