New Blogs Part 12 Updated October 28 2020

New Blogs Part 12 

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No sexual abuse is ever acceptable. Sex offense laws and policies should be based on sound research and common sense, not fear, panic or paranoia. Current laws and policies that paint all sex offenders with one broad brush are counter- productive, wasteful, and cause needless harm. Each offense must be judged on its own merits with a punishment that fits the crime and does not waste taxpayer dollars. The public sex offender registry and residency restriction laws do not protect children but instead ostracize and dehumanize individuals and their families. Money spent on purely punitive measures would be better used for prevention, healing, and rehabilitation. 
The author of SO FAQ does not affiliate with any other organization or people on the internet or the world for that matter. I have been saying this since I first logged on to the internet. Just because I like organizations like the ACLU; does not mean I believe in everything they believe in or stand for. Just like in our great country when we vote; we will never believe in everything the candidate we vote for; believes in or stands for. That doe not mean we are should not vote.

Some of these articles are just plan communist propaganda. I apologies for posting them. I am posting them to show how our enemy’s are trying to justify itself on the verge of destroying us all. Fighting communism is a worthy fight and always has been during the course of our great country; sailing it’s way through the sea’s of country’s and governments that are our enemies. Then there is Russia; not communism anymore but still seemingly our enemy. I suspect Russia of being just plane paranoid enough to start a war with us, then there is always the sin of man to blame. 
Lets look at all of this for what it is, and what I have been saying all along and all these years online. Our dream country of The United States of America; where we live free, may not have been meant to be in the first place.Maybe the world let it be to see if we could keep the Great Tribulation from beginning, a while longer. Why hasn’t the tribulation begun; with so many signs of it’s beginnings all around us? Could be one answer, our country: America. Is that why The Bible had so much to do with the founding of our country. I say that is exactly why.
This is where I remind any Christians that we only have to wait for one sign (according to God’s Word) and that is the rapture; where we are taken from earth to be with the Lord. So don’t every believe in conspiracy theories like blood colored moons having anything to do with the tribulation. 
I think our country is the one reason the tribulation has not begun. If you look at The Great Tribulation and the ruthless governments that rule the earth during The Great Tribulation it seems easy to see why our country is so focused on escaping reality through drugs and all of our other vises. To face what America is all about; makes us like the Angles, responsible for all the world and its very survival. That is a huge responsibility and burden.
So when it comes down to the us and them’s and why we are enemies with the Russians and the Chinese: 
I quote myself from: New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 23 2018 to explain:
“There are only 4 ruling country’s mentioned during the time of The Great Tribulation. 
1 The King of the North Russia
2 The King of the West the revived Roman Empire
3. The King of the South African nations and tribes
4. King of the East the Assian races
America is not mentioned at all.
How long do we have till The Great Tribulation?
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
No one knows when the rapture will take place; therefore no one knows when The Great Tribulation will begin.”  When it comes right down to it the reason there are enemies in this world these days is because of what country’s will fight during the tribulation on the side of Satan our not. Sounds like a worthy fight to me to fight against The Anti Christ’s rule over earth; while there is still real time to do so. 
If you really want to put it all into plane words; America has always fought on the side of good and right. That is the right thing to do and nothing has been more worthy a fight to fight.

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New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 06 2018
First thing I want to say the only reason I mention the Bible on this blog is because I am concerned with the fact that America is not mentioned in the Bible after the tribulation. I believe the tribulation can be very soon to come to pass according to the Bible. That means that very soon America could not exist. This is why I have started to post about China and Russia and all their new weapons that are obviously designed to take us out. That is the only reason I have begun to quote the Bible on my New Blogs pages. 
Satanist are in the news again. Today’s Christian has nothing to be concerned about the Satanist of today. After the tribulation; that will be a completely different story. Satanism is not a bad religion. Like all religions it is peaceful and meant to be good to it’s followers. The one thing that fascinates me about Satanism; is the fact that Anton Lavey took the time to carefully explain the importance to his believers, to never force themselves on anyone sexually. In the 1960’s there was a very strong creed having to be against sex offences in the Church of Satan. Think about that and come up with your own conclusions. 
Here is the link:https://www.newsweek.com/satanic-statue-holiday-decorations-illinois-statehouse-1245107
The Satanist’s are basically protesting Separation From Church and State. I am and will forever support our founding fathers and Separation From Church and State. I believe any depiction or Christ even the Nativity is blasphemy according to the Bible. I also think it is against the Bible to display the cross as a Christian symbol. Displaying the cross is like displaying the electric chair. Non of these thing do not offend me though. I am not offended by people and things that are around us everyday; that is just plane reality.
From: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/419883-us-destroyer-sails-near-russia-claimed-waters-in-sea-of-japan
“On Dec. 5 (local time), guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) conducted a freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the Sea of Japan,” Pacific Fleet spokeswoman Lt. Rachel McMarr said in a statement.
“McCampbell sailed in the vicinity of Peter the Great Bay to challenge Russia’s excessive maritime claims and uphold the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea enjoyed by the United States and other Nations.”
I read somewhere you can barely see these missiles move. I also read we have many of them ourselves. I have also read we have nothing to fear from foreign country’s weapons. It still is good to be on our toes. This is all up to date and worth keeping track of. 
Here is a great link on the new weapon’s budget for our country from yesterday and I think it is a great idea to spend as much as we can on military defense. We must never turn our backs on the well being of our citizens; at the same time as spending money on defense. No spending on the military should ever be done at the expense of the well being of the people of our country that made it great. Quit frankly I do not trust our country when it comes to spending 700 billion dollars on military defense. What most likely will happen is a few people will get filthy rich and a uncountable amount of citizens will suffer poverty. There needs to be a extreme over site to make sure we get the most bang for our buck, so to speak.
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2018/12/would-700-billion-budget-really-sink-pentagon/153291/?oref=defenseone_today_nl
From: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/746385/russia-hypersonic-missiles-inf-treaty-nuclear-putin-trump-ww3-news
Russia warns hypersonic missiles ‘cannot be intercepted’ as nuclear treaty nears collapse
VLADIMIR Putin has a hypersonic missile system that “cannot be intercepted” at his disposal, a Russian general has warned
Published 5th December 2018
Putin has today said Russia “will react accordingly” to US withdrawal from the INF Treaty.
The missile is at the disposal of Moscow should the US pull out of a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty.
From: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/746316/iran-news-world-war-3-nuclear-weapon-site-ww3-rouhani-regime-change
Iran secret NUCLEAR sites REVEALED
THE Islamic regime in Iran is harbouring hidden nuclear weapons sites as it continues its secret arms programme — a dissident group has claimed.
Published 5th December 2018
On Tuesday Iranian warships were scrambled as a US aircraft carrier headed for the Persian Gulf.
While last week Tehran launched a radar-evading stealth destroyer warship.
From: https://gizmodo.com/russia-shows-off-new-laser-weapon-after-u-s-threatens-1830874116
Published 5th December 2018
Russia Shows Off New Laser Weapon After U.S. Threatens to Pull Out of Missile Treaty
Russian state media published video earlier today of its latest laser weapons system, the Peresvet.
Grits also has a great page again. One article is about going after the corrupt Texas so called Department of Public Safety:http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2018/12/federal-suit-challenges-tx-driver.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 07 2018
I added this to the above post:
We must never turn our backs on the well being of our citizens; at the same time as spending money on defense. No spending on the military should ever be done at the expense of the well being of the people of our country that made it great. Quit frankly I do not trust our country when it comes to spending 700 billion dollars on military defense. What most likely will happen is a few people will get filthy rich and a uncountable amount of citizens will suffer poverty. There needs to be a extreme over site to make sure we get the most bang for our buck, so to speak.
From: https://defenceaviationpost.com/pakistan-acquires-sh-15-nuclear-capable-howitzer-artillery-guns-from-china/
Pakistan Acquires Sh-15 “Nuclear-Capable” Howitzer Artillery Guns From China
On December 6, 2018
SH-15 will be the best ‘shoot and scoot’ artillery guns for the use of nuclear shells — easy to hide and easy to use against troop concentration. Pakistan has been working on the miniaturisation of nuclear weapons since 1984.
The US nuclear artillery shell W-48 uses 10kg high-density alpha-plutonium with a sphere of barely 54mm.   From: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/north-korea-is-still-developing-nuclear-warheads-but-that-doesnt-mean-trump-is-failing
North Korea is still developing nuclear warheads
December 06, 2018 12:11 PM 
North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear warhead development rolls on. 
From: https://www.theblaze.com/news/satellite-images-show-expansion-activity-at-two-north-korean-missile-bases
December 06, 2018
Two North Korean missile bases have been active and expanding, according to analysis of satellite images by CNN.
According to CNN, satellite footage shows the Yeongjeo-dong base is still active, and another base seven miles away is being upgraded. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 08 2018
From: http://tass.com/defense/1034760
India interested in training its military in Russia
Military & Defense  December 06, 19:15
MOSCOW, December 6. /TASS/. India is interested in training its military at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry informed on Thursday on the outcomes of the visit by India’s Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba.
From: https://www.thelivemirror.com/exercise-hand-hand-armies-india-china/
Exercise Hand-in-Hand between armies of India and China set to begin
By Anurag Singh December 6, 2018 
Exercise Hand-in-Hand between armies of India and China will be conducted from 10 to 23 December at Chengdu, China.  The exercise will involve tactical level operations in an International Counter Insurgency/ Counter Terrorist environment under UN mandate.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 09 2018
From: https://sputniknews.com/military/201812081070516941-j20-in-georgia-image/
Has China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter Been Spotted at a US Airbase? 
The Aviationist has published a photo of an unidentified combat aircraft which looks strikingly similar to a J-20, claiming the photo was taken at the Savannah-Hilton Head Airport in the US state of Georgia. 
The person who provided the image, who claimed to have taken the photo from the airport’s parking lot on the morning of December 5, asked to remain anonymous. However, according to the authoritative military aviation website, cross-referencing the image with satellite photos of airports in the Georgia area seemed to confirm that the mystery ‘plane’ did appear at the airport in question, with profile images also appearing to match objects at the airport such as roof color and texture with those in the photo.
From: https://arynews.tv/en/chinese-troops-arrive-in-pakistan-for-joint-military-drill/
Web Desk On Dec 8, 2018 Last updated Dec 8, 2018 
Chinese troops arrive in Pakistan for joint military drill  
RAWALPINDI: A special forces contingent of People Liberation Army China arrived in Pakistan on Saturday to participate in Pak-China joint military exercise ‘Warrior –VI 2018’.
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1056112/world-war-3-iran-news-hassan-rouhani-donald-trump-nuclear-deal-sanctions
Dec 8, 2018
Iran threatens Trump with ‘BOMBS AND TERRORISM’ over sanctions
IRAN’s firebrand president has warned the West will be flooded with “a deluge of drugs, asylum seekers, bombs and terrorism” due to Donald Trump’s sanctions against Tehran.
From: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-new-radar-can-track-5000-objects-including-hypersonic-missiles-38177
Dec 8, 2018
Russia’s New Radar Can Track 5,000 Objects (Including Hypersonic Missiles) 
This radar can chart the flight path of any aircraft target at a distance of about 3,000 km, and can simultaneously track over 5,000 airborne objects of different types, including small [aircraft].” 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 10 2018
From: https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-building-up-forces-near-crimea-amid-tensions-with-ukraine-satellite-photos-show

Published 1 hour ago 2pm December 9, 2018 
Russia building up forces near Crimea amid tensions with Ukraine, satellite photos show
satellite images obtained exclusively by Fox News on Sunday show that additional forces may be headed to the region.
The Ilushin-76 cargo planes are used by the Russian army to deliver outsized or heavy cargo. (ImageSat International)

From: https://bobrpost.com/washington-post-russia-undermines-the-dominant-role-of-usa-in-the-middle-east/3820/
Washington Post: Russia undermines the dominant role of USA in the middle East
December 9, 2018 
Russia’s influence far beyond Syria, including in the countries interested in the outcome of the war, such enemies as Israel and Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey.
From: https://bobrpost.com/newsweek-russian-premier-league-can-shock-us/3769/
Newsweek: Russian Premier League can shock US
December 9, 2018 
“We, too, might suddenly emerge from under the water in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving America in shock”, — said the chief editor of the Russian magazine “national defense” Igor Korotchenko
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1056504/world-war-3-russia-military-drills-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-nuclear-deal-sanctions
15:52, Sun, Dec 9, 2018   | UPDATED: 16:23, Sun, Dec 9, 2018 
Russian warships team up with India for MILITARY DRILLS
RUSSIAN warships have arrived in India to participate in the Indra Navy 2018 military drills as fears of a World War 3 heighten.

From: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1131036.shtml
China-US relations heading toward uncharted waters dominate Global Times annual conference 
Published: 2018/12/9 18:48:40 
Second, the US is offensive, while China is defensive. The anxiety of the US made it take irrational actions in its general strategy. China hopes to maintain a stable relationship with the US. 
The US opened three battle lines in the political, military and economic fields against China. The US keeps meddling in China’s affairs, so why can’t China go to areas like Hawaii where the US is “dominant.” The initiative over the South China Sea and Taiwan should rest with China. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 11 2018
From: https://www.businessinsider.com/south-china-sea-chinesenavy-ram-us-ships-2018-12?r=UK&IR=T
Dec 10 2018
A People’s Liberation Army Air Force senior colonel argued at a conference Saturday that the Chinese PLA Navy should ram US Navy warships that try to conduct freedom-of-navigation operations in “Chinese waters” in the South China Sea. 

From: https://swarajyamag.com/insta/india-successfully-conducts-second-test-of-nuclear-capable-agni-5-missile-in-six-months
Dec 10 2018, 5:26 pm
India Successfully Conducts Second Test Of Nuclear Capable Agni-5 Missile In Six Months 

