Weekly Update 2025-08-05-Road to Redemption for All
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Dear Members and Advocates,
When we consider what to post on our website or write about in our weekly update, we often have to hold back because our own code of conduct dictates that we avoid discussing anything political, religious or topics that might offend an individual’s personal beliefs. Especially with the Jeffrey Epstein topic resurfacing over the past few weeks, there have been plenty of opportunities where we had to hold back. But each week it becomes harder and harder to ignore the painfully obvious: If you have money, fame, or the right friends in high places, the sex offender registry becomes less a scarlet letter and more of an inconvenience.
Take Ghislaine Maxwell. Remember her? Convicted of child sex trafficking dozens of minors. Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Everyone assumed she’d be serving her time in one of the many concrete boxes the Bureau of Prisons reserves for people convicted of serious crimes—especially sex offenses. But surprise! Last week she was quietly moved to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, a cozy little minimum-security facility. Now, according to BOP’s own Program Statements, people convicted of sex offenses or people who have more than 10 years left in their sentences aren’t eligible for prison camps. There’s something called a Public Safety Factor (PSF) that automatically bumps them up to a higher-security classification (BOP Program Statement 5100.08 – Inmate Security Designation and Custody Classification). But somehow, some way, Ms. Maxwell slipped through the cracks—those same cracks that seem sealed shut when it comes to anyone without millions of dollars or something else in their pocket. No formal explanation has been offered, but the transfer just happened to come shortly after she met privately with the Deputy Attorney General and in the wake of speculation that she’s the only living person with information on just who else might have been involved in illegal sexual activity. Coincidence?
In a recent post on our website, we highlighted how a couple famous Florida registrants have been able to earn an audience with the President of the United States (including one that was invited to participate in the relaunch of the Presidential Fitness Test as well as a press conference in the White House). We thought it was great! People being recognized for their talents and contributions instead of one long-ago misstep by a president who, himself, is a convicted felon! If only that was the way it works for everyone on the registry or everyone with a criminal history. But it isn’t. If you’re rich or powerful exceptions can always be made. If you are like everyone else, you’re persona non grata forever.
Let’s be clear: we’re not begrudging the treatment given to Lawrence Taylor, Mike Tyson, or even Ghislaine Maxwell or Donald Trump. In fact, we want everyone who has done something wrong in the past to have an opportunity to do better and to return to productive lives. Their best lives ever! That’s the goal. That’s what the system should support. The problem is that while some people are offered a path forward—complete with legal workarounds and media rebranding—others are met with barricades, bureaucracy, and endless reminders that they will never be allowed to move on.
What this tells us is nothing new: The rules are for the rest of us. Those without celebrity, money, or access to the system are subject to every inch of the law. For the elite? There’s a waiver. A quiet deal. A transfer under the cover of darkness. We just want the same second chances to be available to everyone. Not because someone is famous. Not because someone is politically valuable. But because that’s what justice should look like. So on the very odd chance that Lawrence Taylor, Mike Tyson, Donald Trump, or anyone else who happens to have the ear of someone in this administration happens to be reading this, please reach out to the Florida Action Committee (even anonymously) and help us fight for all of us who are in the same boat as you are. It’s the right thing to do. We need to change this broken system for everyone and give everyone the opportunity to do good again.
Until then, it’s hard to take claims of fairness seriously—when the system keeps proving that for some, the road to redemption is paved in gold, and for others, it’s blocked by razor wire.
Sincerely,
The Florida Action Committee
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Please refer to the last sentence of the first paragraph:
The Secret Destiny of America, p 138-139 by Manly P. Hall
“The Greek law giver Solon declared that in the ideal state laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt state, laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties. These corrupt laws are like the web of a spider which catch small insects but permits the stronger creatures to break through and escape.
Where there are many laws there is much lawlessness, and men come to despise and ridicule the restraints that are imposed upon freedom of action. Corrupt laws, resulting from efforts to amend inadequate legislation by further inadequate legislation, reveal a general ignorance of right and wrong. Where such ignorance exists the ideal function of democracy is impossible, and liberty degenerates into license.
The half-truth is the most dangerous form of a lie, because it can be defended in part by incontestable logic. Wherever the body of learning is broken up, the fragments become partial truths. We live in a day of partial truth; and until we remedy the condition we must suffer the inevitable consequences of division.”
Ghislaine Maxwell is a “stronger creature”. The rest of us are the small insects. This is literally what they think of us.
The point is clear. Those who have money are able to navigate through the bulwarks of the legal system and receive lesser sentences more often than not.
It’s NOT a fair system AT ALL!!
This is a corrupted world, therefore it is no great wonder that the legal system in it is full of corruption as well.
I had to giggle a bit when you mention Mike Tyson and then has the ear of someone…..
You have to remember though, Trump and Tyson have been friends for decades, long before Trump was elected.
Now you have someone like me who is disabled, poor, cannot work and a nobody to most. I cannot donate to FAC other than my thoughts and ideas. I am on food stamps.
On the other hand, people who are famous and, on the registry, could send F.A.C a monetary donation to back up the lawsuits to get a better shot of gaining change for the better. But I also cannot tell others what to do with their money, but would be nice if some of those registered celebs could be part of the narrative and push for change.