JD your right. But while I was in prison, they NEVER checked my cancer. And that ticked me off. But there was nothing I could do. So now that I’m out, I’m on parole. Ok. But if ANYTHING worsens with my cancer, I am going to Houston.I wpn’t let her tell me I can’t when its my health. But I don’t even think they consider that when implementing these laws.

If you are on parole at that time you don’t have full rights. Their are those on that list who are suffering from a severe disability that can’t be fixed. I find it so stupid those with medical issues so severe that will die as a result has to register. This list started as a reaction to violent Sex offenders but what the states and congress should of done is put these violent offenders away for their natural lives and if they get a terminal illness then they should be placed in a hospital getting round the clock medical care not released back onto the streets. Besides few of these offenders who get released have so much wealth are lucky to find somewhere to live away from people while 90 percent are unemployable the remaining 6 percent can get employed and lucky to not live on the streets. Many employers won’t hire sex offenders and not consider it when hiring parolees because a Sex Offender can kill business. I was personally told by a hiring manager they won’t consider a sex offender because it would make people uncomfortable. My criticism of a Sex Offender registry system and parole system for them is that they are highly unemployable and a unwelcome type of parolees. Conditions of parole/probation for sex offenders is the same as others that they must work even though they are unlikely to get work. If we end Parole and Probation for Sexual Offenders and say they have to serve either straight life or till age 90 in prison we can reduce tension that surrounds sex offenders entirely for the safety of the public and the offenders themselves.

There’s also a sister site called Tales from the registry (.org) that once accepted as a member, you can write your own posts for others to comment on. The only issue I have with that site is that people comment more on their own situation in their replies rather than addressing yours

Sandy,

Ok thanks! I was unaware of them. I guess it makes sense for me to become a member and I hope there are lots of members (I’m assuming paid memberships get to use the forum boards..?) because we all know that for RSO’s $$$ can be an issue even in minimal amounts.

Maestro, I know what your saying and I’ve also stated that since the US Courts can’t use religious reference for the basis of law, we need to figure out ways and strategies of using Constitutional Law that proves our standing as American Citizens.

I believe the legislative branch over a period of time, have used their congressional powers to write laws for a large mixture of justifications, good and bad, of which resulted in such a maze of rules and procedures that only experts can figure out how to zigzag their way through in order to “redress our grievances”.

I also believe that there are bureaucracies of non-elected officials who were given congressional authority to create and enforce rules and regulation. Such as, ICE, who actually created and enforced “Angel Watch” 9 years before it was authorized by IML. Even a Northern District Federal Judge thought it was law instead of a bureaucratic procedure.

How about that Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, and Tracking known as SMART? I wonder what surprises they’re planning under the guise of the Dept. of Justice? Who voted them into office?

I don’t want to leave out the Sex Offender Rehabilitation Treatment Service (SORTS) which in Missouri is ran by the non-elected officials of the Dept. of Health, which has been authorizing the involuntary commitment of Sex Offenders into a state hospital/prison, upon the end of their sentence, without due process of law. A hearing without a defense and no right to have a lawyer. Sex Offenders have been committed into that system since 1999 in which only 17 prisoners have left because they died of old age. FYI, in Mo. it was ruled unconstitutional by a Federal Court but the Governor Jay Nixon(D) is fighting it.

I have read my “Christian Bible”, a number of times, and I’ve studied it. I HAVE been wrong about a lot things, but I’m not wrong of this: There is nothing, absolutely nothing, not anywhere in the old or new testament, that teaches, condones, applauds, or celebrates the injustice, hate or vengeance by anyone or towards anyone, regardless of their standing. I can’t even imagine where a notion would come from that Jesus taught that raping and deflowering teenagers, and slavery as good, right and just.

If I read my bible a little closer, I find that, Eve, indeed ate first, because she was deceived by a liar, but Adam was not. Therefore, I offer to you the idea that Adam already knew it was wrong, because he wasn’t deceived. But in the scheme of things, the debate is nonsense. They both were punished at the same time, the same way. So maybe the truth is: doesn’t matter the order in which a wrong is done, it’s still wrong.

Therefore, I declare that I am listed on a Sex Offense Registry. I believe it’s unconstitutional, I believe that it doesn’t do what it was intended to do. It destroys lives and families, in a manner that no one has foreseen. My life reflects onto my children, and my children’s children, even for generations. And I pray that there are men with the knowledge and ability to petition and intercede, if not on my behalf, but at least for the sake of my children because they are innocent victims, as much as the victims of whom lawmakers claim to protect. I pray for all of us. I am imperfect and I was wrong in what I did. The lawmakers are wrong in what they are doing. It doesn’t matter who did the wrong first. I only speak for myself alone. As I have sown, so have I reaped. That, Maestro, is a Christian Principle and truth.

And that’s all I got to say on the subject.

I like Bernie too and I heard that he has a record of voting against sex offender laws. I haven’t confirmed that yet.

It is my firm belief that the SOR is a money game that many people of both parties benefit from. In Michigan we pay 50.00 per year for the privileged of being on the registry. There are over 40,000 registrants in Michigan. You do the math. That is a big part of why they are reaching back as far as they can to find people convicted decades ago and force them on the registry. Its all about MONEY.

We are the product they are getting rich off and its not just the money they make from us Registrants paying annually fees, but it also creates business ventures for tracking and monitoring offenders, software creation, vigilante groups, and so on. And don’t forget, every time someone gets arrested for non compliance reasons, someone else gets paid in the form of legal fees, court fees, and jail fees. Sex offender laws have to be a multi-billion dollar industry.

As I said before. Civil Rights were not won during the Civil Rights Movement because attorneys had built a strong case. It was won because thousands of people were actively protesting and making their voices heard. They could not just be ignored. We need to do the same thing. This organization needs to continue growing, getting stronger and more vocal. We are getting there and we will see the results we want, because we are all in this together. .

I’m with ya on that, Fred. I am a Democratic-Socialist just like Bernie Sanders. The two-party system fails all of us in so many ways, not to mention those of us on unconstitutional public sex offender registries.

Sure, Democrats play on emotions too, but not on revenge, retribution, and hate emotions like Republicans do. Look what the “War on Drugs,” War on Crime” and the “Three Strikes and Your Out” laws have done to state and federal budgets. The key is who benefits from politicians knee-jerk reactionary laws? Right now, it is those who build prisons, and those who run private prisons … in other words, people who make a ton of money on false policies that on the surface sound good, but in reality don’t work and keep a perpetual cycle of taxpayer money going into the hands of the wealthy instead of into programs that really do work to reduce recidivism by treatment and job training instead of perpetual punishment.

I won’t go into taxpayer money that continues to flow heavily into war-making machines that enrich the few at the expense of many, but there is a pattern here.

Organizations like RSOL need to flood the media with facts like the hard Right does about nonsense about boogie men and why we have to keep wasting money and American lives in the Middle East.

The judiciary and the media are our only hope, and I fully believe we can win the battle to put an end to public sex offender registry through rights granted to all of us under the U.S. Constitution … not just rights for those who benefit from bad laws.

Maestro
We do have a forum that we can communicate on with out just replying to articles. I hope you will join us there.

And you will need to get your CPL if you plan to carry your penis concealed.

And Jerry I 100% agree witht hat we need to band together part. We are lucky that all these good people are coming togethere here to do just that. I am confident that we are going to be seeing some progress in the not too distant future.

Just for the record, I am a Libertarian. I don’t mean to sound like I am leaning Republican in the last post.