Should the Government be allowed to put a visual descriptor on sex offenders passports

The Shaun, you are severely under informed my man. the reason I brought up kids playing doctor and 17 year olds with 16 year olds is because there are cases of them on the registry. If you don't believe me google tales from the registry or mothers against the registry. You cant just toss out facts because they make a very damaging blow to your argument. And did you say you were cool with a high school girl being charged with making child porn for taking a picture of herself? That's just insanity, as you put it kids should be able to be kids. They should be reprimanded, they should be corrected but in no way does anyone under 18, belong on the registry. And you are right most states do have differing laws, so if the legal age of consent is 14 like it is in Georgia, and a 30 year old sleeps with her in your opinion that fine, because he didn't "break and laws" however if he does this is New Jersey he's a villainous pig and deserves swift and capital punishment? How about the fact that even if the kids are the same age the majority of the time only the male gets charged with the offense while the female is always the victim, even in consensual settings. You mentioned that "All criminals cant be trusted to not break the law again" have you seen any of the DOJ statistics on the recidivism rates for sex offenders? They are at about 2.4 percent. they are lower the every other type of crime except murder, and that's only because most murderers are in jail so long they are old if they ever get out and most die in prison. Additionally, have you ever seen any of the individual state, independent organization or federal DOJ facts that show that the registry in fact does not work, and actually is counter productive because the public shaming it does makes it impossible for people to get jobs and find homes. which makes them more likely to break laws to survive. This is not something new, in the turn of the century mobsters and bootleggers were the scum of the earth in peoples eyes, in the midst we had Germany, then Russians, communists, then the drug users of the 70's and 80's. people used to say a drug user needed to be put away for life because their was no cure, now we know that its an addiction which is a disease. Now more people get treatment then jail and it works. no court, no prison, and re-offense rates are down. You want sex offense re-offense's down, phone your local politician, tell them that the registry does not work, tell them that the registry should be for the top 1% of offenders, and all violent or predatory offenses. but they wont ever do anything about it, because jail, the registry and everything else, its all a money making scheme. And once again I will reiterate you cant continually punish one population of law breakers because of your own preconceived notions. A sentence from a judge is a legally binding contract, if we allow the government to alter that contract whenever they see fit, what sort of prescient are we setting. That's the real danger with democracy, once we sit idly by and watch the government take away our basic rights under the constitution we have lost our democracy. You say its only criminals so who cares, well what happens when they come for your home because they need it, or your family members because of some reason. what about when they start censoring our speech, our TV, shut down the internet, and put us into a police state. The constitution is applicable to all people because our founding fathers knew what we could not allow any government they put in place have too much power over anything for any period of time, because that's when power starts to corrupt. The last know civilization known to mark people like this was Nazi Germany in the holocaust, do you want to live there?