Currently our name is “sex offender”, “monster”, and several other names I can’t bring myself to type. I am glad someone is pointing out that we are human beings too.

You think that is bad?

Exactly “Start telling a NEW story” It sounds like you agree with this project.
“We encourage people on the registry from all walks of life who have been offense free for a year or more to participate in the Registered Humans project by writing a short “snapshot” of their life: the contribution they make to society; their family life; what brings them happiness now; and their accomplishments, hopes and dreams. ”

Don’t worry, you can keep your sordid stories to yourself and you don’t even have to talk about your case.

How about “private citizens” or “civilians?”

“Labeled citizens” is by no means a euphemism for sex offender.

It’s still dehumanizing and promotes marginalization.

“For the support of this Declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

56 men signed the Declaration of Independence with their REAL names. All of them knew that the penalty would be death if they were captured by the British.

Five were captured as treasonous traitors to the crown and violently tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned to the ground.

Two sacrificed their sons who served in the American Army.

Nine died from wounds or hardships during the NINE years of war that followed.

Happy Fourth of July!

Do you know how many human interest stories have been aired in the past two years? Do you know what the reactions are? Do you watch the comments when they do a series on civil commitment, or a storytelling time with a registrant? If you want to make a difference, plug Untouchable. Collect money to show it to policymakers, youth serving organizations, prevention programs, and those with power. You need to get three kinds of people to listen: Those that form policy, those that inform policy, and those that inform the public. Those three groups are most adept at reaching people, because they know exactly how to spin it so that people will buy it. By comparison, the work you, I, Derek Logue, or anyone else does is child’s play. Convince the experts, they have been doing it for years.

I have all kinds of respect for people that choose, of their own volition and do their own pushing, to tell their stories with their real names. But that respect must run both ways: Those of us who use pseudonyms should not be maligned for not going public with a real name. I have serious doubts about involving my advocacy in any kind of public campaign that could impede someone’s mental health, particularly someone who has committed a sex crime. If you want to take that risk, then that is on you, and you can live with whatever consequences there are. I for one remember a man named Galen Boughman and the support I lent him, and I will not be going there again.

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Advocate for the Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

And to want to live one cannot be miserable all the time. 4 years after my arrest i’m doing OK. Probably better than 90 to 95% of folks on the registry.

I’m more than half way with writing my little essay and look forward to sharing it. Hopefully more folks participate. Only way to change is to own it.

Are you doing OK? If so, HOW are you doing it?

Good suggestion, Rajendra.