From: http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/10/chinese-government-might-use-cell-phones-spy-americans/
How The Chinese Government Might Use Cell Phones To Spy On Americans 
By building a 5G network backed by Chinese tech, Sprint and T-Mobile could help the Chinese government spy on American communications.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 12 2018
From: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8597101&postID=4885185106009150640
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018Conflation of punishment with price system distorts justice in sex-assault casesWe live in an era when “justice” has been defined largely in terms of the price system, as though it were subject to laws of supply and demand. The root theory behind our modern justice system, in large part, holds that punishments are a “price” paid for misconduct and, if they do not deter, it’s because the “price” wasn’t high enough.
Defining punishment abstractly as the “price” of crime generates perverse cultural meanings for victims, prosecutors, jurors, and others engaged with the system. Under the price-system mindset, harsh punishment by the state (which monopolizes the currency of punishment) is evidence that the victim is valued, while more lenient outcomes are evidence that they are not, that a lower “price” has been placed on their suffering.
This implicit pricing model distorts nearly every part of the justice system, but particularly regarding sexual assault. Certainly, some women want maximal punishment for their rapist. But because the overwhelming majority of women know their perpetrators, often including beloved family members, harsh punishments can also perversely prevent some women from reporting crimes against them. For them, defining the “value” placed on their suffering vis a vis the “price” of punishment harms their interests, making them less safe and abnegating their needs rather than meeting them.
This is why Grits has often thought that restorative justice tenets may ultimately provide a viable, alternative path for how to confront these horrible situations. Such interventions focus on the questions, “Who was harmed? What do they need? Whose obligation is it to meet those needs?,” which seems like a more constructive approach than one-size-fits-all punishment regimens.
But the pricing model is what we’ve got, and a couple of recent, high-profile cases help demonstrate how treacherous this terrain can be.
In Waco, the town is in a furor over outgoing DA Abel Reyna’s office agreeing to a plea bargain for a former Baylor frat president, Jacob Walter Anderson, indicted by a grand jury on four counts of sexual assault. Under the deal, he pled to a third degree felony charge of unlawful restraint. He’ll serve no jail time, undergo counseling, pay a $400 fine, and won’t be required to register as a sex offender. Reported the Tribune-Herald:The victim, who has been outspoken against the plea bargain, began to cry loudly Monday after Strother announced his decision to accept it. She urged the judge to reject the plea offer and set a trial so she could have her day in court. She said Anderson sexually assaulted her, repeatedly choked her and left her for dead after she fell unconscious. Later, in an emotional victim impact statement, she told Strother she is devastated that he approved the plea bargain. She called out prosecutor Hilary LaBorde, who struck the deal with Anderson, and McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna for not attending the hearing. “If I had the courage to come back to Waco and face my rapist and testify, you could at least have had enough respect for me to show up today,” she said. “You both will have to live with this decision to let a rapist run free in society without any warning to future victims. I wonder if you will have nightmares every night watching Jacob rape me over and over again?” … The woman described in sometimes graphic detail what she said Anderson did to her. “When I was completely unconscious, he dumped me face down in the dirt and left me there to die,” the woman said. “He had taken what he wanted, had proven his power over my body. He then walked home and went to bed without a second thought to the ravaged, half-dead woman he had left behind.” The woman said she has learned through this process that “the McLennan County justice system is severely broken,” but she thanked the women who created an online petition opposing the plea agreement that she said was signed by more than 85,000 people.So why did the McLennan DA’s office fail to go to trial? They feared an acquittal, was supposedly the reason. ADA Hillary Laborddeclined comment about the case. However, in an email she sent the woman and her family after they learned of the plea agreement by reading the Tribune-Herald, she said she offered the deal after an acquittal in a sexual assault case that she said was similar to Anderson’s. She said she was concerned Anderson would be found not guilty. “(The jury) engaged in a lot of victim blaming — and the behavior of that victim and (this victim) is very similar,” she said. “It’s my opinion that our jurors aren’t ready to blame rapists and not victims when there isn’t concrete proof of more than one victim.”The prosecutor’s motive ostensibly was to protect a victim who didn’t want to be protected, but she never spoke to the victim to tell her about the deal, letting her learn about it in the newspaper. So far, one notices, no one has judged the behavior or credibility of the victim but the prosecutor. Jurors never had  the chance.
In that light, how did anything that happened throughout this process meet this woman’s needs? The state demonstrated they didn’t value her by judging her credibility, failing to communicate, even to say the DA planned to dishonor her wishes, then they placed a low, abstract “price” on her pain through lenient punishment without giving her a chance to tell jurors her side of the story. No wonder the woman’s angry! A statement released by the victim’s family, the Tribune-Herald reported, declared:“This is an absolute travesty,” the statement reads. “By agreeing to this plea, (prosecutor) Hilary LaBorde and the McLennan County DA’s office have allowed that rape is no longer a crime in Texas. They are telling the rapists and sexual predators, ‘Go ahead and violently rape, choke to near death and abandon your unconscious, ravaged and used-up victim and we will make darn sure you get some counseling. Even if a grand jury indicts you on four counts of sexual assault, we don’t care.’ “Oh, and ‘All you rape victims, don’t bother to report it, because we will put you through hell for years, make promises about getting a conviction and lie to you about not accepting a plea the whole time. We will give your rapist counseling and drop all charges and let him go free. We don’t care about about justice and we don’t care about you,’ ” she said in the statement.The victim here isn’t just angry about a light sentence, although she clearly thinks her rapist should have been punished more harshly. But she’s also angry about not being kept informed, about the DA’s office ignoring her willingness to testify, and not getting her day in court. She feels lied to. She felt throughout the process that she wasn’t being heard, viewed the trial as the moment when she finally could be, then saw that opportunity taken from her in a deal considered friendly to her assailant. Anyone would be mad.
By contrast, consider this recent story:  In Bell County, a man disproved false rape allegations by producing a selfie taken in Austin as an alibi. An ex-girlfriend accused him of breaking into her house, raping her, and carving an “X” into her chest. Police initially believed her, and the guy was in serious jeopardy of spending a long stretch in prison if he hadn’t been able to prove his whereabouts.  Now, she has been charged for making the false report.
Thank heavens the fellow was out of the county and could produce a time-stamped selfie! If the same fact-pattern occurred in the pre-cell phone era, he’d be screwed.
False allegations are rare but do happen. Indeed, the FBI has asserted that, ‘The “unfounded’ rate, or percentage of complaints determined through investigation to be false, is higher for forcible rape than for any other Index crime.” Some false allegations, as in the San Antonio Four case, appear to arise from retaliation. Some come from young women embarrassed at their own behavior. And some are women who are raped by a stranger and make an honest but tragic mistake about their assailant’s identity.
In those incidents where a rape did occur but the wrong person was accused, a double tragedy occurs. An innocent is punished for the sins of another and the real perpetrator goes free. That’s a worst-possible-case scenario that should justifiably scare anyone – say, jurors, asked to pass judgment in these instances.  Women deserve justice, but justice is poorly served when an innocent person is punished.
Grits values both the victim’s pain in Waco and the liberty interests of the man in Bell County. For that matter, I hope that the defrocked frat president turns his life around, repents his sins, goes on to live a productive life, and never does anything like that again. It’s possible the best way to ensure that happens is to send him to prison for decades, but I’ve no evidence that’s true.
I don’t know how to resolve these high-level contradictions based on evidence, particularly when the evidence we do have suffers from undercounts and corrupted data about how many rapes are actually solved. One bit of good news: changes on the misleading data front are apparently in the works.
In response to the Reveal podcast criticizing Austin PD’s categorization of “exceptionally” cleared rape cases (see Grits coverage here and here), the FBI will change its definitions regarding what qualifies a rape investigation for “exceptional” clearance, according to a followup story from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
For decades, law enforcement lumped cases which were “cleared” by arresting a suspect into categories along with much more numerous cases where police had identified a suspect, had probable cause to make an arrest, but chose not to do so because a judgment had been made by police or prosecutors that the case wasn’t winnable. As with the case in Waco, typically victims weren’t involved in or often even notified of those judgments.
Grits cannot presently discern the path leading from an unsatisfactory status quo to a system that more reliably delivers just outcomes in sexual-assault cases. But it’s clear to me the justice system as presently constituted exacerbates the problem, and IMO a big source of the disconnect is this conflation of the value society places on victim’s suffering with punishment as the “price” paid for crime.

From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1057377/world-war-3-russia-US-russia-bombers-venezuela-putin-news
14:15, Tue, Dec 11, 2018   | UPDATED: 16:25, Tue, Dec 11, 2018 
Russian bombers land in Venezuela in WARNING to US

RUSSIAN bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons have landed in Venezuela in a show of force against the US
The pair of TU-160 supersonic bombers, known as “White Swans” by Russian pilots, landed at Maiquetia airport near Caracas on Monday after covering more than 6,200 miles.
From: https://doverdailynews.com/2018/12/11/north-korea-fires-missile-into-sea-off-east-coast-possibly-an-icbm/
North Korea fires missile into sea off east coast, possibly an ICBM 
by Dover News Staff—December 11, 2018 
North Korea fired a missile on Friday in an unusual late-night test launch, and details announced by officials in Japan, South Korea and the United States suggested it was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The launch from North Korea’s northern Jangang province took place at 11:41 p.m. (1441 GMT), an official at South Korea’s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The US Defense Department confirmed the launch.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 13 2018
From: http://tass.com/pressreview/1035596
Russia to set up Caribbean base
December 12, 13:00updated at: December 12, 13:00 UTC
Moscow is gearing up to establish a long-term military presence in Latin America and the current mission of the Tu-160 strategic bombers to Venezuela is part of this plan, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes.

From: https://breakingdefense.com/2018/12/the-us-china-a-colder-peace-or-thucydides-trap/
on December 12, 2018 at 4:00 AM
The US & China: A Colder Peace or Thucydides’ Trap?  
As President Trump pushes Beijing on trade and cyber espionage, the United States and China are on a collision course. The U.S. urgently needs a new strategy to avoid the traditional fate of rising and status quo powers: catastrophic war. 
From: http://tass.com/politics/1035593
December 12, 9:50 UTC
BEIJING, December 12. /TASS/. Ties between Russia and China in the sphere of national security and inter-army cooperation signal openness and a high level of political trust between the two countries, Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov said on Wednesday.
From: https://www.newsmax.com/peterpry/emp-attack-deterrent-air-force/2018/12/11/id/894063/
Wednesday December 12, 2018
EMP Attack May Be Undeterrable, US Air Force Suggests
Electromagnetic Defense Task Force (EDTF) is traditional deterrence, based on threat of retaliation, may not work against nuclear EMP attack. 
Such an EMP attack could be delivered by a balloon, an aircraft doing a zoom climb, or a short-range missile launched off a freighter. Any of these attack modes could be executed anonymously, thwarting deterrence.
From: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/12/12/18137165/japan-f-35-fighter-jets-us-military-trump-china
Dec 12, 2018, 6:30am EST 

Japan plans to purchase nearly 150 F-35 fighter jets from the US
The move is designed to make the country better able to defend itself against a more aggressive China and Russia.
The New York Times also reported on Tuesday that Japan plans to convert some of its biggest warships into aircraft carriers that could carry the new F-35s. That would add Japan to the small club of countries with an aircraft carrier — further adding to rising tensions with China.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 14 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1058255/us-china-tension-us-china-trade-war-relation-espionage-cyber-security-world-war-3-trump
PUBLISHED:  06:12, Thu, Dec 13, 2018   | UPDATED: 06:18, Thu, Dec 13, 2018 
US accuses China of ESPIONAGE and state secrets THEFT – ‘We can’t sleep on this threat’
The explosive claim was made in a report submitted on Wednesday to the Senate Intelligence Committee. More than two thirds of the Department’s theft of trade secrets “have had a nexus to China”, the report stated. It came amid heightened scrutiny of China’s cyber capabilities after a Marriott Hotels cyber attack was reportedly linked to the superpower.
From: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/13/us-china-south-china-sea-disputes-1061811
12/13/2018 05:05 AM EST
How U.S.-China tensions could get a lot worse 
South China Sea is a flashpoint in military buildup as China asserts control.
Rising tensions over Beijing’s accelerating military buildup in the South China Sea are stoking fears of a major-power clash between China and the United States — fueling urgent calls for new security talks before the two nations stumble into a shooting war.
From: https://bobrpost.com/ni-in-response-to-american-missiles-in-europe-russia-returns-a-nuclear-weapons-of-the-apocalypse/4898/
NI: in response to American missiles in Europe, Russia returns a “nuclear weapons of the Apocalypse”
Russia is able to design and create a weapon that “strikes fear”: for example, cruise missiles with nuclear engines or unmanned submarines with warheads of 100 megatons, writes The National Interest. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 15 2018
From: https://www.voanews.com/a/brazil-takes-step-toward-joining-nuclear-powered-sub-club-/4701246.html
December 14, 2018 2:48 PM 
Brazil Takes Step Toward Joining Nuclear-powered Sub Club
ITAGUAI, BRAZIL —  Brazil on Friday launched the first of five attack submarines built with French technology in a 35 billion-real ($8.9 billion) program planned to end in 2029 with delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine. 
From: Nuclear submarine – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine
How many countries own nuclear submarines?
Six countries own nuclear submarines?
Today, six countries deploy some form of nuclear-powered strategic submarines: the United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, China, and India. Several other countries, including Argentina and Brazil, have ongoing projects in different phases to build nuclear-powered submarines.
From: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/india-has-140-nuclear-warheads-%E2%80%93-and-more-are-coming-38612
December 13, 2018 
India has 140 Nuclear Warheads – And More Are Coming
From: https://www.newsweek.com/how-strong-pakistans-military-1235091
Pakistan “possess nuclear weapons, with the country having between 100 and 130 warheads.”
From: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/top-secret-report-north-korea-keeps-busting-sanctions-evading-u-n947926
Top secret report: North Korea keeps busting sanctions, evading U.S.-led sea patrols
U.S.-led naval patrols have prompted North Korea to shift tactics, but smuggled oil keeps flowing to the regime despite U.N. sanctions.
The U.S. Pacific Command assessment, labeled “Top Secret,” found that the presence of warships and surveillance aircraft deployed by an eight-nation coalition since September has forced North Korea to adjust its tactics at sea, including transferring oil farther away from the Korean Peninsula and often in other countries’ territorial waters.
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From: LGBT Nation Daily Brief 
Man arrested for breaking a lesbian’s spine over a kiss on the cheek
The New York City Police Department announced that an arrest has been made in connection to a homophobic attack on a woman in the subway.
East Harlem resident was arraigned on charges of aggravated harassment and assault, both with hate crimes enhancements.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 16 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1058896/world-war-3-russia-ukraine-tensions-ww3
PUBLISHED:  13:01, Sat, Dec 15, 2018   | UPDATED: 13:27, Sat, Dec 15, 2018 
World War 3: Satellite images show HUNDREDS of Russian tanks massing on Ukraine border
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1058811/iran-news-nuclear-weapon-north-korea-world-war-3-iran-nuclear-deal-rouhani-kim-jong-un
Iran’s NUCLEAR cooperation with North Korea EXPOSED – ‘Exact’ names and locations REVEALED
From: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/12/14/audit-finds-cyber-vulnerabilities-in-us-missile-defense-system/
15 hours ago 12 15 2018\8:00AM
Audit finds cyber vulnerabilities in U.S. missile defense system
From: http://www.courant.com/nation-world/sns-bc-us–trump-africa-policy-20181213-story.html
US officials pressure T-Mobile, Sprint parent companies to drop …
SlashGear-15 hours ago 12 15 2018\8:00AM
On concerns that the brand Huawei is a sort of spy for the Chinese state, the US … groups to get rid of Huawei networking gear in and around US military bases.
From: http://www.china.org.cn/world/2018-12/15/content_74278449.htm
December 15, 2018 
China refutes US official’s smearing remarks on China-Africa cooperation

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 17 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1058689/world-war-3-china-japan-senkaku-islands
PUBLISHED:  08:00, Sun, Dec 16, 2018   | UPDATED: 10:15, Sun, Dec 16, 2018 
Japanese “Disputed islands could spark MAJOR crisis”
The Islands have “fishing grounds nearby and Japan is determined to defend them.”
The Japanese have“aircraft carrier”, “along with dozens of US-made F-35 fighter jets.”

From: https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/iranian-hackers-take-aim-at-foreign-nuclear-experts-and-us-officials-1.803259
Updated: December 16, 2018 12:02 PM
Iranian hackers
Like the Russian hackers who have chased after America’s drone, space and submarine secrets, the list indicates that Iranian spies were also interested in the world of US defense companies.
From: https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/16/nuclear-reactor/
if EMP causes a protracted blackout, the reactors can “go Fukushima” and spread radioactivity across vast swaths of the United States.
From:  https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2178214/china-and-russia-band-together-controversial-heating-experiments
PUBLISHED : Monday, 17 December, 2018, 3:31am
UPDATED : Monday, 17 December, 2018, 3:30am
China and Russia band together on controversial heating experiments to modify the atmosphere
There have been concerns that such facilities could be used to modify weather and even create natural disasters including hurricanes, cyclones and earthquakes.
The ultra-low frequency waves generated by these powerful facilities could even affect the operation of human brains, some critics have said.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 18 2018

From: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-unable-to-defend-against-russian-and-chinese-hypersonic-weapons-report-warns
December 17, 2018
US unable to defend against Russian and Chinese hypersonic weapons, report warns
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1059979/world-war-3-russia-nuclear-missile-arms-race-putin-kremlin-latest-update
December 17, 2018
Russian forces to acquire ‘100’ new NUCLEAR missiles by (January 1st 2019) END OF YEAR
RUSSIA will receive roughly 100 new pieces of armament including thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of 2018, according to a senior Russian military official.
From: http://tass.com/defense/1036386
Russia completes building infrastructure for Sarmat ICBMs
Sarmat is Russia’s advanced silo-based system with the heavy liquid propellant intercontinental ballistic missile
From: https://www.eureporter.co/frontpage/2018/12/17/no-one-will-deter-russia-in-baltic-region/
Guest contributor |  December 17, 2018 
Russian armed forces need only about 60 hours to occupy the Baltic States, and NATO allies would not physically have time to help Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 19 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1060427/world-war-3-russia-news-us-syria-war-putin-trump-latest-assad
PUBLISHED:  03:00, Tue, Dec 18, 2018   | UPDATED: 10:05, Tue, Dec 18, 2018 
Putin set to FORCE US out of Syria

