Comments Apparently Deleted / Missing From Family Watchdog Website

We have received a few e-mails telling us that Family Watchdog has deleted or didn't post certain comments which readers did post in response to FW claims about the new Human Rights Report.

Given that we do know that some comments were filtered and not posted, here is what we are going to do. Readers can post those comments as comments to this post of ours. Please only post them AS COMMENTS TO THIS POST so we know they pertain to what FW said, and not what our response is saying.

I will still moderate comments as I believe comments should be professional and address issues in a way that is helpful to understand the readers complaint.

Further, if a reader sends me a e-mail I can post as COMMENTS RECEIVED BY E-MAIL. Remember, let me know how you want them signed. See my example below:

COMMENTS RECEIVED BY E-MAIL:

EXAMPLE: I disagree with the Family Watchdog claims.
Anonymous, PeterPiper, or Whatever (Please remember, professionalism)

e-mail message: Websites like Family Watchdog's create a security threat to the safety of my family. I own my home, pay my taxes, and contribute as a law-abiding citizen to society. Reader #1001

e-mail message: This Human Rights Watch report is OUTSTANDING and long overdue. Good luck debunking it. They took 2 years to compile this report. Maybe if you took the time to do that same research instead of worrying about your "bottom line" you'd see it for what it really is, the TRUTH!

Amen and God Bless Human Rights Watch!
Concerned citizen and mother of four
Reader #1002

e-mail message:
For the past three years I have read the various research-based studies about recidivism of former sex offenders and I know the recidivism is extremely low. I have read the Human Rights Watch report and I find that the research was extremely accurate, well-documented and detailed; the report comes to the same conclusions I came to believe. I have read the newspaper and Net articles about the increasing harassment incidents of former sex offenders.

I have read the information given on the Internet site of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which states the majority of child kidnapping abductions and physical abuse, are a result of one of the child’s own parents. I have read the information on the Internet site maintained by the National MCH Center for Child Death Review which gives statistics such as the following for 2002: 12,442 childhood deaths from accidents (7,981 childhood deaths from motor vehicles, 1,158 from drowning, 1,856 from a firearm). I have read the statistics on the Internet site maintained by the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect (here) that state approximately 2000 children each year are killed by parents or caretakers. Clearly, children are at greater physical risk, including sexual risk, within family, relatives and close “friends” setting.

The Family Watchdog says the information in the Human Rights Watch report is: inaccurate, irresponsible and fraudulent. Where are the statistics to back-up the statement? Family Watchdog says, “…the methodology used in its (meaning HRW) preparation, the conclusions it draws and the recommendations…problems and inconsistencies…invalidate the report.” Again, where is the research to back up the generalized statement?” Family Watchdog repeats the above same generalized statements two more times. I would like to see the statistics to back up the claim, “…this irresponsible, intellectually dishonest and factually flawed propaganda….” leveled by Family Watchdog. I would like to know why Family Watchdog does not consider the HRW document as part of the “constructive public discourse” involving the “relevant facts and issues.”

I have read various articles in the sexual abuse/sexual abuse treatment journals. I know that former sex offenders positively respond to therapy treatment, especially when it is individualized to the former offender’s specific needs and problems.

I have read books and research articles about what happens within a person’s brain that combines with his or her physical setting that causes people to sexually offend.

It has cost and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars to falsely protect children and the public through public Internet registries.

“The state’s interest in protecting children” would, I believe, be better served by implementing effective community family services, such as:

A. Affordable physical and mental health care for families

B. Education in areas such as human interactions, conflict resolutions, healthy coping skills, problem solving, anger management, safety in and around the home,

C. Providing professional therapy and support for those who physically and/or sexually abuse

D. Providing safe places for individuals in temporary crisis situations

Thomas Jefferson once said, “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” That applies to every, single human. Good government and good people will strive and work together and do everything possible to bring all segments of society together into a society that reaches out in love, concern and help to fellow human beings, citizens and neighbors. The goal is to become a more compassionate, humane, enlightened, educated and civilized society.
Reader #1003 a mother / elementary teacher