MINISTER SIMON COVENEY today secured approval to sign a letter of intent with the US to allow the exchange of international travel information of convicted child sex offenders.
The approval by Cabinet today will allow An Garda Síochána to sign the letter of intent with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations to facilitate the sharing of travel information of sex offenders from the US to Ireland and vice versa.
While such information has been shared in the past, this memorandum puts the agreement between the two countries on a more formal footing, according to a government spokesperson. Full Article
“Operation Angel Watch targets individuals who have previously been convicted of sexual crimes against a child and who may pose a potential new threat by travelling (sic) overseas for the purpose of sexually abusing or exploiting minors.”
…who may…? Ireland, UK and Slovakia, has been sucked into the myths and lies of the U.S. government.
“The project uses publicly available sex offender registry information and passenger travel data to strategically alert foreign law enforcement partners of a convicted child predator’s intent to travel to their country.”
This is a lie. I am not listed on the publicly available sex offender registry, and yet I, and many like me, have been turned away from Mexico because of angel watch.
Oh good! Now we can keep out 150 years of Irish Catholic hypocrisy, murder and sex abuse.
Why bother going to Ireland when you can buy Guinness here and get your dose of Catholicism all over.
Beware: Do not fly Aer Lingus Airlines if your flight will make a stopover or plane change in Ireland (or anywhere else in Great Britain.)
Because if a child sex offender in the US wants to abuse a minor, there is a very high likelyhood that they will travel to Ireland for the purpose of acquiring an easy target, just like those in Ireland searching for easy under age prey will travel to the US for that purpose.
Remember back when this Angel Watch things started and they claimed to only notify countries “likely” to be targets of child sex offenders because of that country’s poverty and lack of law enforcement?
What were those cases AJ referenced a few weeks ago about when an emergency situation ceases to exist or is shown to never have existed in the first place the laws to address it must cease too?
This is also another blanket punishment where the need and duration were not determined by a judge, cannot be contested, and therefore violates Substantive Due Process.
The comments in that link just confirm the confirmation bias and herd mentality:
“This should have been a no brainer!”
“I’m outraged this was not already a thing.”
They hypocrisy of the outrage for ICE putting kids in cages, but not for us being able to travel unimpeded.
I tried to comment there, but for some reason my login usingTwitter wouldn’t work. It just kept sending me to Twitter instead of posting my comment. Anyone else try to counter these ignorant people’s comments there? Come on.