As long as we are needed
By Sandy . . . Everyone loves a good protest. Most of us can look back to younger days, college or early job perhaps, and recall the excitement of being part of something we believed in. The right to protest is enshrined not only in our memories but also in the Constitution.
“Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble . . .” – United States Constitution Amendment I
The wording in the Constitution explicitly requires that any assembling for the purpose of petitioning or protesting must be peaceful. When exercising the right to assemble and protest has the intent of destroying another’s right to assemble, peacefulness is lost. Today’s lightning-fast, mass communication system produces an environment where the intent to harm is weaponized a thousandfold.
NARSOL has recently experienced this.
A known hate-group, using lies, fear, and vigilantism, persuaded a hotel to cancel our June conference space just days before it was set to begin, leaving no options to relocate in time to hold the conference as planned. NARSOL and NARSOL’s Foundation teams planned that conference for more than a year. We lost it in a matter of days. We were, of course, shaken. Temporarily. Our supporters were also shaken, angry, worried.
To be clear – NARSOL did not choose to cancel this conference. The hotel venue called NARSOL staff and informed them they were “cancelling our event booking,” closing access to the hotel venue to our nearly 200 attendees, caving to pressure from an “American far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence.”
NARSOL has existed for 18 years. Through 2024, we have had 16 
consecutive, peaceful conferences. Every day, we receive letters and emails from individuals on the conviction registry thanking us for giving them hope for a better tomorrow. It will take more than an online hate campaign to deter us. There are six months left in the year. There are many thousands of conference venues.
What we do is too important to stop. We fight the lies and myths surrounding registrants with facts and truth. We fight repressive, unconstitutional laws and restrictions with legal action. We publish the Digest, a newsletter for registrants, the incarcerated, their families, and their supporters.
We have conferences, educational, collegial, and enjoyable.
We daily strive toward our vision: NARSOL envisions a society free from public
shaming, dehumanizing registries, discrimination, and unconstitutional laws. We live up to our mission: NARSOL opposes dehumanizing registries by working to eliminate the laws, policies, and practices that propagate them.
We will move forward with greater care and doubled resolve, and we will continue to join together to fight for rational sex offense laws and against criminal registries.
What we do won’t be stopped or deterred. It will survive as long as it is needed.
I’m sure everyone caught up in this life long wrecking, unconstitutional law is very happy to have you all fighting and working so hard to bring justice back to an unjust system that is being based on emotional self righteous bias, rather than logical balance in which I believe the constitution is meant to try and govern. Giving citizens the wright and the chance to rehabilitate themselves and become a welcomed member of society once again. Because You all are fighting not only unjust SOR law’s, But hopefully all unconstitutional law’s and act’s committed by our legal system (ACLU). Perhaps if you Go stealth incognito and Rename NARSOL to NARCL ( National Association for Rational Constitutional laws ) Leaving the Sex Offence Law’s out of the title, will perhaps divert many OF NARSOL’s political predators. Giving you all another foot hold and more time to work uninhibited.
The same way foreign terrorists won by the implementation of TSA regime before boarding an airplane. How is it the American way of life was determined by what terrorists might do. That’s weak sauce! NARSOL suffered a breach of contract and should seek legal recourse. Yes fascist regimes exist on the far left and the right, but giving in to them is not the way forward.
I feel safer knowing you all and others are out there helping to fight for our freedom and constitutional justice. I also want to ask, what Michigan is up to now ? It has been 90 day past the final decision of the District Court of Michigan with Judge Mark Goldsmith presiding. Where Ex post facto and the 14th amendments where in violation and the law indeed constituted punishment. And to this Day I have yet to see or hear any notice as to our release to this unconstitutional and unlawful Obligation. What do we do now ?
What happens to all the monies that has been allotted
Hotel Refunds? Airline Refunds? Etc?
Master reservation fees for NARSOL?
Actually ZOOM meetings would be more beneficial
No one had paid any hotel bills. Room charges are due when checking out after a stay. Most folk were able to cancel airline bookings for a refund or credit.
You people really are stupid
never ever do this
ZOOM…..duh
Has it been verified this “far right group” in fact did make a credible threat? Do they stand behind this in further responses?
I’m suspicious this was a lone crank that stole their name and made imposter calls to the hotel, and the hotel just took the threat as serious without investigating it further.
The PBs schtick just doesn’t fit this story in any logical way. What beef does the PB’s have with NARSOL?
It is a common thread in alternative media that the PBs are an undercover Fed operation, just paid agit-prop for the nightly news called chaos. I highly doubt they made any credible threat as an organization with real plans. When the PBs are called on to answer for this and they deny doing this, then we know it was a crank that stole their name.