SBA Loans offer resources for small business owners… except sex offenders.
A member pointed something out that we were not aware of, but in times of crisis (such as we are in), becomes critical to businesses.
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) provides small businesses with low interest loans to help recover from disasters, including the present financial disaster that is caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. The loans can save companies and their employees from going under during these difficult times. The SBA is here to save small businesses… unless they are owned by a person required to register as a sex offender! They are ineligible.
To qualify for loans from institutions participating in the small business lending fund, businesses must certify that none of their principals has been convicted of, or pleaded no contest to, a sex offense against a minor. (Annually, until the Redemption Date, a participating institution must certify to Treasury that for each loan originated by the institution or any of its affiliates that was funded in whole or in part using SBLF funds, the institution has obtained from the business to which it made such loan a written certification that no principal of such business has been convicted of a sex offense against a minor (as such terms are defined in section 111 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, 42 U.S.C. §16911). These certifications must be retained by the institution in accordance with standard record keeping practices established by the appropriate federal banking agency)
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Discrimination plain and simple but remember none of this is punishment
Discrimination…yes. Punishment…yes. It is a typical ploy by ‘do-gooder’ liberals and conservatives to change the name of a deplorable act to a name that is more palatable to the public in general. So discrimination/punishment becomes protecting the public…who can find anything wrong with that? Another example…murder of the unborn was at first called ‘abortion’, then it became a woman’s health solution…to hell with the health of the unborn human; and now it’s the exercise of a constitutional choice. How can that possibly be wrong? Hitler and Stalin and others found out about this ploy many years ago. If it gets corrected during our lifetime…who knows? I do know that on judgment day it will get corrected. And those who have put themselves on a judicial pedestal will find themselves knocked off into the pit of hell for eternity. I would not want to be one of them.
Here is where I’m going to make an unpopular “opinion” and I hope that FAC will post my reply because it’s valid. Here goes:
I do know that on judgment day it will get corrected. And those who have put themselves on a judicial pedestal will find themselves knocked off into the pit of hell for eternity. I would not want to be one of them
With all due respect; you do NOT know that there is any such “judgement day” as there is no proof of the existence of any magical being in the sky. If you say the Bible is proof of god, then I say Bram Stoker’s fictional novel is proof of Dracula.
There a a ton of conservatives who are atheists. If you can access Facebook, you’ll find a few groups of them. Now then… since not everyone believes in an “afterlife” and no everyone believes in the existence of a god and not everyone believes in the same TYPE of god and this god’s type of punishment, let me remind you that far too many people don’t give a flying rat’s ass about what someone is going to get on “judgment day” in the “La-La Land” of mythology. There are children who would like mommy and daddy to take them to Disney World but one or maybe both parents are not allowed into Disney.
There are people who would like to make positive changes in their lives NOW, not in some unproven afterlife.
Tell a 5 yr old that can’t have daddy take her to Disney World that the mean people who won’t allow it will get what’s coming to them on “judgement day” and you’re gonna still have a 5 yr old that wants to have daddy take her to Disney world in THIS LIFETIME.
Sitting around throwing imaginary ideas of what’s going to happen to people on “judgement day” is as good as sitting around doing NOTHING to actually protest this bullshit we’re being put through NOW. I’m not concerned about an afterlife. I want to be able to move around FREELY in my “great country” and not have to live under the radar of fear that if I get my drivers license updated to whatever state I move to, they’ll FORCE ME AGAINST MY WILL to go BACK ON TO a registry that i have ALREADY COMPLETED MY TIME ON in my home state.
I’m sure there are lots of people both religious and nonreligous who will agree that we want our actual LIVES back NOW. Not when we’re dead.
Thank you for understanding.
I know that having God in my life has brought me peace and has played a major role in restoring my family. I would rather believe in God and be wrong than not believe in God and be wrong. All I have to do is look around to see that I am not surrounded by a bunch of ‘magical happenings’. The night sky is not an ‘accident’. With all the knowledge and science man has at his avail, no one has yet been able to make a blade of grass. I respect Maestro’s opinion and will keep him in my prayers. Eternity is a terrible thing to not be prepared for.
“Why should my tax dollars be put at risk for the benefit of a sex offender?”
