Wil, thank you so much for what you’ve shared here. My family has talked about the sameness of these two atrocities but never actually sat down and compared the two. The attorney working on our son’s appeal will have this in hand tomorrow.

Oh it has happened. Nick Holbert who was a registrant murdered (no sexual assault) Kelli Bordeaux in NC. Basically he was out on a date/drinking with her and someone told her he was a rso. She started acting distant with him and when he took her home she went off on him calling him a child molester etc and he beat her to death. The question is did he go off the deep end because of the registry or was he one of the bad ones that make us all look bad.

If you are talking about registrants becoming radicalized or extremists I don’t know, but when you take everything away from someone that makes them a person anything is possible. The registry certainly could create the right environment for that kind of behavior. From everything I have seen and read the registry increases the likelihood of someone on it creating any crime and mostly non sexual with factors like homelessness, anger, fear, frustration, stress, isolation, no social or family structure etc all playing a part.

Those million of us condemned under a disproportionate and dysfunctional legal system are indeed America’s answer for providing a class of scapegoats for the citizenry to look down upon, just like Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

“HISTORY REPEATS IT SELF”

Hitler’s laws against the Jews

1. Had to register. (sometimes twice daily)
2. Banned from public parks.
3. Banned from public pools.
4. Banned from public libraries / schools
5. Banned from cinemas.
6. Banned from certain jobs /owning business
7. Banned from owning pets.
8. Banned from owning cars.
9. Banned from owning phones, radios, typewriters.
10. Banned from traveling.
11. Banned from marriage outside of race.
12. Limits on where they could live.
13. People did not want as neighbors.
14. Tattooed identification numbers.
15. Special identification cards.
16. Special taxes.
17. Had to wear yellow arm bans / yellow stars.
18. House arrest from Dec. 23 to Jan. 1
19. Random house searches.
20. Boycotts
21. Curfews
22. Deportation
23. Put in prison camps.
24. Put to death.
25. Blocked bank accounts.
26. Reduced food rations.
27. Banned from buying tobacco, cigarettes, flowers.

USA LAWS AGAINST SEX OFFENDERS

1. Have to register.
2. Banned from public parks / places where children congregate.
3. Banned from public pools.
4. Banned from libraries / schools
5. Banned from cinemas.
6. Banned from certain jobs / owning certain businesses.
7. Banned from owning certain dogs.
8. Have to register all vehicles.
9. Have to register phone numbers, email address, IP addresses,
chat room names, wed site addresses, etc.
10. Special conditions when traveling.
11. Cannot date / wed someone with children.
12. Limits on where sex offenders can live.
13. People do not want as neighbors.
14. Talk of implanting GPS chips.
15. Marks on their drivers license, license plates, passports.
16. Registration fees.
17. Signs in their front yards.
18. House arrest or group confinement on Halloween, can’t dress
as Santa or the Easter Bunny
19. Random address checks / house searches.
20. People refuse to hire sex offenders.
21. Curfews.
22. N/A
23. Put in prison / life long civil commitment.
24. Talk of the death penalty for sex offenders.
25. N/A
26. N/A
27. N/A

Even if Jesus Christ Himself were to walk today with the label of a sex offender, they will find something to crucify Him again.

“Unintended Consequences” is a two way street however what happens when you have hard cross-validated fact proving the contrary?

Does ‘political grandstanding’ still rule the roost?

Does ‘Burning Down the House to Roast the Pig’ still stand to reason?

If public safety is really the issue and not “double jeopardy” then what? Jeopardy is jeopardy despite a clear definition of the word itself being left to a judiciaries individualized interpretations.

You have perfectly described how many of us feel. That is the message that we need to keep spreading so that our plight can be better understood by those struggling to see how these laws interfere with our right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.