Well said Paula!

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
-Benjamin Franklin

NEWS FLASH – The government does not exist to keep people safe. As we have seen recently they even fail miserably at that task. Legitimate governments exist solely to protect the rights of their citizens. The vast majority of politicians only say what they think will get them into office. Once elected, they use their elected positions as a cash cow or as a future ATM when they get private sector jobs. It unfortunately falls on the governed to continuously fight for our civil rights and civil liberties or they will simply evaporate into thin air. This includes The Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms.

800,000 Americans die EVERY year from heart disease. Maybe we should require universal background checks for food purchases. Or perhaps require universal background checks for food purchases by fat people.

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Dictionary definition of infringe:
To break off, impair, break, violate; To break (a law or agreement.);
Following that logic ANY laws which impair (weaken, hinder, prevent or delay) in any way, an American’s right to acquire, possess or own any type of arms (including firearms) clearly violates the United States Constitution. Period.

There are NO clauses in the United States Constitution stating if public opinion polls are taken that the opinion of those polled trumps any laws or any part of the United States Constitution or amendments thereof.

It is NOT wrong to stand up for our civil rights.

It is WRONG to pass laws and believe that they will stop the violence embedded in American society.

People are getting sick and tired of being told that they need to give up their civil liberties to keep them safe. What a crock of BULL!

Freedom comes with risks. Either you want to live in a free country or you don’t. If YOU want to give up YOUR civil liberties to feel safe then do so. But do NOT ask me to give up MY civil liberties. Do NOT ask tens of millions of other freedom loving Americans to give up theirs either! If YOU find The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights unacceptable then go live somewhere else. AND don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way to Mexico or China or Russia or Venezuela or Canada.

Freedom suppressed and regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” –Thomas Jefferson

Remember: British attempts at gun-control and firearms and ammunition confiscation started the American Revolution. It was not about tea.

“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” –Edmund Burke

Ron Book and Lauren Book will continue their mean spirited campaign so all sex offenders are either homeless or in jail. Currently working on the jail part is high in the list. The Books have made an entire population homeless. The laws are meant to be so rigorous and technical that errors with the registration and such, make non sex offenses easy to violate without knowledge.

Of course. We understand that. Every couple years the requirements become more onerous and punitive.

Keep into perspective when SCOUS review the registry issue in 2004, that was no in person requirement, no residency restrictions and the ability to petition for removal if after 10 years you had no other felony/misdemeanor charges.

Yes, we are filing – see our post from last month where we consummated our formal retainer.

I’m sure you’re aware, but check out Doe v. Snyder; held that the registry is punishment. SCOTUS denied cert last October, I think.

According to my research in May of 1996 the feds passed the Megan law requiring states establish sor.though not all have. But each state can make up there own decisions as to what a sex offender is ,so with 50 different ideas and one the same we have a conglomeration of screwed up mick mash but trade names from state to state and now to other countries even though none can even agree between themselves.plus each state is constantly changing there laws and punishment. It’s like making a law that every state have abaseball team and play each other but every team make up there own rules and Change them at will. You wonder why there are problems

They won’t care whether it is 5 days or 3 days. I have personally seen deputies turn registrants away telling them they only register people on a certain day and time and they have to wait till then. When it was pointed out that waiting till then would put the registrant in violation, they responded that they will indeed arrest the registrant for failure to register and it was on the registrant to plan all their moves, etc. so as to coincide with times they felt like registering people even if the registrant is from out of the area and has no way to know when they choose to register them. One station even refused to register someone because he would be moving on in a day or two and they didn’t want to be bothered even if it would violate the registration period. Police themselves fail to follow registration laws all the time.

I have been keeping tabs on the stories going on around the country concerning these laws and I absolutely agree that the registry is by far cruel and unusual punishment and not only has it hindered my son from getting a job, living in a safe place with my brother (who is the only relative down in Florida that we have to help him), but it has hindered my son from being able to move back to Ohio and living with his family who just want him to come home. We tried to get a transfer back to Ohio and the only place he could go would be my parents cause the state of Ohio will not let him live with us because our granddaughter lives with us. My parents apparently live within a 1,000 feet of an in-home daycare and that put the brakes on his transfer. In the meantime our son had to live with a complete stranger who did nothing but extort money from us for the last 3 months because the apartment that my brother had been living in threatened to evict the both of them if my son did not move out. My son had a hard time finding work and we have tapped out all of our resources into paying fees, counseling visits, polygraph test, court fees, etc. Not only does this registry interfere with my son’s rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but it interferes with our family’s rights to the same thing. I feel as though we are being punished because every day we grieve over the loss of our son from our family and every day I wonder if I am ever going to be able to have my son home again. He is my only son and he has a twin sister, who deeply misses him as well as 2 other sisters, a niece and nephew, grandparents, etc. that just want him home. As a mom I want nothing more than to fight for my son and to end this ridiculousness. I would give anything to sit in a room with Mr. Ron Book and his daughter and tell them to “walk in my shoes” and let them see what they are doing isn’t just to sex offenders but it is to their families and if the state of Florida keeps going the way they are going with these illegal sting operations the whole state of Florida is going to be affected by the registry and then what do we have…..