General Comments January 2014

I have questions. If we are not allowed certain constitutional rights and have to be second class citizens then why must we pay taxes? Are we represented if our representatives fail us to such a great degree? Wasn’t the design of the US Constitution pacifically for cases such as that of registered citizens that have paid their debt to society? What is the purpose of probation and parole? Isn’t it to sift out the problems in those that can’t or won’t fit back into society? If that is the truth then either the registry must go or probation and parole. Registration pushes people into obscurity by their ever harsher draconian laws put in place at the whim of any politician looking to be elected. Ladies and gentlemen this is NOT freedom but TYRANNY. It is as the waters of Noah unto me to have to stand and fight this evil. Be not deceived it is evil of the most dangerous sort. Evil sold under the quize of protecting the children. Proverbs 16:25 states there is a way to a man that seems right but the end thereof is the ways of death. The sex offender registry is a living death it is evil and it is wrong. Any first year law student can argue that truth in regards to the Constitution and any first year Seminary student can argue that the registry by it’s nature violates every principle of Grace set down by God. Truth

In earlier days I hoped for a court breakthrough to help fight this insanity, this mass psychosis. I hoped the courts would be more similar to what they were when many of us grew up, a place where you could at least have a chance to get some justice, a place that actually might stand up to the majority in order to do what is right, a place of enlightenment, not of the Dark Ages.

But unfortunately, the right wingers have made a long, slow march to complete takeover of all the courts, federal and state, all across the country. There is no hope in the courts for the rest of the lifetime of any of us — it would take that long to change them back (gees, in California you can’t even be elected a judge any more unless you can show a background as a prosecutor!). The courts have shown time and again that they have no interest in justice, are even more corrupt and power crazy than the politicians. They have made up blatant lies in their opinions any time they run into something undeniable about how unconstitutional and punishing SOR is — they have the power to define words, and they have time and again just ruled that the color red is the color blue if that is what it takes to overcome the undeniable argument.

So, I looked to the political realm, in hope that somehow, with the complete takeover of the state-level elected offices by the Democrats, the supposed more liberal party, we could finally have some hope of some progress to turn this crap back, that with their overwhelming numbers they could take some risk, and that when they started to do so and saw they were not thrown out of office for doing so, they would do more. Instead, we have had even more draconian laws passed, and more continue to be put on the books year in and year out. Sure, Ammiano has tried to help, but he is only one — and while he is right and sensible and doing what needs to be done, ALL the rest of the politicians consider that to be sheer nonsense and that he is just a radical not to be followed, and so most all of the bills he introduces fail. And Ammiano is now in his last year, thanks to term limits.

The Legislature just is not going to come through for us in any kind of acceptable time frame, not in 10 years, not even in the nest 20 years. IF EVER. Even if Ammiano’s bill for tiers were adopted, it is not a good bill — and there absolutely will be no further increments — those who think so do not understand incrementalism or politics — there is NO chance of any further increments,. this would be it, you will get one shot only if you get even that.

I don’t see anything left to do but march (at least not anything legal). March or die. And keep marching. Marches of massive numbers of people, not simply registrants but everyone who opposes this, whether family and friends, or just those who believe in basic human rights, basic human dignity. I’m no martyr, but we need them, we need martyrs en masse to publicly refuse to register — just like the draft dodgers stood up in public and committed the felony of burning their draft cards. They really would be martyrs, as they absolutely will land in prison for it — but I see no other way. Massive marches, registrants from everywhere can come together for a massive march. Peaceful — we don’t want to give even more reason to impose even more draconian punishment – -think the civil rights marches, think Ghandi leading people in INdia, even to line up and each, one by one, to walk up and be savage beaten down by police, and then the next walk up and take the beating, and the next,and next until the horror of it all shocked the world and Britain, the beater, gave up and left.

This is war — full fledged. PEACEFUL war. We have had outright war waged against us since President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno started all this crap (gee, thanks Democrats!). We have not been waging war in return. All we have done is beg and plead and ask pretty please to stop it – -and want other people to do this for us. We cannot continue this approach — it is a massively failed approach. It is long past time to take to the streets — we have zero other options other than to die.

No more asking for sensibleness, for common decency. I say that is our God-given right as human beings, and we yield it to no one, to no law, to no government. No one can take that from us, and we do not need someone to give it to us — we will take it for ourselves, it is ours.

I am not suggesting that anyone do this alone. This is an all of us or none of us matter. None of us can stand on our own — and these laws have been designed to keep us alone. It is time to become a mass. If anyone stands up and refuses to register, it will not help, will only get that one person sent to prison and nothing will change. We need the masses on the streets. We need to absolutely force this issue — because we have asked politely for way too many years. We are seen as weaklings to be bullied — and the only way for a weakling to stop that is to stand up to it.

And now that I’ve shot my mouth off, I’m just a talker, maybe an adviser. We need an organizer. Who wants to play leader? We should plan a first of many marches for maybe this coming fall, take all that time to get the word out in order to get a huge turnout.

Again, it has been decades, and it is now very clear that there is no other avenue to take this fight, so we certainly have nothing to lose — and fight we must. So far, we have not been fighting.

I recall that India had, or still has a caste of people called the “untouchables.” These people were denied access to village wells, because they were thought to pollute the waters by their mere touch. Gandhi led them to the wells and so began the fall of the British colonial system. We are now America’s untouchables, denied access to basic human needs, officially denied food stamps, public housing and unofficially denied a means to make a living. Our caste is growing and can’t be ignored. Add to us people of color trapped in a cycle of poverty and prison. Put in the pot a growing culture of vigilantes, season that with growing arrogance of the wealthiest Americans, and you’ve created a toxic brew of discontent. The underclass is under violent attack. There is going to be some change, I believe. This has all happened before, with different flavors of oppression. Whether its going to positive change depends on whether some “liberal” or “conservative” has enough courage to join hands with us as we claim our place at the well.

Another blatant abuse of power by police…murder actually.

http://www.wect.com/story/24367610/officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-boiling-spring-lakes