Sex Offenders to Register Emails in Virginia 331
Isaac Bowman writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Virgina has a proposed law that would require sex offenders to register their email and IM screen names in an attempt to monitor and control their presence on social networking sites like MySpace."
Cops and Lawyers... (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Security Theater. (Score:3, Informative)
Actually some 9/11 attackers were on FBI watch lists and used the names on the watch list to buy tickets. However they were not on the "no fly list" which was grossly expanded after 9/11.
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Re:Security Theater. (Score:4, Informative)
14 of the 9/11 hijackers were added to the list, along with many other people known to be dead. But they didn't add anyone they suspected of being a active terrorist agents; because the names of those people are secrect, and the list is too widely disseminated to allow that.
The no-fly list wastes a lot of money to make trouble for people who happen to have the same name as someone on it. It won't stop any terrorists because while it's trivial to circumvent, they wouldn't have to because their names aren't on it.
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Here's a story about the friend of a (deceased) friend:
Guy was out drinking, and got into a bit of a drunken brawl. He was now a bit scuffed and bloodied up from the fight. Riding back with a buddy, they stopped at the local Quick Trip on the way home. He needed to use the restroom, but since he was all bloodied he didn't want to go inside. So he walked around the back of the store to pee behind the dumpster. Unluckily, two old ladies happened to drive around back there and saw him. They called the cops.
He was charged with indecent exposure thanks to these two old ladies who happened upon him taking a leak, and had to register as a sex offender for it.
I dunno... maybe he shook it three times?