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Lead? Was that a typing error?

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No, take it whichever way suits you best.;)

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I understood every word and I totally agree with you...........................:D

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are you going dotty tea?? :D

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I did. That's what education and the fact that I'm always right, and can back up my arguments with facts, does for you.;)

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I have not had time to read any of this thread, but the title certainly caught my eye. Mr T, Sir; that is hell of a piece of alliteration! :D

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wtf you have all gone mental..At least they are trying to help people and give them a new start....when was the last time you did that???????????????

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Steveo that is very kind of you why do you not offer to put up one off these people in your own home.............

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So you would not mind a child abuser or rapist living next door to you? You would still let your children play outside without worrying if they were being watched. If the person next door was planning how to snatch them.

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Of course I'd mind. But I think the key word here is 'reformed'. Plus, what's worse - having a reformed criminal next door or a criminal that has just never been caught yet next door to you. At least you know what you're dealing with when you have a reformed criminal next door.

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Why don't they just give them their own room and call it Accychat...I've encountered a few lowlifes in there.

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Patronising, pompous twit.

When on earth did you get to be the judge and jury, about the last time people on here did something altruistic.

Two members on here kindly took me to the theatre tonight, and even got me a discounted disabled ticket to boot. All they expected in return was me to be amusing, which I hope I was.:)

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I think it would be bad enough if Social Services or the Probation Service wanted to set up a hostel for ex-offenders. Clearly, people leaving prison need somewhere to live while they are re-integrated into society and these places need to be located somewhere. However, I do not think that a bunch of happy-clappy God-botherers, however well intentioned, are the right sort people to manage people who are as devious and manipulative as some ex-cons can be. To my mind this is a recipe for disaster, and the community should be rightly concerned. I would want to know what qualifications and experience the people running this enterprise had. A personal relationship with Jesus may be all the justification they feel they need but, I'm afraid it doesn't quite cut it for me and is p*ss poor consolation to the victim when something goes wrong.

What makes the situation worse is that this group appears to be trying to be less than open and honest about their intentions and ambitions, which should give us all even more cause for concern; what are they so desperate to hide?

Letters of protest and telephone calls to councillors are called for, I think.

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I knew Brian Jackson years ago & he was working with drug addicts then. I knew a number of ex- cons from Darwen that were helped by 'the Church' who went on to form a Gospel group & travelled the country doing gospel meetings and to my knowledge didn't go back to crime or drugs. That said I too think it was wrong to hold a meeting behind closed doors hoping the people in Ossie wouldn't find out about it until it was too late to raise objections.

Criminals druggies e.t.c can be devious and say what they think you want to hear, my friend took in a family member (druggie) on his release from prison and constantly sung his praises as to how well he was doing.....that is until the police brought him to her house with a bag full of her most precious belongings he had been trying to sell!!!!!!

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I think that was a slightly loaded question. I would rather have neither of them living next door to me. It's all about reducing the risk. We can't do much about the one we don't know about but we can about the so called 'reformed' one. How would you feel about having a 'reformed' peadophile living next door to you? I don't think you would have started the 'How far do you let your kids go?' thread, do you? Just out of interest Gayle are you a member of, in A-B's words, the "bunch of happy-clappy God-botherers"?