OLYMPIA —The state Department of Corrections plans to stop referring to the men and women serving time behind bars as “offenders.”
Acting Corrections Secretary Dick Morgan told agency employees in a memo Tuesday the word will be replaced in policies and programs with terms such as “individuals,” “students” or “patients” depending on the circumstances. …
The term won’t disappear completely as registered sex offenders will still be identified in that manner. “That won’t change. They will be known as a registered sex offender,” Barclay said. “That is codified in law.” Full Article
“The term won’t disappear completely as registered sex offenders will still be identified in that manner.
“That won’t change. They will be known as a registered sex offender,” Barclay said. “That is codified in law.””
Small-minded morons!!!!
The moniker or term “sex offender” (‘registered’ used in front as an enhancer) is an intentionally derogatory pejorative used explicitly to vilify, belittle and demonize those that have completed their sentence. They are subsequently made a spectacle out of and bad mouthed online exclusively to instill fear and control for political furtherance. It’s a reelection campaign mechanism – NOT a “safety” one.
Personally, I find the word sex offender – just as offensive, if not moreso – as the “N” word.
Also, “registered” sex offender is code of pervert, predator and pedo in the eyes of the unsuspecting public that has been duped into thinking that knowing where where those listed somehow magically minimizes risk by avoidance and shunning.
This is proof positive of the hypocrisy that fully illustrates that “those people” are exempt, immune and insulated from ever getting their lives back, much less being allowed to start over or looked upon as human ever again.
Until this mindset is successfully challenged, expect the toxic rhetoric to continue and escalate.
I’m going to start referring to those that view Megan’s Law online as “Cowards with Children. ”
Hey! I’m just calling it what it is!
Hahaha, so Mr. Serial killer we’re gonna call you patient but hey guy who had sex with a teenager your a sex offender. Wow, isn’t that sweet. Who are these people that can just arbitrarily determine what speech and the law is, damn I thought puritans were all dead and gone. I have to admit, those of European ancestry are really messed up people, and hypocrisy can’t describe them anymore. So I guess the terms convict, criminal, etc aren’t codified in law, lmao.
It seems they are doing this just to get clever and to play games on people’s emotions especially when it comes to “registrants”.
This comes from the state of the Green River Killer and where Ted Bundy afflicted pain on people….the wet weather on the west side of the state as gotten into their brains as mold and mildew. They never could go all the way in thinking and do it away with it completely. Their history is to always stop short. They cannot lead their way out of a barn with both ends open and a sign saying go out this way or this way.
The politician who wants to know what the person who had something perpetrated against them would think? Guess what, they can choose to not be a victim and move on, but the politician needs them to remain a victim to help them get re-elected and feed the victim money machine. Ay yi yi
To Sen. Pearson, who is from Monroe, and Ms. Fairweather, who is from just west of Monroe, go up the hill to the reformatory above Monroe to tell the population what you think and that they will always be the title you help label them with…..hell, if they will ever escape it and start over. Go to MacNeil Island, Walla Walla or any of the other WA State DoC facilities and do them same. Bet you won’t because you are chicken.
Careful ’bout them labels, they may come back to bite you, your families and/or your employers……
Wasn’t the “N” word once was ““That is codified in law. ” as well ?
Sounds like another thing to add to an Equal Protection and Bill of Attainder lawsuit to spell out once and for all how legislature has purposefully vilified people with a particular trait of committing an offense with some sexual component (on not sexual in some cases) and subjected them to unequal treatment for an arbitrary length of time (or forever) under a ruse of public protection when no actual protection occurs or need for protection ever existed, and in doing so also violating Substantive and Procedural Due process by circumventing the Judicial System* meant to punish, rehabilitate, and protect the public based on an individual person’s circumstances and not arbitrarily paint everyone with one wide sweeping brush.
*Federal law requires the district courts to consider the “nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and characteristics of the defendant” when crafting a special condition of supervised release. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a)(1), 3583(d)(1); cf. United States v. Heidebur, 417 F.3d 1002, 1004-05 (8th Cir. 2005). That inquiry must take place on an individualized basis; a court may not impose a special condition on all those found guilty of a particular offense.