That is the logic (?) behind provisions such as this, and the question we’ll always be asked, explicitly or implicitly, when we oppose them.
And it’s easy to counteract, IF people are listening.
Day after Day Week after Week Year after Year the same words come up every time “It applies to everyone except people that are registered sex offenders” I don’t understand why a decent lawyer doesn’t take all of these laws and benefits that state that and present it to the judge or judges and show them that almost anything in life that is good or prosperous applies to almost anyone(including murderer’s) except for registered sex offenders. punitive punitive punitive punitive
No hope,
The judges response to your comments “yawnnnnnn”.
That is why, they do not adhere to the oath they took in law school. It is no longer about what is legal but above them not upsetting the powers that be that allow them to keep their jobs.
There is a small group of wealthy, powerful people who control not only the U.S but the World. The courts are no exception.
What does your past have to do with trying to make a living?
I would say to add this to the argument that the registry is punishment but the way I read it, it seems like they run a background check and will deny you even if you’re no longer on the registry.
Until my rights are once again respected and I am allowed to become a productive member of society, I am choosing to retaliate against every one of the ridiculous rules. I am doing anything I can to fight back. I am filing silly lawsuits, violating rules as often as I am able without losing my relative freedom. I am choosing to be as big of a pain in the azz as I can possibly be.
There has to be something we can do to retaliate. Even if it is winning this “WAR” from every angle! Maybe we will wait to see what the Attorneys are going to do with whats going on in Tallahassee. But now im wondering is that going to be extended because of the virus. But when it does get to that point and time hopefully there going in with full force and to get the point across that we are tired of being used and we are just as good as they are and alot of ways better than they are because we care about people that are in a crisis and they can care less!!. Something has got to change their attitude or they will be answering to the one who knows whats going on! By then it will be to late for them anyway…..
Warpath,
I use to think people like you were all talk on line and just venting your frustrations. I did not think anyone would really go off and do something radical until I registered in December. I still cannot believe the guy was not arrested.
He was yelling “uck you” at the lady trying to complete his registration and telling her that they already knew everything about him so why should he have to “ucking have to keep repeating it”. Then he refused to sign the paperwork stating he had registered and he left, all the way out the door screaming cuss words telling them to go *uck themselves and more.
He probably didn’t get in any trouble but someone like me who is a good little boy and complies with everything is the one who gets screwed because I did not register every car I parked next to at Walmart last year when I was living in my car.
Thanks for the possitive feedback Cherokee! I probably was over dramatic and venting my anger but it is so hard to be rational to a bunch of irrational people that could care less about registrants. It makes me wonder what are they like outside the workplace. They got to know how to love and care about someone’s feelings. And how to forgive others that made some mistakes. Otherwise they would probably be alone and unhappy. And yes they are lawmakers, but there still has to be common since to the rule of justice. We are all humans. We all make mistakes. Some worse than others. Our situation has not gotten any better in years. If all or some of the Legislature’s would read all of the comments that have been posted it seems to me someone would have different opinions on how this is affecting all the registrants. “They” probably don’t want to waist there time reading “common since” issues
That is just another situation that might open there eye’s to whats going on with us that have a glimmer of hope!. 🙏
Concerned,
Yeah when I first had to register when the registry was first introduced, I was pissed as was everyone. However it was much more simple back then. Go in, register and be done with it until next time. Not sure how many or little sanctions I had because at the time I was on probation.
I will say, I am hassled 10000% more now that I have been off paper for 17 years than when on paperwork. There were no Fl statues on our licenses, No flyers hung on the door if you were not home, just a business card from law enforcement telling you to call them.
Back then, even with having to register, I traveled all over the World and the only problems I had was when I re-entered the U.S and almost always missed my connecting flight. I learned after a while to pay extra and have my home town as my entry airport.
I do think more and more people on the registry who have no family, no job etc are going to eventually crack and someone is going to do something that will make the news. Of course the news will only focus on the bad and how dangerous we are when that happens, instead of listening to our pleas for justice to be applied to our dilemmas.
Can we all resist the temptation to file silly lawsuits? They create bad precedent that makes things worse for registrants, not better.
Let’s save our resources for the best-informed attorneys and most sympathetic plaintiffs, for the benefit of everyone.
AMEN!!!
Why????????