ready for a pink letter?
representative michael debose has a great idea to save our children…
Pink Plates Proposed For Sex Offenders [nbc 4, columbus, ohio, 2005.04.27]“It identifies them,” said Rep. Michael DeBose, (D) 12th District. “The primary reason they can prey is because they’re camouflaged from who they really are.”
DeBose introduced a bill this week in the Ohio House suggesting mandatory pink license plates for sexual offenders so children know to stay away, Tate reported.
“There’s such a problem — around rec centers, parks, school yards,” he said. “There’s no way to identify them and to protect children.”
now, don’t get me wrong, this is serious stuff, but i have to relate this to the politics of fear governing this country, and the insane, useless and otherwise offensive-to-american-principles solutions that keep showing up.
tagging sex offenders with a pink license plate is about as useful as the no-fly lists to keep people off airlines. if these people are so dangerous, and we know who they are (so we can give them a pink plate or put them on a no-fly list), then why aren’t they lost in the american prison economy already?
