Franklin is filing suit to evict a sex offender and enforce the city’s tough ordinance that restricts where sex offenders can live.
Fred Keller wrote about
this earlier today.
Franklin must go this route to defend the city and the law it worked so diligently to approve, one that legal experts say can pass Constitutional muster.
There is at least one person who just can’t fathom why such a law would exist in the first place.
Meet Laurel Walker, Journal/Sentinel columnist and defender of sex offenders.
She recently penned a column with this headline:
“Dealing with sex offenders fairly isn't easy”
Sorry, Laurel. It’s easy alright. Real easy. You do what Franklin did.
But Walker thinks it’s unfair to tell sex offenders where they can and can’t live.
In her column, she gave some examples of restrictions on offenders and pedophiles. She referred to Jack McClellan whom I’ve blogged about, calling him one of the most evil men in America.
Walker writes that he admitted to photographing “young girls at play and had posted them on his how-to Web site for other pedophiles that (until it was dismantled) explained how to step up to the law-breaking line without crossing it.
Line or not, a court ordered the guy, unemployed and living in a car, to stay at least 10 yards away from every child in California. It sounds as close to prison as you can get without bars.”
Can’t you just hear the gasp from Walker as she types that last line at her keyboard in total shock and disbelief.
It sounds as close to prison as you can get without bars.No, I don’t think so.
Then comes Walker to the pervert's defense.
“Yes, the guy's disgusting. But any day a court acts as if someone's a criminal without benefit of charges, let alone conviction, is troubling. With good reason, the court order faces a likely constitutional challenge.”
She also writes, “Now, one by one in Waukesha and Milwaukee counties, communities are trying to make that even more impossible with laws limiting where sex offenders can reside. At this rate, we're going to need a lot more locked and long-term institutions - homes for pariahs.”
Oh, the injustice!
How unfair!
A community actually wants to protect its innocent law abiding citizens from known criminals who are likely to re-offend.
The attitude of
Laurel Walker makes me sick.
She cares more about the perverts and predators than she does about their victims.
All because she believes that ordinances like the one in Franklin are unfair and possibly illegal.
Tell that to the parents of the next young child assaulted by one of these creeps.
