Judge Salas speaks out against too much public information
Federal Judge Esther Salas, whose son was tragically killed last week, spoke out for the first time since the incident. As she explained in a video published by the Savoy Show, “A madman – who I believe was targeting me because of my position as a federal judge – came to my house.” The madman shot her son and her husband, killing her son, severely injuring her husband and then took off. The suspect was found dead a day later, having turned the gun on himself.
In her video, she says, “what we cannot accept is when we are forced to live in fear for our lives because personal information, like our home addresses, can easily be obtained by anyone seeking to do us or our families harm.”
She continues, “the free flow of information from the internet allowed this sick and depraved individual to find all of our information and target us.”
Our hearts go out to Judge Salas on her loss. She is right. NOBODY should be forced to live in fear because personal information is made easily available to people intending to do them harm.
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) mandates that information on persons who are required to register as sex offenders be made available to the public. States publish this information online, Municipal police departments re-publish it on social media pages. News stations re-publish it on their own websites. And private “mugshot sites” create their own registries and further re-publish the information. Details about where they live, what car they drive, where they work and what they look like can be accessed with a few keystrokes.
Sadly, there is no shortage of people who want to do harm to people required to register and unfortunately we have seen many cases where people have been killed, registrants and their family members, solely because of their presence on a public registry.
What happened to Judge Salas is a tragedy. Maybe now that it has hit closer to home, judges will recognize the danger of having too much information publicly available.
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I have no sympathy for the judges, attorneys, prosecutors, law enforcement officers who sit idly by and comment I have no authority and I am simply doing my job crap. If you had any inkling of human decentcy knowing these laws are bumpkis, than stand your ground and do something about it. Otherwise you are just as comparable as the idiots who create them. I mean what’s goin to happen if more people in those positions stood their ground? They going to have them arrested, fire them? What good will that do, and how many people can keep replacing them except the inhumane types who blindly follow false leaders? If anyone deserves to be on a registry, it’s all those idiots who serve the dictating authoritarians of this world. They are the persona of evil to the point of almost being as bad as those who commit genocide.
The Registries have made me ill to the point that I can’t care about things like this. People are being killed every day. That’s what hate gets you. If people think Registries are acceptable, then who cares what happens to them? I can’t.
This isn’t a “public information” issue anyway. If you know what a person does for a living and where they work, you can find out where they are and live. Personally, I think that is trivial to do. So this isn’t about that. The only people who might believe that are people who think Registries help people be safer. They live in Fantasyland.
Government and Registry Supporters/Terrorists (RS/Ts) intentionally list people on the very public Registries for the intentional purpose to get those people and their families harassed. That is intentional. So why should anyone care what is public and what isn’t?
I’d love to see the personal details of all people working in government put on a public Registry on a website for all to see. The problem is not that people can see the personal information, because a person intent on harming you can get that information regardless of if it is public or not. The problem is that big government and RS/Ts support a Hit List and have quite explicitly told the world that the families that are listed on it are sub-human and deserve harassment. That is the problem. They promote and encourage hate. That hate has certainly made the current pandemic in America a lot worse than it should have been. When you sow hate, your country burns. I am a little surprised the mass shootings seem to have slowed down though.