From: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/748727/ww3-news-japan-military-spending-china-news-war-donald-trump-us-military
JAPAN will accelerate spending on jets and missiles to support US forces facing China’s military in the Western Pacific, two new government papers said.
From: https://www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/russian-nuclear-submarine-attack
What Russia’s deadliest nuclear sub could do to the US
 it could send 96 warheads into American cities and military installations.
It’s a real submarine that’s in service right now, and it could annihilate American cities in a surprise attack.
From: https://www.rt.com/news/446738-no-defense-hypersonic-missiles/
‘No existing countermeasures’ to Russian hypersonic weapons, US govt. report admits 
Dec, 18 2018 08:40 
The US is currently unable to repel an attack from the hypersonic weapons that are being developed by Russia and China, as they can pierce most missile defense systems, a recent US government report has revealed. 
From: https://www.nan.ng/tech/russia-china-technology-expose-u-s-defense-system/
December, 18 2018 
Russia and China seem to have broken the strength of the U.S. military following a report released by Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the U.S. now lacks the defenses needed to protect against a new breed of highly sophisticated hypersonic weapons.
From: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/who-cares-about-stealth-chinese-fighter-jet-america-should-fear-39037
December 18, 2018
This Is the Chinese Fighter Jet America Should Fear
From: http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/18/china-can-ever-bully-united-states-like-canada-serious-trouble/
December 18, 2018
If China Can Ever Bully The United States Like It Is Canada, We’re In Serious Trouble 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 20 2018
From: https://news.antiwar.com/2018/12/18/russia-to-send-warplanes-to-crimea-citing-ukraine-provocation/
Posted on December 18, 2018
Russia to Send Warplanes “more than 10” to Crimea, Citing Ukraine ‘Provocation’
Russian DM says deployments will be permanent   From: http://en.brinkwire.com/news/new-video-shows-russias-mobile-icbms-tackling-the-snow/
December 19, 2018
New Video Shows Russia’s Mobile ICBMs Tackling the Snow 
From: http://www.atimes.com/article/pla-bombers-fighters-resume-circumnavigation-of-taiwan/
PLA bombers, fighters resume circumnavigation of Taiwan
Two PLA Navy vessels also appeared on Taiwan’s radar by sailing outside the island’s northeastern air defense identification zone 
From: http://tass.com/defense/1036706
Military & Defense  December 19, 4:32 UTC+3  
Nuclear submarine Knyaz Vladimir to fire with Bulava during tests 
From: http://tass.com/defense/1036642
Over 30 Yars, Avangard ICBMs to assume combat duty in Russia next year

Military & Defense  December 18, 18:04 UTC+3  
The first Avangard missile complexes armed with the hypersonic glide vehicle will assume combat duty in the Dombarovsky missile division in the Orenburg Region
From: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/18/getting-serious-about-cyber-security/
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 
cyber security
especially if the concept is more focused and extended to include the crippling threat from electromagnetic pulse or “EMP”.
From: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/2178620/nothing-matches-our-new-hypersonic-weapons-and-they
Nothing matches our new hypersonic weapons President Vladimir Putin boasts
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1061217/vladimir-putin-russia-weapons-usa-nuclear-arms
December 19, 2018 
US admits it is POWERLESS to defend against Russia’s ‘game changer’ hypersonic weapons
From: https://globalnews.ca/news/4776422/russia-nuclear-missile-treaty/
December 19, 2018 7:59 am 
Russia won’t let U.S. inspect new missile that threatens nuclear treaty
would not let the United States inspect a new nuclear-capable cruise missile at the heart of a dispute between Washington and Moscow 
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New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 21 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1061243/Russia-china-war-games-radio-blocking-tests-ww3
PUBLISHED:  14:17, Wed, Dec 19, 2018   | UPDATED: 14:24, Wed, Dec 19, 2018 
Russia and China team up to test controversial RADIO-BLOCKING experiments
experiments which have altered a part of the Earth’s atmosphere so they can BLOCK their enemies’ radio signals.
From: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8027509/us-china-south-china-sea-row-world-war-3/
US and China both refuse to back down over South China Sea 
a major conflict igniting in the hotly disputed maritime region 
WAR between the US and Chinese forces in the South China Sea could break out in 2019, leading experts fear.
From: http://www.colombopage.com/archive_18B/Dec20_1545316928CH.php
Three Russian naval ships led by guided-missile cruiser Varyag arrive in Port of Colombo
 its a strategic location in the Indian Ocean. from: Wikipedia
From: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-faces-questions-annual-press-conference-n950226
Vladimir Putin on nuclear war: U.S. is pushing world ‘closer to a very dangerous line’
From: https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/japanese-fighters-intercept-russian-nuclear-capable-strike-attack-aircraft/
December 20, 2018
Japanese fighter jets scrambled to intercept a Russian strike attack aircraft over the Sea of Japan on December 19, 2018.
From: https://althealthworks.com/17769/harvard-researchers-begin-work-on-bill-gates-funded-project-to-block-out-the-sun-with-geoengineering/
Harvard Researchers Begin Work on Bill Gates-Funded Project to Block Out the Sun with Geoengineering
These scientists contend that mimicking such an effect on a planet-wide scale could save the planet from global warming and stop sea ice from melting.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 22 2018

From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1062201/putin-news-vladimir-putin-brexit-second-referendum-russia
December 21, 2018
During the annual conference, Mr Putin also warned the threat of World War 3 is real and should not be “underestimated” as the president warned Donald Trump of a “global nuclear catastrophe”.
From: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201812210052.html
December 21, 2018 at 18:35 JST
Putin uncertain Japan could stop U.S. bases if he returned islands
From: https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/russia-spotted-22-foreign-spy-jets-near-borde-512408.html
Fri 21st December 2018 | 08:27 AM  
Russia Spotted 22 Foreign Spy Jets Near Border Over Past Week – Reports
Russian fighter jets have been scrambled six times to intercept the foreign aircraft
From: https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/297318-russian-missile-frigate-en-route-to-azov-sea-from-crimea—reuters-witness
Russian missile frigate moves towards Azov Sea from Crimea – Reuters witness 
From: http://infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml/en_GB/news-summary/proton-m-launches-with-blagovest-no-13l/
Designed to provide dedicated satellite links between the country’s military bases, Blagovest spacecraft are equipped with Ka and Q-band transponders. 
From: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-makes-big-progress-nuclear-190102641.html
20 December 2018
China makes ‘big progress’ on nuclear strike range with new submarine-launched missile
From: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6519373/Russia-declares-successfully-tested-hypersonic-missile.html
Published: 04:27 EST, 21 December 2018  | Updated: 04:32 EST, 21 December 2018 
Russia declares it has successfully tested a hypersonic missile which covers TWO MILES a second days after Putin claimed there are ‘no foreign equivalents’ to his weapons
From: https://www.wtva.com/content/national/503271341.html?ref=341
Major Chinese shipyard rapidly expands in size amid military buildup
From: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8039598/russia-expanding-putin-global-war/
21st December 2018, 6:09 pmUpdated: 21st December 2018, 6:13 pm
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING How Russia’s empire is expanding around the globe as Putin warns of ‘catastrophic’ global war
The Russian bear is back as strongman Putin re-arms his country’s military and expands his powerbase across the globe 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 23 2018


There are only 4 ruling country’s mentioned during the time of The Great Tribulation. 
1 The King of the North Russia
2 The King of the West the revived Roman Empire
3. The King of the South African nations and tribes
4. King of the East the Assian races
America is not mentioned at all.How long do we have till The Great Tribulation?Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
No one knows when the rapture will take place; therefore no one knows when The Great Tribulation will begin.  

From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1062640/World-War-3-Putin-Russia-hypersonic-3M22-Tsirkon-missile-test-US-defence
PUBLISHED:  03:53, Sat, Dec 22, 2018   | UPDATED: 06:05, Sat, Dec 22, 2018 
Russia tests ‘unstoppable’ HYPERSONIC missile capable of outpacing US systems
A total of ten of the 3M22 Tsirkon anti-ship missiles were tested by the Russian Navy. 
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1062622/World-War-3-Iran-news-military-exercise-US-carrier-Persian-Gulf-rouhani-Hormuz-strait
PUBLISHED:  00:54, Sat, Dec 22, 2018   | UPDATED: 01:02, Sat, Dec 22, 2018 
Iran launches WAR GAMES as US BATTLE GROUP arrives off coast
Meanwhile the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS John C Stennis has entered the Persian Gulf with a US Navy strike group.
From: https://sputniknews.com/military/201812221070923624-china-s-400-test/
China Conducts First Test of Russian S-400 Air Defence Systems 
From: https://www.theblaze.com/news/china-tests-new-sub-launched-missile
China tests new submarine-launched ballistic missile powerful enough to deliver nukes to US targets   A range of more than 5,500 miles
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New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 24 2018
Since I started doing this research; it is as if I can not stop. It is my way of keeping my eyes wide open. If anything ever does transpire; at least I will not be ignorant of it. I must admit it makes me sad to post these kinds of atrocity’s and complete waist of money’s; that could be spent on the poor people of the world. It is especially dismal to post these kinds of articles during the holiday season.
From: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-Relations/Japan-and-Russia-seek-end-to-island-dispute-in-China-s-shadow2
December 23, 2018 
Japan and Russia seek end to island dispute in China‘s shadow
Japan and Russia to put aside their decades-old territorial dispute,
From: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-next-bomber-base-venezuela-39402
December 22, 2018 
Russia’s Next Bomber Base: Venezuela?
From: http://tehelka.com/india-successfully-test-fires-nuclear-capable-missile-agni-iv/
December 23, 2018
India Successfully test-fires Nuclear-Capable missile Agni-IV
From: https://sputniknews.com/military/201812231070947387-china-new-weapons-2019/
Military & Intelligence16:57 23.12.2018
New Intercontinental Missile
PLA is a JL-3 submarine launched strategic missile, carry 10 multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV). It is based on the ground-launched DF-41 intercontinental missile,  Its range will allow it to reach US territories without a submarine even having to leave Chinese waters.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 25 2018
Like I said in my last post, it is a real bummer posting this on Christmas. It is not my fault this type of news comes out everyday. Merry Christmas though:

From: https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/russian-defense-ministry-says-delegation-arri-514659.html
36 seconds ago   Mon 24th December 2018 | 06:18 PM  
Russian-Iranian working group on the implementation of the bilateral intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation, the ministry said in a statement Monday.
From: http://www.atimes.com/why-the-us-pushed-the-india-office-out-of-the-pentagon/
India is the leading importer of Iranian oil, and a significant investor in Iran 
a $5.5 billion purchase of the Russian S-400 long-range air-defense system despite US objections
India is not the natural ally of the US; it is as clear as a midsummer sky. The sooner the White House understands this, the better. 
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1063532/world-war-3-us-iran-donald-trump-usa-gulf
IRAN has said Tehran is prepared to respond to any hostile US action after a navy ship entered the Gulf 
PUBLISHED:  16:49, Mon, Dec 24, 2018   | UPDATED: 17:06, Mon, Dec 24, 2018 
We will not allow this warship to come near our territorial waters in the Persian Gulf
Iranian navy commander, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 26 2018
From: https://www.thetrumpet.com/18330-russia-and-china-threaten-america-with-new-missiles
December 25 
Russia successfully tested its hypersonic Zircon antiship missile on December 10 for the 12th time, setting a speed record. A few weeks earlier on November 24, China successfully tested its JL-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile, which can strike anywhere in the United States from within Chinese waters. Both developments represent a major step forward in Russia and China’s capability to threaten American military dominance.
From: https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Turkey-Stands-Firmly-Against-US-Sanctions-On-Iran.html
Turkey Stands Firmly Against U.S. Sanctions On Iran
Dec 25, 2018, 10:00 AM CST
“Turkish president Erdogan says Turkey won’t support U.S. sanctions on Iran”
“pledges support to Iran in difficult times.” 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 27 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1063796/world-war-3-warning-russia-hypersonic-nuclear-missiles-vladimir-putin
13:16, Wed, Dec 26, 2018   | UPDATED: 13:42, Wed, Dec 26, 2018 
Mr Putin remotely observed Wednesday’s test from a Russian defence ministry building in Moscow.
Putin says HYPERSONIC nuclear-capable missiles just MONTHS AWAY
From: http://www.defenseworld.net/news/23946/US_Increases_Deployment_of_High_precision_Military_Equipment_Near_Russian_Borders#.XCOR2tLsbcc
12:51 PM, December 26, 2018
US Increases Deployment of High-precision Military Equipment Near Russian Borders
From: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/2179564/chinese-missile-force-puts-new-russian-s-400-air-defence-system
Chinese missile force puts new Russian S-400 air defense system to the test
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 27 December, 2018, 4:03am
UPDATED : Thursday, 27 December, 2018, 4:02am
China – which has been equipped with Russia’s S-300 system for more than a decade – is the first country to import the next-generation S-400 air defence missile system.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 28 2018
From: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/27/israeli-official-confirms-syria-airstrikes-russia-objects.html
27 Dec 2018
The Associated Press 
Israeli Official Confirms Syria Airstrikes as Russia Objects 
involved in Iranian arms transfers to the Hezbollah militant group.
Russia had criticized the airstrike
From: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201812271071030165-turkey-russia-s400/
Middle East11:55 27.12.2018(updated 12:18 27.12.2018) 
Turkey Would Not Let US Inspect Russian S-400s – Source
From: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/terrifying-thought-north-korea-could-sink-navy-aircraft-carrier-39857
December 26, 2018 
Could North Korea’s armed forces sink an American aircraft carrier? Yes
From: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/emp_not_if_but_when_.html
December 27, 2018
The probability of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) in our lifetime is much higher than most Americans would assume
“90% of our population could starve to death, die from disease and societal chaos, and collapse.”
From: https://112.international/politics/russia-intercepts-us-military-aircraft-patrolling-territory-near-annexed-crimea-35529.html
16:30, 27 December 2018
Russia intercepts U.S. military aircraft patrolling territory near annexed Crimea

UT: SOCIAL WORK EXPERT DISAGREES WITH FEDERAL LAW ENFORCERS ABOUT SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT
December 17, 2018
[deseretnews.com – 12/15/18]
A University of Utah social work professor and therapist disagrees with the state’s top federal law enforcement officials’ assessment that treatment for child sex offenders doesn’t work.Rob Butters, who has also worked as a probation officer, said it’s unfortunate they made the statement in a public forum because “it’s simply not true.”
“We know that treatment works a lot better than incarceration,” he said. “Prison doesn’t make people better. It just keeps them incapacitated.”
U.S. Attorney John Huber and FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric Barnhart said in a discussion with reporters Thursday that they are skeptical about the effectiveness of treatment for those who sexually exploit children.
Federal prosecutors have filed 54 cases of child pornography possession, distribution or production this year, 10 more than last year. Some had previous convictions in state court.“In our career and our experience, rehabilitation — although a laudable goal — is unrealistic in dealing with these types of offenders,” Huber said. “Stiff justice is an appropriate remedy, first and foremost, for keeping people safe.”
Barnhart said he has not seen data to back up that treatment works.
“The compassionate part of us always wants to say a second chance should be given, but my experience is these people will victimize again,” he said.
Read more https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900046749/social-work-expert-disagrees-with-federal-law-enforcers-about-sex-offender-treatment.html
MN: JUDGE STRIKES DOWN CITY ORDINANCE RESTRICTING SEX OFFENDER HOUSING
December 18, 2018
[startribune.com – 12/18/18]
A Hennepin County judge has struck down an ordinance in Dayton, Minn. that restricts where sex offenders can live in the community, saying the measure is trumped by state law.
The far-reaching ordinance barred convicted sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of any school, day care provider, park, playground or public bus stop — even a pumpkin patch or apple orchard — within the city of Dayton, a rural community of about 5,000 residents northwest of the Twin Cities.
The measure was hastily passed by the Dayton City Council in late 2016, after local residents raised alarm over plans by the state to move three convicted rapists from the state sex offender program to a group home in the city.
In a recent decision, Hennepin County District Judge Susan Robiner declared the Dayton ordinance “void and invalid” because it was expressly designed to conflict with a state law that establishes a legal process for releasing civilly committed sex offenders from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) and reintegrating them back into society. Such local ordinances, the judge added, would have a “devastating effect” on the MSOP’s ability to discharge offenders from the program.
Read more http://www.startribune.com/judge-strikes-down-city-ordinance-restricting-sex-offender-housing/503046601/
ROGUE JUDGE DRIVEN OFF THE BENCH
December 27, 2018 
A Pittsburgh criminal court judge has finally submitted her resignation. Judge Donna Jo McDaniel’s expected exit comes after repeated rebukes by a Pennsylvania appeals court, extensive news coverage, the ire of at least one editorial board, and talk of an investigation by the state’s judicial conduct commission. First elected to the bench in 1985, McDaniel was driven from office for failing to deliver fair and impartial justice – treating individuals charged with sex offenses (and their defense counsel) terribly, imposing excessive sentences and repeatedly abusing her discretion. McDaniel’s departure is a victory for reason and justice, even more so given the prevailing moral panic over sex offenses that makes getting a fair shake in court very difficult. Kudos to all those who fought McDaniel’s biased rulings including the Allegheny County Public Defender, the Pennsylvania Superior Court, and to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for keeping a spotlight on McDaniel. Details are below – news stories, a Post-Gazette editorial describing McDaniel as a “rogue judge,” a smart essay by Alexandra Stupple about “disgust” in court matters, and a compilation of headlines. 
https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2018/12/19/State-Superior-Court-Judge-Donna-Jo-McDaniel-sex-offender-opinion/stories/201812190213

