Get ready for Bookville 2, the sequel nobody wanted to see!

Ron and Lauren Book shopping for South Florida Politicians 

Have you ever watched a crappy movie and dreaded the thought of a sequel? It seems Ron Book will be starring in Bookville II: The Shorecrest Conquest.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/11/v-fullstory/2689149/miami-sex-offenders-again-living.html

Posted on Sun, Mar. 11, 2012 Miami sex-crime offenders camp on slab of sidewalk in Shorecrest By CHARLES RABIN AND SCOTT HIAASEN The Miami Herald

Ostracized by harsh residency laws and barred from taking shelter under a bridge, as many as two dozen homeless sex offenders are now setting up camp nightly on a tiny slab of sidewalk in the Shorecrest residential neighborhood in northeast Miami.

With no roof over their heads, no beds to sleep on, the men gather by 10 each night at the southwest corner of Northeast 79th Street and 10th Avenue, on the concrete near a vacant lot owned by the city of Miami. They are usually gone and out of sight by 6 the next morning.

State probation officials are aware of the sidewalk camp — in fact, the men there say their probation officers directed them to the corner after leaving prison. Because of a strict Miami-Dade County law, the camp is in one of the few areas where sex offenders may legally reside.

But Miami officials are now considering a lawsuit against the state Department of Corrections, complaining that what they initially accepted as a temporary landing spot for released inmates has become a permanent fixture.

“I am extremely disappointed in the lack of progress and to discover that the sex offenders are now erecting tents in the public right of way at the location, a sign that they intend to make this location more than just their temporary reporting area,” city Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, who represents Shorecrest, wrote the Department of Corrections last week.

Ron Book, the chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, also blasted the corrections department, which has declined requests to alert the Trust — which provides services for the homeless — before letting ex-cons out to live on the street.

“I’m shocked. It makes me crazy. We worked very hard to make sure this crap didn’t happen again,” said Book, a lobbyist who also was a vocal advocate for the Miami-Dade County ordinance preventing sex offenders from residing near schools.

State prison officials say they are monitoring the offenders at the 79th Street camp, but insist that they are not instructing offenders to move to the site.

“We are not telling probationers to go live there,” said Ann Howard, spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. “We can’t tell them where they can live.”

Before sex offenders are released from custody, the corrections department does check on their future residences, to ensure that they comply with state and local laws limiting where sex offenders can live, Howard said. But Miami is a “difficult” location, because the county’s residency law for sex offenders is so strict.

The problem stems from a Miami-Dade County ordinance that bars sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of a school, exceeding the state’s 1,000-foot restriction. The county passed the law two years ago to eliminate a patchwork of even stricter laws — creating buffer zones around parks, daycare centers and even school bus stops — passed by several cities.

About five years ago, the laws forced more than 100 sex offenders to camp under the Julia Tuttle Causeway for nearly three years, with the blessing of the corrections department, which monitors felons on probation.

The Tuttle camp drew criticism from around the country before it was cleared out and fenced off, scattering the felons around Miami-Dade. But the county’s law still renders many spots off limits to sex offenders, funneling them into a handful of areas, such as the Shorecrest street corner that meets the rules.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Miami-Dade in 2009, arguing its ordinance makes it impossible for sex offenders to find a place to live, endangering children even further because the public and police can’t keep tabs on their whereabouts. The case was thrown out, and an appeals court determined that the law was within the county’s authority.

Visits to the Shorecrest camp last week found more than a half-dozen men gathered on the sidewalk near 79th Street. The corner is listed as the home of some 24 “transient” sex offenders in the registry maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Some spend the night dozing off in folding chairs. Others stay in their cars. One man lives in a tiny orange-and-green tent, protected by a zipper.

With no bathrooms, the men urinate in the corner of a field a few feet away.

All wear GPS bracelets on their ankles, to alert their probation officers if they stray too far away during the night. The encampment is on a desolate strip of 79th Street, between two fenced-in vacant lots, but only a few blocks from the residential neighborhoods of Belle Meade to the south and Shorecrest just north.

“I thought it was going to be a place with a roof. But no, it was here on the street,” said Edgardo Vargas, 49, married with a 17-year-old son. Peeping out from his tent, Vargas said: “There’s no bathroom, nowhere to take a shower. If I were not here, they’d send me back to prison.”

