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A new neighbor moved into a vacant house adjacent to mine a few months ago. NOT EVEN A WEEK HAD PASSED and I noticed an unmarked police vehicle roll up. The officer rang the doorbell and was speaking briefly to the new occupant(s), then (this is what gave it away) – the officer gestured with his hand back towards my house and I saw the officer leave his business card with the occupant(s) before trapsing back to the cruiser to leave.
My question is this: Is this not a form of menacing and rabble rousing while attempting to farm ill-earned heroism and restablish community trust and respest at MY expense by making me out to be the bad guy, enemy and villain of children?? I low-key observed the entire interaction with bincolurs from my window.
Which brings me to my next question:
HOW CAN THIS BE LEGAL?
What I witnessed was my registry information being shoved down someone’s throat, rubbing their noses in it and spoon-feeding my information to them.
The registry is supposed to be available for people that have kids and want to check someone’s background when vetting for babysitting, tutoring and whatnot.
What this cop did was preemptive, pandering and performative!
Even more, it was a pathetic and desperate display to witness.
Imagine moving into a new home – happy and excisted to get settled in – while being nervous about being new to a neighborhood, then a cop shows up to run their anxiety up and ruin the moment.
“Failure to perform duties occasionally is widely considered to be a natural and fundamental aspect of the human condition, rather than a sign of a character flaw [1, 4].
Key perspectives supporting this view include:
PFR are legislatively created, non-human agents of the state who must live under ever-increasing restricted conditions while providing duties with 100% efficiency, without pay, for the state’s public safety interests.
Whether the government likes it or not, PFR ARE only human and are incapable of the 100% efficiency demanded of them.
No human can keep up with ever-changing restrictions and mandates that change from time to time and differ from place to place.
Criminalizing a “fundamental aspect of human nature” with felony penalties = criminalizing the impossible!
It is both dehumanizing and unconstitutional!
To be clear, this IS a HATE crime the government is perpetrating against certain people, and they further their crime by using the intentionally vague aspects of this law to maliciously prosecute PFR who are actually living up to the impossible mandates forced on them to the best of their ability!
Often creating a case where there is none just because they can punish them whenever they want using the well crafted registry tools to torture those they deem non-human!
Question – What would trigger the government to create this impossible act against SOME people? Oh yeah, a past conviction that often has no subject matter to operate on!
One that neither the legislature nor the courts has authority to act on for civil or criminal purposes! Yet they ignore their constitutional limits and proceed ahead as if their authority has no bounds.
Just like in the Elingburg case that SCOTUS just heard. It should have been held moot because a legal sentence CANNOT be changed!
Whether the new law enacted in 1996 is civil or criminal is irrelevant to that fact that “It is not within the power of a legislature to take away rights which have been once vested by a judgment. Legislation may act on subsequent proceedings, may abate actions pending, but when those actions have passed into judgment the power of the legislature to disturb the rights created thereby ceases.” McCullough v. Virginia, 172 U.S. 102
“A vested right ensures “certainty and fairness” to the defendant so that he can be confident that a subsequently enacted regulation will not affect him.” (see The Yale Law Journal Volume 96, Number 6, May 1987.
SORA CANNOT lawfully be applied to anyone who was sentenced prior to its enactment!
The legislature has no authority to create legislation that forces someone to have a risk level assesment “due process hearing” for a conviction that has already had its due process and passed into judgment!
The court has no authority to ajudicate a risk level at a “due process hearing” for a conviction that has already had it’s due process and passed into judgement!
The government forces PFR to due process a second time for the same offence so that it can criminalize acts of fundamental human nature against these for convictions that have already passed into judgment!
Untouchable convictions that have no subject matter for government operate on,
and yet the do!
What does that tell everybody about who we’re actually dealing with?
Who are the real criminals? Those convicted of crimes? Or those in positions of trust criminalizing acts that are not crimes!
