The Senate passed HR 515 formerly known as “International Megan’s Law” with another NEW title “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders” and added a section about Passports. Full Article
International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders’.
^ Prove it! I want the research, notes, and justifications for every word written in the proposal that was passed. I want it published in plain English and made available to anyone wanting to read it. Then after 6 months I want the text of the proposal with references to all the previously released documentation. Finally no less than one year of comment, question, concern, and revision suggestion from the public.
Code987654321
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December 20, 2015 8:04 am
Leave the United States now! Do whatever you can to get out – and fast! Declare Political Asylum once you are on foreign soil.
Renounce your citizenship!
mike r
Guest
December 20, 2015 11:46 am
That’s right. This puts a Target on our backs in any country we visit for every wacko out there to kill or extort us.
James
Guest
December 20, 2015 5:52 pm
The problem is what country would accept any of us? Maybe people with duel citizenship passports can get out…but for the vast majority of us there is simply no exit, no place to go even if we had the means to successfully accomplish an exit. Would would take us as Citizens of their country?
If I am wrong on this assessment please let me know…I would love to be wrong, but do not think that I am. Sorry….
anonymously
Guest
December 20, 2015 7:27 pm
The wall Trump wants to build would not be used to keep people out of the country primarily, but instead primarily would be used to keep people in.
brunello
Guest
December 21, 2015 9:19 am
As I read it the passport restriction applies to anyone required to register in any jurisdiction. This certainly works to the disadvantage of Californians, who all must register for life. Is there not a 14th amendment issue here – “equal protection of the laws” – with people in different states being treated differently under this law?
brunello
Guest
December 21, 2015 11:52 am
Can somebody help me here? I haven’t found an important definition. The law HR515 as amended by the Senate states that the passport provision applies to a “covered sex offender (as defined in section 240 of Public Law 110–457)”. However the on-line text of this Public Law has no section 240. As my interest was in whether it applies to possession of CP, I find no mention of this in 110-457, which seems to deal only with the trafficking of actual children. So, who’s a covered sex offender? Only a child trafficker?
Additionally, you can print your letter and mail it to
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Here is my letter.
Dear Mr. President,
I am writing to you with regards to HR 515, “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders’”. Specifically, I am writing this letter to provide you with some facts surrounding the intent of this bill, as well as to urge you to veto it upon receipt to your office.
Unfortunately, far too often, our elected officials exaggerate facts and, in at least one case, completely make up “facts” to justify their position. For example, a common myth is that there are 300,000 children at risk for sexual exploitation and another 100,000 children in the sex trade. These “facts”, together, earned a coveted “Four Pinocchios” by the Washington Post, and landed themselves on the Post’s “Biggest Pinocchios of 2015” list.
Another common myth used to perpetuate public fear and fan the flames of anger is that sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism. In fact, sex offenders have one of the lowest rates, hovering around 5.3%. Amongst all offenders, this is the lowest rate, second only to murderers.
Far too often, politicians exploit the fears and unease of the general public to easily target a group of persons who, virtually no one is willing to stand up for. Sex offenders have no friends on Capitol Hill, allowing lawmakers in search of votes, to viciously attack their rights for the easy points they can score. In a recent interview with NPR, you accused republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of taking advantage of “…potential anger, frustration, [and] fear”. I urge you, please do not lower yourself to the likes of Mr. Trump. You are better than that. Please, review the facts, see through the smoke created by our lawmakers, and veto this bill.
Thank you for your time Mr. President, and I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas.
The logical progression is to prevent anyone from renunciating their U.S. citizenship while subject to registration under the SORNA.
The mechanics of this will be as follows: you may renounce your citizenship, but you will nevertheless still be considered a U.S. citizen, and subject to the SORNA, for as long as you would have to be a registrant under the SORNA.
All U.S. citizens subject to the SORNA leaving the U.S. must register with the U.S. Consulate or Embassy within 72 hours of their arrival in any foreign jurisdiction outside the United States or its territories.
The Department of State will provide a web site available to the international public with information about any U.S. citizen sex offenders residing or visiting abroad, and will be obligated to provide law enforcement and government entities of such a foreign country or jurisdiction, where the U.S. citizen offender resides or visits, with monthly reports and updates pertaining to the employment, residence, and family ties of the U.S. citizen offender.
This is what United States Constituents want, and this is what they will get.
To protect children world-wide from U.S. citizen sex offenders!
td777
Guest
December 21, 2015 5:12 pm
The idea of putting “sex offender” on our passports is even more alarming when this article in Forbes predicted passports could soon be necessary for domestic travel!
