Sex Offenders to be Tracked by Satellite

donaldcameron1 sent in this very disturbing article from Canada's National Post and writes "I contend that this is the another step on the path to controlling the movement and lives in general of most men." The article states that a system is being tested whereby sex offenders, when released from prison, will be forced to wear an electronic ankle bracelet which can report their physical position using the Global Positioning System. Click Read More to view Donald's letter to the editor, and consider writing in about this as well.This is my letter to the editor although my reactionary style may preclude it from publication.

This is a crazy idea.

How does this device prevent a child from being molested? Most convicted child molesters are men; women, in this country, don't even get jailed for kidnapping their children. This practice will not only make room in the prisons for more men, but also will make jailing men more palatable.

First we start with child molesters, then we herald the whole experiment as a great success (even though it won't be - we can't even do water sampling properly). Then in the great celebration of its success we quietly add violent offenders - you know the ones, the men who allegedly slap, hit, or even yell at women or children, as they will be the most applauded and easiest to force it on. Then we cite the ever soaring costs of imprisoning these men and make wearing these devices a mandatory part of restraining orders. Remember now, the woman who complains does not need to prove her case, the burden of proof is on the man to show his innocence.

This is nothing more than a pilot project in the general Canadian push for ever greater control on the movement of men and ever greater control over their lives, period.

If Canada really doesn't like or trust its males, why not just screen them out in the first trimester and go with genetic engineering of pregnancy instead?
You don't want or need us and prostitution is illegal, so hell...just get it over with. We just won't call it Nazism, it will be our little secret.

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Source: The National Post [Canadian newspaper]

Title: Ont. to be first province to introduce satellite monitoring of sex offenders

Author: Ross Marowits

Date: January 7, 2002

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