U.S. law addresses peonage (debt slavery) primarily through 18 U.S.C. § 1581 (Peonage; obstructing enforcement) and 42 U.S.C. § 1994 (Peonage abolished), making it illegal to hold someone for debt labor and nullifying related state laws, while 18 U.S.C. § 1590 covers broader human trafficking involving peonage, slavery, or forced labor, carrying severe penalties. These statutes criminalize compelling labor to pay debts, with penalties for those who hold people in peonage or obstruct enforcement, all stemming from the 13th Amendment’s ban on involuntary servitude.
Key U.S. Code Sections
What These Laws Do
In essence, the U.S. Code makes it a serious federal crime to force someone into labor to pay off a debt, building on the constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude.
So, Did SCOTUS bless this inhumane act against PFR with “SMITH” or did it forbid it?
Either way SOMEONE IS GULTY AND MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO THE MAIMUM EXTENT OF THE LAW FOR THIS UNLAWFUL INHUMAINE ACT AGAINST SO MANY!
LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST!
EMERGENCY RELIEF MUST BE GRANTED BEFORE MORE LIVES ARE LOST TO THIS HATE CRIME!
Me and my friends were put on the registry in high school the Riverside County DA tried all five of us as adults, and I spent 27 years on the registry. Recently I looked up all my
co-defendants and I’m sad to say none of them made it. One of them is currently dying in a medical prison from A.I.D.S struck out by the California three strike law. Another one overdosed in 2010, another one is serving life for
petty crimes under the California three strike law.
Another one was just released on parole in 2024 after serving 18 years in prison and will most likely die on the registry because he pick up so many new felony convictions.
Im the only one who made off the registry. It’s sad because these guys weren’t predators, we were just stupid kids hanging out at a high school party.
MA: Massachusetts Supreme Court Win on GPS Monitoring (18 Dec 2025)
Another court which says it is a search under 4A and individual assessments are needed.
I’ve heard that in Utah there are plans to force people without housing into government run camps. In Utah it is now illegal to sleep outside and Utah will give one a forced choice of being arrested or being shipped indefinitely into homeless camps. The state is putting aside $45 million to start these homeless camps. The money that would be spent on housing will be directed towards these homeless camps instead of affordable housing.
I do not like the words government forced. Does not sound like a free country if the government will force people where to live. I presume a fair portion of the people without housing are people forced to register.
This is an idea we all can get behind in holding them accountable and lessening if not outright removing Qualified Immunity from the toolbox.
These Congressmen Want To Give You the Right To Sue Federal Law Enforcement for Violating Your Rights (Reason 17 Dec 2025)
“The proposed bills aim to revive and codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.”
The legislature has criminalized lawful liberty along with fundamental human nature for PFR because of a past offense that is legal for everyone else and WAS legal for many PFR at the time of their offense!
Violating the Constitutional expost facto ban by passing legislation that makes today’s lawful activity, a crime for a past offense, even though the activity is NOT a crime now nor was it then!
Also violating the seperation of powers by passing legislation that mars the integrity of the sentencing court and oversteps the constitutional authority bestowed upon both the legislative and judiciary!
Both branches know that “It is not within the power of a legislature to take away rights which have been once vested by a judgment. Legislation may act on subsequent proceedings, may abate actions pending, but when those actions have passed into judgment the power of the legislature to disturb the rights created thereby ceases.” McCullough v. Virginia, 172 U.S. 102
“A vested right ensures “certainty and fairness” to the defendant so that he can be confident that a subsequently enacted regulation will not affect him.” (see The Yale Law Journal Volume 96, Number 6, May 1987.
When Judge, Prosecutor AND Defense attorney are all members of the same good ole boys club (BAR) the conflict of interest is apparent that you have been captured by OUTLAWS operating outside the law!
They will hold you in a state extortion peonage serving their sick psycho whims for the rest of your life!
Michigan news I believe this is new
Michigan Syllabus and Opinion PEOPLE v KARDASZ
“The 2021 SORA, MCL 28.721 et seq., as amended by 2020 PA 295, constitutes punishment, but is not cruel or unusual under Const 1963, art 1, § 16.”
