Unknown driver runs down sex offender

BOSTON -- A Level 3 sex offender who was riding a bike in Lawrence Thursday night was struck and killed by a driver who allegedly fled the scene, according to the Eagle Tribune.

Robert Lagasse, 43, of Lawrence, was riding a bike at about 6:30 p.m. on Merrimack Street when he was struck by a blue 2008 Jeep Cherokee, the newspaper reported. He was flown to Boston Medical Center, where he died Friday morning.

A man driving a taxicab behind the Jeep witnessed the crash, wrote down the license plate number and brought it to police. Lawrence police Chief John Romero said the car was traced to a rental company in Methuen.

Police questioned a man who said that he rented the car for a female friend who lives in Salem, N.H. Officials are searching for the vehicle that has Massachusetts license plate 83F S93.

The victim was a Level 3 sex offender who was convicted in 1989 of two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, the newspaper reported.

First, why isn't the dude that hit him in jail for vehicular manslaughter? I mean is it that easy? I wasn't driving officer, I gave it to an unnamed person.. ok, you're free to go??? What the fuck is that?

We will probably see him go up for murder real soon. (eyes rolling)... And what difference does it make to report him as a level 3 sex offender TWICE in the story? He was someone's husband, someone's father, someone's son.. why don't you report that? No, that just makes us appear as we really are. Real live PEOPLE, not the animals you lie to others about.

You have just emboldened everyone with the idea to harm us, to watch and see what happens to the driver. If the driver gets off, or is not found, I fear you will see more 'accidents'.

Voting Reminder

DO NOT FORGET TO VOTE!!!!!

Ok that said, read it again. I did not say who to vote for, although I have my candidate. It is not who you vote for so much as that you DO vote.

The biggest failing of the American electoral system is that only a few percent vote every election year. We have 300 MILLION people in this country, yet every year we only see 10 maybe 20% go to the polls. Does this say to you that the will of the people has been done? No, what this says is that Americans are so disenfranchised, so disillusioned by the American Government, that they do not want to deal with it. This is why we see laws being put in the books that allow harassment of people. This is how they created the new class of untouchables, the Sex Offender.

Everyone in the nation either is related to, or knows a sex offender. I am not talking about their victims, I am talking about friends and family of the offenders themselves. Yet no one will stand up for them and help create an atmosphere where fair and just laws are created.

Folks, I am not saying that laws protecting people are bad, or wrong. What I am saying is the laws need to be just, fair, and equitable. This is all any of us ask. SO's know they did something terrible once. We know that we have broken laws, and that we SHOULD be held accountable. What we have issues with, is the constant re-enactment of sentencing against all of us when something new occurs.

You know the reports, we've seen the studies. They consistently show that those of us that are caught and tried DO NOT DO IT AGAIN. The laws created to punish those of us that have already been punished do nothing to protect anyone. The initial law is what should be looked at as a deterrent. But there are those, that no law will ever deter. You have to stop bullshitting yourself and understand that.

Angry people as a whole do not murder? It is the deterrent of death for themselves that usually stops them from committing that act. However, there are some that just don't care about that, or believe they will not be caught and they commit that act anyways. The same holds true for Sex Offenders. I am in no way saying that Murder is the same as sexually offending. Murder is the most heinous act that one can do. Bar none. Although some can do it without thought, without any compassion. And they will continue no matter what law there is. This is the same as Sexual predators. Not offenders, but predators. The 3% of offenders that will do it again and again. no matter what laws you throw on them. These are the ones that need to be on a registry, that need to have GPS, that need to be away from children in every aspect. But they are not the whole, and they are certainly not in the majority. The lie that Americans have been told, and then believe is that all Sex Offenders will continue to create deviant sexual victims. This is a lie. If it were not a lie, you would have 600,000 new victims every day. Think about that.

Sorry to get out the soapbox.

So Ok America, is it time for a change, or are you happy with invading countries that did no harm to us? Do you like having your husbands, sons, daughters killed in a foreign land for Oil and Dick Chaney' Stock Portfolio? Would you rather live in peace or do you enjoy war as a daily activity?

Contact Greg Abbott

Let this guy know to stop fucking with our families. He is putting all of them at risk!

Contacting the
Office of the Attorney General

By U.S. Mail:

Office of the Attorney General
PO Box 12548
Austin, TX 78711-2548

Physical Address:

Office of the Attorney General
300 W. 15th Street
Austin, TX 78701


By e-mail:

* Write to Attorney General Greg Abbott: greg.abbott@oag.state.tx.us

Texas AG wants to make ALL information public for Sex Offenders

AUSTIN — Not sure who your kid is chatting with online? If Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has his way, the state's public sex offender registry would include e-mail addresses and online names.

In what some are calling the toughest reporting proposals in the country, Abbott on Wednesday called for giving the public more information about the state's 53,000 registered sex offenders. Aiming to crack down on cyberpredators, Abbott hopes to expand the state sex offender registry to include e-mail addresses and Internet screen names.

“Parents could check all the e-mail addresses sent to and from their children's computer to find out if their children are communicating with a sex offender,” Abbott said.

He said his proposal would provide Texans with the “most comprehensive reporting requirements in the country” and would provide law enforcement, and ultimately the public, “with new and better tools to track and monitor sex offenders.”

The attorney general's plan would need the Legislature's approval; Abbott said he plans to meet with lawmakers in coming weeks.

Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, said he doesn't have any problems providing the public with more information on sex offenders and thinks Abbott's proposals have a good chance of passing the Legislature next year.

Texas leaders have enacted increasingly strict registration requirements for sex offenders. This year, the Texas sex offender registry expanded to include an offender's school or place of work.

