{"id":1937,"date":"2005-05-02T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/ready-for-a-pink-letter\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T04:18:08","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T09:18:08","slug":"ready-for-a-pink-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/ready-for-a-pink-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"ready for a pink letter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>representative michael debose has a great idea to save our children&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc4i.com\/news\/4423454\/detail.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Pink Plates Proposed For Sex Offenders<\/a> [nbc 4,  columbus,  ohio,  2005.04.27]<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It identifies them,&#8221; said Rep. Michael DeBose, (D) 12th District. &#8220;The primary reason they can prey is because they&#8217;re camouflaged from who they really are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s such a problem &#8212; around rec centers, parks, school yards,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s no way to identify them and to protect children.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>now, don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t they lost in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/the_american_prison_economy.html\">american prison economy<\/a> already?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/usingrights\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/iPanic_Yellow.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>representative michael debose has a great idea to save our children&#8230; Pink Plates Proposed For Sex Offenders [nbc 4, columbus, ohio, 2005.04.27] &#8220;It identifies them,&#8221; said Rep. Michael DeBose, (D) 12th District. &#8220;The primary reason they can prey is because they&#8217;re camouflaged from who they really are.&#8221; DeBose introduced a bill this week in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}