Comments on: Why I’m not so worried about Jack McClellan

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:22:04 +0000

FYI: here are links that post pictures of Jack McClellan: http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net/2007/08/01/jack-mcclellan-pedophile-blogger-angers-parents/ http://www.associatedcontent.com/image/127255/index.html His detriment to society seems to be his love for publicity and his online instructions to other pedophiles -- ones who act on their criminal passions.

By: CPM

CPM — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:33:35 +0000

Rabble Rabble Rabble…

By: Lady

Lady — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:05:49 +0000

As a member of the community who lives around Jamison Park I would ask that you not generalize that those of us who enjoy our park and are encouraged and pleased to see families there are perverts. Also, to generalize that parents do not watch their children with care is not warranted,unless you have specific data to back up that allegation.

Children play in many parks all across Portland. This is good.

Pedophiles exist in many neighborhoods and frequent many spots. This is bad.

How about we all consider the “It Takes a Village” concept and watch for child safety wherever we live without lobbing community directed insults at each other? Might that work?

By: Miz J

Miz J — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:45:14 +0000

Memo to Hunter: you don’t have your facts straight. McClellan isn’t a convicted sex offender, he hasn’t been released from jail or prison or anything. He volunteered the information that he gets off on sex fantasies of little girls, but there’s been no allegation that he’s so much as touched one.

So, clear something up for me: are you advocating taking away this man’s civil rights because he’s a perv, but has broken no laws? Like him or not, that’s a dangerous path to go down.

By: warner

warner — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:16:35 +0000

Yeah, well, I often take my lunchtime walk and stop by Jamison Square, taking a break to sit on a bench for a minute and enjoy the sun. I guess I won’t be doing that any more, now that I know you all probably think I’m some kind of perv! :)

Seriously, I’ve felt the same thing, it’s really a disaster waiting to happen. Kids roaming all around, parents gabbing away not noticing. I do think some of those with kids are nannies, not parents though. I mean, it is The Pearl…

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:36:43 +0000

Matt, you’re so right about Jamison Square. That place is kid-central, and the parents seem blissfully ignorant of creepy onlookers on the periphery.

I don’t understand the attraction of that place, anyway. Most of those kids don’t live in the Pearl; they’re bussed in in SUVs. It’s just a glorified puddle. Aren’t there public or private pools in their neighborhoods? Or is it just that parents want to seem hip and edgy and urban and stuff?

By: Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:37:24 +0000

Every time I walk through Jamison Square in the Pearl, there’s fifty kids playing in the fountain, some of them naked. And at least two guys sitting on the benches on the edge of the park, who could not be more obviously checking out the kids. Most of the parents regularly lose sight of their children, and I’d say it’s only a matter of time before someone takes a risk and abducts a kid.

If I’m with visitors to town, we’ll play
“spot the pedophile” in the square. It never takes longer than 30 seconds. If I had kids, I’d never take them down there.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:00:56 +0000

Whay are sex offenders released at all? Anybody that rapes little boys and girls should die…. None of this rehab and minimal jail time. I just love reading about a pedo that gets released and does the same thing again. It is time to start not only making the pedo accountable for his actions but whatever judge and other misc fringe nuts who decided a pedo was mentally sound to be released into the public. They too are just as responsible and they should be going to jail as well.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:01:15 +0000

Tough balance:

Constitutional issue- do convicts who have served their time, completed probation, have right to live in peace?

Clinical issue- Experts will say that in most cases, predatory urges cannot be “cured”- even with sterilization.

Gut issue- Deep urge to shield our children from even the smallest possbility of harm.

A public sex offender registry seems to me to offer the only practical balance of these factors. It is up to every parent to be familiar with the whereabouts of such risky people in their neighborood.

By: Daaaaave

Daaaaave — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:59:24 +0000

One more thing for the media to try to incessantly scare the public with while the real raping and pillaging goes on unnoticed.