Member Submission: Even with Exit Paths, Sex Offender Registry Is Wrong
THE FOLLOWING IS THE OPINION OF ONE OF OUR MEMBERS AND NOT NECESSARILY THAT OF FLORIDA ACTION COMMITTEE.
As I share a concern I have, please understand I am not trying to start a war. I hope my comments will be construed as being respectful.
There are a lucky few registrants who have a path to deregistration. Many of us do not. We are “lifers.”
Respectfully, if you are one of those who will be deregistered, and you think that your crimes are “better” than someone else’s crimes, then you are entirely missing the point.
The point is that the twisting of our constitution and laws (whether it targets truly bad people or pretty-good guys who just made a horrible mistake) is NEVER right. – For anyone.
The problem is the registry itself, not whom it targets.
Furthermore, if there are approximately 1 million frustrated and angry registrants right now, and we can barely move towards our goal of elimination of the registry, then what if one-half of those people suddenly get deregistered? What if, suddenly, there are only half of us left to “fight the good fight?” Don’t you think that our cause for justice might suffer?
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Sure, you may be able to get off the registry…but does that mean “Hurray for me and tough luck for the rest of you?”
Half measures are anathema to our cause for liberty and equal justice. ALL registries are unjust, for they are government blacklists that foment hatred – government-sponsored hate.Â
Lastly, I say, let us not mince words with the so-called Sex Offender Management Boards and other officials who perpetuate this un-American and illegal scheme. For by doing so, we grant this scheme of persecution an air of credence and an air of respectability. We must present a very united front by telling them (respectfully) exactly what they are and what they are doing:Â
- They act in violation of the protections afforded by our various state constitutions and the federal constitution. (By twisting the laws to fit their own animus.)
- They act in violation of international human rights.
- They maintain a government blacklist and publicize that rag for the purposes of persecution of, and hatred towards, a segment of their own citizenry. (They Dox us.)
- They ardently, and with malice, act to deny jobs, housing, and welfare to about 1 million of their own citizens. (Public, government-sponsored Hate.)
- They deny our vote.
- They deny us public housing and SBA loans.
- They restrict us to modern-day Ghettos by enacting housing ordinances.
- They enact capricious and malicious laws designed to trap us and send us back to prison for innocuous, everyday actions like letting someone park their car on your property or sitting on a park bench.
- They have suspended Habeas Corpus. (They force us to appear at the county jail under penalty of felony prosecution for forced interrogations.)Â
- AND … They have enacted a set of laws that only apply to a small subset of hated and feared citizens. (This reeks of Jim Crow Laws.)
Let us be respectful and courteous, but we must tell these haters exactly what they are guilty of.
Thank you for reading this and considering my viewpoint. Do you share it? Or do you think that some people should be let off the registry, but the registry should stay in place?Â
JJJJ
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Free speech doesn’t give authorities the right to engage in a fraudulent conspiracy. Guess authorities are conspiring in many ways with this registry based on peradventure conjecture. Talk about doubt and uncertainty . Talk about evil testing. Trespassing is trespassing.
But if you do wrong be afraid for He is a servant a minister for good. Wow.. talk about evil. in this whole registry set up. This article makes a statement in and of itself and everyone should be on edge about this registry in more ways than one.
So is government doing evil with some garden of Eden seduction tactic? Using the coy of protecting a teen in this unethical way. Sure as the nose on your face. Justice goes hand in hand with righteousness or doing what is right. Are authorities doing what is right in this two wrongs don’t make a right issue.
Are we all to obey when they ask for dirty pictures or other pictures which was the intent all along,, or to talk dirty to them. I say it again no authority should ask you to talk dirty to them no matter what. When its all said and done the authorities have the more guilt conscious and that’s taking advantage of others in an unjust way. Standing up for truth and justice is a better way for all.
Sirs,
Do you think you would consider the following which would lead to an immediate injunction as well as defeat of the registries nationwide:
There is a facial challenge no one has attempted yet. The registry denies the right against self-incrimination.
