Change.org Petition against International Megan's Law
Please sign an online petition at Change.Org regarding your opposition to HR 515, International Megan’s Law. It takes less than 5 minutes and it is a way to express your opinion regarding this terrible bill. The link to the petition is below and once you sign the petition, be sure to ask others to do it, too. There are more than 800,000 registrants and each person has at least one family member or friend. With those numbers, the voices of more than 1 million people could be heard.
http://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-vote-against-hr-515
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More and more punishment, This is not how people get back to becoming
people
Every person knows that the U.S.A. is in direct violation of Civil and Constitutional rights of individuals. The Government does not have the right to invade and take away God given rights to Life Liberty and the persuit of happiness, all based on “FEAR?HATE Based laws! Once a person is penalized in the Justice system, it is WRONG to continue to “Restrict a persons Liberties” because they “FEEL THINK or Believe” a person “COULD” do this or that” Sure we the public/people may feel uncomfortable, but that is not sufficiant too bind and hinder the X_OFFENDER! WHY ? You may ask! BECAUSE THIS COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE “MINORITY REPORT’ LAWS! WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PUNISH-INDIVIDUALS ON THE PAST OR FUTURE CRIMES!!!!!!!! ONLY THE PRESENT !!!!! BESIDES ALL THIS THE LAW IS “COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG IN MANY WAYS!!!! AT WHAT POINT DO WE SPEAK OUT AGAINST LAWS THAT SUBJECT PEOPLE TO VIOLENCE, IMPOSE INHUMANE RESTRICTIONS, BLOCK PEOPLE FROM HOUSING, PREVENT PEOPLE FROM EMPLOYMENT! IS THE LAW SUPPOSE TO BE ALLOWED TO BULLY….HARASS…INTIMIDATE….TRACK….LABEL….AND BRAND PEOPLE CRIMINALS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THEIR LIVES!
IF YOU BELIEVE THEY SHOULD, IS IT TO EASE YOUR VENGEFUL DESIRE! THINK OF THIS ANYONE AT ANYTIME FOR ANY REASON CAN SNAP “RECORD OR NO RECORD’ , SO TO PUT SOMEONE ON A SPECIAL LIST, PARTICULARILY WITH THE PUBLICS VIGILANTY LIST NOT NECESSARILY THE LAWS IS NOT A MISTAKE BUT A OUTRIGHT “UNLAWFULL ACT”!! i ASK THE READERS “DOES ONE HOMOSEXUAL ACT MAKE YOU A HOMOSEXUAL? STEALING A COUPLE TIMES IN YOUR YOUTH MAKE YOU A HABITUAL OFFENDER? ETC. ETC. OR WHAT ABOUT THIS…..IF A PERSON ROBS A BANK OF BIG MONEY AND SHOOTS/CRIPPLES SOMEONE FOR LIFE! DOES THE LAW BAN THAT PERSON FROM EVER ENTERING A BANK WITHOUT PERMISSION OR PUT THEM ON A SPECIAL LIST FOR THEIR DEEDS, THIS IS INSAIN!! TO EXCOMMUNICATE PEOPLE AND EXPECT THEM TO BE BETTER OR NORMAL IN SOCIETY!!!! ARE YOU THE JUDGE? JURRY OR EXECUTIONER? IS THIS NAZI GERMANY WHERE GOVERNMENT DECLARES SECOND CLASS CITIZENS, BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ITS JUST A REGISTRATION YOU ARE VERY WRONG!!!!! TO BE BRANDED ON DRIVERS LICENSE “CRIMINAL SEX OFFENDER’ IS NAZISM AND DANGEROUS !!!!!!!!! I COULD GO ON BUT I ASK YOU NOT TO FOOL YOURSELF ANY LONGER!!!!!!!! IN CLOSING I TELL YOU ONE FINAL THING!!!!!!!
JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DID OR YOU DID NOT GET CAUGHT MAKES YOU NO LESS OR MORE A CRIMINAL THAN THE OTHERS!!!!!!!!
LAWS ARE SURPRISING!!!!
DID YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE/HAD ANAL SEX WITH YOUR WIFE IT IS “SODOMY” ILLEGAL !!!!!!
STATISTICS SHOW THAT MOST SEX CRIMES ARE OVER PUNISHED !!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!! DO WE LIVE IN A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY THAT CUTS THE HANDS OFF THIEVES???? YES IT DETERS CRIME BECAUSE THEY CANT DO “THAT CRIME AGAIN” BUT LOOK WHAT ELSE THE LAW DOES THE MAN CANT FEED HIMSELF OR A FAMILY AND WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES US A CIVILIZED SOCIETY????? DO WOMEN WHO RAPE GET CASTRATED???? “STERILIZED ??????? I THINK WE NEED TO WAKE UP AND KNOW WE ARE INTINTIONALLY HARDER ON MEN IN THIS SOCIETY NOT BECAUSE THE MEN HAVE TESTOSTERONE AND DO THE MAJORITY OF CRIMES BUT RATHER THIS SOCIETY HAS CREATED A BIAS/WRONG ATTITUDE TOWARD MALES…ETC. ETC.. HOW? OH YOU ASKED FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!
