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Ohio is likely becoming a guinea pig state for a fabulous new unconstitutional “civil registry” for “sex offenders” or more specifically people who were at some point accused of a related offence. The measure, which seems to be a clear case of a bill of attainder, promises to be an innovative way to get to dissenters, neighbours, spouses in the new totalitarian America. Undermine all civil, social ties! Allegience to the Führer and Reichskanzler!

An Ohio legislative panel yesterday rubber-stamped an unprecedented process that would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they’ve never been charged with a crime.

The committee’s decision not to interfere with the rules puts Ohio in a position to become the first state to test a “civil registry.”

A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit.

The rules spell out how the untried process would work. It would largely treat a person placed on the civil registry the same way a convicted sex offender is treated under Ohio’s so-called Megan’s Law.

The person’s name, address, and photograph would be placed on a new Internet database and the person would be subjected to the same registration and community notification requirements and restrictions on where he could live.