VA: Apparently, Philanthropy Has a Criminal History Requirement
Tazewell County, Virginia, has adopted a policy requiring nonprofits receiving county funding to certify that they neither employ registered sex offenders nor have registrants serving on their boards of directors.
According to WVNS-TV, the policy followed a complaint about an organization that received county donations and used county facilities despite having a registrant on its board.
County Administrator Eric Young explained the rationale: “But we do need to know that public money is going to beneficial uses.” Fair enough, Mr. Young. Taxpayer money should be spent responsibly. But are you suggesting that nothing a registrant does can be beneficial?
A nonprofit could be helping struggling families, feeding the hungry, or serving vulnerable members of the community. Its finances could be impeccable, its programs effective, and its leadership qualified. Yet, under this policy, having a single registrant could jeopardize its funding.
Florida Action Committee has never received a penny from any government board, and we don’t expect to. But his disturbs us on principle.
If the concern is responsible spending, evaluate how the organization uses its money. If an individual presents a legitimate risk in a particular role, assess that risk based on the facts. Disqualifying an entire nonprofit because one board member is required to register is not accountability. It’s guilt by association. Worse, the people who ultimately suffer may be the very individuals the nonprofit exists to help.
We don’t suggest that everyone is suitable for every position. A registrant should not serve on the board of a preschool, for example. But there is a difference between evaluating someone’s actual qualifications and imposing a blanket exclusion based on registration status.
If a registrant volunteers their time, helps their neighbors, supports charitable causes, and contributes to their community, does none of that count for anything? Worse, in Tazewell County, a person’s past can disqualify not only them, but potentially an entire organization doing good work.
That’s not public safety. That’s just more exclusion.
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Tazewell County, population 40,000, doesn’t have funding to grant in the first place. Even other Virginians haven’t heard of them.
Another notch in the belt for government, overstepping what citizens can do with their business. Pretty soon, we won’t probably even be able to collect income tax owed to us, or social security, medicaid, Medicare, etc. Tax money we pay, and can’t have access to, because of the registry.
We’re unaware of any bill proposing to withhold any of those things. If there is one, then we will need to fight it so that ot doesn’t happen. Where are you seeing this?
The Toilet Theory
Written by Quiet too long 10/15/2026
When discussing the cost of keeping the newly state-created race of “sex offenders” incarcerated longer, most people ignore a much larger issue.
State governments are illegally expanding their authority over individuals who have already completed the exact sentences imposed by a criminal court under protected constitutional standards. Once released, these individuals are free citizens. Yet, these alleged free citizens are illegally compelled to remain owned by all 50 states and 3,224 counties, and abide by these restrictions, surveillance, and re-incarcerations, and compelled to the servitudes. These restrictions are often worse than state-owned people on probation or parole—no servitude follows under the Thirteenth Amendment, where Section 1 states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” And to force or compel a person to legal ordinances, and claim foul to a race or free citizen without ownership or except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, breaks this standard. These servitudes are forced upon them decades after their original criminal punishment was fully served and they were constitutionally freed. We don’t refer to only one state as they pass the person from state to state if they move, which brings up the sovereign state and interstate issues. A nightmare of jail and surveillance terms thrown towards family as they face the scrutinies, employment, work, and jobs as they suffer losses as the national data system creeps, and haunting public neighbors as they lose property values and face indirect vandalism and protest requiems alike.
This practice flies directly in the face of the Ex Post Facto Clause of Article I, Section 10, which strictly prohibits the government from retroactively increasing a freed person’s punishment after a crime has been completed and freed. By using civil courts to hide what is effectively a state-owned person with lifelong re-incarceration of the exact same criminal charge(s), the state illegally bypasses the Sixth Amendment—denying individuals the right to a criminal jury trial for punishments disguised as civil regulations to deter that the state still owns these people instead of freeing them constitutionally. Furthermore, these state systems systematically violate the 14th Amendment, denying these owned citizens both Due Process and Equal Protection under the law by treating them as a permanently segregated underclass—a “new race”.
In a country that prides itself on freedom, this owned new race cannot even celebrate at Fourth of July venues as part of their servitudes to the state, violating their basic First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and maintain social ties to make my point.
At some point, taxpayers should ask whether this is truly about public safety, or if it is about a deep-seated hatred of this “new race”—preserving an illegal system that never allows a sentence to truly end and state ownerships to continue, then robs the public blind. Until the states are sued for illegal ownerships by an entity and forced to prove its own malfeasance, it will continue to maintain this manufactured new race of citizens and families, and deny its creation.
Before spending another dollar, or referring to the Bill of Rights and the federal and state constitutions as toilet paper, the public should demand fact-based evidence of justified harm(s) and or victim(s)—just as the state demands of the public—and force the government to prove that criminal behavior(s) with or without weapons or threats or theft or substantial deeds occurred. They must demand proof that longer incarceration is for a real offense and explicitly justified by a criminal judge, not dictated by some obscure civil administrative judge whose sole proprietary job is to submit small fines, or any officials armed with made-up law that sent them there illegally.
If a completed sentence can continue, any sovereign state can subject a freed citizen from another state’s criminal logs and acquire ownership, then compel servitude with illegal state restrictions, surveillance, and additional imprisonment decades later under a complete perversion of the 13th Amendment’s criminal exception clause, the public should ask if they wish these rules upon themselves. We are already seeing the dawn of this expansion in North Carolina with “teen takeover” laws that penalize parents for contributing to the delinquency of minors—essentially punishing you if your child sneaks out and you fail to restrain them. These laws demand explicit control when standard authority is denied, turning mandated restrictions, tracking, and forced, predatory counseling programs into a lucrative, corrupt tax and ‘money ball’ industry. This administrative overreach is soon to be in your neighborhood as a newly created list directly linked to the registry list and restrictions follow.
