Letter, 5/26: Abolish sex offender registry
Some people call James Fairbanks (“Omaha police arrest man in sex offender’s death,” March 20) a hero because he murdered a registered person in cold blood. There is nothing heroic about premeditated murder.
Fairbanks used information from the Sex Offense Registry and a Facebook group to help plan his crime and broke into the victim’s home with the intent to kill. Fairbanks was never in danger, so he cannot claim self-defense.
The Nebraska Sex Offense Registry is an accomplice to this murder. Fairbanks admitted to accessing the registry. Nebraska joins Texas and Florida as states that allow registry information to pop up by a simple Google search, making it even easier for lynch mobs or vigilantes to access the information.
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I do not think too many police chiefs or Sheriffs lose sleep over one of us being killed. Although my personal opinion, I did work in law enforcement and have heard a lot of things about drug dealers, murders and others.
Since we are considered the bottom of the barrel there are not a lot of people going to be outraged by the killing. Back in the down people would gather in the town square to cheer on the hanging of someone who got a hearing by a judge who was appointed by the townspeople and was often also the sheriff, the town priest / pastor and the store owner who sold the caskets to bury said hung bad guy.
I say that because the first house I lived in when put on the registry, I was close to being the subject of a lynch mob in my neighborhood so they still exist. AND NONE of the people had anything to do with my case which was from another county.
“NOT IN MY TOWN” mentality
It’s important to collect as many recordings and comments from the public supporting James Fairbanks and advocating violence against Registrants as evidence that the public cannot be trusted with the Registry.
Exactly! The entire Facebook group should be screen captured, printed and used as evidence that the registry is turning little goodie two shoes society into cold blooded killers.
You mean the very facebook we are NOT allowed to access? Now you know why we are not allowed on. Not to protect the children, but so we do not see who is bad mouthing us. Same with NextDoor website which I was banned from.
I’m not on the registry anymore and I can easily take screenshots of that group. And any attorney can take screenshots of that group. Advocates like FAC and NARSOL can also. And we all should. These are real, every day people on a social media platform condoning and enticing MURDER.
And P.S. Not to mention that these people in that group most likely have the right to have firearms. Perhaps every one of them should be considered a potential threat considering the topic of the group and all given felonies to no longer be able to possess a firearm.
This is such GREAT argument evidence. Don’t let it slip by!!!
Please send screenshots
FAC
send me the fackbook page
Ill be more then happy to try to download the entire Page
That is because facebook was not the one blocking you, it was the registry rules. On the other hand, nextdoor actually personally has a record of those on the registry. Even if you got off, moving would be the only way to get them to unblock you.
Sad thing is,, They block ANYONE in your household which seems a little more than kinda shady? I guess they can as long as they are not blocking you based on age, religion, race etc
CherokeeJack, don’t you have friends and loved ones you could enlist for this particular job? I’m sure they would love to help their Cherokee live in a more just society.
I sort of really do NOT want to know what they are saying about me as it would either make me upset or revengeful, neither of which I want.
The old saying, what you don’t know can’t hurt you (Maybe LOL)
And the people who live on my street who do not like me, are a very low risk of harming me. Most of the issues I have had are from people who do not even live anywhere near my house. They look up someone to mess with on the registry and go joy riding with shot guns. (Yeah I have had a few windows shot out already)
I am a registrant and I have been on FB for several months now. TN dropped their social media prohibition just about a year ago in the wake of Packingham. Reply with which accounts to follow and I’ll get you all the screenshots you need.
This man’s actions proved Judge Matsch exactly right. In his landmark ruling against the Colorado S.O.R., he made the following statements:
The public registry tells the public, “These people are dangerous!” How is the public supposed to respond to that?
The public registry subjects those listed thereon to cruel and unusual punishment. The cruel and unusual punishment DOES NOT COME FROM THE GOVERNMENT, BUT FROM THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.
This Fairbanks monster proved Judge Matsch EXACTLY RIGHT on both counts!
While I’m on Judge Matsch’s decision, I wonder why the 10th Circuit has not issued a ruling yet. The oral arguments were made a long time ago and yet the case is SEEMINGLY being allowed to just lay there languishing without final disposition from said 10th Circuit. My theories on that go in 2 directions:
The 10th Circuit KNOWS Judge Matsch’s ruling was rock-solid and they’re going to have to uphold it, which puts a bitter taste in their mouth. They can’t stand the idea of setting a precedent that will deal a devastating blow to the registry in that it will be a HUGE ADDITION TO THE GROWING BODY OF FAVORABLE CASE LAW AGAINST THIS INSANELY POPULAR REGIME.