Said another man, a 49-year-old who declined to give his name: “People ride by and look at us like we’re animals or dogs. We sleep in chairs. It’s dangerous and scary, but we sleep. I don’t want my mom coming out here to see me, she can’t take it.”

Though state prison officials have denied directing newly released offenders to the camp, several of the felons told police that they went there after receiving a piece of scrap paper from their probation officers with the address of the intersection when they were released from prison, according to a memo by Miami Police Cmdr. Manuel Morales. Six of the men told a Miami Herald reporter that they were directed to the area by probation officers.

“This completely contradicts the previous statements made by the Corrections Department representative,” Morales wrote. “It is obvious that the state of Florida Corrections Department did not gain any wisdom from the Julia Tuttle bridge fiasco. I fear that if the issue remains unaddressed we could face an alarming influx of sexual offenders being assigned to our neighborhood streets.”

Dozens of other sex offenders live in apartments in the Shorecrest neighborhood. In all, 114 registered sex offenders live within one mile of the intersection of Northeast 79th Street and 10th Avenue, according to the FDLE.

Sarnoff, for one, believes the city should take the state to court. Though Miami police have been aware of the encampment for a while, the commissioner said it was supposed to be temporary, until permanent shelter was found. Last week he wrote a letter to the corrections department saying he was “extremely disappointed in the lack of progress.”

Now, Sarnoff is preparing a resolution seeking city commission approval to file a lawsuit to prevent the corrections department from directing inmates to the Shorecrest streets. The proposal is expected to be addressed at the commission’s March 22 meeting.

But the measure does not address the larger question: How can cities prevent sex offenders from setting up camps if the ex-cons can’t find housing?

After the Julia Tuttle camp was disbanded in 2010, the Homeless Trust spent almost $1 million on temporary housing for more than 100 displaced felons. The Trust provided rent subsidies for about three to five months, but only to those who tried to find work or job training, Book said.

“We attempted training and job placement, but they didn’t want to go,” said Book. “We’re not a welfare agency. That’s not what we do. There were people who thought we would pay their rent forever.”

In 2008, the Homeless Trust reached a wide-ranging agreement with the county jail system, the courts, the public health system, the Department of Children & Families and area mental health providers to ensure that the Trust is alerted before a homeless person is released, so the Trust could try to find housing or other services.

As part of the agreement, the Trust also asked state prison officials to alert the agency six months before releasing any felons — including sex offenders. But officials with the corrections department refused to sign the deal, Book said.

Book, after learning about the 79th Street camp from a Herald reporter, sent a Trust staffer to inspect the site on Thursday night. He said the agency will try to find housing for some of the sex offenders, but he can’t give them priority over others in need of shelter.

“There are places these guys can go,” he said. “They do not need to be out on the street.”

Man can't see his daughter for reporting CP on the internet

Let's say you find some illegal pictures on the internet. What would you do? If you said, "I'd report it to the police," this story might make you reconsider, at least if you live in Bloody ol' England. Cheerio and all that ro

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-17274848 

Council bans daughter contact over child images

A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months.

Nigel Robinson from Hull said he called police after trying to download music but instead finding pornographic images on his laptop last November.As a result social services said he "should not have unsupervised access with his own or other children". He said he was "totally innocent". No arrests or charges have been made.

Mr Robinson, 43, recalled how on discovering the images he discussed the situation with his wife and immediately called police to report the incident. Shortly after his call the police and East Riding social services came to Mr Robinson's house to take statements from him. During the meeting social services requested Mr Robinson did not have unsupervised access with his child.

'No control'

A council statement said: "The council's social care team considers that, on the information it presently has about this case, it is a proportionate response to request that Mr Robinson should not have unsupervised access with his own or other children.

"The council will keep the case under review but cannot comment further as this is an on-going investigation."

The police took the laptop away for investigation and said it could be a year before it is returned, Mr Robinson said.

Humberside Police said: "We are conducting an investigation that has resulted in the confiscation of a laptop in order for the relevant enquiries to take place - standard procedure for this type of investigation.

"The laptop is sent away to be examined and, as this forms the basis for a number of different investigations, Humberside Police have no control over the amount of time it takes for the laptop to be returned."

'Very stressful'

Mr Robinson said: "It makes you feel as though you shouldn't have reported it in the first place." He added it would have been "a lot easier" to just throw the machine in the bin.