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 29 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1064385/World-War-3-Russia-doomsday-device-tsunami-Trump-Putin-nuclear
PUBLISHED:  06:04, Fri, Dec 28, 2018 
US fears Russia ‘doomsday device’ that would unleash 300-ft RADIATION TSUNAMI
“doomsday device” that would create a 300-ft radiation tsunami wave – powerful enough to wipe out major US cities.
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1062095/Iran-news-world-war-3-cyber-warfare-cyber-terrorism-Tehran-Hassan-rouhani-NCRI-terror
PUBLISHED:  06:04, Fri, Dec 28, 2018 
How Iran wages ‘CYBER TERRORISM’ to secretly spy on MILLIONS and incite ‘CHAOS’
using “mass surveillance” to “actively disrupt the communication of protesters and dissidents” in Iran and “promote terrorism” across the globe
From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/12/28/feature/2019-the-year-in-preview/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7f07ce43c508
Fri, Dec 28, 2018 
The race to claim the North Pole will heat up
From: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/israelis-arent-happy-trumps-syria-withdrawal/579103/
Fri, Dec 28, 2018 
The president’s precipitous decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria provided many Israelis with a rude awakening.
From: http://en.brinkwire.com/news/putin-boasts-hell-make-the-world-sit-back-and-think-in-chilling-world-war-3-missile-threat/
December 28, 2018 Brinkwire
Putin boasts he’ll ‘make the world sit back and think’ in chilling World War 3 missile threat
Putin made the comments / Defence Ministry’s / in Moscow yesterday 
GPS based warfare has also reared its ugly head with NATO and Russian forces both apparently blocking signals during war games.
He also revealed his military’s combat readiness had vastly improved
Russian forces could be swiftly deployed to distances of up to 4,350 miles and reinforce groups in crucial strategic locations.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 30 2018
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1064703/vladimir-putin-russia-news-emmanuel-macron-angela-merkel-ukraine-crisis-sea-of-azov
PUTIN’S FURY
PUBLISHED:  10:43, Sat, Dec 29, 2018   | UPDATED: 12:12, Sat, Dec 29, 2018 
France and Germany’s demands to release the 24 Ukraine sailors Russia has been holding prisoners for more than a month
From: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8079622/us-military-sonic-attacks-diplomats-cuba-china/
29th December 2018, 10:03 amUpdated: 29th December 2018, 10:04 am
SONIC ATTACKS Military called in to probe baffling ‘sonic health attacks’ on US diplomats in Cuba and China
Symptoms include hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo, headaches and fatigue, which experts say is a pattern consistent with ‘traumatic brain injury’
And an investigation by the FBI and the CIA has unearthed data that US officials say seems to point the finger of suspicion at Russia.
From: https://moveefy.com/2018/12/28/russian-weapon-27-times-faster-than-speed-of-sound-official/
Russian weapon 27 times faster than speed of sound: official
MOSCOW: A top Russian official says the nation‘s new strategic weapon has made any missile defenses useless. 
The Kremlin said it successfully hit a practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away. 
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1064641/World-War-3-Russian-nuclear-bomber-security-fears-Donald-Trump-US
PUBLISHED:  02:46, Sat, Dec 29, 2018   | UPDATED: 10:23, Sat, Dec 29, 2018 
Russia tests new NUCLEAR bomber for first time
conflict between major world powers surged after Russia tested a newly ungraded supersonic long-range bomber, which is capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
From: https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/28/china-launches-two-more-long-march-rockets-another-possible-before-end-of-year/
December 29, 2018
China launches two more Long March rockets; another possible before end of year
With the two most recent Chinese rocket flights, the country has launched 38 missions to Earth’s orbit or beyond this year, shattering a record for Chinese launch activity previously set in 2016, when China conducted 22 space launches.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 31 2018
From: https://techstockstandard.com/world-war-3-fears-as-us-air-force-conducts-huge-drill-to-simulate-foreign-invasion/32148/
US Air Force conducts HUGE drill to simulate foreign INVASION 
December 30, 2018 
The drill took place in the south-west region of the US, in Nevada. The drill’s purpose was to rehearse a foreign invasion scenario.

From: https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/119501/report-russia-threatens-israel-with-missile-attack/
December 30, 2018 , 10:53 am
In response to an Israeli airstrike in Syria last Tuesday, Russia threatened to respond to further Israeli action in Syria with surface-to-surface missiles against targets inside Israel. An Israeli military intelligence website reported that one such missile was already fired last week.
From: https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russia-conducts-test-launch-of-avangard-hypersonic-missile-video/
2018-12-30
Russia conducts test launch of Avangard hypersonic missile (video)
released footage on Sunday showing the first ever public test 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 01 2019
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1064834/World-War-3-US-Putin-Russia-Kremlin-supersonic-nuclear-bombers-Caribbean
Putin moves supersonic nuclear bombers to covert Caribbean base
PUBLISHED:  22:28, Sun, Dec 30, 2018   | UPDATED: 22:55, Sun, Dec 30, 2018 
From: https://www.rt.com/news/447800-russia-avangard-us-hypersonic/
US Navy hoping for hypersonic missiles ‘by 2025’ as Putin WATCHES Russia’s Avangard glider fly 

Published time: 30 Dec, 2018 23:59 
Edited time: 31 Dec, 2018 02:00 
From: https://www.theepochtimes.com/hawkish-chinese-officer-suggests-sinking-aircraft-carriers-to-intimidate-u-s_2752729.html

Hawkish Chinese Officer Suggests Sinking Aircraft Carriers to Intimidate U.S.
In widely circulated speech, well-known firebrand claims Americans will back down in face of heavy casualties
Epoch Times
December 31, 2018 Updated: December 31, 2018 
From: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-navy-now-has-super-weapon-americas-navy-lacks-railgun-40217
China’s Navy Now Has a Super Weapon America’s Navy Lacks: A Railgun
December 30, 2018  
China’s futuristic electromagnetic railgun may already be the most powerful cannon to ever roam the high seas — ahead of schedule. 
From: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6540209/North-Korea-continues-develop-intercontinental-ballistic-missiles.html
North Korea continues to develop its intercontinental ballistic missiles
Published:13:15 EST, 30 December 2018 | Updated:04:59 EST, 31 December 2018 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 02 2019
From: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/31/warming-arctic-heats-us-russian-military-rivalry.html
A Warming Arctic Heats Up US-Russian Military Rivalry 
From: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/2180309/chinas-military-priorities-2019-boost-training-and-prepare-war
Strengthening training and preparation for war are among the top priorities for China’s military in 2019, its official newspaper said on Tuesday.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 03 2019
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1065929/World-War-3-China-Taiwan-relations-xi-jinping-China-conflict-Taiwan-independence
China just triggered a new conflict after threatening Taiwan with FORCE
Chinese president added China “do not promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option to use all necessary measures”
From: https://www.unian.info/politics/10396974-u-s-may-impose-new-sanctions-on-russia-arm-ukraine-after-kerch-ex-ambassador-herbst.html
09:25, 02 January 2019
U.S. may impose new sanctions on Russia, arm Ukraine 
From: https://www.latestly.com/world/pakistan-procuring-most-advanced-naval-warships-from-china-report-568937.html
Pakistan Procuring ‘Most Advanced’ Naval Warships From China
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1066216/World-War-3-China-Donald-Trump-USA-South-China-Sea-Taiwan-latest-Xi-Jinping
PUBLISHED:  17:37, Wed, Jan 2, 2019   | UPDATED: 18:59, Wed, Jan 2, 2019 
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday the island would not accept a “one country, two systems” political arrangement with China
From: https://sputniknews.com/military/201901021071174664-china-electromagnetic-railgun-sea-trials/
22:26 02.01.2019
China’s Electromagnetic Railgun Ship Appears to Start Sea Trials
Don’t forget to check out Grits; here is a link to a great multi subject post:http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2018/12/top-texas-cjreform-stories-of-2018.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 04 2019
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1066656/ww3-north-korea-tourist-guide-ready-to-fight-US-secret-video-spt
PUBLISHED:  13:45, Thu, Jan 3, 2019   | UPDATED: 14:35, Thu, Jan 3, 2019 
North Korean tourist guide admits ‘we WANT to fight US’ in secret video
From: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-miller-sokolosky-syria-20190103-story.html
Jan 03, 2019  |  3:05 AM  
5 reasons why Trump is right about getting America out of Syria
From: https://www.mynation.com/news/russia-india-five-s-400-missile-regiments-2023-pkr7rg
First Published 3, Jan 2019, 5:24 PM IST
Russia to supply India with five S-400 missile regiments
From: https://eurasiantimes.com/us-to-conduct-missile-drill-at-okinawa-island-in-japan-to-intimidate-china/
By EurAsian Times -January 3, 2019
US To Conduct Missile Drill at Okinawa Island in Japan 
the drill would also involve the deployment of a mobile rocket launcher as a counter-measure against potential attacks from Chinese surface-to-sea ballistic missiles.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 05 2019
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1067028/us-china-travel-warning-advice-latest-us-state-department-world-war-3-trump
PUBLISHED:  08:29, Fri, Jan 4, 2019   | UPDATED: 10:26, Fri, Jan 4, 2019 
China travel WARNING: US tells citizens DO NOT GO to China as tensions soar
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1066981/world-war-3-us-russia-china-tension-latin-america-us-military-air-force
04:45, Fri, Jan 4, 2019   | UPDATED: 04:47, Fri, Jan 4, 2019 
US to ‘act AGGRESSIVELY’ in Latin America amid Russian and Chinese regional influence
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1066978/World-War-3-Iran-news-iran-nuclear-deal-nuclear-weapons-UN-trump-NCRI-mike-pompeo]
01:51, Fri, Jan 4, 2019   | UPDATED: 10:47, Fri, Jan 4, 2019 
Iran to launch DEVASTATING nuclear missiles claims Trump official
From: https://en.trend.az/world/other/3001671.html
4 January 2019 14:54 (UTC+04:00) 
Brazilian president says US military base may be established in Brazil
From: http://www.newsonair.com/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=357544
Jan 04, 2019  2:51PM 
China has developed a massive bomb, said to be the country’s answer to the US-built ‘Mother of All Bombs’, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon,  as per a report by official media. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 05 2019
One of the main reason for having this blog is my patriotism to our country.:
From: https://www.kusi.com/new-study-finds-nearly-half-of-young-americans-believe-us-is-racist-and-not-greatest-country/
New study finds nearly half of young Americans believe US is racist and not ‘greatest’ country
December 3, 2018
The polls findings found that younger Americans, those under 38 years old, are “becoming unmoored from the institutions, knowledge, and spirit traditionally associated with American patriotism.”
50% believe the county is sexist, and 49% believe it is racist.  Furthermore, 47% of respondents think America should turn to socialism in the future rather than continue with capitalism. Furthermore the study found that 84% of Americans don’t know the specific rights enumerated in the First Amendment.
The First Amendment reads,
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The full survey can be read here: https://www.flagusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FLAG-Patriotism-Report-11.13.2018.pdf

I blame the teachers in schools; for swaying young people towards anti Americanism. If I had my way I would make examples of anti American promoters in our country; by deporting them. After all they are practically begging for it.All Americans have foreigners in their family ancestry. If people are anti American promoters; we should deport them, using their ancestry as a reference to where. The only people that could be exempt from this would be Native Americans; with no non Native American’s in their ancestry. 

America Love It Or Leave It!

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 06 2019
From: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/751609/china-news-ww3-xi-jinping-taiwan-south-china-sea-us-president-donald-trump
Published 5th January 2019
‘Prepare for battle’ WW3 fears as China’s president in WAR CRY
prepare for battle, President Xi Jinping has demanded.
The “paramount leader” of the communist nation made the battle cry at a meeting of top brass on Friday.
From: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/751603/russia-news-vladimir-putin-underwater-drone-nuclear-war-world-war-3
Published 5th January 2019
Russia boasts of ‘impossible to detect’ NUCLEAR drone which sends 1,640ft high WAVES

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 07 2019
I am reading a book on Revelation by  Dwight Pentecost, and I have realized that Russia is doing exactly what they should be doing concerning the being Magog in the Bible. In fact the chapter I am reading now actually mention’s the Caspian Sea.
Although there will be no Muslim Government controlling the earth. I think this is because Satan hates religions. Many middle eastern country’s will be part of the African nation of the south. Russia is prophesied to rule over many middle eastern country’s.
Here is a great link on the subject: https://walvoord.com/article/301 Read: The Rise Of Russia In The Twentieth Century
From: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/06/585012/Iran-Russia-navy-joint-exercise-Caspian-Sea-commander-Khanzadi
Sun Jan 6, 2019 10:44AM[Updated: Sun Jan 6, 2019 10:59AM ]
Iran, Russia to hold joint military drill in Caspian Sea 
From: http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2019-01/06/content_74345982.htm
January 6, 2019 
Three Russian Navy warships docked at the South Harbor in Manila on Sunday for a six-day visit to the Philippines

Also check this page out by a true internet hero:
SUNDAY, JANUARY 06, 2019
Innocence Project Math 101: Why it’s certain eyewitnesses are still sending innocent people to prison in Texas
Our friends at the prosecutor association want to pretend Texas has solved its problem with eyewitnesses falsely identifying innocent suspects after the state passed non-binding guidelines for police lineups in 2011. Shannon Edmonds last night was crowing on Twitter that the last exoneration based a false ID in Texas was in 2010, and the state had solved the problem in 2011.
This is such a disingenuous claim I thought I’d dissect it without the 140 character limitations.
Read more click this link: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2019/01/innocence-project-math-101-why-its.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 08 2019
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1068232/world-war-3-US-china-us-warship-south-china-sea
PUBLISHED:  07:56, Mon, Jan 7, 2019   | UPDATED: 08:23, Mon, Jan 7, 2019 
China confronts US with FURY after warship spotted in South China Sea
CHINA has reacted with fury after a US warship sailed through the disputed South China Sea earlier today to challenge Beijing’s “excessive maritime challenge”.
From: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/751845/world-war-3-usa-black-sea-russia-ukraine-kerch-strait
Published 6th January 2019
US warship enters Black Sea amid Russia tensions with Ukraine
THE US Navy has sailed into the Black Sea amid escalating tensions with the Kremlin after Russia seized Ukrainian sailors and ships.
From: http://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/106375/20190107/xi-tells-people-s-liberation-army-prepare-war.htm
Jan 07, 2019 06:27 PM
Xi Tells People’s Liberation Army to Prepare for War
During a meeting over the weekend 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 09 2019
Check out Grits page here:http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2019/01/appeal-of-harris-bail-suit-withdrawn.htmlIt’s a gooden. TOP DEFINITION: Gooden The Idaho way of saying “good one”. In some contexts it means “good people”, or plural (good ones).

From: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8146157/china-has-giant-laser-weapon-that-can-cripple-american-satellites-and-blind-the-us-fleet-in-the-event-of-world-war-3/
8th January 2019, 1:49 pmUpdated: 8th January 2019, 1:52 pm
STAR WARS China has ‘giant laser weapon that can cripple American satellites and blind the US fleet’
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1068791/china-usa-deal-north-korea-Kim-Jong-Un
PUBLISHED:  09:35, Tue, Jan 8, 2019   | UPDATED: 14:06, Tue, Jan 8, 2019 
China ENRAGES USA by courting madman Kim Jong Un with state visit
From: https://www.rferl.org/a/us-warship-romania-black-sea/29696810.html
January 08, 2019 04:42 
U.S. Warship Arrives At Romanian Port Amid Black Sea Tensions 
From: https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-kalibr-m-cruise-missile-with-range-of-over-4500-km-in-development-in-russia-tass/
By News Desk –  2019-01-08
New Kalibr-M cruise missile with range of over 4,500 km in development in Russia

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 10 2019
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1069132/world-war-3-begun-chinese-military-stategist-chilling-claim-spt
PUBLISHED:  10:48, Wed, Jan 9, 2019   | UPDATED: 10:52, Wed, Jan 9, 2019 
Chinese strategist claims ‘unrestricted war with US has STARTED’
Mr Xiangsui revealed it is a war on the internet, a fight for cyber domination 

From: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/next-china-military-threat-worlds-biggest-mobile-icbm-40952
The Next China Military Threat: The World’s Biggest Mobile ICBM? 

