A Sheriff in Georgia is not messing around when it comes to Halloween. He put up “No Trick-Or-Treat at This Address” signs in the yards of sex offenders in order to keep children out of harms way.
“I’m not trying to humiliate ’em or anything like that. Let’s face reality: We have a greater chance of children getting run over by a car [on Halloween] than being a victim of sexual assault by a repeat offender,” says Sheriff Gary Long. “But at the end of the day if, in fact, we had a child that fell victim to a sexual assault, especially by a convicted sex offender, I don’t think I could sleep at night.”
This is now posted on the today show Instagram account. I would recommend people comment on it. I’ve been commenting and tagging them because they have been doing a segment “Justice for All.” How is this Justice for All??
You did not read the fine print
Justice for all, except those with a felony
** Even if you served your time and have not committed another crime, we the people will never forgive you and punish you forever but call it civil and not punitive and you will like it
Justice for all included in the group they choose
Heck my people ( Native Americans ) got sent to reservations AND put on a registry. My Great grandmother escaped and refused to go on the registry. Good for her as she married my great Grandfather, a German Immigrant but bad for me because I cannot register with the Cherokee Nation since she never registered. Not saying they owe me anything but would have liked to have my lineage recorded.
Petitioning the court is a better idea than organizing a “nude bike ride,” as someone suggested below. Can we please refrain from using FAC’s forum to advocate for the latter?
I respecfully decline your request to hide the truth of the upcoming political free speech demonstration planned for Butts County GA in 2020. This has been in the works for a year already and you are attempting to silence free speech. Action can take many forms.
They can have all the ‘free speech’ they want, it’s just not my thing to ride a bike with no clothes on. It might be feeding the opposition.
I think its time to be proactive! We need to work on passing laws that state: It’s a crime of child neglect and child endangerment for a parent(s) to let a child (children)ages 0-18 trick or treat unsupervised by a competent adult.
Would this law protect children from registered and unregistered offenders?
We all see and hear on the news that children and teens are running the streets committing adult crimes as young as 10 (even younger) carrying guns robbing people,stores,breaking into houses and vehicles, stealing vehicles, ect.
This law should even go as far as its a crime of child neglect and child endangerment for a parent(s) to let their child or children run the streets unsupervised at any time!
Its time we hold parents responsible for their children!
Please would like to hear your comments!
First of all, there is no law preventing a sign posted in front of the ‘no trick or treat’ sign. If there are churches in Butts County where the true gospel is taught, they could post signs encouraging the community to be forgiving. Perhaps church leaders could look for the signs and with parental supervision, bring their own children to these homes to show God that they can be forgiving. Perhaps members of the community may use their right to free speech and move the signs. High School students in my community one year rounded up all of the real estate signs and placed them in front of the school as a prank. If Butts county has a list of addresses posted where the signs are to be placed, some people may interpret this as a cry for help for residents to pick up the signs to avoid a federal suit against the community. I hope the folks in Butts County will see things clearly in 20/20. I believe those signs make those folks vulnerable. What better way to demonstrate vulnerability than a nude bike ride through Butts County, GA, October 31st, 2020! Some jurisdictions have ordinances against an RSO wearing a Halloween costume on October 31st. I would encourage folks to have a Halloween costume available to put on in case law enforcement asks you to wear one. Riding your bicycle nude in public has been deemed protected free speech! Therefore a safer alternative than wearing your pagan winter solstice garb when bicycling through Butts County on October 31st, 2020 would be to show your vulnerability.
Not sure who you are but you are giving BAD advice. Riding your bike in public in the nude will not only get you on the SO list but if you are already one, you are done.
Sounds like to me you are trying to get people locked up or you just have no clue what you are talking about. In WHAT Universe in these days and times do you think it would be ok to pass by a bunch of kids on a bike in the nude?
I was thinking the same thing!
!000% Cherokee Jack! This is very bad advice which could lead someone on the Blacklist Any type of nudity in front of kids is felony conviction.