Mr Robinson said the restrictions on seeing his daughter had come to a head after his wife had returned to work. When his wife works late, as regularly happens, Mr Robinson's daughter goes to his mother-in-law's home. He goes round to see his daughter and them comes home on his own. He said the experience was "very stressful for the family".

Nebraska LB 797: The Kissing Crime

Shameful? You bet. Criminal? Not really. I never liked Shawn Michaels.

This bill is rather broad and vague. I wonder if telling whoever wrote this bill to kiss my ass would constitute a sex crime?

http://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Intro/LB797.pdf


LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA
ONE HUNDRED SECOND LEGISLATURE
SECOND SESSION
LEGISLATIVE BILL 797
Introduced by Avery, 28.
Read first time January 05, 2012
Committee: Judiciary
A BILL
1 FOR AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; to amend section 28-318,
2 Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2010; to change
3 the definition of sexual contact to include kissing
4 without consent; and to repeal the original section.

Here is Senator Avery's contact info:

Mailing Address:

Senator Bill Avery
District 28
PO Box 94604
Lincoln, NE 68509-4604

Phone Number:

(402) 471-2633

Kansas SB 39: Residency Restrictions

Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw. 
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? 
Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they? 
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.  --From "The Wizard of Oz"

Dorothy is not the only one not in Kansas anymore. The Kansas legislature is playing the part of the Scarecrow by leaving their brains at home while working to pass a residency restriction law, Kansas SB 39. What makes this law Shiitake worthy is not the law itself, but the story behind it. You see, when Iowa passed the nation's most stringent residency law in 2005, there were so many "unintended" consequences (actually, more like "ignored collateral consequences"), that Kansas not only rejected a residency law, they passed a moratorium against any municipality looking to pass any similar laws. Now after so many years, they forgot all these years of research and is currently trying to pass this law. Never mind the fact it's been stymied a full year now.

It is being pushed by the ALEC special interest group Kansas Rights 4 Kids, and sponsored by Senator Robert Olson.

Kansas Legislative site for the bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/measures/sb39/

Short Title

Sub for SB39 by Committe on Judiciary; creating the classification of "aggravated sex offender" and establishing residency restrictions.

Here is the "sponsor" for this stupid bill

Contact

Capitol Office

Room: 441-E
Seat: 19
Phone: 785-296-7358
Email:Robert.Olson@senate.ks.gov

Home Information

19050 West 161st Street
Olathe, KS 66062
Phone: 913-302-3135

Business Information

Occupation: Contractor
Phone: 913-302-3135

Other Information

Prison shrink Laurie Ann Martinez fakes rape to earn a new home

Not a real rape victim, just plays one on TV. And no, I didn't make this graphic.

This is Laurie Ann Martinez of Folsom, CA. She wanted to live in a better neighborhood but her husband was not buying it. So what's a woman to do? Inspired by her career as a prison shrink, Martinez created a crazy rape claim in order to convince the hubby to buy her a new home. She went all out, too, getting her friend to punch her in the face with Boxing gloves on. Well, the police weren't buying it, but Martinez won herself a new home after all-- in jail.

And I bet you thought the Everyday Zeroes award were just for regular psychos like No Peace For Predators.

 http://folsomtelegraph.com/detail/195240.html

New Folsom Prison psychologist on paid leave after allegedly lying about rape

Laurie Ann Martinez may have made up rape story to convince husband to move to better neighborhood

By Laura Newell, Telegraph staff writer

Prison officials confirmed Friday a New Folsom Prison psychologist has been placed on administrative time off as a result of the criminal charges against her.

According to authorities, officers arrested Laurie Ann Martinez, a licensed psychologist for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at California State Prison-Sacramento in Folsom, on suspicion of two counts of criminal conspiracy.

Martinez, a senior psychologist supervisor, oversaw a team of clinicians who treat inmates with mental health issues at the prison.

Police are alleging that a rape call from last April by Martinez was a staged fake rape attack.

Martinez, 36, was found lying on the floor of her Sacramento home in hysterics by police after responding to a 911 call.

According to officials, her shirt was ripped open, her lip split and her knuckles scraped. She told officers she had come home to find a “strange man who knocked her unconscious, raped her and robbed her.”

