There is no state in the union where he'll be welcome

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 (AP) — A self-described pedophile said he would leave California after a judge ordered him to stay away permanently from places where children gather, the man told a television station for a report that was broadcast Sunday.

“I have to leave the state, really, I can’t live here under this Orwellian protocol,” the man, Jack McClellan, told the station, KABC. “It’s nightmarish.”

Mr. McClellan did not say where he planned to go. He did not immediately return a message left on his cellphone by The Associated Press. He has been unemployed and living in his car since arriving in Southern California this summer from Washington State.

Mr. McClellan, 45, came to the attention of the authorities because of a Web site where he posted photographs of children in public places and discussed how he liked to stake out parks, public libraries, fast-food restaurants and other areas where little girls congregated. His Internet service provider took down his Web site more than a month ago.

Mr. McClellan maintained he started the site as a form of therapy and would not do anything illegal. He has never been charged with molesting.

He has never been charged with molesting - YET.

I almost feel sorry for this guy. I don't think that he woke up one morning and said, "you know from this point forward I'm only going to be turned on by little girls". While I absolutely believe that he can control his actions I do not believe that he can in any way control his desires.

What makes him dangerous is that he does not recognize that his desires in this case are evil. Everyone has some kind of dark side. Everyone has a dark fantasy of some kind. Perhaps it is little girls or boys or maybe it is homosexuality or sexual violence (giving or receiving) or something so weird that I can't even conceive of it. The point is that normal people understand that those "dark side" thoughts are not things that can ever be acted upon (other than in a role playing game with a willing partner).

The pedophile, the rapist, the true sadist don't understand that some desires are not appropriate to act upon. They regard those who suppress their dark natures to be hypocrites. They are like David Hamilton, the European pedophile photographer, who openly brags that he does what other men only dream of doing and believes that makes him superior to those other men.

Jack McClellan believes that a judges order keeping him away from children is "Orwellian". For him to possess such a profound lack of understanding of how wrong it is for him to do the things he does and his profound lack of self control in being unable to stay away from those places where he would be tempted makes him extremely dangerous.

I truly wish there there were a remote place of exile to which people like McClellan could be sent where they could live out their lives far from anyone whom they might harm.