From: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1135138.shtml
Global Times Published: 2019/1/9 16:37:52 
China’s ship-killer missiles mobilized to Northwest China plateau

From: https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/russia-reiterates-commitment-to-keep-iran-nuclear-deal-afloat/1433043
written by Asia News International January 9, 2019 3:24 pm 
Russia reiterates commitment to keep Iran nuclear deal afloat

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 11 2019
Some of these articles are just plan communist propaganda. I apologies for posting them. I am posting them to show how our enemy’s are trying to justify itself on the verge of destroying us all. Fighting communism is a worthy fight and always has been during the course of our great country; sailing it’s way through the sea’s of country’s and governments that are our enemies. Then there is Russia; not communism anymore but still seemingly our enemy. I suspect Russia of being just plane paranoid enough to start a war with us, then there is always the sin of man to blame. 
Lets look at all of this for what it is, and what I have been saying all along and all these years online. Our dream country of The United States of America; where we live free, may not have been meant to be in the first place.Maybe the world let it be to see if we could keep the Great Tribulation from beginning, a while longer. Why hasn’t the tribulation begun; with so many signs of it’s beginnings all around us? Could be one answer, our country: America. Is that why The Bible had so much to do with the founding of our country. I say that is exactly why.
This is where I remind any Christians that we only have to wait for one sign (according to God’s Word) and that is the rapture; where we are taken from earth to be with the Lord. So don’t every believe in conspiracy theories like blood colored moons having anything to do with the tribulation. 
I think our country is the one reason the tribulation has not begun. If you look at The Great Tribulation and the ruthless governments that rule the earth during The Great Tribulation it seems easy to see why our country is so focused on escaping reality through drugs and all of our other vises. To face what America is all about; makes us like the Angles, responsible for all the world and its very survival. That is a huge responsibility and burden.
So when it comes down to the us and them’s and why we are enemies with the Russians and the Chinese: 
I quote myself from: New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 23 2018 to explain:

“There are only 4 ruling country’s mentioned during the time of The Great Tribulation. 
1 The King of the North Russia
2 The King of the West the revived Roman Empire
3. The King of the South African nations and tribes
4. King of the East the Assian races
America is not mentioned at all.
How long do we have till The Great Tribulation?
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
No one knows when the rapture will take place; therefore no one knows when The Great Tribulation will begin.”  
When it comes right down to it the reason there are enemies in this world these days is because of what country’s will fight during the tribulation on the side of Satan our not. Sounds like a worthy fight to me to fight against The Anti Christ’s rule over earth; while there is still real time to do so. 
If you really want to put it all into plane words; America has always fought on the side of good and right. That is the right thing to do and nothing has been more worthy a fight to fight.
I am putting this on the header of this page and every page like it from now on.
From: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8165483/china-mobilises-supersonic-nuclear-missile-us-mainland/
LOCKED AND LOADED China mobilises ‘war-ready’ supersonic nuclear missile that experts fear could hit US territory as rivals face off over South China Sea
State media says deployment is a response to the ‘trespass’ of a US destroyer
10th January 2019, 5:09 pmUpdated: 10th January 2019, 5:16 pm
Giant rocket launcher vehicles apparently carrying dozens of DF-26 supersonic missiles were seen driving into position in China’s desert northwest plateau.
The state-run Global Times said the 20-ton rockets – said to be capable of reaching US territory in Guam – are being deployed to positions best suited at striking vessels in the East and South China Sea.
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1069803/ww3-world-war-3-news-donald-trump-US-news-latest-today-china-north-korea-peace-treaty
PUBLISHED:  07:15, Thu, Jan 10, 2019   | UPDATED: 07:15, Thu, Jan 10, 2019 
Expert reveals US troops forming ‘strategic encirclement’ around China
THE United States’ military presence in South Korea is part of a “strategic encirclement” of China and is not intended to defend the country from North Korea, claims former US diplomat Jim Jatras.
From: https://www.thetrumpet.com/18409-upgraded-russian-bomber-takes-first-flight
Upgraded Russian Bomber Takes First Flight
January 10 
Warplane capable of carrying multiple nuclear hypersonic missiles
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1070111/World-War-3-China-US-latest-news-war-warship-video-missile-South-China-Sea
PUBLISHED:  16:35, Thu, Jan 10, 2019   | UPDATED: 16:36, Thu, Jan 10, 2019 
CHINA has deployed a far-reaching anti-ship ballistic missile after a US warship was accused of operating in the disputed South China Sea.
The announcement of the deployment comes after a US warship sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea on Monday.
From: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1070116/turkey-us-russia-syria-world-war-3-s400-missiles
PUBLISHED:  14:38, Thu, Jan 10, 2019   | UPDATED: 14:53, Thu, Jan 10, 2019 
TURKEY has reacted with outrage after the US tried to stop it from buying a high-tech missile system from Russia.
From: https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/as-russia-and-china-rise-u-s-bickers-over-non/article_34425696-1448-11e9-afef-ef383f30ab98.html
Thu, Jan 10, 2019
As Russia and China rise, U.S. bickers over non-issues 
From: 
‘US to blame for any imminent South China Sea clash’
Friday, January 11, 2019
BEIJING – US naval operations in the South China Sea could spark conflict and the United States would be to blame if a clash occurred, a Chinese military researcher said on Wednesday.

I had to make a new blog for this subject; because it a different political subject than this blog. I have been meaning to do this for a long time but like everything else time is of exigence.
If you want to see news like above any more you will have to go to my new blog I just created:
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New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 12 2019
I am also adding another blog for non sex offender rights issues. Click here: https://constitutionalrightsblog.blogspot.com

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 1 28 2019
From: https://madisonrecord.com/stories/511691204-belleville-man-sues-state-s-attorney-officials-for-10m-over-sex-offender-registration
Belleville man sues state’s attorney, officials for $10M over sex offender registration
 Jan 3, 2019
BELLEVILLE – A convicted sex offender who claims he was innocent is suing St. Clair County State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly and state officials for $5 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, alleging his reputation within his community continues to be irreparably injured by his registration status.
Shane Allen Kitterman filed the complaint on Dec. 10 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Kelly, Assistant State’s Attorney Bernadette Schrempp and Supervisor of the Illinois State Police Sex Offender Registration Unit Tracie Newton, alleging deprivation of due process.
He claims the defendants conspired to use fabricated designations to deprive him of a hearing before the conclusion of a criminal court to cover up their alleged nefarious and unlawful actions.
According to the complaint, Kitterman alleges he entered into a contract with the people of Illinois on Jan. 10, 1996, which has been “memorialized in three documents created contemporaneously to the negotiations.”

Kitterman alleges that “in detrimental reliance upon promises” made by the State’s Attorney’s Office, he “agreed to forgo his right to prove he was innocent of a very serious crime, in exchange for the promise that his duties under the contract be governed by the Illinois Child Sex Offender Registration Act.”
Kitterman claims the State’s Attorney’s Office concealed a Jan. 1, 1996, amendment to the Illinois Child Sex Offender Registration Act, or CSORA, which increased duties and penalties. Kitterman claims he would not have entered into an agreement with the State’s Attorney’s Office if he had known about the amendment.
In accordance with the contract, Kitterman was obligated to respond to certain law enforcement agencies within the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, Belleville Police Department, Shiloh Police Department, Swansea Police Department and the O’Fallon Police Department, the suit states.
In 2012, Kitterman alleges he discovered that the contract he entered into “was premised on fraud and deception and unconscionable and immediately attempted to protect his rights by enforcing the terms of the contract as they existed.”
Between 2012 and August 2015, Kitterman alleges Kelly and Schrempp conspired with Newton to conceal Kitterman’s rights by changing material information on a State Police website and within the Law Enforcement Agency Data System, or LEADS, to reflect that the plaintiff was convicted of a violation and must comply with CSORA for the rest of his life.
Kitterman claims that prior to contacting Kelly and Schrempp, he discovered that he was designated a child sex offender in violation of his contractual rights. He contacted the defendants in having his personal information removed from the website.
He alleges Kelly and Schrempp responded by contacting Newton “and conspired to fraudulently conceal Mr. Kitterman’s rights under the contract by altering or changing his designation on the State Police Website from a ‘Child Sex Offender’ to a “Sexual Predator’ required to register for the period of his natural life, and then to “Sexually Dangerous/Violent Person” subject to a 90 day reporting duties and possible civil commitment …”
Kitterman also claims the defendants contacted local law enforcement “and coordinated the destruction of forms memorializing information required by the Department of State Police to conceal the manufacturing of conviction information and other such false information contained in said forms.”
The complaint states that in 2013, Schrempp and Kelly sought to criminally prosecute Kitterman for failing to register as a sex offender and then contacted Newton to coordinate altering Kitterman’s registration status to a lifetime registration.
Kitterman alleges that he has submitted over 217 petitions to Newton to obtain a hearing before an administrative law judge to “reveal the conspiracy and unlawful abuse of her public office …”
Kitterman alleges the defendants obstructed justice by disseminating false information and proffering to former St. Clair County Chief Judge John Baricevic in an effort to prevent the plaintiff from revealing their violation of his due process and contractual rights.
As a result, Kitterman claims he has sustained severe and permanent injuries to his reputation in his community, continues to be deprived of his right to due process of law, continues to be deprived of his liberty and continues to be deprived of his right to associate with his wife and children. He also claims he suffers loss of employment and severe psychological and emotional trauma.
Kitterman seeks a judgment in his favor for $5 million in compensatory damages, $5 million in punitive damages, court costs and interests. He is representing himself pro se.
From: https://www.thedailybeast.com/untouchable-makes-the-case-for-more-lenient-sex-offender-laws-in-america?ref=scroll
01.12.19 12:16 AM ET
CONTROVERSIAL‘Untouchable’ Makes the Case for More Lenient Sex Offender Laws in AmericaA new documentary forwards the argument that our sex-offender laws are based largely on bogus stats and deserve to be reevaluated.
According to Untouchable, there’s a reason most Americans think sex offenders, and pedophiles in particular, are incurable, and thus destined to relapse: 2002’s McKune v. Lile, in which Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a plurality opinion that there was a “frightening and high risk of recidivism” for such predators, and that “the rate of recidivism of untreated offenders has been estimated to be as high as 80 percent.” That statement has since been used in numerous legal verdicts as well as to support countless pieces of state and local legislation aimed at curbing the rights of those found guilty of crimes against kids. In doing so, it’s become de facto common wisdom, almost universally accepted as a bedrock truth about individuals who possess child pornography or abuse (or have improper relations with) a minor.
The problem? The sole piece of evidence that led Justice Kennedy to make such a bold claim came from a 1986 Psychology Today article written by Ronald Longo, a counselor who ran a treatment program in an Oregon prison—and there was absolutely no statistical basis for his “80 percent” assertion. Moreover, Longo himself has since rejected that figure.
Untouchable, a documentary about sex offenders written, directed and produced by David Feige—which arrives on home video and VOD on January 15, after winning  the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival—doesn’t drop that bombshell revelation until after its midway point, which in journalistic terms is akin to burying the lede. Nonetheless, Feige’s delay does little to neuter its impact, given that he spends the early portions of his non-fiction film incisively investigating multiple sides of the sex-offender issue. From victims and perpetrators, to activists who want to throw the convicted away and lose the key, it’s an eye-opening look at a thorny topic that, on the face of it, probably doesn’t strike many as very complex or controversial at all.
The reason the aforementioned McKune v. Lile decision is so stunning is that, by all accounts, actual sex-offender recidivism rates are low. In three-year studies done by Connecticut, Alaska, Nebraska, Maine, New York and California, recidivism figures are generally less than 4 percent—hardly a “frightening and high” figure. Furthermore, most conclude that there’s no correlation between recidivism rates and geographic proximity, meaning that laws passed to keep registered sex offenders from living close to schools, playgrounds, or other kid-centric areas generally have no impact; if wrongdoers are likely to seek prey nearby, it’s often in their own homes, or in churches or educational settings, where they know their intended targets. If Untouchable is to be believed—and its statistical case appears reasonably solid—then that’s a forceful repudiation of how we think about, and treat, sex offenders.
That’s not music to the ears of Ron Book, the powerhouse South Florida lobbyist who, compelled by his daughter Lauren’s horrifying sexual abuse at the hands of their nanny Waldina Flores (seen, hauntingly, in home movies), has made it his personal crusade to guarantee that his state has the strictest sex offender laws in the country. Those include mandatory 50-year minimum sentences for those convicted (and notations on their driver’s licenses), as well as ordinances that keep them from residing within 2,500 feet of any child-populated area. The result of the latter is that no sex offenders live in Miami Beach, and those that did before the law was passed have had to relocate—many to homeless tent encampments scattered around the metropolitan area. Book, a fiery gentleman whose eyes well up with teary rage when talking about the matter—understandably, given Lauren’s unthinkable ordeal—doesn’t care that he has no empirical evidence bolstering his measures, since he says that “some level of common sense” indicates that if you keep predators away from kids, you decrease risk.
Book’s zealous passion is moving, as are interviews with Lauren, who’s dedicated her life to making children safe from abuse. Untouchable doesn’t minimize their grief nor their contentions, and it’s hard to imagine that states with tougher laws aren’t more successful at combating the issue. Still, the film does complicate things via a series of snapshots of offenders: Shawna Baldwin, an Oklahoma mother of two whose teenage tryst with a younger boy landed her on the registry; Clyde Newton, an older man who was convicted of touching his stepdaughter; and 74-year-old John Cryar, a thrice-divorced individual caught with child pornography who admits that he’s lived his entire life as a “closet pedophile.”
As you can likely tell from those descriptions, these three individuals are not the same; Shawna belongs in a different category than the other (more deviant) two. Yet the American judicial system treats them as equals, restricting their travel, determining their residency, and slapping them with the same onerous label. Even sexting can now land teenagers on the registry, since nude photos of peers can technically be classified as child pornography. Through snapshots of this trio, as well as discussions with academic experts and Patty Wetterling, the mother of kidnapped-and-missing Jacob Wetterling, who helped create the registry in the 1990s with President Bill Clinton, Feige suggests that our sex-offender laws have shifted away from rehabilitation and toward punishment—which is a problem when those same laws cast a wide net, lumping in careless young adults with legitimately dangerous pedophiles.
From: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/21/aclu-lawsuit-seeks-changes-michigan-sex-offender-registry/2350288002/
This is why I am still a card carrying member of the ACLU and I will be till; I go to be with and rule and reign with the Lord; the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I have a brand new ACLU card in my wallet every year. In cases against the degradation and false judgments, and the taking of any human dignity and human rights; afforded to anyone on earth, against so called labeled for life, sex offenders; God himself is on the side of the ACLU. 
Revelation 20:6 Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
Matthew 7:1-3 7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, itshall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Luke 6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Published 12:01 a.m. ET Jan. 21, 2019 | Updated 10:33 a.m. ET Jan. 21, 2019
William Hetherington says he’s still being punished after paying his debt for a crime he didn’t commit.
Hetherington, 65, made national headlines after his 1986 conviction for a new Michigan crime, spousal rape. Innocence advocates raised questions about the conviction, and his case was highlighted in the 1990s by multiple media outlets, including the “Phil Donahue Show,” ABC’s “Prime Time Live” and  CBS’s “60 Minutes.” 
Despite his clean prison record, Hetherington served more than double the maximum sentence under Michigan guidelines for spousal rape because at parole hearings he refused to express remorse for a crime he insisted he hadn’t committed. When he was released in 2009, his name was added to the Michigan State Police Sex Offender Registry, and he struggled to adjust to life after prison.
The Air Force veteran was in a federal program that provides housing and other services for honorably discharged homeless military veterans — but when the state changed the rules in 2011 requiring him to stay on the sex offender list for life, he was kicked out of the program, which bars anyone with lifetime reporting requirements on sex offender registries.

