Representative Bud Stonebraker

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Legislature Should Approve Megan's Law
Click here to read Rep. Bud Stonebraker's Honolulu Advertiser article explaining the importance of adopting Megan's law.

"Those who purport to defend civil liberties by opposing these bills [regarding sex offender registration] seem to forget the very definition and nature of liberty in the first place. "Liberty" is the state of a society in which the government protects the rights of innocent people from violence, of which sex crimes qualify. A just government exercises its legal monopoly in the use of force against people whom the courts have rationally ascertained to have used violence against the rights of innocent people." "The right to privacy is an important civil liberty, but an even greater civil liberty is the right to protect one's children from being raped and physically brutalized by convicted criminals."