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Supremacist Gets 26 to Life in Killing of Molester

Fisher said:
Well I don't know where you live but "aggravated sexual assault" is not an 18 year old bedding a 16 year old consensually in my corner of the woods. .
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Really? You've never heard of adults being convicted for having sex with minors? Do you live under a rock?
 
tererun said:
White supremists recruit based on hate. Let us say you are a white family or friend of someone who was molested, or a victim of molestation and you have a group telling you it is OK to attack the people who do that. You might actually listen to what they say. They might seem like an understanding group while the rest of the world tells you to just put up with it. It ends up being a recruitment tactic because the group wants people blinded by rage and anger.
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Exactly. It's similar to how some gangs have and still do provide seemingly honorable mentorship, protection and other things to members of their neighborhood as a means of earning their trust and getting them to join the gang. They do things to get the attention of vulnerable people and then they exploit that. White supremacist groups operate similarly. I don't know if the case described in the OP is an example of such behavior, but it's certainly a possibility.

In the end society is pretty much feeding the names of molesters out there for one main reason, and that is the hopes they can lure out a violent criminal by giving them a acceptable target. As people in this thread have already said one child molester down and one violent white supremacist gone. It is not going to go away because most people do not think it effects them because they are not going to end up being confused with a child molester. People will start caring more when some white supremacist hears your name in a bar and looks it up in some online database from their Iphone and assumes you are the same person as the molester who shares your name and then beats you to a bloody pulp by mistake. Then someone will care. Or maybe some molester will share a name with Steve Ducey and fox will get involved with it. Oh wait, that will never happen, even child molesters wouldn't associate themselves with steve ducey.
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Well, I don't think that's the main reason society is putting out the names of molesters/sex offenders. However, I agree that many people don't care if such people are killed. I do care though as I find vigilantism ridiculous and I understand the potential for error in the implementation of it.
 
You're just wrong, this is typical behaviour of any extremist nationalist, supremacist or religious ideology worldwide. They want a "utopia", and if that means vigilantism against drug dealers, rapists and child molesters then they'll do it. It just so happens that some of their beliefs cross-over with some mainstream beliefs of what's ideal.

It has nothing to do with PR.
 
This doesn't make sense to me

"Gaskins and his wife — Sandra Sheaves — was living in a home she owned in Carmichael, a community outside of Sacramento, when they allowed the 66-year-old Hayes to move in. Gaskins had met Hayes while they were both serving time in prison, The Bee said."

"When Sheaves discovered on the Megan's Law website that Hayes was a registered sex offender, she told Gaskins."


If Gaskins had met Hayes in prison, then he already knew who he was and what he had done. Why would it be a surprise that Hayes was on the list? Gaskins I am sure already knew his history.
 
The age old question: put up with child molesters or white supremacists.
 
Ben K. said:
You're just wrong, this is typical behaviour of any extremist nationalist, supremacist or religious ideology worldwide. They want a "utopia", and if that means vigilantism against drug dealers, rapists and child molesters then they'll do it. It just so happens that some of their beliefs cross-over with some mainstream beliefs of what's ideal.

It has nothing to do with PR.
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I like how you're are so certain about something that you can't possibly be certain about. You have no idea if I'm wrong or not, LOL. I just said that it's possible that they are trying to gain the sympathies of other white Americans by doing something that some/many white Americans approve of. This, like the behavior you described, is ALSO "typical behavior" of such groups, LOL.

Side note: I love when people get their panties in a bunch when someone merely makes an innocuous hypothesis.
 
Mason66 said:
This doesn't make sense to me

"Gaskins and his wife — Sandra Sheaves — was living in a home she owned in Carmichael, a community outside of Sacramento, when they allowed the 66-year-old Hayes to move in. Gaskins had met Hayes while they were both serving time in prison, The Bee said."

"When Sheaves discovered on the Megan's Law website that Hayes was a registered sex offender, she told Gaskins."

If Gaskins had met Hayes in prison, then he already knew who he was and what he had done. Why would it be a surprise that Hayes was on the list? Gaskins I am sure already knew his history.
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Hm. I didn't notice that before. Hayes could have been in prison that time on a separate charge. In any case, the plot thickens...
 
What does being a white supremacist have to do with the killing? I hate child molesters just as much and I am happy about the killing. It is justice where there was none for the scumbag would have been executed for being convicted of being a child molester should justic have prevailed in the first place.
 
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