Civil rights advocates say Hetherington is an example of how thousands of people have been unfairly penalized by the Michigan Sex Offender Registry more than two years after the Sixth Circuit Court ruled the state’s changes retroactively putting people on the list for life were unconstitutional. 
“All the government has ever done is violate my rights,” said Hetherington, who lives in a small apartment provided by a minister in Vassar, near Frankenmuth. “Now they’re doing it again. It’s the story of my life.”
Hetherington is one of 40,000 convicted sex offenders in Michigan who are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in a federal class-action lawsuit against the state. 
The lawsuit, filed in June in U.S. District Court, demands that the state lift the offenders’ lifetime registry requirements. That would allow them access to benefits they’re cut off from because they’re on the list — including the program Hetherington was kicked out of, the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing initiative.
“The lifetime requirement is effectively lifetime parole, because you have to report even small things like getting an email address or phone number,” said Miriam Aukerman, senior staff attorney at ACLU of Michigan.
“There are other reporting requirements, such as if you want to travel anywhere for more than seven days, you have to report that in person,” Aukerman said. “The statue also says people on the registry can’t loiter within 100 feet of a school, which means parents can’t watch their kids’ sports games or graduations without being in violation.”
State police spokeswoman Shanon Banner said the agency is in compliance.
“As a result of the 6th Circuit decision, the MSP informed law enforcement that similar retroactive enforcement of the requirements under the 2006 or 2011 amendments against other similarly situated offenders could likewise be unconstitutional,” she said in a written statement.
“However, it needs to be noted that the court did not find the sex offender registry itself to be unconstitutional, nor did it find prospective enforcement of the 2006 or 2011 requirements against offenders with offense dates after such amendments to be unconstitutional.” 
Banner said state police are unable to take people off the list who had been retroactively required to report for life.
“Efforts to modify the registry as a whole require legislative changes to the (sex offender registry),” she said. “To this end, we have been engaged in discussion with the Legislature, Attorney General’s Office and other stakeholders for some time in regards to the offenders who were named in the lawsuit.”
Phone calls to the Attorney General’s Office were not returned.
Aukerman said the current system diverts police from monitoring potentially dangerous sex offenders because the list includes people convicted of less serious crimes.
“Our original lawsuit involved five people,” she said. “One of our clients was a little older than the girl he was dating in high school, and she got pregnant at age 15. He got prosecuted. He’s now married to the girl; they have kids together, but he’s on the sex offender registry for life. That’s not the kind of person law enforcement should be wasting resources monitoring.”
Michigan passed the sex offender registration law in 1994 as a private law enforcement database. After initial registration, the only other requirement was for offenders to tell the state within 10 days of a change of address. 
When the registry was set up, people convicted of one sex offense were to stay on the list for 25 years after the conviction; those convicted of multiple crimes were to be on the list for life.
Through the years, lawmakers amended the registry, including making the names public. A 2006 change retroactively barred most offenders from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of school property. In 2011, a rules change forced many offenders who would have been on the list only for 25 years to remain in the database for life.
The ACLU and the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program filed a lawsuit in 2012 on behalf of five offenders who were required under the new rules to be on the list for life. In 2016, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that retroactively applying the changes to people already on the list was unconstitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2017 declined to hear an appeal, upholding the 6th Circuit Court decision — but despite the ruling, Hetherington and thousands of others remain on the sex offender list for life.
“The state isn’t in compliance, so we filed a new lawsuit against the state in June,” Aukerman said. “It’s a class action on behalf of everyone on the registry.”
As that case winds its way through the courts, Hetherington said he’s struggling to make ends meet. He said his sole income is his Social Security check.
“My own government is screwing me over,” he said. “But that’s nothing new.”
Hetherington had separated from his wife, Linda, and was in the middle of a custody battle for their three daughters when she twice accused him of raping her before asking prosecutors to drop the charges, according to Detroit News archives.
Linda Hetherington later made a third rape claim after she and her estranged husband had sex on Sept. 24, 1985. He said the sex was consensual; she claimed she was tied up and brutally raped.
Hetherington was arrested and became the first person charged under Michigan’s spousal rape law. During his trial in Genesee County Circuit Court, the judge prohibited cross-examination of his wife, who died in 2012.
The rape charge was prosecuted at the same time as Hetherington’s custody case, and the divorce court froze his assets so he was unable to hire an attorney or get out of jail on bond. But the judge in the criminal trial ruled he wasn’t indigent and refused to provide him with a court-appointed lawyer.
Prosecutors produced no physical evidence of rape at the trial. Linda Hetherington had undergone a pelvic examination in a hospital three hours after the reported rape, and there was no evidence of injury or forced penetration.
The court-designated psychologist who examined Hetherington concluded: “This is not a man who would force himself sexually or hostilely on another individual,” according to court records.
Two police officers testified they had seen tape marks on Linda’s face. Two doctors who examined her said they saw no such marks, but the jury apparently believed the officers and returned a guilty verdict. 
“There’s something about you, Mr. Hetherington, that frightens me,” Genesee County Circuit Judge Thomas Yeotis said before handing down his sentence.
The sentencing guideline for the new offense was 12 months to 10 years but Hetherington was sentenced to 15 to 30 years. Yeotis didn’t explain why he deviated from the guidelines.
“The whole thing was a joke,” Hetherington said. “There were so many holes in my case it wasn’t funny. But I got convicted anyway.”
Ten years after Hetherington’s conviction, attorney Jeff Feldman accepted the case pro bono. He used the Freedom of Information Act to get copies of five photographs police took of Linda Hetherington hours after the alleged rape. Prosecutors never disclosed the photos to the defense.
Feldman took the photos to forensic photographer John Valor, who was the lead forensic photographer in the trial of serial killer Ted Bundy. 
Valor swore in a 1998 affidavit that the pictures of Linda Hetherington showed no scratches, tape marks or abnormalities of any kind. He added such marks would have been clearly visible
Still, Hetherington’s appeals were denied until he was released from prison in 2009. He said life hasn’t been easy since then.
“It’s just been one nightmare after another,” he said.
Julie Hurwitz, a civil rights attorney who has consulted Hetherington, said he’s been given a raw deal.
“He had four months left on the sex offender registry before his 25 years were going to be up,” she said. “He was originally told he’d be on the registry for 25 years — then they changed the law and retroactively required him to stay on the list for life.
“That meant he was immediately kicked out of this housing program, and job training programs, and lost other benefits,” Hurwitz said. “The real impact is this poor man is afraid to leave this one-room hovel he’s living in, fearing he’ll be picked up for violating the Sex Offender Registration Act. It’s a shame.”
From: https://sosen.org/blog/2019/01/12/civil-regulation-the-registry-its-components-are-in-fact-legislative-punishment.html
January 12, 2019 
Civil Regulation? The Registry & its Components are in fact Legislative Punishment.
The first thing that must be pointed out is that the sex offender registry came about because of the myth that people convicted of sexual related crimes were always going to reoffend.  Some of the numbers that were tossed around at the time that the registry was conceived were 60 to 80% would reoffend. The registry was not originally designed to protect anyone, it was simply there to aid law-enforcement so that they would have suspects to look at because of this belief of high reoffense rates.  As we now know, that belief is not only a myth, but it is an outright lie.  There is no high reoffense rate of any kind for people convicted of a sexually related crime.  The studies all show a reconviction rate in the single digits, and many studies show the rates in the fractions of a single-digit (why-are-the-reconviction-rates-so-important). So to start with, because there is no high reoffense rate, there is no compelling reason for the the existence of the sex offender registry at all (other than fear, bias, bigotry and hatred of a class of criminals). Secondly, because of the lack of a high reoffense rate, there is no use for law-enforcement to have this duplication of information that is already available under their normal investigative procedures. This is only wasting time and resources and leads to harassing people who have a low risk to reoffend while making them and their families’ lives miserable.
As for the components of the registry, such as community notification, residence restrictions, job research and housing restrictions, freedom of movement restrictions, freedom to cross state lines restrictions, plus the many other components of the registry that could not exist without the registry’s existence; for a person to say that any one of these components is not punishment shows the uneducated bias of the person speaking or else they have a fiduciary interest in perpetuating these lies.
According to our declaration of independence all men are created equal, and in our Constitution and Bill of Rights it is laid out that all people will be treated equally. It is very apparent that a person who is on the registry is not treated equally with other citizens. This becomes quite obvious when a person who is not a sex offender accidentally is placed upon the registry or one of its components such as having their driver’s license tagged.  If there was no disparity between ordinary citizens and registered citizens than they would be treated exactly the same. Quite obviously they are not.
In a recent story in the Orlando Sentinel, (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-drivers-license-sexual-predator-mistake-20150507-story.html) a woman’s drivers license was mistakenly marked, indicating that she was a sexual predator and a registered citizen.  In the four days that she had that drivers license, she was:
-denied entry to Walt Disney World and held by Disney security in a room unable to leave for several hours-denied a hotel room-subjected to disdain by her bank
-subjected to bias at court-suffered fear to leave her house.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/may/07/woman-drivers-license-mistakenly-idd-me-as-sex/
This was all in just 4 days. Another other man incorrectly labeled a sexual predator was almost arrested just trying to go on a naval base, man-wrongly-labeled-sex-offender-on-id . After his death his family was offered a settlement for him incorrectly being labeled of a paltry $20,000.  After all the humiliation that he had suffered because he unknowingly carried an ID card, showing that he was a registered citizen.
man-awarded-20k-after-incorrectly-labeled-sex-offender
What would a lifetime of such treatment do a person? When ordinary citizens are stigmatized by being indicated that they are on a Government sanctioned registry, it is quite obvious that the stigma of being on the registry is in every way, a form of punishment.  Make no mistake about it, in this country shaming a person is a form of punishment,  People v. Meyer People v. Lowe, 606 N.E.2d. People v. Molz, 113 N.E.2d, People v. Johnson 528 N.E.2d, State v. Burdin 924 S.W.2d ,People v. Letterlough 655 N.E.2d, Lindsay v. State 606 So. 2D, and when that stigma is carried over to innocent family members including children through collateral damage, (/blog/2014/02/25/government-sanctioned-cruelty-to-over-half-1-million-american-children.html ) than there can be no doubt that these laws that are based not on facts, but rather fear, hate and bigotry are unconstitutional.  For anyone who reads this and thinks otherwise I suggest you ask yourself this question, how would you feel if you or a close family member suddenly ended up on a registry and community notification with all the restrictions that it implies, would you consider it a violation of your constitutional rights and outright punishment?

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  February 27 2019

PA: FAMILY OF PEDOPHILE PASTOR NOW SPREADS THE WORD ON HOW TO PREVENT ABUSEJanuary 28, 2019 
[blackchristiannews.com – 1/28/19]
SOMERSET, Pa. – Jimmy and Clara Hinton don’t want others to miss what they didn’t see for years: their father and husband, a respected pastor for years in his rural community, was keeping his flock in the dark while he molested young children.
Today, the elders at Somerset Church of Christ have moved intentionally to protect children. Empty classrooms are locked. Adults working with children operate in teams of two or more. On Sundays, monitors conduct random building sweeps and each Sunday School room has a walkie-talkie in case of an emergency.
Protecting Children Top Priority
Church policy also protects children from potentially unwanted physical touch like a hug. “None of us can walk up to a kid, pull a kid in and initiate that physical contact,” says Pastor Jimmy, who has served as the pastor at Church of Christ since his father left in 2009.
He thinks that’s important because abusers often groom children to become used to them initiating.
If a registered sex offender wants to come to church, the elders will alert the congregation and provide a separate service to avoid contact with children.
Elder Bob Martin acknowledges that while controversial, the policy puts the safety of children first. “When someone is aware of that in their congregation and fails to notify them,” he said, “I think they have to answer to God for that and I don’t want to stand before Him and explain why I did not protect one of his children.”
Full Article: https://blackchristiannews.com/2019/01/family-of-pedophile-pastor-now-spreads-the-word-on-how-to-prevent-abuse/

CA: APPELLATE COURT RULES IN REGISTRANT’S FAVOR IN PROP. 57 CASEJanuary 29, 2019 An appellate court in California ruled today that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) must provide consideration for early parole to a registrant who is currently incarcerated for an offense that is not a sex offense in accordance with Proposition 57 (Prop. 57).  The majority of the court specified, however, that its decision does not apply to those who are currently incarcerated because of a sex offense.  In a concurring opinion, one of the three appellate judges stated that he believes CDCR is authorized to deny the benefits of Prop. 57 to anyone currently incarcerated because of a sex offense.
“Today’s decision will benefit thousands of individuals convicted of a sex offense long ago who are currently incarcerated,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “Unfortunately, the same decision does not provide relief to many more individuals who are currently incarcerated because of a recent sex offense.”
In addition to this case, there are eight cases pending which challenge CDCR’s regulations that prohibit all registrants from receiving benefits from Prop. 57.  The cases have been filed in six counties — Sacramento, Orange, Riverside, San Joaquin, Santa Clara and San Diego.  Further, there is a Prop. 57 case pending before the California Supreme Court, In re Brown-Seals, Case No. S249019, in which a registrant is challenging CDCR’s denial of Prop. 57 benefits to him.  The registrant filed an informal response with the court on Oct. 1, 2018, and the court is expected to issue an Order to Show Cause early this year that could require CDCR to justify its denial.
https://www.leagle.com/decision/incaco20190128010

VA: HEARING THURSDAY: EFF TELLS COURT THAT CLICKING ON A URL ISN’T ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY A SEARCH WARRANTJanuary 30, 2019 [eff.org/ – 1/29/19]Identifying IP Address That May Have Connected to a URL Doesn’t Amount to Probable Cause
Richmond, Virginia—On Thursday, January 31, at 8:30 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask a federal appeals court to find that the act of clicking on a URL or weblink isn’t sufficient evidence for law enforcement to get a warrant to search someone’s home.
The hearing involves a child pornography prosecution in which law enforcement obtained a warrant to search a defendant’s home based on the attempted connection to a URL (or weblink) by an IP address that was mapped to his computer. The URL led to a password-protected file-sharing service portal that the government maintains contained child pornography.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/hearing-thursday-eff-tells-court-clicking-url-isnt-enough-evidence-justify-search
FL: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING ANOTHER INMATEJanuary 30, 2019 [mypanhandle.com – 1/29/19]JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. – On Monday, Rocky Ali Beamon was sentenced to death in Jackson County, Florida, for First Degree Premeditated Murder.
The conviction and sentence come from the 2012 murder of Bruce Hunsicker at the Apalachee Correctional Institution in Sneads, Florida.
Reports said Beamon and Hunsicker were both inmates at the prison, and subsequent confessions by Beamon revealed that the motive for the murder was primarily Hunsicker’s status as a sex offender. Reports also said that Hunsicker also owed Beamon money.
After watching the victim for several days to learn his schedule, Beamon killed Hunsicker in the shower area of the prison dormitory by approaching him from behind, choking him, and stabbing him 80 times with a homemade shank.
Reports said Beamon then rinsed himself off and flushed the shank, a towel, and a pair of boxers, after which he proceeded to dinner.