Police are now speculating that the event was a lie and staged by Martinez to persuade her husband to move to another neighborhood.

According to reports, court documents show police detectives and the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office alleges that Martinez, with the help of friend Nicole April Snyder, staged the entire scene.

Reports show, Martinez used sandpaper to scuff up her hands, a pin to cut her lip. She reportedly ripped open her shirt to expose her breasts and urinated on herself to convince officers she had been knocked out, officials said.

Snyder, 33, used boxing gloves, purchased at the direction of Martinez, to rough up her friend's face, according to the documents. And then she hid items in her own home that Martinez would later tell police had been stolen, including two laptop computers, her purse and an Xbox, according to reports.

If convicted, each defendant faces three years in prison, according to District Attorney Office officials.

According to reports, the criminal complaint states that the charges come from a false report to police April 10 when Martinez called 911 to report a home-invasion robbery and sexual assault.

2011 Shiitake Awards Show

At long last... The 2011 Shiitake Awards show has arrived! Has your favorite candidate won? Tune in to find out!

Ryan Luby of KETV 7 Omaha gives free publicity to internet trolling group

Any news anchor who promotes a deranged vigilante site that harasses people for sport deserves a spot in the Shiitake Weekly. Thus, Ryan Luby gets a spot here among the worst of the worst, especially knowing that he was told the truth about Evil-Unveiled and chose to run the story. Ryan intentionally lied to viewers for a ratings boost.

For those who do not know, the vigilante site "Evil-Unveiled" is a fake wiki site run by members of various vigilante groups like Perverted-Justice and Absolute Zeroes, both fitting names for groups full of perverted zeroes who make all sorts of crazy baseless accusations for shits and giggles. Thankfully most REAL law enforcement and media hounds don't bother with juvenile groups like EU, but Luby decided to make an exception and travel all the way to Nashville to talk to Cynthia Jean "Dale" Harvey, aka Trillion Dent/Rookiee/Determined PJ formerly from Perverted-Justice. Talk about some irresponsible journalism.

http://www.ketv.com/r/30528335/detail.html

Volunteers (he meant vigilantes)Follow P*********s' Online Tracks

Group Aids Law Enforcement In Finding P*******s (uh, no they really don't)

OMAHA, Neb. -- A grassroots effort across the country is tracking down dangerous pedophiles and tipping off police. The group contributed to the recent arrest of an Iowa man.....

It turns out that M***** is a p****** activist, according to law enforcement agencies. They weren't alone in trying to locate him; a group of volunteers had tracked M******'s every move online for years.

The group also tipped off Omaha police about J**** J***, who was convicted of sexually molesting children in 2008.

KETV NewsWatch 7's Ryan Luby and KETV photojournalist Dave Hynek traveled to Nashville, Tenn., to talk with a woman who heads up the website called evil-unveiled.com. The identity of the woman, who we will call Veronica, can't be revealed. She has been the target of death threats and fears for her safety. (Bullshit, she's hiding out of fear of arrest for harassment)

Veronica spends every day online, up to 10 hours or more, pretending she's a pedophile.

"We wanted to unveil the evil that's on the Internet," she said. "They're like cockroaches. They're everywhere." (ironically, EU members are cockroaches and I doubt they pretend they are pedophiles, Absolute Zeroes has a number of repeat offenders as active members)

Veronica searches for people who are not necessarily convicted sex offenders, but who are attracted to children. "The problem with pedophile websites that we monitor is that they don't think there's anything wrong with sexually pursuing a child," she said. "They encourage each other. They embolden each other."

Veronica and her team of six volunteers, who live around the world, are Internet watchdogs (read: Vigilante scumbags). They track, download and store every comment posted to sites that cater to pedophile activists. Those activists think pedophilia is OK and want to make their fantasies legal. (But they also track non-pedophiles who fight sex offender laws and accuse those who disagree with the registry and other sex offender laws of being pedos, like when a EU member accused Patty Wetterling of having a sex offender son)

"They would actually like to change legislation," said Veronica. "They would like to lower the age of consent. They would like to make it so that children have more rights, to have sex with older people."

The comments and websites themselves are protected by freedom of speech and the first amendment. That's where Veronica and her team step in.