Boston, MA (July 20)
Chicago, IL (June 8)
Madison, WI (June 15)
Montpelier, VT (June 8)
New Orleans, LA (June 9)
Los Angeles, CA (June 22)
Philadelphia, PA (August 24)
Portland, OR (June 29)
St. Louis, MO (June 16)
San Francisco, CA (Apr. 20)
The dates of naked bike rides from 2019 are posted below. The idea of inviting kids into the mix comes from CherokeeJack.
You are a DAMN liar and a coward. Go spread you hate somewhere else. Telling people to ride nude will get you arrested and all I said was if kids see you doing that ( if they are in the area where you are riding ) you are done for.
Unlike you, I am trying to protect people both on and off the registry. Your comments will get someone taken from their family
Please go take your medication
There is nothing cowardly about me! If you recall I have the courage of Rosa Parks and am brave enough to stand behind a legal demonstration while you preach of being afraid of being arrested. I bravely attended the Sex Offender national symposium and spoke up for those on the registry 4 times and even earned my certificate. I speak the truth! Do not fear men who can put you to death and do no more. Instead fear the one who can choose to or not to let you burn in hell for eternity! Rosa Parks did not live in fear of being arrested for doing the right thing. If they didn’t want people to ride with their bare butts hanging out, they shouldn’t have named it “Butts County”. Oh and about being a liar: YOU said, “In WHAT Universe in these days and times do you think it would be ok to pass by a bunch of kids on a bike in the nude?” YOU are the first person to suggest “riding nude near kids”. The dates and cities I posted of nude bike rides is actually a lie. The St. Louis ride was in July, not June. My bad!
Do I fear going back to prison because I want to be here for my family? Well if that makes me afraid then I am guilty. But I believe that makes me a “Smart” person. No individual who is on the registry , which you must not be, would put their family in risk of losing you by riding their bike in public in the nude.
And what the Hell does Rosa parks have to do with the offender registry? This is not a black and white issue this is a issue that affects people of all ages, races, religions etc.
Rosa Parks did not ride the bus without clothes.
Have fun on your bike ride. For your families sake, hope you are ok.
I will leave you alone and just pray for you, you will need it.
I’m not particularly interested in riding in a nude bike demonstration, but if it is legal, it is legal. If it is legal, then as a Registered Person, I would not have any trouble at all with riding in it, if I felt like it. And frankly, it is fun to shove their Registry BS in their face in as many ways as possible. Personally, I purposely go out of my way to do all kinds of things, as long as they are legal, that I know “people” who support Registries would like to fantasize can’t happen.
I am around children ALL the time. Literally. And very often it is 100% anonymously. I do that mostly simply because I live a normal life. And it’s the proper, moral, American response to the Registries.
I’m going to commend anyone who suggests fighting these criminal regimes in any way possible. There is no need to be polite or nice to Registry Supporters. They abused their Registries toy and destroyed ANY CHANCE that the Registries could have had to do anything good.
So good for these nude bike riders! I’m thinking protests along the lines of Westboro Baptist Church would be nice. More needs to be done to get attention. One of the main criminal scumbags who helped pass some of these “$EX offender” laws should be dying soon. I need to show up at the scumbags funeral with some good signs. I still want to earn a living though so I’m not sure I’m up for it.
Funny. I don’t know if it is illegal to be nude in public in Georgia and specifically Butts County. I’m assuming it is but I truly have no idea. If it is not, I think a nude Halloween bike ride would be a perfect way to protest all of this Halloween stupidity. It seems like it would be a great way in general to protest the overall “$EX offender” witch hunt, year round. We need protests that attract attention (perhaps the Westboro Baptist Church methods would be good also?!). Meh, I can’t care about that for now.
Anyway, the criminal sheriff Gary Long is being sued for this (https://all4consolaws.org/2019/10/ga-sex-offenders-sue-butts-county-sheriffs-office-over-no-trick-or-treat-signs/). I mean, this has always been a PR stunt for him that is designed to put his name out in public as much as possible. That is why his name is on the signs, instead of the name of the sheriff’s department itself. So the criminal is going to get even more publicly with the lawsuit.