I highly doubt Europe will follow in these footsteps. They still remember ww2. Also wonder if the International Court will want to chime in on this.
The Anon
Guest
December 22, 2015 4:39 pm
Is there anyone with more talent than I, and with Photoshop , or something similar, that can put a picture of the Jewish passports that the Nazis issused and a picture of a passport stamped with sex offender together that we could print out and mail to our Representatives and Senators??
Dr
Guest
December 22, 2015 4:43 pm
It seems to me with all these comments this subject is overwhelming important to everybody. I know it’s probably impossible but it be nice to get a class-action suit to sue the federal government .
James
Guest
December 22, 2015 5:36 pm
Yes, Steve, and the EU has taken the position previously that the entire US Registration System violates the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights.
How and why I eventually will have to research…but I do not have a specific answer on this now. At some point, some brave soul, probably will need to bring an action against the United States in the Hague, at the International Court of Justice.
That might be interesting…
Though this is probably an impossible dread.
Good luck to all, James
cool CA RC
Guest
December 22, 2015 10:08 pm
I was going to write on how they could make this worst for RC. I thought why give them any ideas to make to make things worst for us. So, I am not gotta say anything here..
Timmr
Guest
December 23, 2015 9:39 am
This quote from President Obama appeared in an article about British Muslims being denied entry into the United States to visit Disneyland: “We betray our most noble past as well if we were to deny the possibility of movement, the possibility of progress, if we were to let cynicism consume us and fear overwhelm us,”
Mr. Obama, you can live up to your noble words, you can now halt the process of restricting US citizens from traveling, who have committed certain crimes and have served their debt to society by vetoing “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders”. We must not deny the possibility of movement and the possibility of progress to those who have been through our justice system and are now integrated back into society, simply on the basis of popular fears and myths and the unfounded cynicism that these former convicts can not be rehabilitated.
Tim E
Guest
December 23, 2015 2:44 pm
I am still reeling from this news. I can’t say I expected this bill to pass or nor or even to be heard before Christmas break but I did not expect anything more then the legalization of the Angel Watch program. What they were doing anyway corvertly, to given license and legal impunity. That is what I expected if it passed.
But to read about the amendment of an special identifier which while yes if you read the bill,which I have, does not mean precisely ‘sex offender’ to be emblazoned on passport, none-the-less knowing attitudes and how government works and that the bill is vague to open inturpation by policy makers.
That is what will happen. And that scares me to my core. I have never come across a more disturbing example of what we happy few face. While I am aware of a few states doing this on their IDs at one point and even the few local communities that have forced Sex offender signs on the properties of their respective owners.
This is truly a ‘canary in the coalmine’ event.
Like it has been posted this affects those we travel with and leads to numorious senerios of exposure to non immigration officers if one will be lucky to be granted entrance into a another country now.
I wonder will the murder of an SO who traveled and or their family make the news?
What is next? For the safety of the kids will we have to wear identifiers on our bodies?
It has been suggested that if we can to gain citizenship elsewhere and run,or something like that. I don’t know if we have the time. I don’t know if we can. I encourage you all to investigate that. To make it your new year resolution. Because the writing is on the wall now. Seriously there are some of you who said ex post facto is dead after the resent turn down of the supreme Court case. Are you that blind?
How many passports will now be have to be reissued? Will they write us to tell us to do so?
Get out if you can.
Get out if you can.
Get out if you can.
Or buy a lot of REI gear and prepare to bugout when the purges come.
I am deathly serious.
Economic collapse is all it will take. There are over 800 FEMA camps, please understand history and know that amendment IS a crossing the Rubicon momment. We have so little time left. All our victories can be undone if they transfer RSO legal handling from the states to the feds which Sorna is just a precursor. A hostile Supreme Court is then where the Constitution goes to die.
The writing is on the wall folks, it may take years. But use this time to GET OUT.
concerned registrant
Guest
December 23, 2015 11:39 pm
I looked at the Amendment that was attached to this bill by the Senate. Am I right that it has nothing to do with us. It seems to be about definitions of toxic chemicals, etcetera. I am just wondering if this Amendment, attached by a Democrat, is meant to be a “Poison Pill” to kill the bill.
