I feel that most of the students at this college are missing the point about the sex offender law.

Their arguments are correct about certain offenders being a threat to children and being dangerous persons, but I want to remind them that the Iowa Civil Liberties Union didn’t go to court to let “Chester the Molester” move in next door to your younger siblings’ elementary schools.

They fought the law because they felt it violated the human rights of the offender, and various amendments to the Constitution.

Like all of you, the thought of a twice-convicted pedophile moving in across the street from an elementary school scares me, but I think that this scenario is not very likely, and you shouldn’t waste your time worrying about it either.

What I think you should worry about are the real “monsters” — the elected officials that allow legislation like this to be made into law. They severely ignored the logical consequences of their actions.

Do you think that these guys ever thought about a sex offender who is ill and has to live at a hospital within 2,000 feet of a school, or offenders that have families and children of their own and want to raise them close to a school?

What about them?

Adolf Hitler once said, “To think that this type of person could be living next to me, my family and friends. They are the lowest form of animal and should be erased and eradicated from our society. We shall not stop, nor shall we limit our resources in the extermination of this filth.”

Cody Leveke

Freshman

Engineering