Later this year, Texans will be able to sign up for e-mail alerts when an offender moves into a neighborhood. The public “can sign up to be notified about changes in a specific ZIP code or regarding a specific offender,” said Tom Vinger, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, which maintains the state registry.

Some question whether the focus on online predators creates a false sense of security.

Jill Levenson, a clinical social worker and professor of human services at Lynn University in Florida who has studied how sex crime policies affect sex crime rates, said children “are most often molested by people who are acquainted with the family, relatives and friends of the family, people who are trusted and use that trust to gain access.

“Parents certainly need to take precautions (regarding who their children are communicating with online) but in a way, all of this attention to Internet predators and stranger abductions and sexually motivated homicides takes away from important information we need to be giving parents, which is that children are much, much more likely to be abused by people (the family knows).”

As for whether tougher reporting requirements are effective in lowering the rate of sex crimes, Levenson said the studies she and others have done have been, at best, mixed.

“Overall, the totality of research so far looking at the impact of registration and notification with sex crime rates does not really indicate there is a strong deterrent or preventive effect,” Levenson said.

She said she knew of no public registry in the nation containing offenders' e-mail addresses or online names.

But Congress continues to pass stricter laws, as do states. Many registries, including the Texas registry, include at least some juveniles, their names, addresses and photos. Critics in Texas complain that the state registry includes anyone convicted of a sex crime, whether the offender had sex with a teen who was a few years younger or whether the offender repeatedly used force against a young child.

Bruce Siegel, 38, a convicted sex offender in the Dallas area, complained that Abbott's proposal targets all offenders, not just the ones he believes the public needs to be warned about. “Now you're asking police departments to monitor more, which spreads them pretty thin when they really need to ride herd on 10 or 30 percent of (all offenders), Siegel said. “It's going to cause more paperwork and a lot of wasted time.”

Abbott's proposal also would require offenders to report their cell phone numbers to law enforcement, though the numbers would not be made public.

It would also restrict some high-risk offenders from using the Internet at all.

This is absolute horse shit.

The continued eroding of my rights has to stop, and that starts today! Federal courts have already stated that email, and blog logins are protected under the first amendment. It is time to get rid of this ASSHOLE.

The day of whipping SO's is over. Vote this fucker out of office Texas, along with any other Perry-like asshole in office today. Write your present state elected official, tell them in no uncertain terms that any support for this measure will lose them you vote and the votes of the other 50,000 of us. It is time to take a stand.

Just saw this on CNN

Speaking of the upcoming Palin stumping, they have this 'live' shot of the arena, gym, or hotel room that she will be speaking in, and in the background is a woman with a sweatshirt.  I kid you not, it says  "Sarah, Alaska's Gift to the United States" ... 

She's joking right?  Gift?  Last I heard the pushing of a candidate that has a history of oppressing members of their home state, ethics issues, and no history performing a job of this magnitude would not in any way be called a 'Gift'...  My little Yorkshire Terrier leaves me 'Gifts' on the door mat every morning, and I am none too happy about those either.

Get a clue America.  Both parties are oppressing us, it is up to you to atleast use your head and choose the one that will oppress us LESS.

DNA shows shoddy police work AGAIN!

BALTIMORE -- A man convicted of taking part in a 1987 rape and murder has been ordered freed after DNA evidence caused the case against him to unravel.

Jayne Miller Reports

Baltimore prosecutors on Wednesday declined to retry 43-year-old James Owens for the stabbing and strangling death of 24-year-old Colleen Williar.

Owens and James Thompson -- Williar's neighbors -- were convicted in 1988 of committing what police and prosecutors described as a burglary that turned into a rape and murder. Police said Williar had been raped, strangled with a sock and stabbed repeatedly with a knife.

Owens was sentenced to life without parole.

But Owens' attorney, Stephen Mercer, filed a motion for a new trial nearly two years ago after a DNA test ruled out both Owens and Thompson as the men who had raped Williar.

The state ordered Owens to have a new trial, but on Wednesday city prosecutors chose to drop the case altogether because many of the witnesses had died and the rest of the evidence was gone.

"The knife we would have argued is the murder weapon, some of the hair at the scene, some of the clothing recovered at the time have all since been destroyed and lost to time," said Joseph Sviatko of the city state's attorney's office.

Mercer said his client was "overwhelmed" by the news that he will be a free man after serving 21 years behind bars.

"Mr. Owens is innocent. He didn't commit this crime. DNA evidence conclusively shows that, and it's disgraceful he's been in jail for 21 years," Mercer told 11 News.

He said a big question remains.

"Whoever committed this crime has gone free, has not been found, apprehended and prosecuted. The wrong people were prosecuted," Mercer said.

Mercer said Owens will be released by the end of the day.

Thompson testified when the two men originally went on trial, implicating himself and Owens in the crime. Defense lawyers said it was a false confession. He is also seeking a new trial.

Here we have another case of fire and forget justice.. 21 years this man spent in jail, wrongfully accused and sentenced. DNA cleared him.. and oh, the evidence is gone now.. hmm, methinks it was never there to begin with..

Keeping the Internet Devoid Act

Leave it to a lame duck president. Good Ole' G.W. signs the act into law, after the House voted it in during a late night session which was reportedly attended by only a handful of law-makers.

So what does this mean for the ex-Sex Offenders of the US? it now means that you are again saddled with more restriction that are not restrictions, that restrict your daily lives, put your wives, husbands, children in more danger of vigilante-ism.

Continue to contact the ACLU, continue to contact the Southern Law Center. This is a farce. Laws pushed on people that have completed sentencing is nothing more than exposte facto, and sooer or later we will get a judge that is not in the pocket of the lobbists to 'find' that fact.