None of these politicians want to go on their Christmas break having voted against more restrictions on RCs, so maybe they voted “Yes” and attached a poison pill, expecting the Republican-controlled House to reject it. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part. The House just passed the Omnibus Bill and gave their opposition everything they wanted. Maybe the Senate’s amendment was meant as a Poison Pill, but the House is willing to swallow it. Just wondering.
HH
Guest
December 24, 2015 6:04 am
So is this targeted at child related offenders or all ? It seems very confusing and seems to go back and forth on Wether or not it encompasses everyone or just child related RC’s. And will this system now trump the current system of Interpol notices ?
Would Janice Persue this with a group of us or would it be another attorney?
Patricia
Guest
December 25, 2015 7:52 am
Is this retro for past crimes before this bill is passed?
anonymously
Guest
December 25, 2015 9:39 am
They needed to change the name of this to something more vague and open-ended so it is not as easily debunkable. HR 1515 would be an expansion of the false sense of security to international proportions which will help cover up the 100% of sex crimes committed by non-registrant Americans of the past 2 years or so where obviously these crimes were not committed by registrants since the defacto implementation of banning registrant travel. The ridiculous claim that HR 1515 would reduce demand for sex trafficking in the title of the bill is debunked as we did not see a reduction in demand for sex trafficking in foreign countries. If there was a reduction in this demand, the media would have jumped all over it and we would be hearing about it when corrupt politicians from former slave-states in the US push for this “endless winter night” legislation for American citizens with a less than 1% reoffense rate.
anonymously
Guest
December 25, 2015 10:59 am
Anonymous Nobody wrote “I’ll tell you, and I hate to say it but we can’t stay in denial, but the women’s movement, especially NOW, is a major force against us, and the ACLU nowadays is heavily influenced by the women’s movement. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for women’s rights; but I don’t think..”
From what I gather doing some research on this, it’s not the whole womens movement but possibly just a few bad apples. A little historical knowledge and opinion I have gathered thus far…if we can blame Clinton for giving us Janet Reno, then we must also give him credit for appointing Ginsburg, who dissented along wih 2 others in 2003 Smith v Doe, to the SCOTUS. Ok, one really screwed us while the other just voiced/voted a dissent. But it’s worth mentioning. The feminist movement did focus more on men in the early 70’s when Gloria Steinem founded Ms. magazine. Robin Morgan was the editor of Ms. magazine and with Steinems approval let in some of the crazies like Andrea Dworkin, Susan Brown Miller, but especially, and this one may be the main reason feminism has gone so off the charts in the way Anonymous Nobody mentioned, Catherine MacKinnon, who scaringly is part of the establishment as a Law Professor at U of Michigan, and her dad was a Congressman. She’s argued cases before the SCOTUS and Canadian Supreme Court.She got rape to be considered a war crime which makes sense to any reasonable person. But her other stuff is more troubling. Fortunately, some in the movement realized they didn’t like the direction feminist movement has taken. Betty Frieden , one of the founders of modern feminism didn’t like the man-hating stuff. Others also didn’t like that NOW turned into a man-hating organization, The head of NOW, talkshow host Tammy Bruce left and Karen Decrow, an attorney who invented the term “PC” and apologized for it also left NOW. Karen Decrow was into it, but once it got out of control, she hated it. Like how Patty Wetterling feels about SO laws. Like how Oppenheimer later felt about nuclear weapons, previously being one of the people in the Manhattan Project, he saw what he helped create had turned into.
USA
Guest
December 25, 2015 7:58 pm
My question is this: I plead to a sexual battery and received summary probation 20 years back/massage parlor. The charge was reduced to s misdemeanor and expunged? I’m still required to register per California. The bill is disturbing. I own land in the Philippines and I have an elderly relative who is too ill to travel. The Philippines has since banned registered citizens per the US request. I’m presently residing in LA county and moving back to OC in 2 months. I know it’s much more difficult to obtain a COR in OC as opposed to LA. Has anyone heard of rushing a COR through? It’s been 20 years/Summary Probation/expunged/no issues prior or after. Any thoughts. Thanks
alienated
Guest
December 26, 2015 9:30 am
I have a Question. If Federal law for Offenders ends registration at some point for Tier 1 and 2 does this mean that Passports will follow this logic and will exclude those who have convictions that are over 25 years old and or Level 1 ? I for one am ready for a tiered solution. Every year I get to look forward to new interference in my already difficult life. This is getting a little old and me too and quite honestly I believe I deserve a fricken break after 25 years. If this were SORNA state I would be looking forward to getting off this crud some day but not here in California. I realize that SORNA sucks too but at least there would be light at the end of this long ass tunnel. Well Let’s keep our heads up high and keep up the fight.
anonymously
Guest
December 26, 2015 11:37 am
Florida is a SORNA state. Florida has no tiering. Requiring tiering is not a part of SORNA. SORNA just sets a minimum timeframe for states with tiering. Say NO to SORNA. Say YES to Tiering, though. Why involve hypocritical unconvicted sex offenders John Walsh or Mark Foley’s ideas, who gave us SORNA, in our tiering?
