Leave positive Yelp reviews after you visit this fine establishment. They can use all the support we can offer.

A couple months ago, one of our fellow advocate groups experienced online vigilantism and it can be scary. But with help and support, they weathered the storm. And I’ve dealt with this mess many times over the years.

What we should do is go up there get ice cream and offer support to them. If I was in the area (Roxane is in the St Louis area 20 miles from the gateway Arch) I’d be there getting some ice cream right now.

And because we want to credit the source of the article and we want people to comment on the article instead of commenting here, where they are preaching to the choir.

A few things you need to understand:

A lot of people dion’t know we exist. You may find that hard to believe but many who contact me stumbled upon it in a Google search and never knew there were advocates for Registered Persons. If we’re an advocacy group our job is to reach out to others to offer our support. Are you going to reach out to them and offer to help?
I assume that FAC and ACSOL don’t publish full articles because some news outlets get really uptight about others republishing their articles in full. I so it for my blogs and they get occasionally taken down due to copyright. It isn’t often but some reports hate us using their reports. That’s why you go read the original story.

Cherokeejack

Got a solution. Start up a reality company under someone else’s name of course. Get a print out of all sex offender lists, advertise heavily around just those areas and clean up. $$$ after all isn’t that what the list is really for. It’s not for anyones safety any more than Putin attacked Ukraine to get rid of neo – nazis. Yet he said it enough times to convince people in Russia that ,that is the case. Shows how easy it is to dupe the public.

Vindicated…

Get Outside and Get Some Free Sunshine Vitamins….

Go out and Take Walks, Breathe, and Be a Human!

Dennis

No, when you win the prize, of course they announce the first and last name of the winner. If you are a John smith in Jacksonville Florida, no one is going to know who that is since there are a quad Billion John Smiths.

However, if you are say, a Tobias Johanson of PickleVille, Georgia, everyone in town is going to call the station and say “Why are you giving a prize to a Sex pervert”. Also from personal experience, anytime your name is mentioned, someone out there is going to say to themselves “Oh yeah, I forgot to throw an egg at that guys house today”. Not being a hypochondriac, but these things have happened to me in the past. (You should totally visit Pickleville, Georgia LOL) *Hint, It doesn’t exist.

I am an outgoing person but, about the only social activity in my life anymore is on here, Florida Action Committee. I hardly leave the house anymore and have become a hermit.

Vindicated

Since 1997 (When I was retroactively put on registry) I have kept a low profile. I am not required to have notifications so I have mostly flown under the radar. Not saying that in a sneaky way, just trying to live my life as best as can be expected.

ALL that changed with the advent of Nextdoor. People who have lived near me since the dawn of the Dinosaurs are now calling for me to be sent to the Guillotine forthwith. Since I refuse to give in, over 15 neighbors have moved. WOW, I have that much power over someone to make you sell your house? I should join the X-Men with that kind of power.

I am not the cause of them moving, Nextdoor is. I have done my time and my incident took place now 32 years ago. Not a single mis-step before or since and yet everyone around me has to suffer. Secondly I blame the courts for allowing the retroactive application of the registry, which frankly (Sorry Frank) should not exist at all.

We have ZERO reward for staying out of trouble IE: a path off the registry. Even the so called way off, is a gamble as a judge is not required to remove you. Even if you have followed every single rule, law and ordinance, a judge uses not just the law but their own personal feelings and emotions in decisions. They are not supposed to but that happened to me during sentencing and took me years to get that ruling overturned by an appeals judge who 100% agreed with me and my then, lawyer.

I sometimes wonder why God is allowing this to happen to us, and now I am asking the same thing about the people of Ukraine. It makes me think of this verse in the Bible

John 16:33 —
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

My take away from that is, stay faithful and the reward will come in due time. Looking back I never imagined I would have gotten off Probation early due to previous 3 denied appeals. 4th time was the charm. Just took the right soul to listen and believe. Not that I deserved it but was the right thing legally to do, due to the overly excessive 29 year sentence I was given for a first time offender.