That question deserves just as much attention as the fiscal cost of these new race laws.
Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed in “The Toilet Theory” are solely those of the author, writing under the pseudonym Quiet too long. This piece is intended strictly for educational, philosophical, and political commentary regarding constitutional rights and administrative law. Nothing contained within this text constitutes formal legal advice or a specific attorney-client recommendation. Individuals seeking legal counsel regarding specific state or federal regulations should consult with a qualified criminal defense or civil rights attorney.
You raise an important question: When does a sentence really end? People who have served their time need a fair chance to work, find a home, and care for their families. Lawmakers should show how each rule keeps people safe and listen when those rules cause harm. I would avoid calling people on the registry a “new race” or saying the state owns them. Those words can take attention away from the real pain people face.
FAC
There are lots of job openings that need filled, and if someone like myself has unusual or expert skills, why deny them. I have worked at many, many companies over the years on the registry. And the reason there were so many, somewhere down the road that ONE person makes a complaint and you are gone. Not a complaint that I did anything wrong, but the wrong person felt I should not be “Working while registered”.
Basically, some think we should be locked up for life or worse that I won’t mention. I finally gave up and am on food stamps. The only reason I can even function is that my house is paid off. It is the yearly property taxes at the end of the year that send me into panic. Also, I had to get a new roof and not even going to tell you how much that was.
Living in Florida is tough when your registry status leads to job loss despite doing nothing wrong. It’s exhausting sending out countless applications only to be denied, but there are employers out there—mostly out of state—who are willing to hire. It really makes you wonder why Florida can’t offer more support. #Florida #Employment #Struggle #Support 😔⚖️💼
I appreciate you engaging with the core question of when a sentence truly ends, and your point about focusing on the real, everyday pain families face is well-taken. However, my use of terms like “new race” and “state ownership” is deliberate, because the legal mechanisms at play mirror these exact historical concepts.
When the Supreme Court historically evaluated the creation of a “caste” or “race” under the 14th Amendment, it looked at groups stripped of civil rights, permanently segregated, and marked for public exclusion. When a person cannot peaceably assemble, move freely between states without a government ‘guard’ opening the door, or purchase real estate without administrative restriction, they are experiencing the literal legal hallmarks of ownership, not just standard public safety rules.
If a citizen has fully completed their judicially mandated criminal sentence, any further restriction compelled by an administrative body is an exercise of state control over that person’s labor and movement. We cannot fully address the real pain of these families without calling out the root cause: the state has manufactured an entirely separate legal class of citizens to bypass the 13th and 14th Amendments. I use these heavy terms not to distract, but to accurately define the scale of the constitutional crisis we are facing.
I repect your opinion thank you
Hmmm I hear that you could get $30k if you report a mass fraud to the federal government. These stings are fraudulent, the registry is a big fraud in florida, both netting the state and local law enforcement agencies billions of dollars over the years.
Machiavelli
That is exactly why we seem to stay on the registries for life, or a long, long time. The registry is ALL about the money and jobs it creates. To release a registrant takes away from the funding. And yes, just one person being removed is not a total loss but when people get granted en-mass, funding plunges.
Not just me but even some in FAC in the past have agreed that the registry funds jobs and brings in money for an entire new industry that didn’t exist before the registries. And what is even more scary, the probation like standards, where some states are requiring payments to register. They call it an “Administrative fee”. Oh, ok that explains it and clears that right up cowboy. ” I just spit my coffee on the computer monitor for laughing”. (Sorry not a laughing matter but it IS laughable what they are doing to us)
Lastly, where oh where is our relief? Movies end, Some roads end but the registry seems to never end, nor do the requirements that get worse each session. And some are even re-troactive (In some instances).
Does this help keep the registry system in place by shutting out people who might speak against it? Taking money away from a charity because someone on the registry works there or helps lead it can hurt everyone that charity serves. Judge the charity by the good it does and how it spends its money.
“County Administrator Eric Young explained: “Taxpayer money should be spent responsibly.” “But we do need to know that public money is going to beneficial uses.” I have been paying taxes all my life. I pay taxes out of my military retirement check every month. What is the benefit of me paying taxes into the system, if I am not authorized to receive any of it? Maybe, I am wrong, something doesn’t the seem right to me? It seems like legalized theft to me.
We are banned from parks, playgrounds, splash pads, public pools, etc., but still must pay taxes, which fund these very things. My best friend has no children, and never will, but is still required to pay those taxes. The same person can not go to county meetings due to it being held in the Columbia county school board building. We should be exempt from said taxes for not being able to utilize these services. I personally was told to leave a food drive at a school on a Saturday because of the designation printed on my license. I was there to get food for my family, so yet another example of “protect and help the kids, except those of registrants”. As much as I tell them to help everyone in need, they hate the system and say they will refuse help to anyone who implements or enforces these laws and rules, no matter weather these people’s lives are endangered. This system is creating the next generation that hates them, which is sad really.
The U.S. Supreme Court determined military retirement pay is deferred compensation, not current pay for reduced services. BARKER v. KANSAS 503 U.S. 594 (1992)
Therefore, you are paying yourself in retirement with Fed taxes that you will receive back and then have taxed again on a cyclical basis.
When it comes to state, local, etc, you have every right to benefit from those taxes paid as you feel it right when you appeal to how they are being used.