International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders’.
^ Prove it! I want the research, notes, and justifications for every word written in the proposal that was passed. I want it published in plain English and made available to anyone wanting to read it. Then after 6 months I want the text of the proposal with references to all the previously released documentation. Finally no less than one year of comment, question, concern, and revision suggestion from the public.
Leave the United States now! Do whatever you can to get out – and fast! Declare Political Asylum once you are on foreign soil.
Renounce your citizenship!
That’s right. This puts a Target on our backs in any country we visit for every wacko out there to kill or extort us.
The problem is what country would accept any of us? Maybe people with duel citizenship passports can get out…but for the vast majority of us there is simply no exit, no place to go even if we had the means to successfully accomplish an exit. Would would take us as Citizens of their country?
If I am wrong on this assessment please let me know…I would love to be wrong, but do not think that I am. Sorry….
The wall Trump wants to build would not be used to keep people out of the country primarily, but instead primarily would be used to keep people in.
As I read it the passport restriction applies to anyone required to register in any jurisdiction. This certainly works to the disadvantage of Californians, who all must register for life. Is there not a 14th amendment issue here – “equal protection of the laws” – with people in different states being treated differently under this law?
Can somebody help me here? I haven’t found an important definition. The law HR515 as amended by the Senate states that the passport provision applies to a “covered sex offender (as defined in section 240 of Public Law 110–457)”. However the on-line text of this Public Law has no section 240. As my interest was in whether it applies to possession of CP, I find no mention of this in 110-457, which seems to deal only with the trafficking of actual children. So, who’s a covered sex offender? Only a child trafficker?
The President can be emailed here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Additionally, you can print your letter and mail it to
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Here is my letter.
Dear Mr. President,
I am writing to you with regards to HR 515, “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders’”. Specifically, I am writing this letter to provide you with some facts surrounding the intent of this bill, as well as to urge you to veto it upon receipt to your office.
Unfortunately, far too often, our elected officials exaggerate facts and, in at least one case, completely make up “facts” to justify their position. For example, a common myth is that there are 300,000 children at risk for sexual exploitation and another 100,000 children in the sex trade. These “facts”, together, earned a coveted “Four Pinocchios” by the Washington Post, and landed themselves on the Post’s “Biggest Pinocchios of 2015” list.
Another common myth used to perpetuate public fear and fan the flames of anger is that sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism. In fact, sex offenders have one of the lowest rates, hovering around 5.3%. Amongst all offenders, this is the lowest rate, second only to murderers.
Far too often, politicians exploit the fears and unease of the general public to easily target a group of persons who, virtually no one is willing to stand up for. Sex offenders have no friends on Capitol Hill, allowing lawmakers in search of votes, to viciously attack their rights for the easy points they can score. In a recent interview with NPR, you accused republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of taking advantage of “…potential anger, frustration, [and] fear”. I urge you, please do not lower yourself to the likes of Mr. Trump. You are better than that. Please, review the facts, see through the smoke created by our lawmakers, and veto this bill.
Thank you for your time Mr. President, and I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas.
Very truly yours,
Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/12/14/the-biggest-pinocchios-of-2015/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2014_Outcome_Evaluation_Report_7-6-2015.pdf
http://wlrn.org/post/opinion-sex-offense-recidivism-rare-shouldnt-determine-policy
The logical progression is to prevent anyone from renunciating their U.S. citizenship while subject to registration under the SORNA.
The mechanics of this will be as follows: you may renounce your citizenship, but you will nevertheless still be considered a U.S. citizen, and subject to the SORNA, for as long as you would have to be a registrant under the SORNA.
All U.S. citizens subject to the SORNA leaving the U.S. must register with the U.S. Consulate or Embassy within 72 hours of their arrival in any foreign jurisdiction outside the United States or its territories.
The Department of State will provide a web site available to the international public with information about any U.S. citizen sex offenders residing or visiting abroad, and will be obligated to provide law enforcement and government entities of such a foreign country or jurisdiction, where the U.S. citizen offender resides or visits, with monthly reports and updates pertaining to the employment, residence, and family ties of the U.S. citizen offender.