I do love the idea of creating a bigger and better sign and just putting it directly in front of their stupid sign. How about a big sign that reads “Sheriff Gary Long is a criminal. Let’s vote the criminals out of office.”? Criminal sheriff’s departments are always involved in something illegal. So probably could reference their latest crimes and list a web site where readers can get more information. You know dipshits like Gary Long having been doing something illegal. People always need to watch for it, 24/7.
I also love the idea of making a political statement by building a huge gallows that completely hides the sign. A person would want to create effigies of Gary Long and other criminals and hang them high. Would be perfect.
If any Registered Person (RP) feels like it, they ought to travel to Butts County on Halloween and meet the RPs who filed the lawsuit. You could certainly mail them right now and try to arrange a meeting. Or even call. Easy peasy.
I guess the sheriff owns holloween and owns anyone that got in trouble to dictate what they cannot do as a free man. Seems to me if its not part of the original sentence (Bargain) its unconstitutional only their will be a few people that will get busted and likely do time due to the fact SOs are similar to passed out candy for defense attorneys and the court to make a buck off from the sheriff. These souls will not receive proper defense. I have faced retroactive technical violation and wasn’t able to find an attorney that cared dumping thousands basically you just take the jail time nothing else can be done, no-one cares. Word of advise the names of attorneys on FAC are simply a name for their district and may only see you as $$$ and not about to fight for who you are but what you are. Be very careful hiring them and read between the lines. If they don’t get it your sentence ended years ago and this is unconditional keep shopping. These new laws make new business which we can’t find true defense for which is harmless techs based off the original conviction. This really needs to be fought double jeopardy as the points carry forward to re convict. The gun stipulation is a charge in its own no? Mandatory. These are point based charges worse than probation violations. Who’s going to ruin their carrier and small network of friends and be oust of us? Who?
Conversation between two guys in Prison in the same cell
First prisoner “Hey buddy what are you in for, I killed an entire family and got 20 years”
Second prisoner ” Oh I handed out Halloween candy when I wasn’t supposed to and got life in prison “
I just read your comment….I am currently going through this process now, I made the mistake of contacting a Lawyer that is On the FAC web page, paid thousand of dollars, and just got a conference call from him stating, first he thanked me for my thousand dollar payment, then he proceeds to tell me, State Pros wanted to give me 6 Years and he negotiated it down to 22 Months in Prison. And because it being my “second” Technical Violation, my first being 14 years ago, when Florida refused to allow me to obtain a Drivers ID or License, because I didn’t have my birth certificate, I did have a Valid DL from the state of Ill. and its what I would use to register with every time I went in.
So because I had a Sheriff Officer that didn’t like me, and as luck has it, she was who I would have to go in and register with. Every Registration I would tell her, the same thing, “I’m waiting on Ill, to send me a copy of my Birth Certificate so I can obtain a Florida ID”, and this was fine with her…
The Moons aligned Perfectly! and she was able to attest me for NOT having a Florida ID, I was placed on One Year Court Supervision, I’ve since, Obtained my Florida License a few months after I was sentenced to Probation for a year, Now 15 Years Later, my Facebook page is what has me back in court, and because I already had a Technical Violation 15 years ago, this Prosecutor is saying 22 months based on my prior Technical Violation.
They confiscated my Phone, found NOTHING, dissected my fb account, FOUND NOTHING, Tried Charging me with running a Business and Not reporting it as Work and Having a car that isn’t registered, The just dropped those two and are just charging me with having a fb page I didn’t register it… 22 months, and Get this, my Lawyer ask me, “Tell me what you want to do? Do you want to waive speedy trail, that will give you a little more time to get your affairs in order?” that tells me right there, he doesn’t care about a defense, He got his last Payment and that’s all that matters to him…
When is someone going to realize, That they cant just do this to people, I was sentenced to 3 years Probation and limited to 10 Years Registration in Ill. I moved to Florida in 2003 and was told, I had to register for LIFE?? Because my charges in ILL. is equivalent to a specific charge in Florida that requires Life Registration.
Instead of basing it on a “Charge” why don’t they base it on the “Sentence Received”
I’m going to Fight for myself, do all the research myself, that my Lawyer doesn’t want to do, If I’m being convicted based on having a prior technical violation, I want this Prosecutor to know a little more about that Violation, and base his determination on that, and NOT just looking at my arrest record..
