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Politics of Insanity, Media Hype and Fear

Original Article 12/09/2010 By alaskalive All across this nation politicians seek to garner votes from the people. In times past, the goal for working in government was for the betterment of our nation. Could it be the playing field rules have changed and now politicians do their deeds for the sole purpose of gaining a paycheck? Many studies have shown using the Public Sex Offender Registry to banish people from society to be counter productive in protecting society from sexual abuse. Given this knowledge, politicians still seek to push states into implementing federal law, Congress plans hearing on ignored sex-offender law WASHINGTON - Congress intends to examine why most states have failed to adopt a federal law meant to help track the nation's 700,000 convicted sex offenders, including 100,000 who have fallen off the radar screen...continue to full post

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