This is what United States Constituents want, and this is what they will get.
To protect children world-wide from U.S. citizen sex offenders!
The idea of putting “sex offender” on our passports is even more alarming when this article in Forbes predicted passports could soon be necessary for domestic travel!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/11/25/passports-required-for-domestic-travel-in-2016-but-irs-can-revoke-passports-for-taxes/
I highly doubt Europe will follow in these footsteps. They still remember ww2. Also wonder if the International Court will want to chime in on this.
Is there anyone with more talent than I, and with Photoshop , or something similar, that can put a picture of the Jewish passports that the Nazis issused and a picture of a passport stamped with sex offender together that we could print out and mail to our Representatives and Senators??
It seems to me with all these comments this subject is overwhelming important to everybody. I know it’s probably impossible but it be nice to get a class-action suit to sue the federal government .
Yes, Steve, and the EU has taken the position previously that the entire US Registration System violates the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights.
How and why I eventually will have to research…but I do not have a specific answer on this now. At some point, some brave soul, probably will need to bring an action against the United States in the Hague, at the International Court of Justice.
That might be interesting…
Though this is probably an impossible dread.
Good luck to all, James
I was going to write on how they could make this worst for RC. I thought why give them any ideas to make to make things worst for us. So, I am not gotta say anything here..
This quote from President Obama appeared in an article about British Muslims being denied entry into the United States to visit Disneyland: “We betray our most noble past as well if we were to deny the possibility of movement, the possibility of progress, if we were to let cynicism consume us and fear overwhelm us,”
Mr. Obama, you can live up to your noble words, you can now halt the process of restricting US citizens from traveling, who have committed certain crimes and have served their debt to society by vetoing “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders”. We must not deny the possibility of movement and the possibility of progress to those who have been through our justice system and are now integrated back into society, simply on the basis of popular fears and myths and the unfounded cynicism that these former convicts can not be rehabilitated.
I am still reeling from this news. I can’t say I expected this bill to pass or nor or even to be heard before Christmas break but I did not expect anything more then the legalization of the Angel Watch program. What they were doing anyway corvertly, to given license and legal impunity. That is what I expected if it passed.
But to read about the amendment of an special identifier which while yes if you read the bill,which I have, does not mean precisely ‘sex offender’ to be emblazoned on passport, none-the-less knowing attitudes and how government works and that the bill is vague to open inturpation by policy makers.
That is what will happen. And that scares me to my core. I have never come across a more disturbing example of what we happy few face. While I am aware of a few states doing this on their IDs at one point and even the few local communities that have forced Sex offender signs on the properties of their respective owners.
This is truly a ‘canary in the coalmine’ event.
Like it has been posted this affects those we travel with and leads to numorious senerios of exposure to non immigration officers if one will be lucky to be granted entrance into a another country now.
I wonder will the murder of an SO who traveled and or their family make the news?
What is next? For the safety of the kids will we have to wear identifiers on our bodies?
It has been suggested that if we can to gain citizenship elsewhere and run,or something like that. I don’t know if we have the time. I don’t know if we can. I encourage you all to investigate that. To make it your new year resolution. Because the writing is on the wall now. Seriously there are some of you who said ex post facto is dead after the resent turn down of the supreme Court case. Are you that blind?
How many passports will now be have to be reissued? Will they write us to tell us to do so?
Get out if you can.
Get out if you can.
Get out if you can.
Or buy a lot of REI gear and prepare to bugout when the purges come.
I am deathly serious.
Economic collapse is all it will take. There are over 800 FEMA camps, please understand history and know that amendment IS a crossing the Rubicon momment. We have so little time left. All our victories can be undone if they transfer RSO legal handling from the states to the feds which Sorna is just a precursor. A hostile Supreme Court is then where the Constitution goes to die.
The writing is on the wall folks, it may take years. But use this time to GET OUT.
I looked at the Amendment that was attached to this bill by the Senate. Am I right that it has nothing to do with us. It seems to be about definitions of toxic chemicals, etcetera. I am just wondering if this Amendment, attached by a Democrat, is meant to be a “Poison Pill” to kill the bill.
None of these politicians want to go on their Christmas break having voted against more restrictions on RCs, so maybe they voted “Yes” and attached a poison pill, expecting the Republican-controlled House to reject it. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part. The House just passed the Omnibus Bill and gave their opposition everything they wanted. Maybe the Senate’s amendment was meant as a Poison Pill, but the House is willing to swallow it. Just wondering.