WE WANT MEN TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY BUT WE DO NOT WANT TO GIVE THEM THERE SHARE OF RIGHTS! IF A WOMAN ABORTS/KILLS A BABY IT “HER” RIGHT” IF SHE WANTS TO LIVE ALONE WITH THE BABY IT “HER CHOICE” ….SHE GETS CHILD SUPPORT! HE GETS THE BOOT/PAYMENTS?
I ASK YOU!!!!!!!!!! WOULD YOU PAY FOR ANYTHING MUCH LESS YOUR OWN BLOOD AND NOT GET TO MAKE THE RULES OR CHOOSE OR HAVE SUPPORT LOVE ATTENTION ETC.. ETC???
THINK ABOUT IT HEROES!!!!!!!!!!! OF HUMANITY!!!!!!!!
SELFRIGHTEOUS, JUDGEMENTAL GOOD CITIZENS, AND WHILE YOU DO THINK OF THIS ………….
NOT EVERYONE IS BORN WITH THE SAME BLESSINGS, TLENTS, ABILITIES, HELP , MONEY, LOVE, SUPPORT!!!!!!
MEN ARE NOT BORN TO BE SLAVES OF THE LAW, BUT RATHER THE LAW IS TO SERVE/ AND SET PEOPLE FREE
I STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS BILL. IT IS A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY.
THERE ARE ALREADY LAWS PERTAINING TO THIS
Megans Law is a U.S. Federal Law and should not apply with Interpol Laws of Foreign Countries already in place to stop known criminals from entering their Countries. Tagging a Passport “Sex Offender” will not stop or prevent said Offender from entering a Country but may hinder said person from travel access. The ramifications of identifying wrongly a Sex Offender via a Passport far outweigh its use. The country the Offender is entering can make this decision without infiltration by a U.S. magistrate identifying said Offender. And lets consider Cruise Ship Lines, Travel Agencies and the like being blamed for allowing the said Offender to travel freely. The legal issues here are huge. Again Megans Law is a Federal U.S. Law and it has many problems as it sits let alone making it a International Law.
Done. I support for all. They have paid their debt. I also sent my letters
I would only support such a measure for repeat offenders or violent offenders.
Margaret, while you raise a point your point fails at the legal definition of both “repeat offender” and “violent offender.”
(FAC ADMIN: Please correct me if i am wrong)
Those of us on the registry (and not under “supervision” – don’t even get me started on that one…) have many, many, many, requirements to follow in our daily lives. Should we violate any of these requirements (like going to a park in pasco county) we can be charged with a felony. Yes, you read that correctly: a felony for going to a public park. Once charged the system does not differentiate between our alleged sex crime and the new charge. We are considered “repeat offenders.” So…any language endorsing additional hardships for repeat offenders would include those who went to a park.
Many of the alleged sex crimes we have been charged, arrested, and convicted for (or pleaded to) are considered violent crimes even when there is no victim (cp, sting for example) so again language in this regard would fail.
Again:FAC please correct me if I am wrong
There are differences in the application of the term “recidivism” or “re-offense rate”. Some count re-offense as ANY subsequent arrest for ANY “offense” and some count only another sexual offense. Then, within that application, some (including FDLE) count technical violations of the registry requirements as a sexual re-offense.
The differences in application depend on which side of the fence you are on.
Violations of the STATE registration requirements are third degree felonies! You can have an underlying offense 20 years ago for which you received a withhold adjudication (not a felon), but 20 years later you forget to register your roommate’s new car (or are unable to within 48 hours) and you’re charged with a third degree felony and facing serious jail time.
The park restrictions are generally included in municipal ordinances, and those are misdemeanors, but then are counted as “re-offense”. What’s really interesting is, out of curiosity, I looked into your example of Pasco County and found Sec. 66-69. – Child safety zones, which is their proximity ordinance. There is no prescribed punishment for a violation that I could find. Almost all other municipalities have a max fine or penalty… this has nothing.
As far as the STATE requirement, they apply while a person is on probation, and provide “a prohibition on visiting schools, child care facilities, parks, and playgrounds, without prior approval from the offender’s supervising officer.” but do not apply when OFF probation.
Some counties have absolute lifetime bans, some have exceptions for taking one’s own children to a park, some have no specific requirements, which creates a confusing hodgepodge of different rules for different cities with different punishments and it makes no sense.
If you interpret “re-offense” or “recidivist act” as another violation for the same or similar crime – fair. If you’re going to take someone with a 20 year old sexual offense who gets arrested for a DUI and consider them a repeat sex offender, that’s just wrong. It’s like saying an addict who has been sober for 10 years and then gets a speeding ticket has “fallen off the wagon”.
As highlighted above, registered citizens have A BUNCH more restrictions than any other person which are always changing, which are never communicated to them when they change, which can differ on one side of a city border from the next, which are vague and which defy common sense in many cases. The punishments for a violation (even an innocent violation when you’re not aware of the violation) are super harsh and there is NO CONSIDERATION given as to whether the person had a Romeo and Juliet offense 20 years ago or just got out of jail for aggravated sexual battery on a 5 year old… the rules are the same.