https://greensboro.com/opinion/editorial/our-opinion-no-vigilante-justice/article_fa06b802-038e-11ed-87d4-7b39d75b13b2.html

I love the dedication that you and Jack show. We need to keep up the fight within the bounds of civility…something those who hate registered citizens, politicians, and some law enforcement officials can’t do.

I also am a registered citizen and agree that each politician should walk in our shoes. BUT we have to look at this fight as something that we can win. We win with unity and we win with numbers. Just because we cant vote does not mean our families cant. When politicians come to the realization that there is 31k RC in Florida. If we all had 2 sympathetic voters that’s over 60k votes. SO yes they might not care about our votes but with numbers they will care about the others.

Derek
You said in your last line:
“As far as the vigilantes, if they like guns and fighting so much, we can ship them to the Ukraine, where those types would be actually needed.”

I need to correct you if you will allow. Those bastards only go after the ones they see as weak, frail and helpless. Sending them over the Russia or The Ukraine would make them wet their diapers and come screaming home for their Mommies. That is because over there, both Russia and Ukraine actually fight back.

Not everyone on the registry is a coward either. None of us wants trouble or to get re-arrested but, some of us fight back when cornered, especially when we live with our families. There is nothing a man wouldn’t do to protect their families. Try taking a baby bear from a Grizzly and see what happens.

Peace my brother, and glad you do not feel bad for taking Government assistance. I have been denied food stamps so many times, the food stamp office takes bets from the employees on my chances of getting approved. LOL

God has blessed me with a restored family and surrounded me with good neighbors. I hope no one is offended by my using the term “GOD”.

Whenever we buy stuff we pay taxes. When we sell stuff online we pay taxes. So there’s no way to NOT pay at least some tax, so when one of these right-wingers bash me for not working a regular slave job, they don’t seem to understand that even the poorest of the poor pay at least some taxes.

So here in Nebraska the sales tax is roughly 7% once you take into account both state and local taxes. That’s $7 every $100 I spend, be it clothes, gas, food, or other items. If I spend $500 a month on these things, then by year’s end the gov’t collected roughly $420 in sales taxes. So roughly half a month’s worth of my SSI payment every year goes back into taxes.

And of course, some places have higher sales taxes, and if I travel, hotel taxes are far higher. If I get a hotel room in Lincoln, for example, the room may be $99 but I end up paying about $25 or so in taxes. Gasoline state sales tax is about 25 cents per gallon in addition to whatever the fed gas tax is.

But, I am what conservatives like to call a “government leech.” I colect a gov’t check & some food stamps and medicare/medicaid.

And since the registry makes so many unable to woek, I have no qualms collecting it. I don’t feel guilty my oppressers are slaving away their lives at a 9-to-5 while I sit at home playing video games and eating good food on their dime.

As far as the vigilantes, if they like guns and fighting so much, we can ship them to the Ukraine, where those types would be actually needed.

No hope, you can probably find out if someone has a concealed weapons permit or similar permit by contacting the appropriate state agency since it would be public record. But you will also need to know public records laws in the various states where these incidents occur and how to appeal denials of your public information requests. Good luck with all that.

BWJ

We have dealt with these types for years. Many neighbors have made our lives Hell. But what is funny is, we trusted God to help us weather the storms and He did. Over the years over 15 neighbors have moved because I refused to move no matter what they threw at me/us.

We stood our ground. And yes, new neighbors have moved in, some nicer and some meaner. Lately a new battle has been brewing since the Nextdoor app came out. Now we have people harassing us who do NOT even live on our street. Wow. So we are looking for what new spiritual weapons God will bring out of the storage locker for us to wage war with.

Fl
citizen

Believe me, they do not care if our families suffer. A judge as much as told me that when I was sentenced. She said ” YOU did this to your family, not me so they have to pay for your mistake”.

Well in a way she is right, but again, there was NO registry when I was sentenced, and yet every day my family suffers because I cannot take a vacation with them (Unless I jump through hoops, re-registry here and there numerous times) I am not allowed on campuses so cannot attended my grandchildren’s events, and so many other things.

AND, not being selfish here because almost ALL of us have to live with these retroactive penalties that the courts refuse to acknowledge are punitive. I say walk a week in our shoes and see what it is like. Some states are trying to pass lifetime ankle monitors on registrants even NOT on any sanctions.

Kim

An article last year posted by F.A.C was a story of a guy killed because he was on the registry. The problem was, the person they killed was NOT the person they thought he was and that person was NOT on the registry and was mistaken identity.

So one family lost a loved one senselessly and the other family has a member in prison for murder.