TX: No Place to Go, Forever, Texas Offender Says

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HOUSTON (CN) – A Pasadena, Texas law that bans sex offenders from living “within 1,000 feet … of any neighborhood” is unconstitutional, a man who completed serving his sentence 8 years ago claims in court.
     Israel Escobar sued the city of Pasadena on Wednesday in Federal Court.
     Pasadena, pop. 133,000, part of greater Houston, is a Hispanic-majority city known for its refineries and strawberry festival. It was named after the California city.
     Escobar spent six years in prison after he was convicted of three felonies: attempted sexual assault, sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child.
     Texas “civilly committed” him before he finished serving his sentence in October 2007. Texas requires sex offenders in the program to live in halfway houses that are supposed to help them make the transition from prison to becoming productive, job-holding citizens. Full Article

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There’s something wrong with this picture. At this point in time this brand of modern Nazism should be disappearing now that it’s known that everything most everyone thought they knew about people forced to register is the total opposite of reality. The below statement doesn’t even try to veil its self in some sort of reasonable justification; it’s raw in your face BS.

“The civil commitment process is designed to provide a safety net for high-risk repeat sex offenders who have a legislatively created diagnosis of a brain amorality that could lead to future sex assaults,”

This is the same kind of rhetoric the Nazi’s were using to justify their persecution of created classes of people. I think it is the authorities in Pasadena who have a “brain amorality.” They are just plain evil for allowing this to happen and to continue.

State judge Michael Seiler should be taken off the bench and exposed for what he really is; a fraud, because the manner in which he rules is nothing that resembles justice; it’s persecution borne of his prejudice and his ignorance, and allot of other things, none of them good.

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Cold hard proof that these laws have everything to do with political survival and absolutely nothing to do with integration and effectively completing a sentence.
Most importantly is the framework of the law at the time of sentencing. In addition to over simplified and draconian laws, they clearly violate many constitutional protections. It is on display for all to see but still clearly hidden in plain sight.

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