FL: Safety versus second chance: A home for sexual offenders has neighbors up in arms

[tallahassee.com – 5/26/18]

Nestled in a pocket of land surrounded by the I-10 overpass and Mission Road sits the Moon Lane neighborhood.

A dirt road that runs along the interstate wall leads to several mobile homes hidden behind a barricade of drooping trees and unkempt foliage. Cornered off and relatively quiet, homes are scattered around the unpaved road with no real boundaries.

But, residents of the area are beginning to draw a line in the sand. Neighbors on Moon Lane are fighting to remove a rehabilitation home for sexual offenders from the area.

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Being labeled a SO, being forced to register and having zero privacy is not a “second chance.” It’s limited free range containment. Freedom without privacy is third-class citizenship.

Neighbors say their children are forced indoors because of the sex offenders living down the street.

Registrants aren’t locking your kids up in your homes, it’s your over-hyped panic that’s doing it.

If they bothered looking for one credible source of information, they could see they shouldn’t be wary of the stranger down tje street, but the trusted acquaintances they allow in their homes.

I want to train a RSOs and their family members to fight back in there communities politically. I am a RSO and the inventor of the Sharp-N-Go mini …check it out on Youtube. I am looking to train someone in Florida to help fight against the evils happening there but I am willing to train others in all the states across the USA. Just call me Robert (949) 872-8768.

Unnecessary panic. That is what this is. Nothing more. Kids my days all played outside and this was during the Adam Walsh / kidnapping-serial killer panic era or whatever you want to call that. My mom wanted to keep me inside which is understandable, considering I was only a year older than Adam Walsh and we both lived real close. Adam lived in Hollywood FL, and I lived in Hallandale Beach FL.

My mom didn’t take me to the mall and Sears for a while and my logic as a kid was, ok that was him not me. Geez! But in the early 80’s ?? pfff. You couldn’t keep kids inside too long with their BMX bikes, Dirt bikes, Go-Karts… etc. etc. Nothing else happened and we were outside a lot and everywhere with little to no adult supervision. The only worry that is always present in any generation were bullies close to our age.