Regarding reporting information a criminal registry is not constitutional as this reporting goes directly against the right against self-incrimination. Not only should we not have to report…reporting violates essential rights. See Albertson v. SACB, 382 U.S. 70 (1965) regarding the three part test that would defeat the sex offender registry facially or as applied as well as Leary v. United States, 395 U.S. 6 (1969) and Haynes v. United States, 390 U.S. 85 (1968) which would defeat the registries as applied and facially in that they require reporting information that would be self-incrimination. Such as it is illegal and a crime to reside within a certain distance of restricted locations but the state requires the reporting of all addresses, it is illegal and a crime to work at x location but places of work must be reported, etc. Not to mention all of the other information which could only be ever useful as evidentiary leads violating the right against self-incrimination. The right against self-incrimination is there for civil, criminal, and so called “civil” forms.
The Supreme Court of the USA has held that “a witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution and yet be innocent of any wrongdoing. The privilege serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.”
The US Supreme Court has even stated that someone could declare the fifth as to their employment on tax documentation were they producing income illegally…but a registrant can’t omit their employment or anything at all?
Reporting one’s address is not the same as self-incrimination. Cases on the constitutionality of the registry are much more recent than those cited here.
Yeah, I don’t know. I’m no legal scholar. But think about it this way – what if you are living somewhere that you know is an illegal felony? Government is then forcing you to admit to them that you have committed a felony. So if you are filling out their form and it asks you where you live are you going to admit to the felony or write “unknown” or what?
@Will Allen
The registry, as it becomes more and more punitive, is set up and formed in such a way that we are navigating a system of mouse traps. We are not after the cheese, we just want to get away from the traps. But those traps, have traps and only a matter of time before one or all of us are entangled in the spider’s web.
Most justice systems have a path towards redemption. For us, it seems they even have traps and stipulations for us to not reach those goals at any cost.
One example, many of us have been contacted by fake deputies saying we did not register. When they called me, there is no one who knows the information they knew other than the sheriff’s office. They were either hacked, a former employee gained access or a current employee, most likely a non sworn civilian employee.
It is a forced interrogation where you do NOT have the right to remain silent.
If you remain silent, then they will claim that they could not complete your registration. And on the first day of the following month they will charge you with a felony for failure to register.
Now somebody tells me that the laws and constitutions of our United States have NOT been twisted!!!
No Cherokee I’m not going to harm myself. Part of the comment I posted was a bit of a letter I am getting ready to send to the Governor of Virginia.
Have any of you all heard the expression give a person an inch and he will take a mile. This forced to register and being taken advantaged of by government and is a bit of a mind bender.
Many on here are garbling and grumbling about all this registry. Much of this registry is very simple Government broke the commandments as in false witness, coveting and of course the lying,deceiving, and intimidation. Add it all up and one could say you just got screwed.
Sure the catch phrase is “well you made a choice. How coy does that have to say one was sucked in and enticed by all this registry bs
I couldn’t force anyone to be gay or bi… course I did like Flip Wilson and his Geraldine skits or did the devil make you do it. Everybody on this forum needs to speak up about this governmental abuse. It is no more than a charade to offend others. Whether gay, straight or whatever that’s your choice in the matter.
@Saddles
Well it is at least good news that you are safe and not going to harm yourself. I will sleep better now for sure. I was lifting you up in prayer, especially when I did not get a reply right away.
Will keep you in my prayers and thoughts.
The Sex offender Registry is not only punishment ( defined as a penalty for a crime by Webster) it is much more. It is an open invitation for hate and needs to be labeled for what it is , a hate crime. It in no way associated with safety or rehabilitation but only an outlet for hate. With the States incouraged To be creative in there carrying out their hatred.
Published August 2, 2023 6:06PM
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/former-virginia-middle-school-teacher-to-avoid-sex-offender-label-in-plea-deal
I see your point. It is almost as if the lack of a requirement to register was part of the plea deal.
I am afraid, though, that the ACTUAL plea deal was a reduction in charges to a plea for a crime that did not require registration within that jurisdiction.
Now, I could be wrong. Perhaps the new charges (within that jurisdiction) DOES, in fact require registration.
But I don’t think I am wrong.
Lucky person to get a sweetheart deal like that!
Perhaps this is a lesson in the fact that the registry requirement is very arbitrary (unjust, in other words).
Thanks for the report.
We all must stand forward in this way and provide these reports to our friends here at FAC, whenever we find them, No?