Amen! That’s for sure. She was on full display of her ignorance.

To them, we’re just things to be used as a means to a political end. They really are “passionate” about their hate and performative outrage.

In fact, that’s ALL this is – outrage bait for power, control and votes.

The race riots that took place before and during the civil rights movement suggest this outcome is inevitable, should history be our guide.

Let’s hope that there are some in our judicial branch with better judgement than our legislators and general populace. Unfortunately for us, we rarely instruct our children on our troubled history and, even more unfortunate, we have even shorter memories.

Very few realize that fact. The greatest threat to freedom loving people has never been crime, but tyranny by the hand of their own government. It is the reason our country was founded and the reason our founding documents were created. Yet we have a track record of being tyrannical to disfavored groups throughout our history.

I personally think that it will take those same antagonists experiencing our pain for real change to occur. When the registry is so bloated with people discarded by society that every family will be touched, then perhaps they will be forced to really confront the issue, instead of banishing us away, out of sight and out of mind.

Commissioner, you have no right to define me, but your flagrant ignorance was on full display for all to see.

You’re looking at unsuccessful movements that failed for many reasons but don’t look at movements that succeeded, like the civil rights movement.

In regards to the Occupy movement, what happened there was 99% (no pun intended) of them came for the initial marches in their community but didn’t stick around after day one. They came and did their one day march, then ent back to slaving for the man. And the few that remained tried to take on too much (feminists, environmentalists, and animal rights activists tried to draw folks to their movements, which detracted from their message. And, there was the struggle over the nature of how they “occupied” an area, i.e., many people stayed there in tents and made a mess of the place. The Occupy Movement also lacked leaders and a structure. That is why it fell apart. Unlike Occupy, we at least have a structure and a clear goal in mind, although some of us are istracted by unrelated issues.

BLM riots and the 1/6 insurrection weren’t peaceful protests and nothing like Occupy. Even if some went with good intentions, many others did not.

If you’re honestly sitting and waiting for that magical case, prepare for a lifetime of disappointment.

Smith v. Doe is NOT going to be overturned anytime soon. Smith v Doe was a 6-3 ruling with one liberal justice (Souter) voting with the conservatives. With Breyer retiring, that leaves Thomas as the sole justice who voted on that case, Thomas, who obviously voted to upholds the registry. Adding insult to injury, John Roberts was the state’s attorney who infamously compared registration to joining the Price Club.

We now have a 6-3 supermajority in SCOTUS. There is absolutely no chance in hell they’d vote to rehear Smith v Doe much less repeal it. Until we have a liberal court, we will NEVER have a fair chance at overturning Smith v Doe.

Courts alone never saved any successful movement. it took more than a court ruling to make the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s a success, and some will argue their work was never truly completed.