The Dobbs Wire: just went LIVE on NY Times website — see the video!
Just weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court justices return from summer break a continuing controversy threatens the court’s credibility. Did they play fast and loose with the facts in several landmark sex offense cases? A new video that just went live on the New York Times website will tell you plenty, click on the link below. Also below are several stories with more information. –Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire
A ‘Frightening’ Myth About Sex Offenders
New York Times Op-Doc by David Feige
Our harsh treatment of sex offenders is based on flawed social science
See the VIDEO:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000005415081/a-frightening-myth-about-sex-offenders.html
The Washington Post | March 9, 2017
The big lie about sex offenders
By Radley Balko
Slate | March 7, 2017
The Supreme Court’s Sex-Offender Jurisprudence Is Based on a Lie
By David Feige
Washington Post | June 21, 2017
Three Pinocchios: Justice Alito’s misleading claim about sex offender rearrests
New York Post | March 1, 2017
Do sex offenders have a right to free speech?
By Lenore Skenazy
http://nypost.com/2017/03/01/do-sex-offenders-have-a-right-to-free-speech/
Oh, lauren book! Lies can point to mental disorders.
Please tell me why all of theses people have yet to be subpeoned and in the same room for a landmark case?
Woo hoo! National exposure and calling out for the truth!
Awesome to see Attorney Val Jonas speaking truth to bull-crap with no bones about it!
What will SCOTUS do? Cave to the pandering, fear-mongering politicians and their lobbyists, or restore the integrity of Justicia herself? I fear RSO implementation has become too valuable for those in power, both politically and financially, for RSOs to get a Constitutional fair shake. I pray I’m wrong.
You know what really makes me angry in all of this? The fact that the people responsible for this whole debacle say oh that was not my intent…or it was just to get some academic thing accomplished… appalling – they need to take more responsibility for what they have done! It is great that it is getting national exposure (I wonder if there is any way to track the number of viewers for the video). They should be screaming it from the highest mountain, or testifying before Congress, or testifying for the Supreme Court – something! Yes, I also blame the legislators from the lowest to the top for not using all the correct statistics and basing decisions and laws on popular public perception instead of facts.
There is no doubt in my mind that the War on Sex will go down in history and one of those dark mistakes like slavery, segregation, and the infamous War on Drugs that helped to create mass incarceration in the USA. And although the War on Drugs is still being waged and the consequences of it are still with us – more and more people are starting to see it for what it really is and what it has really caused. The War on Sex will be the same but meanwhile there are people and families suffering all sorts of hardships and dangers but remember the author of the article that started this hell on Earth assures us that “…was not my intent…”