"We basically are chameleons," she said. (yeah, they're reptiles, alright)

The group takes the comments, which are accessible to the public, and reposts them on their own website. They develop profiles for each anonymous screen name. They track and eventually identify who the person really is. (He forgot to mention they've also created fake accounts to make posts while impersonating others an simply making up stuff as they go along)

"For some, it's easy. As they post something, they post an email with it. You Google it, you plug it into MySpace or Facebook and there they are, boom, they're identified in five minutes," Veronica said.

In the case of ********, according to court records, the Oakland, Iowa native was wanted for possessing several thousand images and videos of child pornography in Kitsap County, Wash.

 An Omaha police detective told the NewsWatch 7 I-Team through an email, that****** wouldn't have been investigated had the Web watchers not put him on their radar. (any one can send a tip to the police, so  they do nothing I couldn't do)

A Shiitake first: Four worst quotes candidates... in a single article!

I have not seen such a short article contain so many terribly bad quotes. I don't know the reporter picked these clowns on purpose. I will highlight the offending comments below:

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/pursuit-of-ohio-sex-offenders-falls-short-1331612.html

Pursuit of Ohio sex offenders falls short

Most counties aren’t using available funds to get those who fled Ohio.

By Jim Otte, WHIO-TV

Updated 7:54 AM Tuesday, February 21, 2012

I don't know why Google posted this sideways, but maybe it's because Lenhart's brain apparently thinks sideways.

Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart said authorities across the nation too often take the attitude that once offenders cross state lines they are someone else’s problem.

“When these people are out of compliance they are hunting your kids and your grandkids to sexually assault them,” Lenhart said.

[Comment: Of course this is a complete fabrication-- a study conducted by Jill Levenson confirmed failure to register does not equate to higher recidivism.]

“They do not want us to find them and that is part of the problem why they move around so much,” said Det. Cori Steiner of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

[Comment: Actually, it has more to do with being targeted by people simply because of being listed on the registry. The registry should be abolished]

Lee said if authorities do not return those offenders who violate registration laws, it will only mean more problems. “They play huge games with the system,” said Bill Taylor, senior inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service. “They know how many days to live in a certain spot before they have to tell Ohio that they’ve moved.”

[Comment: I don't see being forced to move constantly is "playing games." I would consider knowing the registration rules a prerequisite to living by them, don't you think?]

Tiffany Kemp, program director for Shelby County Victim Services, said when sex offenders feel they have escaped the eye of local law enforcement, they begin searching for victims. They could spend as much as three to five years gaining the trust of a neighboring family.

[Comment: See the Failure to Register Study above. ]

It must be one monumental feat to squeeze so many fallacies into one little spot.

John Turchin the urchin specialist in propaganda

John Turchin, the so-called "Crime Specialist" learned the propaganda trade from John Walsh when he worked for America's Most Wanted. That should immediately raise a red flag. So I'm not surprised to see an article that is a glorified advertisement for the Adam Walsh Act disguised as an editorial, which is a black eye to South Florida's Local 10 news channel.

http://www.local10.com/news/Turchin-s-Take-No-excuse-for-child-porn/-/1717324/8801020/-/sxgief/-/index.html

Turchin's Take: No excuse for child porn

Author: John Turchin, Crime Specialist, jturchin@local10.com

Published On: Feb 17 2012 03:36:42 PM EST  Updated On: Feb 19 2012 09:31:47 AM EST

MIAMI -

I’ve held my tongue long enough. There is no excuse for child pornographers. I don’t want to hear they had a bad childhood, or they grew up in a bad neighborhood, or they couldn't help themselves. All that may be true, but if it were your kid that was exploited or violated, I bet you wouldn’t be so understanding. 

My tirade comes as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested a man on 144 counts of child pornography -- a man agents say left a trail of young victims throughout south Florida. Orville Bullitt. He’s 44 years old. You might recognize his name. If you do, call the cops and tell them why. If not, he is yet another example, another alleged example (don’t want to forget that), of sickos that prey on kids -- our kids -- your kids. 

I have come to realize the treatment of children as sex objects has existed for decades -- as has the production of erotic materials involving children. What's more, it’s something that is probably not going to go away anytime soon. 

The advent of the Internet in the 1980s dramatically changed the scale and nature of the child pornography problem, and has required new approaches to investigation and control. Thankfully, many police departments have made it a priority. Sadly, it may not be enough. Law enforcement agencies need more funding, more investigators and examiners. 