The Circuit is trying their best to find some series of legal gymnastics that will allow them to rule that the registry is NOT punitive and cannot be struck down based on PUBLIC MISUSE OF THE INFORMATION GIVEN THEREIN.
If any of you listen to “Registry Matters” with Andy and Larry, you know Larry has in recent episodes driven home time and time again the UNDENIABLE TRUTH that the information disseminated to the public on the registry goes far, far, far beyond the public record of the conviction. Your address, what you drive, where you work, etc. ARE NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN A PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OF CONVICTION.
To make another point, the unlimited public dissemination via the Internet far outstrips even this invented “right or need to know” because the information is not custom mailed to only schools, day cares, youth sports organizations, churches, youth mentoring programs, those who are parents/guardians, etc. A registrant’s profile is available to anyone, anywhere in the world. I am in the computer repair/I.T. industry by profession. ONCE SOMETHING IS OUT THERE ON THE INTERNET, IT IS THERE. PERIOD. IT CANNOT BE COMPLETELY SCRUBBED. The damage is irreversible.
In closing, I have sent 3 emails to the prosecutor. In the last email I sent, I asked the prosecutor to include a charge of using the registry to retaliate against an individual listed thereon. Every registry claims it’s a criminal offense to do this, however, this murdering monster has only been charged with first degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. There is no mention of him being charged with misusing the registry for vigilante purposes. I think it’s important that this charge be added to his indictment so as to put some real teeth into that provision of the registry law.
On prosecutors,
When we are the accused, they throw every bit of crap they can think of on the charge affidavits against us and lets us plead down
When WE are the victims, a murderer of an offender can plead down to littering with time served
Seems like I am exaggerating , but when someone did a drive by on my house and littered it with bullets, the 9-11 operator told me to file a report online if no one was hurt and I didn’t have suspect information.
CherokeeJack, the winds of change is shifting against the Registry. Every tragedy under the misuse of the Registry puts a burden on the government to do something about it. If Nebraska gives Fairbanks a slap on the wrist for murder then it would set a dangerous precedent to the world about vigilantism in which the state is complicit. And that would set a sh!tstorm of lawsuits when new attacks occur against Registrants.
Yeah that doesn’t sound so good…but I feel that with every act of violence against Registrants is another nail pounded into the coffin for the Registry.
Here in lies the problem
We are barely able to protect ourselves against an attack. We cannot own a gun but even if say someone attacked us on our own property and we smacked the attacker in the head with a brick and they died, well you know how that is going down.
Let’s not presume that CherokeeJack because we are living in unprecedented times now. Let us not always assume we will always lose.
How far could Gandhi go with that attitude?
lets not forget use of the internet for terrorist plots
I managed to make a PDF of the page a couple days before they went offline. Plenty of screenshots too. And already shared with Nebraska legislators and police
Good thinking!
He didn’t even own the home, AND he wasn’t even looking at kids. Kids were present when he was outside, and because he was on the registry the shooter ASSUMED that he MUST BE looking at kids, and used that as justification.
I have no proof of that, just a theory.
The allegation that Condoluci had been staring at kids, reminded me of a complaint to a Clay County councilman regarding a registrant “watching kids” at the school bus stop. Well, yeah, if he was watching his own kids, for their safety, otherwise it’s what the registry placed in the imagination of the complainant.
So when I saw that Condoluci didn’t even own the house with the playground, it caused me to call BS on other justifications.
After a week of promoting the vigilante groups, NOW the World-Herald released an editorial from their Editorial Board condemning the murder.
It is too late for them as far as I’m concerned, but there’s something that they said that stood out —
“While it is for sure creepy that play equipment was in his yard, including a slide and dilapidated playhouse, Douglas County records show that Condoluci didn’t own the home.”
This is highly important because all week, both the news media and the vigilante group was spreading the pic of that dilapidated playset in the backyard but if he did not own the property, then he had no say in it being there.
The World Herald whipped everyone up in a frenzy for a week. The damage has already been done. Now what we do is use this murder to question the validity of the public registry.
How nice that the only way to comment is to log in via Facebook – a forbidden platform.
At least they published your excellent editorial.
Stay Safe (if you can).
Nebraska’s legislators will continue to have blood on their hands until they abolish the registry as it is today. Up until 2009 the registry was not public. Hell since the infancy of the registry all government officials have blood on their hands. The Constitution is for all Americans regardless if you agree with an individual’s past. The past is the past and if politicians can’t handle it; their time in office needs to be a thing of the past. Time for these all dinosaurs to retire to Jurassic park!!
Nebraska legislators are probably giving each other fists bumps because one less registrant to deal with. So sad.