So yeah, Find a GOOD Lawyer, FAC check out the Lawyers, you allow to put their names on your web site, because they are NOT all fighting for Us…. And Most don’t even get back to you……
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My Question is, if you found out you had to register here and not in illinois, why and the heck didn’t you go back there? I would move to the desert and eat scorpions if it was a place I did not have to register.
And as far as a good vs. bad lawyer. Yes some do not do their job or stay in contact with you. But having said that, even the best lawyer in the World cannot say what a judge may or may not do. I have one who said he could get some of my charges from the past dropped because he saw they were bogus. I asked if there was a refund if he could not be successful if the judge tells him he is wrong and he said ” I am NOT wrong but even if told I am by a judge, no refunds”. I was pretty sure we would not win so didn’t pay him a dime. The people he was able to help were perfect case scenarios. With a sex offense the ball is usually in the prosecutor’s court. A 10 times murderer gets more sympathy from the courts than we do.
Sheriff Long what happen to the other 364 days of the year?I guess u can sleep if there were murders,carcackers and drug house in your town
And the fact of the matter is, the registry has been in existence long enough that if someone was worried about their kids A) go with them, and B) Check the registry yourself and just avoid that house.
AND here is the kicker. Every year I see a story of a kid getting candy with a razor blade or even laced with drugs or a needle. Who is doing that? Clearly not registrants.
The other 364 days you can go door to door with your daughter and sell Girl Scout cookies. The rules are actually that freaking stupid.
It is like they moved the bus stop from in front of my house ( Which I agree I didn’t want all those kids camping in my driveway anyway ) but then the same kids come home after school and play in front of my house anyway.
Finally! I was able to post my comments on this story. Oncefallen.com, I saw your comments at the end of the article and that prompted me to keep going until I finally figured out how to do it.
Well, here in Duval aka Jacksonville Floriduh, the sheriff doesn’t have to put signs in our yards. We do it for them because we are compelled to, thus letting the world know a “sex offender” lives here.
https://library.municode.com/fl/jacksonville/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITXIXPUSA_CH685SEOFSEPRRE_S685.104PRACSEOFSEPREX
“(a) 3. (ii) From 6:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., on October 31 (or any other day on which Halloween is celebrated) post a sign at his or her residence, including a vessel, or vehicle, stating, “No candy or treats here.” Such signs shall be in letters at least two inches high and shall be legible on the property leased, rented, owned or occupied by the Sexual Offender or Sexual Predator, and clearly visible from the street, waterway, or any property that is open to public access. The signs may be removed after 11:59 p.m. on October 31, or the day on which Halloween is celebrated.”
Oh, and anytime someone starts a sentence with “I’m not trying to…,” oh hell yes they are!
Happy Helloween!
I have seen non offenders hang signs like that before. As long as it doesn’t have to say Sex offender on the sign, it could just mean you are a grumpy old man. ” No candy here” just means that. Anyone who already knows about you isn’t going to bring their kids to your house anyway.
Not saying that sign is right either but way better than the one the Sheriff in the article is posting. Similar to the numbers on my drivers license. I do not like it but way better than the others who have to have “Predator” on theirs in bold letters with flashing lights
True to an extent, but what grumpy old man would put the sign up at 6:00 A.M.?
Also, the local media shares the ordinance so every viewer knows the timetable and the exact size and verbiage of the sign.
This Grumpy old man doesn’t get out of bed until 9am most days. It gets harder and harder to get out of bed for two reasons. One because my body aches and two, because I dread another day on the registry and wonder what new crap they have come up with to make our lives miserable.
I guess I must be the exception. I get out of bed about 4:30 or 5:00 in the morning looking forward to the day. I start out with a cup of coffee and my morning devotions…I made these part of my life back in late 1999. I have so many projects going on that I find that the day is not long enough. I can thank God for the positive attitude He has given me for I have come to know just how blessed that I am. I cannot imagine waking up and dreading the day ahead of me. I even had this attitude years ago when I was serving my ‘debt repayment’. It was a poor outlook that got me in trouble to begin with.
