Would you attend a peaceful protest if a convicted paedophile moved into your street?

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I’ve never attended anything similar before and I’m in two minds about going. He was convicted (I’ve read the newspaper articles which show his photo) and has been released after serving half his sentence. I don’t know if he owns the property but he’s moved in with his wife who stood by him. There’s a peaceful protest being arranged. Would you go?

From reading the thread it seems some people will accept living near child sex offenders, some will not.

Oh FFS. EVERYONE lives near sex offenders. Unless you live alone in a croft on some windswept atoll, you live near a sex offender. You probably know a few. The benefit of knowing exactly where they live is that this makes them much less dangerous. Homeless or somewhere no one knows them they are infinitely more dangerous.

Pheasant I take it you are 'one of the ones who will not accept these in your neighbourhood'? What do you suggest when your polite protest doesn't work? And if it did work, where would you house him?

House them near the people who wouldnt protest.
Easy.

Is it? Problem solved then 😂...what a selfish (impossible to put into practice) mindset.

More selfish than insisting people should raise children next door to a known and convicted child rapist without complaining?

What part of this are the idiots not getting?

You protest, it drives them to move in secret. Other people do the same, they come and secretly live on your street

You are worse off snd in more danger, not less

FFS

Pheasant How would the authorities know the areas where people wouldn’t protest ?

Much more selfish because all you're doing is shunting the problem onto other people who might not have the heads up to know to avoid that particular neighbour and simply not engage should he wants to start chatting at the gate etc
Screw everyone else though eh, as long as you get to walk around thinking 'not on my street' and feeling superior. You probably live very close to at least one paedophile anyway, as they are so prolific. But as long as you're ignorant about that, you can keep kidding yourself that you know better than others.

People on the sex offenders register cant move in secret, they need to declare the adress.

What would you do if your peaceful protest doesn't work?

@PheasantPlucker1

People on the sex offenders register cant move in secret, they need to declare the adress.

To the authorities

Who would not make it public if that meant their house and safety was at risk from vigilante selfish twats. So yes, you’d be making things more secret and more dangerous.

LilacPeddles of course I live near sex offenders, but no convicted child sex offenders.

Your argument makes no sense to me, can you explain it clearer?

You seem to be saying people like me should accept it because if not it will become someone elses problem. But plenty of people on this thread have stated they wouldnt have as big a problem with it.

BillMasen no, I wouldnt be making it more dangerous.

The men who rape children would make it more dangerous.

@PheasantPlucker1

LilacPeddles of course I live near sex offenders, but no convicted child sex offenders.

Your argument makes no sense to me, can you explain it clearer?

You seem to be saying people like me should accept it because if not it will become someone elses problem. But plenty of people on this thread have stated they wouldnt have as big a problem with it.

You’re not getting it

By protesting and forcing them out you create a culture where that is seen as a “solution” you force them in secret into other people, and other people force theirs in secret onto you

You’re left in the same place but with less knowledge and less ability to take sensible precautions

Pheasant I feel the same way about everyone who shares your opinion, not just you.
Why is an unconvicted sex offender more palatable than a convicted one?
And since you've declared you won't accept any in your area, I really want to know what your next step is when the offender quite likes where he lives and isn't easily intimidated by people sat looking at his house nice and politely?

Oh, I see you differentiated between sex offenders and child sex offenders, that's my bad.

An unconvicted sex offender is by no means more palatable. We just dont know who they are.

Sarahs Law allows us to check if there are convicted ones, so your issue of them hiding is easily rectified.

As for how to get them out? Well I personally would make their lives a living hell as far as possible within the law. I wouldnt personally ever be violent, if thats what are trying to imply.

@PheasantPlucker1

People on the sex offenders register cant move in secret, they need to declare the adress.

Yes they do but only to the police surely? Who will have people assigned to keep an eye on them.

Until they move in secret, drop off the radar, break their conditions. All because you and people like you think you’re doing a great service to your street and your kids when you’re making it worse.

Vigilantes, protests, all “me need me” knee jerk Stupidity

@howaboutholly

It is to do with testosterone levels, I believe witches

Not all violence and aggression is inherently bad or evil. But female dominated societies are less violent. They have other problems of course.

alternative you do realise I wasn’t seriously suggesting eradicating the male line as a solution?

But women's bodies also contain testosterone. Less of it but 'in the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.'

Unfortunately Sarah's Law doesn't cover the not small number of men who change their names and then take up with single mothers in a different part of the country. There's been a horrible case near me recently where this happened. Had this particular man not been driven out of his hometown on the lookout for a 'fresh start' then he'd have still been on the radar and not committed his latest crimes. Not that it's anyone's fault but his own.
I'm just trying to say that you seem to think you have all the answers but it isn't that simple.

No but I would be extra vigilant with DC.

Sorry, that was to pheasant ⬆️

I do not think I have all the answers in the slightest. Personally I want them to not be alive but Im also opposed to the death penalty, I want them to rot in jail for life but also know why thats not realistic.

I do not have the answers, but Im not prepared to live next door to a convicted child rapist until the answer is found.

As for the PP who said it was due to "people like me"... no.
Thats utter bollocks and victim blaming.

Convicted criminals commiting more crime is because they are criminals, and the fact they continue to commit crime shows they shouldnt be in any community except prison.

I don’t think you understand victim blaming

I’m vigilante blaming. People putting others, and themselves, at more risk because they’re too stupid to think through and understand the wider consequences of their actions.