brainpang wrote:
Calm down, Batman, as I said I was curious, not here to condemn you (that seems to be your specialty).
The legal purpose of the Registery is not to play crimefighter, get ones jollies or generate gossip. It was specifically created so that one may determine if an individual within their community may pose a risk to themselves and/or their family so one may quietly keep their distance if they so choose. Until you posted this I was unaware one could even do a search that is not based upon a zip code. In my State it is illegal to reproduce information found on the website. It is considered a form of Harrassment.
The Registery is a very touchy matter here in the States and is not to be taken or used lightly.
Just for the record here, i never searched that site. I searched the name Robert Murphy, California on google while researching a completely different topic. I found the link to that site and then seen as the first name on the list Napoleon Murphy Brock using an Alias of Robert Murphy among others.
It tells you quite clearly on the site that it is a criminal offence to use the information to carry out a criminal act. Nowhere does it say you're not allowed to share the information, otherwise what is the point of the site in the first place? There's no point in having a register of sex offenders that no one can see, or no one can inform other people about. That is the whole point of them.
I never posted this to start gossip, i posted it because i felt it was something that zappa fans should know and i still agree with this. I'm not playing crimefighter either, as it looks to me like the crime has already been committed. So i'd make a shit crimefighter, just like you make a shit debater.
The sex offender register is a touchy subject here too, pardon the pun. But the fact is, it's there for a reason. No one complains if a list of convicted murderers is made public, no one worries about their feelings. So i don't see why sex offenders should be given special status. And i'm fully aware that there's many, many people who are on these registers that shouldn't be, but there's a massive difference between peeing in the street and rape by force and i'm all for a more realistic view of what a sex offence is and i don't believe anyone should be on it that hasn't been convicted. So for those reasons, i'm perfectly happy with my decision to share the info here.
The database i got that information was also a National Database, not a local or county database, it's a national database for a country of over 300 million people. So that to me suggests, that it's not just to be privy to those living in the local vicinity, but is intended for public consumption across the USA and for good reason.
for the record, i'm totally gutted about the information. I loved his work with zappa and it embodied everything i loved about music so well. So i never took any satisfaction from this, in fact it felt like a kick in the balls. i'm sure many people felt the same. But would they have preferred not to know?
i never condemn people, or pass judgement on then. But i won't shy away from speaking my mind either. I never took the decision to post this info lightly, i considered for a while if i should share it and the reason i decided to share it is. There's many women who will idolise him and there will be many women who still go to see him and among those, may be women with daughters who they'd also take along to see him. And i believe they should be aware of this, to make an informed decision for themselves.
Why you're not able to appreciate this, or even have considered this as a reason yourself i don't know. But my stance on crimes like this is, the safety of others, is always more important that the feelings of the convicted.