The death of Mattieo Condoluci

For those visiting our site for the first time, let me begin by saying; the Florida Action Committee DOES NOT condone sexual violence in any form.

Our coverage of the death of Mattieo Condoluci has brought a lot of new traffic to our forum. Unfortunately, it’s brought some of the attention we don’t want… Vigilantes.

To say the vicious murder of Mattieo Condoluci is a tragedy, does not allege Mr. Condoluci was a saint or even a good person. He might have been a horrible person. But the senseless killing of someone simply because their name appears on a “registry” is a great tragedy. We don’t know Mr. Condoluci so we can’t say what kind of a person he was, but we know thousands of people across this country on this registry who are great people. People who have made mistakes (or, yes, even people who were wrongfully convicted), but have learned from them. People who have paid their price to society and who have dedicated their lives to repenting for their misdeeds and becoming a better person.

Over the last week or so you have probably seen comments that presented an opposing point of view. We allowed SOME of the comments to be posted because we wanted to foster dialogue and sometimes, if there is a civil discussion, it can be an opportunity to educate rather than just talk among ourselves. What you didn’t see were a lot of really hateful comments.

As a law abiding member of my community (which I definitely am), I’m far more concerned about the deranged people who are leaving some of these comments than I am of anyone on a sex offender registry. The knowledge that these people are out there with weapons and a list of our addresses scares the crap out of me! The fact that Mr. Condoluci’s killer, James Fairbanks, used to work in a school should scare the crap out of everybody.

The threat is real and we need to do something about it. It’s not about Mattieo Condoluci. It’s not about any of us. It’s about ALL of us please contact your legislator and demand this hit list be taken offline.