General Comments November 2016

“Strict constructionists” have hardly been friends of registered sex offenders. Consider the remark of Alito (very much a Constitutional conservative) in the Nichols case, referring to IML: Noting that the Philippines is among the countries to which “sex tourists”‘ flock, he said, “Hasn’t Congress, by the enactment of the new statute [IML] and in other ways, evidenced a belief that the United States should not be exporting its pedophile problems to other countries? Hasn’t Congress evidenced a concern about this both for the human rights aspects of the problem and, also, I would think, for relations with the government of the Philippines?” Don’t think we should expect much truth and reason from his ilk.

I am not clear on why we can’t demand evidence to show there is a high re-offense rate for SOs, hence justifying a need for the registry. Laws just can’t be introduced purely on an assumption or a lie. If it becomes law, there better be a very good reason for the need to implement it. What is so hard about asking to show statistics? If the statistics don’t match what the public is being told, then it is clearly not grounds for this sort of punishment. There are so many studies out there that clearly prove the opposite of what the public is being told. Sounds almost too simple, but something needs to be done. You can’t take privileges from anyone without a good reason.

Steve’s ilk and Mike’s swill…? Really.

I hear you timmer…I am not even going to respond to those lame asss remarks anymore…it’s hard not to want to defend myself or others when we are attacked by individuals like Steve but I am going try my best to ignore those comments in the future…..

Someone said we should learn from other groups. I have been reading the Black Panthers (opps, mass surveillance alert, key words detected, call out the moles!) 10 point plan and like that organizing idea of supporting and protecting each other, and reaching out to other disaffected groups. Pull all our resources together. One for all all for one. A little of military discipline mind you, but it does feel like war. Scrap the violence, threats or otherwise, because they are already afraid of us, and they would love to have any excuse to put us behind bars for the rest of our lives. And they have an immense capacity to do violence, but their moral grounds are weak and challengeble, legal defense and citizen involvement, helping each other make a living, that is a different story (opps, socialism alert, time to let the crawlers out). They all need to go together. Most of the 10 point like plan can be repurposed, but we have to have a substitute for a cultural and ethical identity. We don’t have one. We are all from different backgrounds. We are just bound by a slew of barely related criminal experiences and these laws (oh joy, that is inspiring) we need something more positive to bond us to a purpose. A mission statement, yes, statement of facts, yes, but an implementation plan to achieve it. It is clear many are arguing over who is right, but none of us is doing much convincing, and we are not getting any younger or freer meanwhile.

I think it could have been possible, maybe not probable however, that all those registrants, family and friends could be coordinated to vote in a block like some churchs can get their votes together. The impetus to get this done may have been there if Obama had not signed IML, not implemented Angel Watch and Hillary was did not appear poised to continue this Chris Smith instilled obsession. The numbers indicate the plausibility. The votes are still being counted but it looks like Hillary won the popular vote by over 300,000 votes but lost the electoral votes by 62. One road to Hillary winning with help from registrant voting blocks would be to tap the registrant vote in the 3 key states of Wisconsin ( 10 electoral votes) , Florida ( 29 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania ( 20 electoral votes). Wisconsin would be on the road to Hillary’s registrant-assisted hypothetical win in scenario since in Wisconsin, Hilary only lost by 27,000 votes out of over about 3 million votes. In Wisconsin there are 20,000 registrants. Just registrants votes alone without family and friends could have almost flipped Wisconsin for Hillary. With just one relative of a registrant voting with each registrant, Wisconsin would have been different, with all other conditions being met such as all registrants voting. Then there is Florida that Trump took with 120,000 votes. With around 40k registrants in Florida. It would take about 3 fanily members or friends of each registrant to vote to get a 160,000 vote block for Hillary. Then there’s Pennsylvania.Trump won there by around 68,000 votes. With over 15,000 registrants in Pennsylvania, it would take 4 family members or friends of each registrant to get a 75,000 vote block for Hillary. This is surely not a sure thing, but the numbers make it at least look feasible.

It is interesting to see the comments of the story that made news about the missing jogger. The husband was “cleared” because he passed a polygraph. The majority of comments are about the bogus “lie” detector test and how they don’t work. Supposedly, even Hillary Clinton said that Polygraphs are not accurate. They are not admissible in court so innocent people don’t get convicted, and guilty people are often cleared. So, why again does probation and parole use them?? Anyone?