I am a VERY strong Christian and have faced death in the face many times. I am not afraid to die at all, but sometimes am afraid to live. ( NO not saying I am suicidal ).
I am not at all blaming God for my circumstance, I am blaming law makers and judges and even my lawyer for not following the law. I did in fact do some thing to deserve a sentence but instead of going to trial, on the advice of my lawyer because I was run out of money, I was never offered a free trial with a public defender and told to plead guilty to everything, even what I didn’t do and throw myself on the mercy of the court. Instead the judge chewed me out in front of my Mother and sentenced me to life in Prison. My lawyer passed out and was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
I fought and fought and fought for a re-sentencing but was denied at every turn. Finally I was able to get a hearing before another judge and got the rest of my sentence thrown out. I did 4 years out of a life sentence.
I thought that was the end of it and I deserved the 4 years I spent. That was in the early 90s. THEN they came out with a NEW life sentence for all of us. I have not so much spit on a sidewalk and yet every time I go and register I see them take someone in the back room in handcuffs because they didn’t register a neighbors car that was 1 inch into their yard so considered HIS car ( Yeah exaggerating a small bit ) but you get the point.
When I say I hate waking up, it is not for me. MY parents and my family all go through this as well. I try and not discuss any of this with my Mother because it gets her so upset. It is not just US but our families suffering as well. I do not blame God, I blame law makers for allowing an “After the fact ” so called civil restriction that every judge from border to border is either afraid to tackle or lets their personal feelings get in the way of giving us not relief we deserve but relief that is a legal Fact.
Myself and many others on the lists are either sick, or elderly and some of us both and may never see a free day because of these list in our life times. The Expo facto suit is all great and all but a panel of judges can decide to not even year it or say it is in fact civil and not punishment. Hard to live your life when you are not even allowed to attend a trip to Disney with your grandkids.
Ok I am done.
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Well where I live, I can participate in Halloween, dress up, dance in my yard and hand out candy.
However, I do not participate so there is ZERO chance for a false claim. Plus I am broke so buying candy is not on my list of top 1000 things to do.
I always get bummed out on all these rules but after seeing so many other places making your lives miserable, I guess I should be thankful. Problem is, so many have found out that it is easier where I register that now we have one of the highest offender rates in the state and people are starting to make complaints so only a matter of time when another sheriff gets elected that we become his or her, goal in life.
” We have a greater chance of children getting run over by a car [on Halloween] than being a victim of sexual assault by a repeat offender,” says Sheriff Gary Long. “
You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning twice in the same spot than being a victim of sexual assault by a repeat offender on Halloween. If it happens, he won’t be able to sleep at night. lol Drama much ?? Take a Xanax Sheriff!
The last line, “Butts County Sheriff Gary Long”, is the only reason the sign is being placed. It is purely political in nature and is nothing more than a re-election sign for Mr. Long. He wants to show the public he cares and what better way to do that than protect uninformed people from a harm that does not exist.
Exactly right. These criminal sheriffs NEVER need to put their names on billboards and such but they do it all the time. Nearly every one of them is the biggest douche bag you could ever imagine. Just really pathetic excuses of humans.
These sheriffs are constantly campaigning for election and trying to take money by any means available. These jobs need to be eliminated and just folded into regular law enforcement. All corrupt.
I admit I would make an angry Sheriff too if my resume’ said I was the Sheriff of a county named BUTTS.
Sounds like he bases law on his person opinion and desires rather than actual law. Makes these offenders should file a complaint with Internal Affairs and a Civil Rights suit against the Sheriff in his official and personal capacity, and the Sheriff’s Department, especially seeing how the State Legislature has not enacted a Halloween Law, and were the Sheriff represents the Executive Branch of government, not the Legislative, and has no authority to enact legislation!!!
I read this statue that allows the Ass of Butts County, Georgia to place these signs. I didn’t see anything that said the resident couldn’t immediately remove said sign (and possibly return it to its owner (the sheriff’s yard)).
