California RSOL will lead a peaceful protest in the City of Carson on Saturday, March 7, in order to highlight the harm done by the city’s sex offender ordinance. That ordinance bans registered citizens from being present in or within 300 feet of public places including the library, parks and swimming pools as well as private places including fast food restaurants that have a children’s playground.
The peaceful protest will begin at Carson City Hall at 10 a.m. near the water fountain. Registered citizens, family members, and all who support them are invited to join the event. Refreshments will be served.
“This is a unique opportunity for registered citizens and those who support them to show up, stand up and speak up,” stated California RSOL vice president Chance Oberstein.
The event will include a march to John D. Calas Sr. Park near the intersection of 223rd and Cluff Streets. The current city law prohibits registered citizens from visiting this park, however, family members and supporters are welcome there. Registered citizens will be served lunch at a distance outside the 300-foot limit.
Unrelated comment here but I just sent this email to the dream foundation that granted a guys dying dream to visit the grand canyon and revoked it when they found out he was a sex offender. Just makes me sick and I encourage any and all to email tbem.
Your organization is disgusting for denying a persons dying wish to visit the grand canyon simply because he had a sex offense in his past. You people are unamerican and should be ashamed to call yourselves anything but heartless inhumane enemies of the constitution and traitors to the country. Every citizen of this country deserves to be treated with some humanity and not to be looked upon as subhuman not deserving of anything good or any civil rights. This man obviously paid his price to society or he would still be institutionalized. This country has become a disgrace because of all these sex offender laws and issues. All those in favor of such laws are domestic enemies of the constitution and traitors to the country.
Ferguson style?
So, why is this being held on the weekend and not on a day when the council is in session? This makes no sense. If a protest is held and no one was there to witness it, did it really happen?
Do you suppose the media will be covering this event? And if so I can’t wait to read the negative spin you know they will put on the story. I’m thinking I’ll be there; work permitting.
I don’t care what day this takes place on, I’m just happy to see it being done. Now let’s see how many of you criers show up. Wear Sun glasses if you don’t want your face shown, but please be there.
Those of us that do show will be the ones showing that we give a DAMN about what society is doing to us and our families!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if you’re living within the 50 mile radius show that you give a DAMN. Thank you
I’m confused. Why can’t RCs now go to that park?
I thought the court rulings made these ordinances unenforceable.
50 mile radius? If you have the means and ability to get there cine from anywhere you are. Im in sacramento if I had the money a.d ability to be there I would. I realy don’t believe protest do anything in this day and age unless there are tens of thousands of people show up but I feuds it can’t hurt and I thank in advance any and all who do attend and Janice and staff for organizing and participating in this march.
I would look into hiring a couple of off-duty sheriff department deputies for “parade duty” to ensure the riff-raff don’t take potshots at the registered citizens. I don’t know if the budget can call for it, but it may be wise to ensure nothing happens.
BTW, do NOT take Avalon to 223rd St, as it passes directly by a McDonald’s with a children’s playground. You may even wish to emphasize this by taking a parallel street west of Avalon that is outside the 300′ range of the restaurant property, which abuts the east side of Avalon about a quarter mile south of Carson.
18 U.S. Code sec.242….Deprivation of civil rights. under color of law……….also deliberate INDIFFERENCE …..also further proof ..further proof ..further proof registry punitive.
my lawyer says
Expect the worst but hope for the best.
I expect to be arrested but hope this is a turning point of our fight!
It’s not Loitering if your in a place to check the Direction of the sun or litter problem of the area. Be Creative. Polling Elections would be very hard for the state to fight.
It’s time to stop hiding like society wants us to. The oppression registrants face is an undeniable human rights violation that will not change and will only get worse if we keep hiding. If you truly believe the registry negatively impacts your life or a loved one, you have a duty to take a stand. If you won’t, who will? Bring your families and friends so society can see that we are real people with real lives, and that we have families that love us and are also oppressed by this law. Be a part of history, this is how movements gain attention and spread awareness. It’s understandable to feel reluctant or hesitant, but like I said, if you won’t stand up who will?
Question: Plenty of registrants are fearful of being recognized, so will fear participating. Is there some kind of mask or other that can be used and/or provided, so all those people can participate without worry about being recognized? And, is their any law barring masks?
You have to expect media overage, so people are likely to have their faces pushed out on TV.
This is VERY good. The first of what needs to be many and an ever growing number of participants to march for out rights, make noise. And hopefully inspire registrants across the country to march in their locales.
But as planned here, please, everyone stay peaceful, even if police come in to batter and arrest – which they should not if everyone remains peaceful. Do not do any even slight offense of anything not even littering, or they will use it as an excuse to go after everyone.
It is very key here that registrants be seen as very respectful, as peaceful, even as nice people, polite. Registrants must be seen as people you would like to know, no matter what we might be confronted with. Image can be everything – send out the wrong image, and we can do more damage to ourselves than good; send out the right image, and we can gain supporters. Think of the movie Gandhi,” where the Indians were opposing the British law against them making salt, and they stood in a long line to go before the British to be clubbed, never once raising a hand against the clubbing. Not that I want anyone clubbed here – and that shouldn’t be an issue — but I’m just saying, that is the kind of image to project, that much lack of being a danger, in the face of any extreme. It will be too easy to want to turn to violence, especially if any violence should start — do not do so under any circumstances, not under ANY circumstances. Again, I am not expecting any circumstance that would get any violence started – I’m simply being cautious in putting out the proper thinking. I surely do not want to scare anyone away from this PEACEFUL protest. We all need to be there.
