Politics: Morris would up terms for child abusers
From a press release:
MORRIS DISCUSSES FAMILIES AND PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN
ANNOUNCES PLAN TO PROTECT CHILDREN ONLINE
Peoria, IL | Jan, 9 2008
Republican John Morris, candidate for the 18th District Congressional seat, announced his plan toprotect children online today at a press conference in Peoria, IL. “Children today are exposed to danger through the internet. Our laws have not yet caught up with advances in technology. Ourlaws must be updated to protect our children from predators and explicit material online,†Morris said. “As a parent, I strongly believe we must protect our children and in Congress I will do just that.â€
“The use of the internet to prey on children should carry stiff penalties. In Congress I will supportlegislation to add 10 years to the sentences of sex offenders convicted of using the internet tocommit sex crimes against children.â€
“We need to ensure that our children are not exposed to predators or pornography at the public library or in the classroom. In Congress I will support requiring schools and libraries to install internet filters before they can receive federal funding.â€
“I also believe that we need a uniform system for conducting criminal background checks for those working with children at schools, libraries, and day care facilities. We also need to know who is caring, teaching, and supervising our children—including those involved in sport teams, camps, and clubs. There needs to be a means to conduct a national wide search that will identify people with both felony and misdemeanor convictions relating to child abuse and exploitation. As your Congressman, I support such measures to review the backgrounds of all educators and people whowork with children–applicants must successfully pass the checks before we trust them with our children. â€
“The third measure I would support is the implementation and expansion of a national registry for sex offenders. I applaud Congress and President Bush for enacting and signing into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, but we should take this a step further. In addition torequiring registered sex offenders their physical address the registry should require sex offenders toprovide all of their email addresses, as well to allow authorities to monitor their activity online.Failure to provide all online accounts should have severe consequences—ten years in prison.â€
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
librarians now have a reason to oppose John Morris, unfunded federal mandates (like the ones he is on record of fighting as a city councilman?) Libraries can already put filters on computers, even though they don’t work and may even be unconstitutional, but a federal mandate is exactly what we don’t need. When he loses his bid for Congress, maybe he can get appointed to the library board and do it LOCALLY.
BTW wasn’t he the liason to the library? what did he say to the board THEN?
filters work one of two ways: barring specific sites(when porn sites simply change to a new domain name) or in barring certain words e.g. sex, which would ban even the sex offender registry web site.
Hey! What’s going on? I scanned that press release, and could not find “conservative” mentioned at ALL. I hope this doesn’t mean that John is goin’ soft on us!
Just what we need — another “it’s for the children” law. If you’re against this, you’ll be labeled a child molester. So it will pass unanimously.
What we really need is a telescreen in every room in every workplace and home in the country so Big Brother can make sure all of us are being good. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. If you are doing something wrong, you would obviously be against this idea and should be thrown into prison immediately.
Seriously, how about a law to prevent Congress from piling debt on our children to build bridges to nowhere and hiking trails in Peoria.
I’m with Jser. Prego I think the reason the word conservative didn’t appear in this press release is that this is the lest conservative proposal Morris has made. Unfunded mandates, increased federal oversight, government believing it has a responsibility for raising our children… sounds pretty unconservative to me.
But Jser is right, if you oppose any of this BS than you’re pro-child molester and you hate children. Its another feel good-does nothing proposal from the Morris camp.
prego coming thru again. I knew it before I clicked open the comments section that you would have a post about Morris mentioing he’s a conservative. At 1AM too? Nice, prego. Did you stay up all night for that one?
Anybody hear about Schock saying his comments about breaking the anti-nuclear proliferation treaty and giving nukes to Taiwant to essentially pressure China to do what we want them to were just in JEST? Now that is something worth posting about:)
Say what you will about Morris and McConoughey, but Schock truly is frightening in his blatant disregard for the truth.
Just curious–does Morris have a family?
Sam, yes he does
Regarding Kent’s comments, I read the article last night and again today and was livid to say the least. But after listening to the audio from the interview and how Schock believes the average voter doesn’t have the brains to understand the context or seriousness of his nuke proposal I am near irate.
If you haven’t visited the pjstar.com site to read AND listen to it you need to. Schock’s superiority complex comes across in the interview very well, I only wish we could hear the whole thing.
It’s not this this issue is conservative or liberal, it’s that putting anything this important in the hands of government is, well, perverted. Goodness, government can’t even hand out flu shots without screwing it up.
Heck, Kent, you bet I was up all night, just itchin’ to do another “Conservative John” spin… because, as you might already know, my computer works ONLY at 1:00 a.m.
I was certain you would be the only one cognizant enough to notice it. Sah-lute to YOU, pal! Now, go read your Rush Limbaugh newspaper… maybe there’s a John ad in it.
This makes me so angry I can barely think straight.
1. Extra prison time for committing the same crime, but “over the intarwebs”? What year was this guy born, 1860?
2. Mandatory filtering forced via extortion? Can’t we have some REAL economic conservatives back — you know, those who push for small gov’t, especially at the federal level?
3. Expanding the sex-offender registry? So more peoples’ lives can be ruined++ for the vicious crime of peeing on a tree or streaking at their high school graduation?
Get out of my country, Mr. Morris.