This is compelled speech and is unconstitutional. A constitutional rights focused attorney we all know and love, Janice Bellucci had this to say in 2016:
Derek Lougue had this to say:
So in a nutshell, or own government is forcing compelled speech and pushing the narrative that the people who has the lowest possibility of recidivism based on a number of studies published are likely to engage in further criminal activity against children.
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References:
“Would it not be fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very liked people.”
So, if the Warning Sign was not in the yard of the ” Offender ” there would be no way to stop the ex-0ffender from grabbing up any victim of any age.
Maybe someone could make an internet site where it lists where these ” types live” and good parents would obviously stay away so that their children wouldn’t be victimized when they went to the ex-0ffenders home.
Do they really think that this is a viable way to keep ex-0ffenders from snatching up their children as they come to the Ex-0ffenders home?
I think it’s an attempt to save them from a crime that would Never happen.
Just an FYI, this article is citing a story from last Halloween. That being said, the quote is very telling. This is a “don’t confuse me with the facts, I’ve made up my mind” kind of quote.
Why doesn’t the sheriff also post signs ON ALL STREETS about the dangers of getting hit by a car, which he acknowledges is a greater danger?
I guess he would have no trouble sleeping if a child was killed by a car.
But the signs for RSOs gets HIM press notices.
Here is what gets me with this crap. How do you explain this to the children walking by? “Oh, the sheriff is just warning us about a creepy person who lives there that we should fear. But don’t worry, the sign will only be there for tonight, tomorrow he won’t be creepy anymore and it will still be safe to live 5 doors down from him.”
When they do this kind of crap, whether it be the Sheriff or the neighbor with their signs they take away a parents right on how they best want to handle having a register citizen living in the neighborhood. Instilling fear in other children for no reason is all this accomplishes. And it is the parents who then have to deal with and explain it to their child. And of course the Sheriff making himself feel like he is “doing something”. It is about him feeling good about himself.
What if you are a child who is being or was sexually abused or touched in some fashion and you see this sign and realize if you come forward they will put this sign in front of your house. Seems more like a tool for the secret abuser to use against a child. “Look….this is why we must keep our secret….you don’t want to upset your sister and dad by having this sign in our yard.”
And of course their are the innocent’s that live in that house that get to be humiliated too, which only makes the registrant feel worse because their family has to deal with this.
That is an awful lot of hurting going on, on various fronts and for what?…… a sign to make the Sheriff feel better.
If the locked gate, No Trespassing sign, and all lights off on our porch and yard isn’t a good enough deterrent, too damn bad. I think I’ll make one of these signs that says “Well known drug dealer lives here” for the trap house one street over from me.
Dont think its illegal to remove as theres no statute on it.
If one of those signs landed in my yard, it would be in the burn pile.
I wonder how they would feel if people placed signs “This cop murders and kidnaps people” on the yards of cops who have done so for the “system”.
I wonder if he would find such a sign in front of his own home to be humiliating? I always accompanied my kids when they went trick-or-treating. Only real way to keep them safe, ESPECIALLY from the real danger of getting hit by a car in the dark.
Gosh, don’t be sensible. It is so much easier and more satisfying to just believe the lies of nanny big government that they are doing something to protect and raise your children.
I posted my comments through Facebook on this article since this is one that we cannot let go by. My comments did not get posted, though. Occasionally this has happened to me on other articles. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I might be doing wrong? (I type in my comments, select “add a comment”, I add my comments, select “log in to post”, log in to my Facebook account, but nothing shows up when I pull up the article again. When I use my google account, I have always been successful, but this article requires Facebook, as far as I can tell. By the way, on some articles, I have been able to successfully post my comments through Facebook)
Let me also mention to the Clay County registrants, I did receive a reply from Commissioner Bolla stating that he read my entire email. It was 4.5 pages long. I spent all week on it, making many revisions. I had to pull out all the stops on this one as it is probably my only opportunity to educate our commissioners on the facts. Most would say that it was too lengthy, but there was so much misinformation given out at the last meeting that had to be corrected with adequate documentation. At the end of the email, I thanked any commissioner that would actually take the time to read it, so it is a big deal to me that Mr. Bolla let me know that he read it in its entirety. Mr. Bolla is the commissioner who “gets it”.