I we don’t even show to stand for our own rights, how can we expect the legislators to do so, how can we expect the courts to do so.
I note, when marching, just because the line at the front has a green light when it starts crossing a street, when the light turns red, the rest of the line MUST stop and wait for the green to then cross and catch up. I have seen LAPD use that as an excuse to come in with clubs flying and beating people. (I knew in advance that LAPD was planning to do that, and they did it! Never mind how I knew, or when this was. But I’m not going to rule out a similar plan in Carson.) So, don’t give them that excuse. I’m sure there will be cameras, so they don’t want to be recorded going at registrants if there is no even minor violation. And WE don’t want to be recorded doing any viollation or anything that will make for a bad image.
I am too far North to be there. The most important wisdom I can give for this event this the human side RC need to very clear. The public in Carson need to see that we are real people and are not the scary demons lies that their city’s leadership has made out to be.
This is about time. Many are not legal scholars, good writers or public speakers, but we can all march. It’s truly democratic. Even if you are infirm in a wheel chair, I will be happy to push you. Need a ride from San Diego, I’ve got room in my car.
Please do not consider mask in any way. It would only put more fear in the average idiot population if you don’t want your face on camera wear glasses and a hat as Janice suggest and simply don’t look at the camera. This march is to important to hide your indentity people have to see us as people with faces and not just mindless bodies and see that rso are fedup with hiding or being afraid its got to stop and if we had even a quarter if rso and family members in this march your talking bout thousands of people now that would get attention and would be a huge positive for our fight. I don’t know how Janice and staff are getting the word out but every rso in socal needs to be alerted to this march be even better if every rso in CA could be notified.
So, if the proposed NFL stadium gets built in Carson; where does it leave us?
Curious to learn how Carson’s proposed stadium plan will impact their willingness to stick with the ban–and whether the new stadium would be included in the public places that registrants could not “loiter.” (Would tailgating be considered loitering?) Will they want to dispose of this lawsuit as an unnecessary distraction or stick with it to leverage continued publicity?
I am not in favor of peaceful demonstrations after the endless violations we have endured. I prefer to take this court as it should be fought on human rights violations and constitutional violations.
Protesting in public holding up a bunch of sex offender signs means accepting the label and applying it to yourself which I WILL NOT DO AS I AM NOT. I will not stoop to the lowest level as they have in tormenting and abusing us.
If that fails THEN I am in favor of violent protests because when you have nothing you have nothing to lose!
That is, we need to gain sympathy; we do not want to bring on more rage of the beast. this is a double-edged sword. We must walk that tightrope, or we will fall hard.
The Carson City Council takes the cake. I have heard of scapegoating registrants for politicians to boost their careers, but now a City Council is scapegoating registrants to get a Football stadium built in their city. I don’t see Carson backing down with that one Councilman Albert Robles seeming pretty stubborn. He seems to be a good criminal defense attorney too, since he got Albert T. Robles ( no relation apparently ) only 10 years in Fed lockup as his defense attorney for bilking $12 million. Whereas Robert Rizzo from Bell got 12 years for stealing 6.6 million, with a different criminal defense attorney. When it comes to Robles, I don’t see why he thinks any little thing will tarnish the reputation of Carson, like newspapers using the term ‘West Carson’ in describing where petty crimes occur or even questionable non-criminal incidents occur, when he has no problem with himself formerly defending crooked poiticians who steal millions, and also moving in ex-cons to the city of Vernon, in a failed attempt to take over the Vernon government power structure. I wonder if any of those ex-cons were registrants. I never thought I would say this, but I feel sorry for the oil companies in having to deal with such a sheisty character.
timmr said “How bout a gas mask and safety goggles?”
timmr, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Clearly, the problem in Carson is not registrants, but industrial contamination. It appears that registrants rights are being scapegoated in an attempt to draw attention away from Robles and his fellow City Council members trying to get a stadium built on a former site of a toxic waste dump. Any rational parent at some point could see the difference in dangers…compare registrants reoffense rate 2%, with 98% of new sex crimes coming from non-registrants to being present and watching Football on land was is a former toxic waste dump. Recall Robles, vote against Lu-Lu ( if you live in Carson, since she is up for re-election next month ). Aside from the straight up nastiness of Robles to not care about the health of the fans, the 2 teams, Raiders and Chargers health who would train at the site, there is no problem with building a football stadium for the Rams in Inglewood. Having both stadiums built and L.A accomodating 3 teams would be out of the question. So only one stadium can get built. If Carson was the site of the stadium to be built, can you imagine the security costs coming from building a stadium that will accomodate 2 teams whose fans hate each other, the Raiders and Chargers? The Raiders can’t afford to build a stadium anyways, unlike the Chargers who are in better financial shape. The only positive thing about building this stadium in Carson is it would save the Raiders from going under, since they are the poorest NFL team.
Robles needs to stop skirting the issue of the contamination, and stop diverting attention to non-existent crime. If his lack of knowledge on who is committing sex crimes ( 98% non-registrants ) is any indication of his knowledge of industrial contamination, I think this guy is negligent in protecting the public from dire health issues. If Robles thinks the site can be cleaned up at the same time the stadium is built, he is delusional. And also look at how much money it would cost to try to clean up the site, as well as build the stadium at the same time. Inglewood is clearly the best place for a football to return to L.A. Go Rams!
By denying registrants the use of the public library, they are clearly in violation of state law, and implicitly in violation of too many US Constitutional protections to name.
What are these idiots doing in power?