Chris

AND, if they would just give us a chance to prove ourselves. If we are right, we get to go on to become productive citizens. if we are wrong, then lock us up throw away the key. The reason is, they DO know we have a low rate of re-offending but the registry creates jobs, funding, and a false sense of security. Someone(s) way high on the todem pole is/are allowing our supression of freedom.

I use to not buy into conspiracy theories but lately my eyes are being opened to the darkness that is our government.

Some people got charged when they where as young as 18, dating an underage girl and still have to register x amount of years later. I feel in certain cases they should let them get of the registration and live a regular life. If you where charged at 18 and you are 45 now with no reoffending you should be left alone not tracked like an animal!

There are several words that got changed somehow but hope you get the point I was trying to make anyhow.

Will Allen
I side with you on this. For one thing there are hundreds of thousands that ate on the so called SOR ( to me written out is a vulgar phrase and derogatory like the n word) that are no even sex offenders. If there was never any physical contact ,unless done with the threat of physical harm, there are no victims. With out victims there is no sex offender. just because someone reports something they saw or heard about does not make them a victim. You might be able to call it a social indiscretion but not a sex offense . A sex offense is a physical act. In case some hadn’t noticed. If law makers would just understand that simple thing probably 50% of those on the registry could be removed.
There are way to many people out there that want to consider themselves victims for a number of different reasons when there not. And law enforcement and politicians that want to cash in for money and prominence.

“Ex offender” is better but “Person Forced to Register” is best. For my specific case, that is the only term that fits actual reality. I expect that is true for most people.

The Registries have made it so I don’t have the first concern about anything that I did or didn’t do in the past. I can’t care. The Registries are great at killing empathy and compassion. So there is no “ex” there. There is certainly no “offender” there.

Plenty of people have offended against me with criminal actions, some quite recently. If those people paid for their crimes, I don’t care where they are right now. I have no right to know where they are living or force them to visit law enforcement offices or whatever. I don’t have a label for them.

Laurie Trybon
Yes ex offender is better but what other criminals have a label after they have done there time and paid there dues. None I can think of . Any label at all is simply to degrade and humiliate. This country was supposed to be based on a higher standard than that. This only puts the leaders of this country on the same level as power and money Hungry tyrants of lesser countries. No different than drug smugglers murderers, imprisoning opposition unjustifiedly , and living lavishly while starving the poor.

Yeah what is also weird is, she did prison time for being in possession of prescription pain killers that she did not have prescriptions for. I do not mean one or two pills but boxes and boxes of bottles.
I would have never known nor cared either way but she shared that with me. I told her at the time, it is not what you did in the past, but what you are doing now that matters.
Apparently she did not apply that same mantra to me. Most of the time I talked to her she was drunk out of her mind. I felt sorry for her, she appeared to be 50% underweight and was really concerned about her.