Ocala-news.com includes Registrant emergency plans in their pets section
A big F-You to Ocala-news.com who reported on Marion County’s Emergency Management Plans for the Hurricane!
The news outlet organized their report into subheadings labeled “Special Needs Shelter”, “General Population Shelter” and “Pet friendly shelter”. Guess which section they included instructions for registrants? If you guessed under pets, you would be right! Soooo dehumanizing.
Oh, and there’s another big F-You owed to Marion County, because guess what? Registrants don’t even get a shelter! The pets get a shelter, but registrants don’t. If we have nowhere else to go (“Any sex offenders or sex predators who need shelter are encouraged to first seek shelter with family or friends in a non-residency restricted area.” – Seriously?!?!? During a hurricane when schools and parks are closed you are still going to enforce your stupid residency restriction?!?!?)? It’s the police station. “If that is not an option, then they must report to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender / Predator Unit office for shelter. According to MCSO, they should bring hygiene items, snack food, medicine, bedding, or anything else that is needed.”
These are some sick, sadistic people!
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Looks like they shut down the comments.
I just read on msn tht there were about 70 deaths in Florida because of Hurricane Ian. Any way of finding out how many of those were registrants? The article only wrote about a handful of them and didn’t mention the registry at all.
Florida Legislators play the victim better than can abide by there own Laws, in there guest to include Banishment!
Just pause for a moment and imagine the sh*tstorm that would’ve ensued if shelter plans for LGBTQ+ people been placed in the pet section – in ANY digital media (not just Ocala Star banner, etc)
The Twitter outrage would be off the charts There would be calls to boycott Silver Springs and all the other tourist attractions. The papers would been to public outrage and blow-back resulting in a retraction AND an apology for offending.
This is just one example of society’s hypocritical selective outrage. Hell catches on fire when blacks or gays are openly disparaged, but when a swipe is made at us, you get snickers, jeers from the hate mongers and crickets from the authorities.
I’ve become so disaffected with America.
You will never successfully fight hate with logic, reason and facts.
I see Derek Logue commented on the articles comment section as did I. I encourage more of you to do the same. Just follow the article’s link in the post and scroll all the way to the bottom. You don’t have to register.