Sex offenders -- in any form -- are a growing and dangerous threat to our children. There are more than a half-million sex offenders listed on various state registries, but because of poor federal and state laws, at least 150,000 of them are missing. 

On the positive side, the Adam Walsh Act is the most comprehensive piece of child protection legislation Congress has ever considered. That bill created, among other things, new state and federal regulations, community notification requirements, as well as new federal criminal penalties for sex offenders. It also gave law enforcement new resources. 

These people, those who "get off" looking at children, or are involved in trading, selling or taking pictures of kids naked or in sexually explicit positions, like agents suspect Bullitt was, deserve to be thrown in a jail full of the most violent criminals.

People who are sexually attracted to children are bottom-feeders, the scum of the earth. I've long heard every other criminal can’t stand them. So, it is my hope that they will always get what they deserve.

I say drop them all off on some deserted island with a crap load of alligators. You can throw in the rapists and child abusers, too. This world has no room for any of them... my opinion, of course. Forget about cruel and unusual punishment considerations, too. Just let them suffer -- and direct our tax dollars towards taking care of the victims. After all, it’s our responsibility as parents, as a community, to protect those who can't always protect themselves... our children.

• Copyright 2012 by Post Newsweek. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
  
  
  WE all know that there are 750,000 + RSOs but the 150,000 missing sex offender myth is a bold-faced lie. This must be what John Walsh teaches his disciples. He forgot to mention the AWA has created more problems than it creates. But it does not matter because this is an advertisement posing as an editorial.

Louisiana Gov. Piyush "Bobby" Jindal mad at Federal Judge for upholding 1st Amendment

Louisiana Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is back on the Shiitake Awards radar. He won the Worst politico of 2008 and won notoriety for his "Monsters" speech. He's the Alfred E. Newman of the Political world. After all, he once claimed to have exorcised a demon. I seriously doubt a career politician can exorcise demons, lest they exorcise themselves out of office. He should be thanking the demons that got him re-elected instead.

I can't understand how a man like Jindal can get re-elected. Then again, we're talking about the only state as stupid as Florida. At any rate, Jindal is livid over a federal court decision that struck down a pet project of his-- banning former offenders from using social networking sites.U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled Thursday that the prohibition -- which took effect in August -- was too broad and infringed on constitutionally protected speech.. Jindal's response? "It’s offensive that the court would rule that the rights of sex predators are more important than the rights of innocent children. As the father of three young kids, I will do everything in our power to protect Louisiana families and that includes appealing to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and bringing legislation this upcoming session to fortify and strengthen the law.". Actually, it is offensive to assume the US Constitutional is not as important as your political campaign. No one wants that snake oil you are buying, Bobby Jindal.

Alan English, Sean Moores, & Kyle Martin: The three Augusta Chronicle Stooges

Alan English

Kyle Martin

Sean Moores

Here are the Three Augusta Chronicle Stooges, nyuk-nyuk-nyuking it up over the latest fluff piece. So how many schmucks does it take to create and defend a poorly written fluff piece designed to spread Predator Panic? At least three. The schmuck on the left is Kyle Martin, who wrote a poorly written article entitled "Many break law again after first time sex offender plea." The problem with the article is he didn't differentiate between GENERAL and SPECIFIC recidivism:

How many of those 28 were actually committed new sex crimes? Probably no more than the people mentioned in their articles. The rest were likely petty offenses. What's so hard about giving the entire story?

Of the 84 people given first offender status for sex crimes in the past 11 years in Richmond County, one-third committed new crimes before their probation expired, an Augusta Chron­icle database shows. Some of those new offenses were sex crimes: rape, public indecency and child molestation. Georgia law doesn’t allow first offender status for some sex crimes, including sodomy, incest and child molestation, but records show defendants are allowed to plead to lesser offenses that do qualify for it, such as misdemeanor sexual battery.

So a few activists went to clear up the confusion. A few references to the fact of VERY LOW recidivism rates among those convicted of sex crimes, they couldn't accept the truth, so Stooge #2, Sean Moores, was the one in charge of deleting it. For some reason, he allowed comments from people using symbols of racism to remain in it's place (see below). It really illustrates the quality of Augusta Chronicle readers, huh?

The expression is "You can't fix stupid." Nothing says stupid like a Confederate Flag. Yee-haw!

