Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane
Don't Laugh; It May Happen
RECEIVED Thu., Sept. 16, 2010
Dear Editor,
I read the “Sex Offenders Exposed” [News] in the Sept. 10 issue and say that it is time to stop treating sex as a crime unless it really is criminal, like molesting children or raping women. It makes perfect sense to require a pedophile or a serial rapist to register with the authorities as a sexual offender, but to make someone who peed on a fence register is absurd as he is not a sex offender. As for the guy who was accused of violating parole for channel surfing, I fail to see the logic in that. How is changing channels a crime? I guess we're all a bunch of perverts because everyone channel surfs. What's next? Farting in public being a jailable offense and enough to be required to be on the sex offender registry with everyone knowing that you are a serial farter? Don't laugh. It may happen.
I read the “Sex Offenders Exposed” [News] in the Sept. 10 issue and say that it is time to stop treating sex as a crime unless it really is criminal, like molesting children or raping women. It makes perfect sense to require a pedophile or a serial rapist to register with the authorities as a sexual offender, but to make someone who peed on a fence register is absurd as he is not a sex offender. As for the guy who was accused of violating parole for channel surfing, I fail to see the logic in that. How is changing channels a crime? I guess we're all a bunch of perverts because everyone channel surfs. What's next? Farting in public being a jailable offense and enough to be required to be on the sex offender registry with everyone knowing that you are a serial farter? Don't laugh. It may happen.
John Tracy
