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Presents:

A Dangerous Trend.

This is the case of one Issac Moore.  It seems that Moore has a long history of predatory sexual  behavior.  The Local  Municipality (Marysville/Yuba County) is attempting to have Moore imprisoned in a Mental Health Facility for a two year period of time under the sexual predator civil commitment laws.  The story of Moore appeared in the local rag (Appeal Democrat) during the same time that the arrest of a local chiropractor was "suspected" of video taping under age females in a dressing room at his office.  The problem our group has with this action by the courts, in Moore's case is the following:  Civil Commitments for sexual predators creates; to use the term first penned by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a "slippery slope" towards using these types of commitments against other types of individuals.  And I am sure that these   civil commitments would have very little to do with the issue of "public safety." It is a bridge toward more draconian control of the population.

Now before a person believes that our group supports rapists, child molesters or pedophiles, let us assure you, gentle reader, that we like seeing those type of people in jail, prison or on another planet.  But just look at the power the   legislature has grabbed and given to local authorities.  They can  snatch  a guy like Moore off the streets,  hold a "mental status" hearing and put them in prison for two years.  Now, just what happens  at the expiration of the two year period of time?  Marysville/Yuba County drag Moore up here , hold another "mental status" hearing and give him an additional two years.  People like Mike Reynolds (of the "Three Strikes and your Out" laws/campaign) and organizations like the "Doris Tate Crime Victims Association"  state  that his exactly what they want to accomplish with the Civil Commitment laws.   Mike Reynolds,  in 1998, stated during his speech at the "Annual Victims March on the Capitol" that, "We are going to make these people do life, two years at a time."  Appeal Democrat article does not state that Moore has been accused or arrested for any recent crime.  Personally, members of our group hope that Moore has been behaving himself.  Not that we like Moore, it is just that we do not want to see some innocent person harmed by  him. But we see a dangerous trend in the Civil Commitment laws.  What is next?  

Let us assume for a moment that someone in authority, a police officer, elected official or someone that members of our group have exposed in these pages decides that I, the Phantom, or someone else in the group, harbors dangerous thoughts, they snatch us  from Java Retreat during our regular Monday meeting. We get held, under a 72 hour commitment and the "authorities"  have a shrink  opine that our philosophy is dangerous and they have us committed to a state mental hospital.  "No," you state. "This would be impossible, we live in the United States, not Nazi Germany , China or the U.S.S.R."  Like Grotius stated in his book,"He who has the gold makes the rules." I am sure the authorities could hire  a psych could look at the contents of these pages and label us "paranoid  delusional" (or use one of their famous laundry list diagnosis). Off we go!  That is what Uncle Joe Stalin did in Soviet Russia.  If you opposed "his" system, you must be "mentally ill" and in need of "treatment," so off you go into some gulag in Siberia.Why we giving the local police this power? This is just another example of  the "law and order" lobby pushing to get more and more people locked up.
 Why do they do this? Well they do it "for the children." Just how many times have you heard that statement said in campaign ads? What you fail to see is this: they need to expand their budget so they can hire more police officers. The union bosses like PORAC and the CCPOA  get more union dues and you the taxpayer get to pay...pay...and pay some more. We have more  people "doing time" in County jails and State Prisons than we did 30 years ago, per capita. Are things more dangerous? No, the Legislature has just made more things illegal. After all, PORAC and the CCPOA, and the Doris Tate Crime Victims Fund and the "Three Strikes Committee" go to the State Capitol and spread money around like drunken sailors. The State Representatives (Senators and Assemblymen) love that money so they vote the union line...hence more laws, more controls and less freedom.

This trend has to stop.  Hopefully there could be some sort of medical/mental health treatment for individuals like Moore.  But it seems to members of our group, Moore has no other choice than to mind his "P's and Q's". We (members of our group) have seen pictures of Moore plastered all around town.  At the quickie rob, Yuba City Hall even the post office.  The man probably can not walk into a store without someone pointing at him and saying "there he is.....get him." We don't like Moore. We don't like the Civil Commitment laws either because these laws are just a small step at the incremental-ism of the nanny state that we loath.

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