[Rick Lee]

Didn't Pete Townsend get busted for something like this about seven yrs. or so ago?

I have a bit of a problem with the nat. sex offender registry. Some 18 yr. old guy who's banging his 17 yr. old girfriend does not belong on there. I have zero sympathy for the true child predators and believe there is no reforming them. They need to be castrated or killed, not set free and put on a website. There are, however, a lot of bogus crimes that can land you on that registry. I grew up in NJ and our then local Congressman, Dick Zimmer, was the chief sponsor of Megan's Law. I remember more than one case where people on that registry were violently attacked in their own homes by vigilantes, out for justice. However, some of those folks were not the right person and these vigilantes beat up an innocent person. Also seems to me that folks who copped a plea before Megan's Law was passed should not be subject to it, since it's additional punishment that was not law at the time they agreed to a plea deal. Again, I'm very hardcore, almost medieval, in how harshly I want the real child predators to be handled. But this nat. registry ain't the way to go about it.