“The only factor that points toward this legislation resembling a civil remedy is its connection to a nonpunitive purpose. In all other respects, the 2021 SORA resembles punishment. It approximates the traditional punishments of shaming and parole, burdens registrants with onerous requirements under the threat of imprisonment for noncompliance, and serves the penological goal of retribution. It is excessive in relation to its stated purpose because it imposes various duties based on unscientific groupings rather than individualized risk profiles, includes a publication requirement that may diminish its overall effectiveness in reducing recidivism, and remains operative beyond any plausible point of utility for thousands of registrants. For all of these reasons, we conclude that the 2021 SORA constitutes punishment.”
75 page decision new Sorna in Michigan is
notpunitiveThe Argument for Peonage
Critics argue that the modern scope of these laws—which often include lifetime registration, frequent in-person reporting, and severe restrictions on where one can live or work—imposes a state of peonage or involuntary servitude.
Legal Definition of Peonage: Legally, peonage is a condition of compulsory service to discharge a debt or obligation. It is prohibited by the 13th Amendment and federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1581).Obligation to the State: Proponents of this view argue that lifetime registration requirements force individuals into a perpetual state of “service” to the government, where failure to comply leads to immediate re-incarceration.13th Amendment Exceptions: The 13th Amendment prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a punishment for crime”. If registration is legally “not punishment,” critics argue it cannot claim this constitutional exemption, making the mandatory “service” of registration a form of unconstitutional peonage.
3. Recent Shifting Interpretations
Some lower courts have begun to challenge the “not punishment” precedent.
Sixth Circuit Ruling: In 2016, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Michigan’s sex offense registry law was so burdensome it had transformed from a civil regulation into a criminal punishment, specifically noting its resemblance to “ancient forms of punishment” like banishment.Ongoing Litigation: Challenges continue in various states, with plaintiffs arguing that the “one-size-fits-all” approach and extreme residency restrictions create a “web of oppressive requirements” that make reintegration into society nearly impossible.
The legislature proves its punitive intent by making legal activity a crime for people with a s.offense past!
If the legislature’s true intent was public safety it would invest all the BILLIONS it wastes in creating chaos, and harming PFR and their families, into making sure they have everything they need not to reoffend but reintergrate smoothly back into society!
The legislature would rather promote hate and fear and hold people in a state of peonage under threat of felony for their s.o. racket because they are NOT real legislators and their actions prove it!
Enough with their “civil intent” already!
Civil duties don’t impose felony penalties!
Civil remedies don’t make legal activity a CRIME!
WTF!
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I wonder how long they have to full apply the new changes
@Athena
You may find this of interest given your locale: ‘An impossible situation’ (Reader 26 Dec 2025)
Beginning January 1, the City of Chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public buses and trains.
No longer registered? NEVER been registered? Here’s a new problem:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ashley-macisaac-ai-accusation-9.7026786
Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant (The Record 18 Dec 2025)
“In its opinion, the court said that internet users making searches have no reasonable right to privacy because “it is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data.””
This is only in PA but expect this to ripple across the nation even when Google says they’ll share this data with LE in their T&Cs.
What’s the latest on people with reduced and expunged convictions in California getting listed on the public site?
I was never on the public site, and in 2018 got conviction reduced and expunged. Then tiered registry put my full info on the public site when it came into effect.
Because of the 1203.4 I am legally allowed to say that I have never been convicted. Yet anyone who finds me on the site can see all my info along with the conviction. This is incorrect. The state is disclosing information about me that is not true anymore.
I should probably be Tier 1 (instead of the Tier 3 they listed me at) if I wasn’t on the site at all before and it’s been reduced and expunged (heck, misdemeanor wasn’t a registrable offense at all). I’m not even talking about that battle. But it seems to be that disputing the disclosure of my conviction should be low hanging fruit. Even if they just removed that part to comply with the law it would be a first step.
Thoughts?