I tried it again by logging on through Facebook first, choosing “Share to News Feed or Story”, typing in my comments, selecting “Post to Facebook”. Still nothing was posted to the article?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are doing great stuff. The harassers who think Registries are acceptable just want to be able to have their Registries sitting around doing nothing except harassing people. And they don’t want to be bothered by it. They just want to be able to harass in peace! So we should disrupt their peace and lives every single day.
Regarding your problems posting with Facecrook, it usually works for me. I don’t particularly trust how well it works overall though just in the sense that it seems to have a lot of odd rules about what comments are shown (e.g. can choose “Relevant”, etc.). It’s like Facecrook created a dumb interface for dumb people. One thing I can tell you is that for certain if you reply to someone and then that person blocks you, you will not see your comment (unless you log out). And I know you can be blocked from entire pages. I would think that the people behind this news article could block (just you) from commenting. So if you put a comment there, it would disappear. And also when/if Facecrook suspends your account, your content will disappear. I’ve had that happen a lot.
Anyway, I need to do some actual useful work today so I’m not going to be wasting as much time on these Nazi harassers as I’d like. I’m just going to post a full comment here that I made yesterday regarding a truly idiotic new Android application that the scumbags at OffenderWatch are trying to sell to idiots. Law enforcement criminals are helping them (and surely getting $$$$$ from it). It has relevant comments about Facecrook. This is it:
So pathetic. What kind of moron would think this would be useful? Truly?
If I were a Registered Person and I wanted to contact children for nefarious reasons, I promise that I would never use a phone, e-mail, or anything else that the big government criminal regimes knew about. How hard is that for people to understand? Registry Nazis are idiots.
The simple fact is that scumbags that support this kind of trash don’t care that they are harassing over 1 million families just for the f*ck of it. They don’t care. Hell, probably 80% of those scumbags just like this kind of stuff ONLY because it harasses people. They don’t care if it does nothing useful. And of course plenty of people are just trying to scab $$$ for anything, even if immoral.
It is a sad, sad day in Amerika when “people” think it is acceptable that big government forces people to tell them their phone #s, e-mail addresses, etc. so that they can PRETEND that they are doing ANYTHING to protect anybody. Sad and pathetic.
This article takes comments but it seems you need a Facecrook account. All of my Facecrook accounts are currently suspended. I need to go create about 100 more. These criminal regimes want to silence dissent and critics. But they aren’t going to silence me.
The crazy thing about Facecrook is that they are apparently suspending accounts simply if you don’t have any photos associated with them!! I will have an account and make some relatively tame comments with it, doing nothing more than expressing a tame opinion that is not PC. Then someone apparently reports that to Facecrook. I have a feeling that it is often law enforcement criminals that are doing it, which is beyond outrageous.
A sheriff’s department will have a Facecrook page where the public is discussing issues. If you post something there that is anti-Registry, someone will report your account to Facecrook. I’ve had it happen at least 5 times. I suspect it is the criminal sheriff’s department itself. I have directly accused some of them of doing that. They are ALWAYS too weak to even respond. They are too weak to even say how they operate. THAT is a criminal operation in action. Governments that are criminal hide their actions and make you FORCE them to disclose them (e.g. FOIA). Legitimate governments operate transparently. But there is nothing legitimate about Registries so they have to hide what they can get away with.
Anyway, make no mistake – the attempts by these criminal regimes to prevent Facecrook access is to silence dissent and critics. That is the reason. They will lie all day that it is for “public safety” or “protecting children”. But only a real idiot would believe that. They are liars. Always.
Sarah, sounds like you provided a pretty ‘meaty’ e-mail if you could get a county commissioner to read it. I have sent several to Brevard County Commissioners and have no idea as to whether they have been read or not. If you can, I surely would appreciate a copy of the e-mail you wrote.
Thank you Sarah, glad to hear he read your email.
