Escaped June 30th.

Now 3 months later he’s “a clear threat to the community every day he is not in custody”

MY ASS.

Great story, thank you Cherokee. I think BLM and defund movements would be much more successful if they argued that this is what is happening at a large scale with the prison industrial complex, rather than making it about race first and foremost and thus dividing their base unnecessarily.

While I’m sure most of us have felt like you, KLM, at one point or another (I HAVE!), Jacob is right at this stage of the fight. The courts have thus far proven to be pretty f’n responsive to our community. This is particularly true given the current public opinion. Many judges have ruled in favor of the constitutions which bind them, which has typically meant in our favor.

They do this despite having to defend and reconcile their decisions to “protect child molestors/pedophiles/rapists/whatever-lazy-derogatory-term-the-uninformed-choose” not only to themselves, but to their significant others, family, friends, peers, and even, in some cases, constituents. Like it or not, many on the registry carry a label that is reviled, whether or not it’s accurate or warranted, because, to the ignorant (most), everyone on the registry is one or all of those things and the possibility that anyone on the registry is innocent of crimes against humanity is unfathomable.

And I’m not disparaging the stupid people out there who think what they think about us who are forced to register because, despite investing time and thinking I was knowledgeable about society and the legal system, I was that same stupid person before I f’d up.

Back to the point: the courts are working for us. Hell, even the legislatures (look at California), are working, and that’s a feat considering they often can’t pass legislation the majority of the population supports! You can devolve into talks about revenge all you want, but you’re flat out wrong. I have absolutely felt like you felt in moments and entire time periods of emotional turmoil. But, when my head is clear and I look at the landscape with objectivity instead of fear and anger, it’s abundantly clear that using the legal and proper channels is proving to be very viable.

Neither civil recourse nor violent revolt is going to abolish the registry overnight, but the former is proving to work and the latter only draws more negative attention and conclusions about people on the registry.

Your actions as a person required to register affect the rest of us, so please don’t even think of doing something that will solve nothing for you and only make things worse for the rest of us.

KLM

This is a real story but do not remember the state or department it involved. It was years ago but remember it well. A small town had so many officers that they touted that there was a zero crime rate. The cops started getting bored because there was nothing to do but they were loving the funding they got from the Government to have such a large force.

So to keep the funding flowing, they were creating crimes that didn’t exist and were harassing residents for not mowing their lawns and issuing citations to appear in court for things like broken down cars in their driveways. In the end, the citizens voted to disband the department and have the Sheriff’s office patrol their area and respond to calls “When needed”. This was like 20 years ago way before the “Defund” the police movement.

Iservedmytym

Having been in law enforcement myself, I will tell you, cops “LOVE” traffic stops. 10000000 other crimes could be on hold while they “Look” for something that isn’t there. A simple stop turns into someone getting shot because an officer sees a half smoked joint in the console. Next thing you know they are tearing the car apart looking for that huge bag of cocaine that doesn’t exist.

It use to amaze me when I was in training, how half a shift was sometimes burned up with a single traffic stop. Then the paper work, processing the car, taking the person to jail for a joint, etc. A waste of tax payers money and ties up officers from responding to “Real” crimes.

I realize now days that a joint is not a big deal to the law makers but can tell you, officers still look for things that are not there. My personal experience is now the Registry is that joint. I have been stopped both in a car and also “Walking while on the registry”. I have so many contacts with law enforcement that the FDLE has a special file on me.

I drive like a granny to avoid being pulled over. And now with some departments using license plate readers, the chance of getting pulled over just to be messed with has skyrocketed. When I even see a cop on the same road as me, I turn off somewhere and wait until they pass just to avoid the long interrogations. They have lasted anywhere from 20 minutes with a reasonable officer to one incident that lasted almost 3 hours and involved 7 officers, and a call to the FDLE to see if I was supposed to be on school grounds. My grandson had to sit in the principles office with an officer until I was told to leave and not come back and was NOT allowed to take my grandson with me.

Brilliantly articulated and every word spot on true and EXACTLY how I feel as well.

LPH

Yes you correct, sorry I should of given more context or rephrased it. Just found it odd that inmates thought most registrants went after teens; while masturbating to barely legal. Heck most had pictures naked young and adult women in their locker.

LOL, you obviously haven’t seen Will’s posts or are you just agreeing?

” I want to see this country dragged into the mud and destroyed because they believed their little crusade was worth it, then turn around and look at all they gave up just so they could be judgemental and hateful.”

I like this KLM person, woohoo!

Barely Legal is legal right? Masturbation is legal too right? ( I assume you mean the magazine and time spent in the bathroom dedicated to looking at it)