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Riding in the new year on my dead horse –
Retroactive punishment refers to applying a new law or harsher penalty to actions that occurred before the law was enacted, generally prohibited in criminal law by the U.S. Constitution’s *ex post facto clauses to ensure fairness and notice, meaning laws cannot criminalize past legal acts, increase existing punishments, or alter evidence rules to disadvantage the accused after the fact. While generally banned for increasing criminal burdens, laws can sometimes apply retroactively if they reduce penalties or are purely regulatory, but the principle of *ex post facto prevents governments from backward-looking penal oppression. (Felony penalties on liberty? Holy F’n backward penal oppression!)
Key Principles of Ex Post Facto Laws
Definition: Ex post facto is Latin for “after the fact,” referring to laws that retroactively change legal consequences for past actions. Constitutional Prohibition: The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Sections 9 & 10) forbids Congress and states from passing such laws in criminal matters. What’s Prohibited:Making an act a crime that was legal when committed. Increasing the punishment for a crime after it was committed. Changing the rules of evidence to make conviction easier after the fact. (As in forcing one to a second due process hearing for a past offense, where the government fraudulently uses an invalid risk assessment instrument, to intentionally create a false presumption, that it uses to extort money and make legal activity a new crime, to help re-prosecute these for their past offense!)When Retroactive Laws Are Allowed (or Not)
Prohibited: Laws that disadvantage the [accused], such as increasing sentences, penalties, or changing procedure to the accused’s detriment. Permitted: Laws that retroactively lessen the punishment or benefit the accused, or civil laws that aren’t intended as criminal punishment, notes SCOTUSblog and Restore Justice Foundation. Ongoing Violations: Courts have allowed laws to apply if the offense or condition was ongoing when the new law took effect. Why It Matters (Fairness)
The rule ensures people have fair notice of what conduct is criminal and what penalties might apply, preventing arbitrary government power.
Bottom line – All the SORA/SORNA prosecutions are for LEGAL ACTIVITY which means they can only lawfully be enforced as Parole/Probation violations for those under sentence! All other forms of enforcement is the crime of Peonage against the free people of America!
American liberty cannot be converted into a crime for Americans, and yet, they did!
Happy f’n New Year to us!
Tennessee will now have a Domestic Abuser Registry, however one needs two convictions and have it occur after Jan. 1st of this year. Stupidity doesn’t need any volunteers because Nashville has plenty of stupidity in high places.
SUCCESS!! I Fought CDCR and WON!!
I paroled in Feb 2021 and was supposed to have a 3-year parole term but CDCR instituted a 5-year parole term.
In June 2024 I filed a Habeas Corpus Petition challenging CDCR’s jurisdiction after their failure to perform Discharge Reviews pursuant to PC 3001 (et.seq) and challenging the 5-year parole term.
My offenses were between Aug 1, 1999 – Aug 1, 2000 and the statute changed to 5-years on July 18, 2000. But since the Jury did not determine and the defendant did not admit to specific dates, CDCR could not assume that any of the offenses occured within those last two weeks.
The Judge would not address the failure to perform discharge reviews, two cases had already been successful (In re Nesper 1999, In re Torres 2010) and they are both Published and Precedential.
Instead the Judge determined that CDCR’s imposition of the 5-year parole term violated Ex Post Facto protections and ordered CDCR to amend the parole term to 3 years (which I had already completed).
CDCR REFUSED! The Judges order was signed on November 14, 2025, CDCR refused to obey the order and I filed motions with the court that they were in Contempt.
CDCR finally relented and discharged me December 22, 2025. No more Parole, Monitoring, Treatment, etc.
Just goes to show you, stick up for your rights!
Now all I need is to find a qualified Civil Rights Attorney for that Federal §1983 Claim.
So, with the discovery of daycare fraud in MN, there should be some added living areas to the map for PFRs to live in, right? If it is not a real daycare, then there are not real minors there, and, therefore, the residency restricted area should be immediately opened for PFRs to live in without hesitation. Of course, that doesn’t include the other restrictions which are to be considered, but when one considers daycare facilities…you get the point.
Be very careful about the supposed adult AI chats. Some of them are from other countries and the scenarios suggest minors or simulate it. It would be easy to go down the rabbit hole, and the laws are vague, my experience is a DA with an agenda can bend the law anyway they want it.
Over the holidays DHS put out that they want to deport 100 million people. This means they want to deport @ 50,000 citizens born here. I wonder what groups of citizens they want to deport, but I bet people forced to register are one of these groups. (I do not see this happening as I do not see congress giving the hundreds of billions of dollars needed for DHS the money to enact what it wants to do.)
I. Source of Judicial Authority
Under Article III of the U.S. Constitution and the parallel structure of the New York Constitution:
Courts possess only delegated authorityThat authority comes from the peopleJudges are empowered to interpret, not reviseNo branch may alter constitutional meaning absent ratification
Posterity inherits the Constitution as written, including its limits.
Posterity does not inherit authority to redefine those limits.
How have these OUTLAWS gotten away with criminalizing actions or lack of actions that are NOT crimes?
When the legislature creates criminal laws, it changes previously legal activity into a punishable offense for everyone – A FELONY!
How can anyone’s actions today (or lack of) be a felony offense solely because of a past conviction where the same actions were NOT a felony offense, and said actions are STILL not a felony offense for anyone else?
Then claim that the present-tense application of a new felony that only exists for that past conviction is not a new punishment for a past offense?
ANY felony penalty that the legislature creates for a conviction is PUNISHMENT FOR THE OFFENSE!
HECK, the legal definition of [the derogatory label applied by law to people with a sex offense conviction] only exists because of the past conviction! (I’m referring to pre-law convictions with this rant)
The charge is not “failure to register”, the charge is ‘failure to register as [a derogatory label applied by law to people with a sex offense conviction]” for your past conviction!
Civil remedy, my arse! Felony offenses are 100% criminal law and cannot legally be attached to prior convictions!
We must demand emergency relief from the unconstitutional crimes being perpetrated against us!
STOP THE MADNESS! LIVES ARE BEING LOST!
Happy New Year everybody. I hope you all are keeping a strong mind and heart while you’re on the registry. I am. I never attended any NARSOL conferences before, but I have been watching conference lectures on YouTube. The speakers are actually saying very important facts we need to know. We all must keep battling to abolish the registry. There are too many restrictions and it’s a heavy burden on us to register at the police station every year on my birthday and every time I travel out of state or out of the country. I know for sure for myself that I will not harm anybody at all when I go to a park or a school or if I find out that I’m living near a neighbor who has children. Let’s keep standing up and speaking up. All of those restriction against us have got to be decreasing.
CA PFRs can you please remind me which counties are the worst in terms of compliance checks that are a loud, harassing, circus and a registration process that is difficult? I know compliance checks can happen anywhere, but I thought I recall reading Riverside and Orange county LE particularly take joy in being a-holes. Any thoughts on LA County? I would love to live near my younger son in a year or 18 months and would want a safe place for my PFR son – that would be surrounding LA suburbs of Hawthorne, Playa del Rey, Torrance assuming I could afford it. @someone who cares, what county are you in?
How can a civil remedy be applied to people who have no civil rights?