A few of us complained via emails. Stooge #3, Alan English, refused to offer an apology and justified this by claiming we alerted "spam" filters and various TOS "violations". I'm no expert on spam filters but it is obvious he felt because we were making the same comments, we were from the same company? What a buffoon! And somehow flying a confederate flag which is offensive to minorities was not violating TOS?
I took the liberty of fixing your stock email. I think your email REALLY meant to say this:

The Augusta Chronicle does not allow opinions that differ from our narrow view of the world. We do not want you peasants confusing our brainwashed readers with the truth about the low re-offense rates of people on the registry, because we don't want our readers to realize we are wrong. Don't confuse our readers with the truth, we've made their minds up for them! We also refuse to delete posts with blatant hate messages because we still honor the confederate flag down here (yee-haw!). So continue to read our paper and be a mindless sheeple and don't listen to truth.

Sincerely, Alan English, Executive Director (ED), Augusta Chronicle

Anna Canzano of KATU 2 Portland Oregon

Does Facebook have a "Dislike" button? If so, I want to press it :)

This is Anna Canzano. Back on Groundhog's Day, Miss Canzano wrote a piece for the local media called "The Sex Offender Next Door." The promo begins with an ominous sounding "secks o-fenders, next door!" It is almost laughable.

Ironic statement given KATU only gives us a fraction of the information too.

Then Canzano supplements with a fluff piece designed to scare the crap out of every Portlander who saw the ominous promo.

That's because Oregonians don't find it necessary to know where those married couples caught doing it  in the park live.

Online search won't display every sex offender in yourneighborhood

By Anna Canzano, KATU News Published: Feb 2, 2012 at 11:00 PM PST

PORTLAND, Ore. – Stephanie Miller takes the safety of her three kids very seriously. When she heard there was a sex offender living in her neighborhood, Miller went looking for more information. “We wanted to make sure it wasn’t a rumor,” she said. “What I really wanted was to find out what he did.”

What Miller discovered, however, was that Oregonians who search for sex offenders in their neighborhoods are not getting the whole picture and walk away with a false sense of security.

Searching Oregon’s sex offender website showed “no offenders found” within a one-mile radius of Miller’s home. A call to the people who run that database for the state turned up a much different result. “I thought we were looking for one person in the neighborhood and when it came back the list was three pages long,” Miller said. “I could not believe how many people, how many sex offenders were surrounding us, to be honest.”

Vi Beaty runs Oregon’s sex offender database and said most people are not aware of how little information the state provides online.  “They’re very surprised Oregon is so limited,” said Beaty. “Oregon posts less than five percent of our registered population.”

That five percent equals approximately 900 of Oregon’s 18,000 registered sex offenders who are on the state’s registry. Those 900 are classified as predatory or sexually violent – and are further deemed by the state as posing the highest risk of re-offending.

By comparison, Washington has about 30 percent of registered sex offenders posted on its website. California posts 75 percent and Idaho posts 100 percent of all registered sex offenders on its website – even those with the lowest level of offenses. Residents of Oregon and Washington have to call or e-mail the state and explain a safety concern in order to get the full list of sex offenders who live in their neighborhoods and the offenders’ addresses.

Miller wants Oregon lawmakers to add more names to the state’s sex offender database so families can be armed with better information about their neighbors. “Obviously people have a right to a second chance and people can change and be reformed,” said Miller. “But that’s not going to be at the expense of my child.”

The gist of the story is she is sounding the alarm over the fact Oregon only lists so-called "high-risk" offenders, something that isn't news at all, since Oregonians have known for years the registry only lists Tier 3 offenders. Duh! But it wasn't enough for Anna Canzano to report. She posted a tip sheet on how to stalk.. er, "find" registrants on Facebook as well, dodging criticism of her work and "standing by" her work even after being repeatedly questioned if she truly supports low risk offenders.

I wonder if she's on the list because the thought of ignorance breeding is offensive to me.

She then proceeded to argue with her detractors like a junior high school student. Thanks to Anna's shoddy reporting, a vigilante used the information to get two registrants kicked out of their residents, and that woman thanked Anna for her story.

And yet, Anna denies causing harm with her shoddy reporting.

 If that isn't Shiitake Worthy, I don't know what is.

Don't worry, Anna. I will.