So is this targeted at child related offenders or all ? It seems very confusing and seems to go back and forth on Wether or not it encompasses everyone or just child related RC’s. And will this system now trump the current system of Interpol notices ?
Would Janice Persue this with a group of us or would it be another attorney?
Is this retro for past crimes before this bill is passed?
They needed to change the name of this to something more vague and open-ended so it is not as easily debunkable. HR 1515 would be an expansion of the false sense of security to international proportions which will help cover up the 100% of sex crimes committed by non-registrant Americans of the past 2 years or so where obviously these crimes were not committed by registrants since the defacto implementation of banning registrant travel. The ridiculous claim that HR 1515 would reduce demand for sex trafficking in the title of the bill is debunked as we did not see a reduction in demand for sex trafficking in foreign countries. If there was a reduction in this demand, the media would have jumped all over it and we would be hearing about it when corrupt politicians from former slave-states in the US push for this “endless winter night” legislation for American citizens with a less than 1% reoffense rate.
Anonymous Nobody wrote “I’ll tell you, and I hate to say it but we can’t stay in denial, but the women’s movement, especially NOW, is a major force against us, and the ACLU nowadays is heavily influenced by the women’s movement. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for women’s rights; but I don’t think..”
From what I gather doing some research on this, it’s not the whole womens movement but possibly just a few bad apples. A little historical knowledge and opinion I have gathered thus far…if we can blame Clinton for giving us Janet Reno, then we must also give him credit for appointing Ginsburg, who dissented along wih 2 others in 2003 Smith v Doe, to the SCOTUS. Ok, one really screwed us while the other just voiced/voted a dissent. But it’s worth mentioning. The feminist movement did focus more on men in the early 70’s when Gloria Steinem founded Ms. magazine. Robin Morgan was the editor of Ms. magazine and with Steinems approval let in some of the crazies like Andrea Dworkin, Susan Brown Miller, but especially, and this one may be the main reason feminism has gone so off the charts in the way Anonymous Nobody mentioned, Catherine MacKinnon, who scaringly is part of the establishment as a Law Professor at U of Michigan, and her dad was a Congressman. She’s argued cases before the SCOTUS and Canadian Supreme Court.She got rape to be considered a war crime which makes sense to any reasonable person. But her other stuff is more troubling. Fortunately, some in the movement realized they didn’t like the direction feminist movement has taken. Betty Frieden , one of the founders of modern feminism didn’t like the man-hating stuff. Others also didn’t like that NOW turned into a man-hating organization, The head of NOW, talkshow host Tammy Bruce left and Karen Decrow, an attorney who invented the term “PC” and apologized for it also left NOW. Karen Decrow was into it, but once it got out of control, she hated it. Like how Patty Wetterling feels about SO laws. Like how Oppenheimer later felt about nuclear weapons, previously being one of the people in the Manhattan Project, he saw what he helped create had turned into.
My question is this: I plead to a sexual battery and received summary probation 20 years back/massage parlor. The charge was reduced to s misdemeanor and expunged? I’m still required to register per California. The bill is disturbing. I own land in the Philippines and I have an elderly relative who is too ill to travel. The Philippines has since banned registered citizens per the US request. I’m presently residing in LA county and moving back to OC in 2 months. I know it’s much more difficult to obtain a COR in OC as opposed to LA. Has anyone heard of rushing a COR through? It’s been 20 years/Summary Probation/expunged/no issues prior or after. Any thoughts. Thanks
I have a Question. If Federal law for Offenders ends registration at some point for Tier 1 and 2 does this mean that Passports will follow this logic and will exclude those who have convictions that are over 25 years old and or Level 1 ? I for one am ready for a tiered solution. Every year I get to look forward to new interference in my already difficult life. This is getting a little old and me too and quite honestly I believe I deserve a fricken break after 25 years. If this were SORNA state I would be looking forward to getting off this crud some day but not here in California. I realize that SORNA sucks too but at least there would be light at the end of this long ass tunnel. Well Let’s keep our heads up high and keep up the fight.
Florida is a SORNA state. Florida has no tiering. Requiring tiering is not a part of SORNA. SORNA just sets a minimum timeframe for states with tiering. Say NO to SORNA. Say YES to Tiering, though. Why involve hypocritical unconvicted sex offenders John Walsh or Mark Foley’s ideas, who gave us SORNA, in our tiering?