Gov. Jindal On ACLU Sex Offender Lawsuit: "Disturbing Break from Reality"
August 15, 2011 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
Governor Jindal is responding to an ACLU lawsuit trying to block the enforcement of a new state law that bans access to a wide array of websites for those convicted of certain sex offenses against minors. The governor recently signed to prohibit convicted sex offenders from using social networking websites. “We will not comply with this request to allow convicted sex predators to use social networking sites. I will fight this with everything I have. If these people want to search the Internet for new victims they can do it somewhere else,” Jindal said.
The governor said it’s insulting for the ACLU to claim it’s a sex offender’s First Amendment right to use Facebook, MySpace and Craigslist. “Just a few weeks ago, federal officials announced the bust of the largest international online child pornography ring, which is connected to Louisiana and will be prosecuted here. Today, the ACLU sued us on behalf of sex offenders, wanting to strike down a law I recently signed to prohibit convicted sex offenders from using social networking sites where they could prey on our children. This lawsuit is a disturbing break from reality, even for the ACLU. As Governor and the father of three young kids, I will fight the ACLU every step of the way and do everything I can to keep our kids safe from the monsters who want to harm them.”
“The ACLU’s lawsuit represents a criminal already convicted of child pornography who wants to use social networking sites and peer-to-peer file sharing sites. This is exactly what we designed our new law to prevent. We want to protect our children from being victimized in anything like what US Attorney General Eric Holder described as ‘some of the most disturbing images, I think, you will ever see.’
“The Attorney General said ‘It’s hard to imagine a penalty severe enough’ for a crime like this. But, in Louisiana, we not only have some of the harshest penalties for sex offenders – including castration, we are working to prevent these horrific crimes from occurring in the first place by keeping sex offenders far away from our children.