Clay County citizens, the Chairman of our County Commissioners also replied that he read the WHOLE email. He does feel that one commissioner is wanting the ordinance to go through quickly, but he wants to see the process slowed down some so that there is more time to study the issue.
I feel that with what I sent them, there is no way that any of our commissioners could now say that resisdency restrictions are needed to keep children safe, but unfortunately, I have to accept the fact that tougher residency restrictions will have the end result of keeping new registrants from moving to our county. Clay County has always been a “safe” county for registrants. It was mentioned by one of the commissioners that he simply wants all registrants out of our county. That is the one thing that I do not know how to defend against. I know he is wrong, but how does one defend against it? With surrounding counties passing stricter ordinances, I know it is only a matter of time before our county does, too.
It was disheartening to read in the “Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Triennial Review — 2018” put out by the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) in the state of Florida that some of the counties with the harshest ordinances had the lowest rate (per 100,000) of registrants living in the county . Miami/Dade with its 2,500-foot restriction had a rate of 63.66 and Seminole, where you cannot even travel within 1,000 feet of a school, daycare, etc., had a rate of 69.27. Clay is up at 180.16. Many counties are higher than Clay, but the numbers tell it all. Eventually political leaders will not be able to say that their ordinances keep the recidivism rates down — it is all going to be about keeping registrants out. That is what I do not know how to fight.
Thanks for your work Sarah
Keep up the fight. It is one worth winning. You are doing great work for the cause. We can change the minds of some commissioners by showing them that in reality registrants are an asset to the county…
I just wonder how many of them if it were their Son or Daughter who had been put on the registry if they would be more willing to listen.
On the flip side, how many of us would be bashing people on the registry if we were not on it.
I myself have always attempted to have an open mind and live by the mantra of ” Walk a mile in my shoes “.
I see people make fun of people with disabilities, people with skin disorders, people who are overweight. If those people were their family member they would be the same ones to curse out the person making fun of them.
The word for this is hypocrite
Funny, a place I worked, some people found me on the registry and spread it all around. A guy I worked with who I didn’t think liked me, came over to me and said ” I got your back”. We became friends ( At work only ) after that.
I agree, but how do I obtain the data? I know about some of the good things you have done for your community, but how do I find out about others? I know that taken collectively, the info out there for so many of our FAC members would be tremendous, whether it be always providing a smile and a “so good to see you” to a pesky deputy, always keeping your yard well groomed to volunteering in a group that ministers to the homeless? How do I get this information?
At the Volusia County Meet & Greet last Sunday, I met a lady who is working on making a video highlighting this very thing so that when people like Chitwood show the videos he does, she wants to show one with the many good things that registrants have done.
Encourage them to articulate HOW the community would be better off by the elimination of registrants and their families. Their responses can then be open to a reality check.
Because the number of registrants is NOT AT ALL the same as keeping the community safe. If that’s their answer to keeping the community safe from sexual abuse, they are likely to find that the problem will NOT go away. What is the underlying problem they say they are trying to address?
You have already started to educate them on who is at risk to commit these crimes, who is not, and the impacts of exclusion laws on children (including children of registrants). Do they need a reminder?
If I have not mentioned already, Sarah, you are an asset to NE FL. Just getting the chairman to have the sense to slow the process down is something you should consider an accomplishment in itself, and a sign of your effectiveness. Thank you.
Jacob, I will keep your suggestions in mind.
That’s the whole purpose and intent. Not in my County.
The cities with the harshest restrictions perhaps are home to people claiming to live in another city.
“I’m not trying to humiliate ’em or anything like that. Let’s face reality: We have a greater chance of children getting run over by a car [on Halloween] …” Common sense approach and one that is repeated over and over again. Then he got stupid.
I suppose that this sheriff would have no trouble sleeping if the child was hit by a drunk driver, but he must avoid those ‘evil’ sex offenders who have a likelihood of harming no one. As far as I am concerned, he can take his signs and place them where the ‘sun don’t shine’. If he came on to my property I would have him arrested for trespassing and he would leave with the sign stuck in a most appropriate location. Enough is enough.
I agree and I don’t know the legality of what he is doing either.
May as well paint a target on their house…..another well intentioned idiot