The appropriate response..

..to such insane responses, is to make them regret their idiot decisions, one way or another. Knee-jerk reactions need to be thoroughly discouraged. Lately, I've been thinking just how funny it would be if lots of the persecuted convicted sex-offenders across the USA got together in the form of a property investment company (say, a sensible hybrid between capitalist and communist) and started buying up large on prime farming land, and then made permanent communities somewhere nearby.. and then prospered financially (at least more so than all those other parts of the country where they were persecuted and had to run away from). Then they could laugh at the misfortune of their persecutors (tearing themselves apart because of their stupidity), and deny them any loans, housing, or help of any sort. The semi-closed community could have private in-house security in order to completely preclude the need for govt-paid police to show their mugs at any time. I wuz wondering if such a (theoretical) community should be totally atheist from the outset, or perhaps go the other way and set down roots smack in the middle of the most pious religious people in the USA that I know of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_school_shooting#Amish_community_response http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1002/p09s02-coop.html After all, who would be most likely to be forgiving of one's previous sex-crimes?