Ongoing legal challenges to the SORNA , particularly in Pennsylvania, where courts have found it unconstitutional as applied, citing it as punitive, violating ex post facto clauses, cruel and unusual punishment, and double jeopardy. While not explicitly termed “peonage,” arguments highlight SORNA’s burdensome, lifelong restrictions (employment, housing, public shaming via internet registries) as severe punishments akin to indentured servitude or banished status, far exceeding its stated regulatory goal, leading to calls for its repeal and reforms.
Key Constitutional Arguments Against SORNA:
Punitive Nature: Courts have ruled SORNA’s requirements (in-person reporting, public dissemination) act as criminal punishment, not just civil regulation, due to their severity and restraint. Ex Post Facto Clause: Applying new, stricter registration rules retroactively to past offenses violates the Constitution, as it punishes actions not illegal at the time. Double Jeopardy & Cruel/Unusual Punishment: Perpetual, burdensome reporting inflicts repeated punishment beyond the initial sentence, violating the Eighth and Fifth Amendments. Due Process & Separation of Powers: The Act creates irrebuttable presumptions of future reoffense and improperly delegates legislative power, say some courts. “Peonage” Comparison (Modern Indentured Servitude):
Advocates argue the immense, lifelong obstacles SORNA creates for housing, jobs, and social reintegration effectively banish individuals, creating a state of perpetual servitude, similar to forced labor or peonage, which is also unconstitutional. Legal Status:
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared its SORNA unconstitutional in several rulings (e.g., Commonwealth v. Muniz). Similar challenges exist nationally, with various courts grappling with SORNA’s application and scope. In essence, the comparison to peonage highlights the argument that SORNA’s severe, inescapable burdens transform civil registration into a form of lifelong, involuntary servitude, making it unconstitutional.
Look who isn’t on this list…I’ll give you a min to figure it out and hopefully the light bulb goes on because it is counter to the prevailing thought those who think they know show they don’t really know…you know? #iykyk (hint: three letters that look like PFR)
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025 (Wired 29 Dec 2025)
I realize the source may lean one way a bit and it is a bit political, but the point is the hysteria, hype, and fear of a certain population is much less when compared to others. This could be used, IMO, in a case showing the over-blowing of thinking by the ignorant many.
Rage farming comes in many forms. A prevalent form currently in use is “sex crime porn” to build unwarranted fear and stoke hysteria about alleged sex crimes which may be possibly committed by those who already have a sex crime conviction which the stats rebuff.
This is the bread and butter for people selling fear of PFRs and their justification of asinine laws, but not those who have yet to be caught or abuse positions of trust. They need people to be afraid, irrational, and loose with their ideas about new laws with crazy solutions looking for non-existent problems. There are a million reasons why people portray possible repeat sex crimes as falsely uncontrolled and instill irrational fear in others. None of the reasons are good, obviously.
With all of this being said…Society needs to operate more often from fact and rage-farm less often from the bull put out there by those who perpetuate it. Powers that be wherever they are in the hierarchy of establishments need to be called out directly in their stoking of this fear at the same time repeating the stats which rebuff their lines of thought.
Whether it is in official chambers, writings, speeches, court cases (IMO), etc, it is time to start (respectfully?) calling out what is really happening by these folks to put the truth on the record, to call them out for who they are, and call out what they are doing. I don’t know if it will make a difference, but people need to know about it and by who it is being done.
If they twist this topic, what other topics are they twisting to suit their narrative?
Has anyone run into this issue. I have had my IRA dropped by Fidelity and now Charles Schwab. Both places would not talk to me and tell me why. They both just said it was a business decision and told me I had 30 days to move the money. The only thing I can think of is a background check on me. I have a conviction of distribution 18 UCS 2252(a)
Deepfake Porn Is the Next Workplace Harassment Crisis (Inc 29 Dec 2025)
A 19 yr old girl went missing on Christmas Eve in Texas. I hope she’s found alive, and nothing sexual was done to her otherwise it’ll be a crappy start to 2026 for PFRS in Texas and nationally.
Driving home from work and instant Anxiety hit me that I needed to schedule my annual registration. I haven’t had to register for over 3 years now! To this day it I still have a lot of anxiety. 😒