…the aggravating factors in this case outweighed the mitigating circumstances applicable to the Defendant…
https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/man-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-another-inmate/1737065209
CO: HUNDREDS OF SEX OFFENDERS GET THEIR NAMES TAKEN OFF THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY EVERY YEARFebruary 5, 2019 ·18 CommentsA Contact7 investigation found that in the state of Colorado, hundreds of sex offenders are getting off the sex offender registry every year. In one case, a felony sex offender’s motion was granted even after his victim pleaded against it.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/contact7/hundreds-of-sex-offenders-get-their-names-taken-off-the-sex-offender-registry-every-year-in-colorado
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: SENATOR OBJECTS TO PUBLIC NAMING OF SEX CONVICTSFebruary 5, 2019 [guardian.co.tt – 2/5/19]At least one In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor is not in sup­port of the names of sex­u­al of­fend­ers go­ing pub­lic.
Sophia Chote, SC, said that this has the po­ten­tial of open­ing the flood­gates for vig­i­lante jus­tice in T&T.
Chote made the com­ment in the Sen­ate on Tues­day dur­ing her con­tri­bu­tion on the Sex­u­al Of­fences (Amend­ment) Bill to cre­ate a sex­u­al of­fend­ers reg­istry.
She said mak­ing the names of sex­u­al of­fend­ers pub­lic will al­so stig­ma­tise the name of the con­vict­ed per­son.
“So if the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice has a list of sex­u­al of­fend­ers, then, cer­tain­ly that is go­ing to help them iden­ti­fy who may have per­pe­trat­ed a par­tic­u­lar crime and bring that per­son to jus­tice. To me, that is more in the pub­lic’s in­ter­est than putting some­thing up on the web in a po­lice sta­tion.”
She cit­ed a 2007 US ar­ti­cle en­ti­tled a “com­par­i­son of sex­u­al of­fend­ers and the non-of­fend­ing pub­lic” which showed that half of the sex of­fend­ers who were in­ter­viewed claimed they re­ceived “threats, had their prop­er­ty dam­aged and had been phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ed and ran out of town ba­si­cal­ly as a re­sult of pub­lic dis­clo­sure.”
Chote said it meant that if vig­i­lantes know some­one had com­mit­ted a sex­u­al of­fence which goes pub­lic, they would not have any guilt of ad­min­is­ter­ing their own jus­tice.
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/senator-objects-to-public-naming-of-sex-convicts-6.2.773662.352360a671
TN: CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST YOUTH FOOTBALL COACH WHO WAS ACCUSED OF VIOLATING SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY ACTFebruary 8, 2019[fox13memphis.com – 2/8/19]Charges were dismissed against a Memphis Youth football coach. He was wrongfully accused of violating the state’s sexual offender registration laws.
Police had arrested and charged Mykal Madision with Sexual Offender Registration and tracking on Wednesday.
It happened after a parent of one of Madison’s players said he was a registered sex offender.
Madison is currently listed on the Texas sex offender registry
https://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/charges-dropped-against-youth-football-coach-who-was-accused-of-violating-sex-offender-registry-act/916177279
MI: ATTORNEY GENERAL NESSEL WEIGHS IN ON SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION CASES BEFORE MI SUPREME COURTFebruary 8, 2019 Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed amicus briefs in the Michigan Supreme Court today in Michigan v Snyder (Case number 153696) and People v Betts (Case number 148981), arguing that Michigan’s sex offender registration and notification requirements are punishment because they are so burdensome and fail to distinguish between dangerous offenders and those who are not a threat to the community.
https://www.michigan.gov/som/0,4669,7-192-47796-489212–,00.html
CNMI: SEX REGISTRY’S CONSTITUTIONALITY QUESTIONEDFebruary 11, 2019Northern Mariana Islands – A registered sex offender, whose adult girlfriend is currently pregnant, is questioning the constitutionality of the law that created the CNMI Sex Offender Registry, as this prevents him from being around minors, including his own children. … Banes said, the statute is unconstitutional, under both the CNMI and the U.S. Constitutions as applicable in the CNMI under the Covenant.  
https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/sex-registrys-constitutionality-questioned/

AL: DISTRICT COURT DETERMINES ALABAMA LAWS TO BE PUNISHMENTFebruary 12, 2019 Doe v. Marshall – decided February 11, 2019
Conclusion: Alabama can prosecute sex offenses to the full extent of the law. It can also act to protect its citizens from recidivist sex offenders. But the State denies that ASORCNA is designed to “punish” offenders. And once a person serves his full sentence, he enjoys the full protection of the Constitution. Harris, 772 F.3d at 572; accord Packingham, 137 S. Ct. at 1737.
Sex offenders are not second-class citizens, and anyone who thinks otherwise would do well to remember Thomas Paine’s wisdom: “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy *49 from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Doe-v.-Marshall-Alabama-Feb-2019.pdf
https://twitter.com/G_Padraic/status/1095366001875660805
https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/some-alabama-sex-offender-registration-laws-are-unconstitutional-federal-judge-rules.html
https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/13/sex-offenders-are-not-second-class-citiz
CA: ACSOL SUPPORTS SENATE BILL TO TERMINATE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTSFebruary 14, 2019
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) has agreed to support Senate Bill 145 that would provide judges with the authority to terminate the requirement to register for individuals convicted of some sex offenses.  The authority would be limited to circumstances in which the age difference between the offender and the victim is 10 years or less provided that the victim is at least 14 years old.
“Senator Scott Wiener, author of the Tiered Registry Law, is also author of Senate Bill 145,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “ACSOL supports Senate Bill 145 because it will allow judges discretion, when warranted, to end registration requirements for individuals whose age was within 10 years of their victims.”
Attached is a copy of the ACSOL letter.  Members and supporters of ACSOL are encouraged to send their own personally worded letters of support to the Senate Public Safety Committee via FAX to 916-445-4688 or via U.S. mail to State Capitol, Room 2031, Sacramento, CA 95814.
https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SB-145-Bill-Language.pdf
https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SB-145-Letter-to-Sen-Pub-Safe-Feb-2019_000146.pdf

NY: STATEMENT ON LANDMARK APPELLATE DECISION LIMITING THE REACH OF SORA RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONSFebruary 22, 2019 [legalaidnyc.org – 2/21/19]The Legal Aid Society applauded a ruling rendered today by the New York State Appellate Division – Third Department, rejecting the New York State Department of Correction and Community Supervision’s (DOCCS) interpretation of the statutory residency restrictions faced by individuals with prior sex offense convictions.
Specifically, the court held that people whose sex offense sentences had already expired were not subject to the law’s harsh mandatory residency restrictions when they were released to parole following a subsequent non-sex offense conviction. The ruling represents the first such limitation imposed by an appellate tribunal on these restrictions since the law’s enactment.
These restrictions have garnered recent criticism – especially in New York City – for making it virtually impossible for individuals to locate compliant addresses.
https://www.legalaidnyc.org/news/2019/2/21/statement-on-landmark-appellate-decision-limiting-the-reach-of-sora-residency-restrictions

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  March 12 2019
I had to edit this. It has been on my mind all this time. I do not get paid for any of my posts online and get sloppy all the time. That is why I always say I can not be held accountable for editing mistakes and typos. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A1ZU4UaDPA Disturbing Things In Sixteen Candles Only Adults Notice – YouTube.
This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is 16 Candles; racist but it is full of sex offenses. I have been saying this type of thing for years here on this blog. Sex offences are played out in movies and television all the time; with never a mention of any wrong doing. I thought this example is worth pointing out. 
I was checking my email this morning and read this headline:
A comedian licked a journalist’s ear while he was reporting. Is it assault?I say it is most definitely a assault and everything and anything like it. 
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/02/comedian-licked-journalists-ear-reporting-assault/?
I am very happy our society is waking up to what sex offences are; but where are all the registered sex offenders as a result of all this new found knowledge. Sex offences are continually a pick and choose crime. We as a society pick and choose actors and directors and rich people and gay people and church people and minority’s and especially politicians, just some examples of the most popular to be registered sex offenders. If everyone that committed a sex offence was a registered sex offender; the number would be a true force to recon with. Considering the population of America for example is about 330 million. My ruff guess would be at least one forth to one third of that number; may have committed a sex offence. That goes for just about every country in the world. I am not at all belittling someone licking someones ear on television; as a common event. Personally like rape; that is a type of behavior, I can not or will not, even try to understand. I have always believed that our lives go how we interact with each other; anything like this behavior does not compute with me. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  March 24 2019
I do not believe in any conspiracy theories, at all, and never did; my whole life.
I do not believe in chemtrails, freemasons, weather warfare, psychotronic weapons, gangstalking,  flat earth, pizzagate, MK Ultra, DEWs, HAARP, smart meters, 5G, Agenda 21 & 2030, kill cities, social engineering, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, touchless torture, UFO’s and the rest. I basically do not believe in conspiracy’s at all. I think these things are tools to keep people from believing like the dollar bill say’s: In God We Trust. I never believed in conspiracy theories, like UFO’s all my life, I guess that is one of the most common. 
I do not even believe in the biggest conspiracy theory our nation has ever had on it: all people caught committing a sex offence, especially registered sex offenders; are a danger to everyone because they could sexually molest people, at any moment. I can not help but laugh a little inside to think people actually believe this; it is that ridiculous.If you are going to believe that a human being is capable of molesting another human being at any moment; you would have to put all your trust in man, especially men who are profiting from such bazaar claims.To all them that put their trust in man this scripture is meant just for you; it should be the theme of their lives.:Jeremiah 17:5 KJVThus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.God extremely, rarely, pronounces a curse like this. To my knowledge it is the only scripture like it. Now you must see how important it is we have In God We Trust on our money. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  March 27 2019
I updated my last post and put it in bold and highlighted. From: it should be the theme of your life.: to:  it should be the theme of their lives.:  SOFAQ is for people who see through things to the basic rights of human beings not the others. 
If you do not care who you give your mobile phone number this is a good petition to sign: https://secure.everyaction.com/_TsbUoLcy0iH1t_IazfVQQ2 I have limited minutes on mine and can not afford text messages and such. Here is a copy of the letter:
Freedom of religion is important to all of us, including LGBTQ people. It’s one of the founding values of our nation. That’s why it’s already protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. 
But that freedom doesn’t mean imposing one’s religious beliefs onto others.
That’s why I am angered by bills like SB 17. Nobody should be granted a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
Just because a health care professional cares for a patient doesn’t mean they share or endorse all of that patient’s beliefs. Just because someone rents out an apartment or hires an employee doesn’t mean they endorse every part of that person’s life. We all have different beliefs. That’s what makes our country great. Nobody should be turned away by a health care or other service provider, fired from a job, or denied housing simply because of who they are.
As your constituent, I’m asking you to oppose Senate Bill 17 and to stop using religion to divide us.
CA: MANY CALIFORNIANS CAN CLEAR CRIMINAL RECORDS, BUT DON’T. THIS BILL WOULD MAKE IT AUTOMATICMarch 11, 2019 [sfchronicle.com – 3/7/19]People arrested or convicted of crimes in California could have their criminal records automatically cleared under a proposed law announced Thursday by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and Assemblyman Phil Ting.
AB1076 would wipe out eligible convictions for people who have completed local sentences and eliminate many arrest records that have not resulted in convictions. Offenders already are eligible to petition the courts for the relief, but less then 20 percent take advantage of the program, said Ting, D-San Francisco.
Under the law, people convicted of offenses ranging from petty theft to more serious felonies that resulted in jail sentences — such as robbery or assault — could begin putting their criminal pasts behind them.
The groundbreaking clean-slate initiative would keep background-check agencies from accessing and disseminating cleared criminal records to employers and licensing boards. However, it would not remove the records from law enforcement databases.
From: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-s-Gasc-n-Ting-propose-13671420.php
MI: ACLU LAWSUITS LOOK TO REFORM MICHIGAN SEX OFFENDER REGISTRYMarch 15, 2019 [wsbt.com – 3/15/19]KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A federal court ruled three years ago that parts of Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry laws were unconstitutional, but since then, nothing in the law has changed.
The ACLU is looking to reform, or even do away with the registry as part of an ongoing lawsuit.
“The law that we have now is broken, it’s bloated, its ineffective and it actually makes us less safe,” said Miriam Aukerman, an attorney with the ACLU of Michigan.
Aukerman said the state’s sex offender registry law is unconstitutional and ineffective, which was why the organization had ongoing lawsuits in both state and federal court.
“When someone has served their time and done their punishment, we say ‘go out and start your life over again,’” Aukerman said.
Michigan has one of the largest sex offender registries of any state, with 44,000 people.
The registry is easy to access, and searchable by location or name on the Michigan State Police website.
A search of the database shows 783 registered sex offenders in Kalamazoo, including 18 living within a half mile of Newschannel 3.
“I think people need to know where things are, where people are in their neighborhood,” said Calhoun County Prosecuting Attorney David Gilbert.
He said easy access to the database helps keep people safe.
In 2006 and 2011 the Michigan legislature toughened sex offender laws, requiring lifetime registration for certain offenses. Those registration requirements were implemented retroactively.
The toughened registration requirements meant people whose crimes occurred before the registry even existed had to register and were governed by strict standards.
A federal appeals court ruled the retroactive registration unconstitutional in 2016. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal a year later.
From: https://wsbt.com/news/regional/aclu-lawsuits-look-to-reform-michigan-sex-offender-registry?fbclid=IwAR3xnNtENX9cCICGe-zLYCTowXBG7Ev6u9gbC5oM-C1IZTnwn_YS1_YKx2U
CT: TOWN REPEALS SEX OFFENDER RESTRICTIONS AMID LAWSUITMarch 25, 2019 [apnews.com – 3/24/19]WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — Residents of a Connecticut town have repealed a local ordinance that banned registered sex offenders from local parks, schools, the town library and other public places amid a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law.
The Windsor Locks law was approved 11 years ago amid concerns about threats to children’s safety by people listed on the state’s sex-offender registry. A federal lawsuit by an anonymous resident and an advocacy group alleges the ordinance violates sex offenders’ constitutional rights.
From: https://www.apnews.com/a0055dbbd58f46c0a6b6ca77fb94d331

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  April 02 2019
I liked Obama and I still believe in the Democratic Party. I will never believe all democrats are all Nazi Commies that want to destroy our country. 

Another reason; I am so happy I have nothing to do with Facebook and Twitter.:

From: https://www.change.org/p/jack-conduct-a-large-scale-shut-down-of-twitter-accounts-that-tweet-rape-threats-at-women-rapethreatsnotok
“You need to be raped…”
This is one of many messages sent to women worldwide on social media every day. I know because I’ve received plenty of these threats.
These intolerable comments are traumatic for me because I’ve been raped. I was drugged and brutally gang-raped by four men nearly 20 years ago. I still remember the fear and torment of being unable to take control of my own body or scream for help. I remember the intense pain I felt the next morning when I regained full consciousness. Not just physical pain, but intense mental and emotional pain that made me want to commit suicide. I would never wish that pain on anyone. Not even on my rapists.
In 2014, I went public with my story. As a public rape survivor and activist, I use Twitter as a platform to spread my anti-violence message, but that same platform is being used by others to bully, terrorize, and threaten me. Unfortunately, Twitter does not take threats of rape seriously. Women receive the same response over and over when they reach out to Twitter for help:
“Thank you for letting us know about your issue… the content doesn’t violate Twitter rules.”
This is unacceptable. Threats of rape are used intentionally to terrorize women into submission and silence. Twitter bullies use rape threats because they know it instills a level of fear in women that can only rival the threat of murder. We cannot as a global society accept this kind of behavior.
Twitter has block and mute features, but they’re not enough. They don’t stop the threats, and they do nothing to stop Twitter from being a platform that fosters violence against women. We know that there are hundreds of thousands of users who have made these threats. I’m all for free speech, but threatening rape and the brutal violation of another’s body is NOT something we should protect.
Please stand with me and urge Twitter to begin a large scale shutdown of accounts that tweet rape threats. It’s time for Twitter to send the message to their users that the platform will not be used to promote threats of rape. It’s time for Twitter to listen and care about the requests of their female user base. NO ONE “needs to be raped…”
Thank you to Chinmayi Sripada, whose petition in India inspired me to stand with her in solidarity and start the same petition in the United States. Join us and this global movement for this important change now.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  April 03 2019
If there is one thing I know is sex offences and all the different types that exist and how to avoid them. I never touch anyone unless it is only for a couple seconds like a hand shack or a pat on the back. I found a good page explaining about what I am talking about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groping
When used in a sexual context, groping or fondling is touching another person in an unwelcome sexual way. The term generally has a negative connotation in many societies, and the activity may be considered sexual assault. Toucherism, considered a paraphilia, describes the practice of a person touching another non-consenting person with their hands, typically in crowds, for their own sexual pleasure. Touching a consenting person’s body during sexual activity, massage, or medical examination is not usually considered groping, though the term is sometimes used to include clumsy, selfish, or inappropriate sexual touching. Areas of the body most frequently groped include the buttocks, breasts, vulva and thighs on a woman, and the penis, testicles and buttocks on a man. Gropers might use their hands, but pressing any part of their body against another person can be considered groping.
Next thing I know is my SOFAQ blog is requiring my name to continue. I can say anything I want; but when I say something negative about a prominent democrat; I have problems on the internet. I have had whole web pages stop working the second I say something positive about President Trump.  This page is proof of that (notice the last thing I added was a positive image I made for the president; after that, the page would not work) this is that page: http://sexoffenderfaq.blogspot.com/p/bible-bashing-sofaq-style-updated.html
Here is a screenshot copy of one of the responses:

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  April 06 2019
About my last post:
I have had so many problems with this blog and using other Google feature’s; that is why I made the above complaint. For instance I actually had my Google Plus account suspended for supposedly spamming inspirational Bible verses on images. If I spammed I did it without knowing because if you post to one page it automatically posts to other pages you are a member of. How was I supposed to know that? When they asked me for my name I immediately thought they were resetting my account here. Also I have never trusted to view count for this page. 
Since my Google Plus problem about 3 months ago; Google Plus has been discontinued. I could care less about that. As far as I am concerned all Google Plus just jammed up my inbox with emails I never read. The reason I reacted the way I did with my SOFAQ blogs; was because when I was banned from Google Plus for a spam violation I did know I committed; the only way I could post, was to choose a new name for my account. When I could not log on here until I entered a name; it made me think they may have wanted to ban me here. I shut all these blogs down for almost 2 weeks, because I thought it was giving me a reputation of a political blogger rather than what I want to be known as: a skilled and college graduated artist. 
Google does way more for me than I could ever thank them enough for. It blows me away when I go to images and put my blog name in and all these great works of art I have created; are instantly staring me in the face. They got it down these days too. They automatically post things on Google I write the minute I post them. When I am writing a email to anyone; I can put a word in Google and my blog name and find the exact page it is on. 
As long as Google keeps the emphasis on my art images; I will feel more reflected as a artist on the web verses a political blogger. 
Why?:
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an English language idiom. It refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single picture, this picture conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a description does.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_picture_is_worth_a_thousand_words

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  April 26 2019

AZ: Sex offenders get chance to end life-long registration under House proposalMarch 30, 2019 [azcapitoltimes.com – 3/29/19] State lawmakers are weighing whether to give judges more leeway to eliminate the requirement that certain people register for life as sex offenders. A measure approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee would allow people convicted of certain sex crimes, when they turn 35, to petition to be absolved of the mandate. Not everyone would be eligible. The legislation pushed by…
read more here: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/03/29/sex-offenders-get-chance-to-end-life-long-registration-under-house-proposal/
CT: Lawmakers Debate Changes in Sex Offender RegistryApril 1, 2019 [courant.com – 4/1/19]   State legislators are debating whether they should make changes in the state’s sex offender registry, which was established in 1998. Former Republican state legislator Bob Farr of West Hartford and other advocates called Monday for approving the recommendations of the state’s sentencing commission on changes to the registry, which is currently “based on the offense and not on the risk…
read more here: https://www.courant.com/politics/capitol-watch/hc-pol-lawmakers-sex-offender-changes-20190401-cccqp3wxj5hf7frfsakcyur3pm-story.html
CA: Judge Allows San Diego Sex Offender Lawsuit To ProceedApril 1, 2019 [kpbs.org – 4/1/19] San Diego City Council members are under more pressure to repeal an unenforceable law restricting where sex offenders can live in the city, after a federal judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the ordinance to proceed. Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz ruled in January against the city’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed in 2017 by a group of unnamed sex…
read more here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/apr/01/judge-san-diego-sex-offenders-lawsuit-proceed/
IL: Federal Judge Finds Illinois Rules On Sex Offenders UnconstitutionalApril 2, 2019 [wbez.org – 4/1/19]   A federal judge in Chicago has found the Illinois Department of Corrections is violating the constitutional rights of prisoners convicted of certain sex crimes by making the restrictions on where they can live so stringent that inmates are often locked up long beyond their sentences. In a ruling issued Sunday, Judge Virginia Kendall wrote that hundreds of offenders in the…
read more here: https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/federal-judge-finds-illinois-rules-on-sex-offenders-unconstitutional/fdea1372-1b00-44b1-b0e6-2501bc082378
Canada: Sex-offender registry laws discriminate against mentally ill, court rulesApril 4, 2019 [theprovince.com – 4/4/19]   Parts of federal and Ontario laws requiring sex-offender registration where an accused is granted an absolute discharge after being found not criminally responsible discriminate against the mentally ill and are therefore unconstitutional, Ontario’s top court ruled Thursday. While the court ordered information belonging to the man who brought the case to be deleted immediately from sex-offender registries, the justices also…
read more here: https://theprovince.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/sex-offender-registry-laws-discriminate-against-mentally-ill-court-rules/wcm/433c5ac3-c436-443d-b7e7-b9f2b80aaf78
PA: High Court will again review sex offender registrationApril 9, 2019 Two years ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shook up long-settled orthodoxy by ruling that the state’s sex offender registration law, otherwise known as SORNA (Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act) was punishment. The case, Commonwealth v. Muniz, 164 A.3d 1189 (Pa. 2018), presented the Court with two questions: whether people who committed their crimes before the adoption of the law could continue to be…
read more here: https://ccresourcecenter.org/2019/04/09/pa-high-court-will-again-review-sex-offender-registration/
PA: Constitutional right or crime? Case of alleged harassment of sex offender’s family heads to courtApril 11, 2019 [lehighvalleylive.com – 4/9/19] A father and son from Freemansburg accused of harassing the family of a sex offender are headed to Northampton County Court on their respective criminal charges. James Forte Sr. and James Forte Jr., who both live in 200 block of Juniata Street in the borough, had their preliminary hearings Tuesday in front of District Judge Nicholas Englesson. Following testimony from the…
read more here: https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/2019/04/constitutional-right-or-crime-case-of-alleged-harassment-of-sex-offenders-family-heads-to-court.html
CCA: Appeals court strikes down state law that banned early parole for youthful violent sex offendersApril 11, 2019 – 1 Reply[sfchronicle.com – 4/10/19]   Two men who received life sentences for a brutal sexual assault and robbery in Oakland when they were 19 must be given parole hearings during their 25th year in prison, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday, striking down a state law that made them ineligible. A California law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2017, one of a series of…
read more here: https://all4consolaws.org/2019/04/ca-appeals-court-strikes-down-state-law-that-banned-early-parole-for-youthful-violent-sex-offenders/
WA: Washington Sexting Bill Aims to Shield Teens From Adult LawApril 11, 2019 [usnews.com – 4/11/19] Legislation aimed at keeping youth who send sexually explicit texts from being charged under adult sex crime laws has cleared the Legislature in Washington state. The bill , which passed late Wednesday night, would create a new group of crimes reserved specifically for minors who are caught with explicit images of other minors, attempting to solve what lawmakers described as a…
read more here: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2019-04-11/sexting-bill-would-divert-teens-from-adult-sex-offense-rules
CT: Low-risk sex offenders could come off CT registryApril 15, 2019 
HARTFORD — The Judiciary Committee advanced a bill that would allow some low-risk offenders to come off the state’s public sex offender registry — a move that proponents said would make it easier for law enforcement to focus on high-risk offenders. 
read more here: https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Low-risk-sex-offenders-could-come-off-CT-registry-13768559.php
This is a example of why, for the past 20 years; I have had a annual up to date ACLU card in my wallet. 
This is a example of why, for the past 20 years;  I wear my ACLU t-shirts, when ever I get a chance.
This is a example of why, for the past 20 years;  I implore people to support the ACLU online and in person.
MI: ACLU pushes for removal of sex offender registryApril 25, 2019 [abc57.com – 4/25/19] Could the sex offender registry soon be a thing of the past? The American Civil Liberties Union wants to possibly get rid of it, saying the registry doesn’t work. Right now, there are two cases out of Michigan, including a class action lawsuit, claiming several parts of the registry are unconstitutional. “In August 2016, the federal court of appeals held that…
read more here: https://www.abc57.com/news/aclu-pushes-for-removal-of-sex-offender-registry

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  April 28 2019
From: https://thepointeruwsp.com/2019/04/26/five-films-to-check-out-for-sexual-assault-awareness-month/
Five Films to Check Out for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Posted by: Cameron Cieszki April 26, 2019 

While film can be used to entertain and provide an escape for viewers, it can also be used to serve social causes, including bringing awareness to relevant social issues. April is nationally regarded as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, with college campuses, community organizations, and state coalitions working to raise awareness surrounding sexual violence. With April coming to a close, here are five films to check out before the end of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. 
1. The Hunting Ground (2015) 
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for disturbing thematic material involving sexual assault, and for language.
According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 20-25% of college women and 15% of college men are victims of forced sex during their time in higher education. Director Kirby Dick and Producer Amy Ziering tackle this pervasive issue in their 2015 documentary “The Hunting Ground,” which follows students’ experiences with sexual assault on campus and the lack of action taken by college administrators. “The Hunting Ground” specifically sheds light on two of these students – Andrea E. Pino and Annie Clark – who became advocates for victims of sexual assault, filed a Title IX complaint against The University of North Carolina, and created the End Rape on Campus organization. The film shares the stories of male sexual assault victims as well, aiming to combat the stigma and shame that surrounds men who come forward about being assaulted. The documentary features the song “Til It Happens to You,” penned by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren for the film. In the song, Gaga poses the listener to put themselves in the shoes of those who are victims of sexual assault, and the pain these traumatic acts of violence brings. 
2. Teeth (2007) 
MPAA Rating: Rated R for disturbing sequences involving sexuality and violence, language, and some drug use.
Although many may not be able to get over the absurd premise, “Teeth” is an assertation of feminine power and a takedown of non-consensual sex. The film is a contemporary examination of the vagina dentata (toothed vagina) folk tale that has been used around the world to dictate the “danger” of women’s sexuality. The story centers on Dawn, a teenager involved in an abstinence group called The Promise. After being the subject of male sexual violence, Dawn discovers she has a unique physical adaptation. “Teeth” deconstructs its source folk tale and spins the narrative into a feminist horror-comedy. This grisly film is definitely not for everyone and some aspects of the film haven’t aged well in 2019, but its commentary on male entitlement and sexual violence are still as poignant today as it was in 2007. 
3. Boys Don’t Cry (1999) 
MPAA Rating: Rated R for violence including an intense brutal rape scene, sexuality, language and drug use. 
“Boys Don’t Cry” is a biopic centered on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man living in 1990s Nebraska who becomes the victim of an appalling hate crime. The film isn’t perfect; the portrayal of Teena by cisgender actress Hilary Swank doesn’t fly in today’s era, especially when the advocacy for marginalized groups to portray themselves onscreen has become a relevant concern. With that said, “Boys Don’t Cry” has the audience reckon with the sexual violence enacted against trans people. The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that 47% of transgender people are sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime, and among that group, trans people of color are even more susceptible to sexual violence. In lieu of Sexual Assault Awareness month, I believe the film initiates a necessary conversation surrounding sexual assault against the LGBTQ+ community. 
4. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (2009)
MPAA Rating: Rated R for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language. 
Led by gravitas performances from both Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique (who won Best Supporting Actress for her role at the 82nd Academy Awards), “Precious” is a raw and rich portrait of a young woman surviving poverty and sexual assault. The film explores another avenue of assault in the subject of incest; Precious navigates two pregnancies as a result of sexual abuse within her household. After it is revealed that Precious is pregnant for a second-time, her principal organizes her to attend an alternative school for a brighter future. The story certainly isn’t light, but Director Lee Daniels creates the film could provide help for those who have experienced sexual assault and abuse. 
5. The Invisible War (2012)
MPAA Rating: NR
With such a notable visibility of the Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, it felt necessary to include the critically-acclaimed documentary “The Invisible War” to our list. “The Invisible War” won a Peabody Award and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards for its investigation into a prevailing culture of sexual assault and sexual harassment within the United States Armed Forces. Featuring interviews from victims, military officials, mental health professionals, and advocates, this documentary is a call to action to revise the way we handle cases of sexual assault within our military.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  April 28 2019
IN: 7th Circuit rules DOC sex offender program violates Constitution April 29, 2019 – [theindianalawyer.com – 4/26/19] Finding the disclosures provide information that any law enforcement agent “would love to have,” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled Indiana’s requirement that sex offender inmates give detailed accounts of their past actions violates the Constitution’s protections against self-incrimination. Donald Lacy, a sex offender inmate in the Indiana Department of Correction, filed a class action on behalf of all…https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/50120-th-circuit-rules-doc-sex-offender-program-violates-constitution?v=preview

ME: Maine Senate backs bill to extend statute of limitations on sex crimes May 2, 2019 – [timesrecord.com – 5/1/19] The Maine Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would extend the state’s statute of limitations on sexual assaults from eight years to 20 years. The measure, if approved by the House and signed by Gov. Janet Mills, would put Maine more in line with other states’ sex crimes statutes. The Senate passed the bill without debate. “Only three other states…https://www.timesrecord.com/articles/maine-1/maine-senate-backs-bill-to-extend-statute-of-limitations-on-sex-crimes/
NY: Animal-abuser registry plan advances in Oneida County May 4, 2019 – [romesentinel.com – 5/3/19] A plan to start a registry of convicted animal abusers in Oneida County advanced through a legislative committee this week but not without questions. The Board of Legislators’ Health and Human Services Committee passed the proposal on to the full board Wednesday. The measure would establish an website similar to that of sex offenders, with offender’s names, residence, birth dates, photo..https://romesentinel.com/stories/animal-abuser-registry-plan-advances-in-oneida-county,76029
ID: Sex offenders ask court to revive Idaho registry lawsuit May 7, 2019 –  [washingtontimes.com – 5/6/19] A group of 134 sex offenders have asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court to revive their lawsuit against the state of Idaho because they say they were denied their constitutional rights when they were forced to register as sex offenders. 
The group, referred to only as John Does 1 through 134 in the lawsuit, notified U.S. District Judge David Nye on…https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/6/sex-offenders-ask-appellate-court-to-revive-regist/
FL: Approves Database to Publish Details of People Who Pay for Sex May 7, 2019 – The Florida legislature passed legislation within the past week, Senate Bill 540 and House Bill 851, to establish a public database that tracks people convicted of, or who have pleaded guilty to, soliciting paid sex. 
While the legislation’s bipartisan authors consider it to be a step toward ending human trafficking, critics call it a means to publicly shame clients and others associated with people…https://filtermag.org/2019/05/07/florida-legislators-database-track-people-soliciting-paid-sex/
UT: Lawmaker calls for study in taking some convicts off sex offender registry May 16, 2019 – It’s a sensitive issues at the Utah Capitol — maybe close to alcohol policy, marijuana and Medicaid expansion — who goes off Utah’s Sex Offender Registry. Depending on the sex crime, convicts now can stay on for ten years, or for the rest of their lives. “We tend to kind of group those sex offenders together in the same broad brush category,“ said Sen….https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-lawmaker-calls-for-study-in-taking-some-convicts-off-sex-offender-registry
MA: State’s Highest Court Orders Release Of Sex Offender Held Since 1970s May 16, 2019 –  Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Thursday that a 71-year-old convicted sex offender held for more than 40 years as a sexually dangerous person can be released, after two mental health professionals ruled that he was no longer a risk. The court essentially upheld an earlier decision from 2009 in ruling that ___ ___ can’t continue to be held at the Massachusetts Treatment Center. Full Article…https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/05/16/states-highest-court-orders-release-of-sex-offender-held-since-1970s
The YMCA bans persons required to register as sex offenders, but how has that worked out for them? May 22, 2019 – [floridaactioncommittee.org – 5/22/19] The Fulton County YMCA, in Johnstown, New York was just hit with a $10,000,000.00 lawsuit. A 19 year old former employee was charged with raping an underage girl in the locker room In Wichita, Kansas a 31 year old former employee allegedly sexually assaulted three teenage girls this month. The same Y had another instance of sexual assault last year. The…https://floridaactioncommittee.org/the-ymca-bans-persons-required-to-register-as-sex-offenders-but-how-has-that-worked-out-for-them/
NY: Anthony Weiner complained about sex offenders in district before scandal May 27, 2019 –  [nypost.com – 5/27/19] Here’s another thing that gets a rise out of Anthony Weiner: other perverts. Long before the former Queens congressman earned himself a rap sheet for trading X-rated messages with a 15-year-old girl, he was getting hot and bothered about sex offenders living in the congressional district he represented. Weiner’s office repeatedly called the NYPD’s Sex Offender Monitoring Unit to gripe about…https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/anthony-weiner-complained-about-sex-offenders-in-district-before-scandal/
Sex Offense Recidivism Rates LOWER than Previous Estimates According to Recent Bureau of Justice Study May 31, 2019 –  Recently, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report entitled, “Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from State Prison: A 9-Year Follow Up (2005-2014).” “Notwithstanding the sensationalist headline (“three times as likely”), the statistics reported are actually quite favorable. 
Full Summary: https://njlawattorney.com/2019/05/30/bjs-sex-offense-recidivism-study-2019/
BJS report: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsorsp9yfu0514.pdf

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  June 3 2019
From: https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20190528_sentencing_commission_makes_last-minute_plea_to_senate/
Sentencing Commission Makes Last-Minute Plea To Senate by Lisa Backus | May 28, 2019 5:00am
HARTFORD, CT — With less than two weeks to the end of the legislative session, the state Sentencing Commission is asking Senate leaders to bring two potentially controversial proposals to a vote.  SB 1113 would create a new sex offender registry board, which would set the length of time a person could be on the registry based on their risk of reoffending and not just the offenses they committed.
The bill would also create two registries, one that is public, which would contain the information on high-risk offenders that the public can see and one that can only be seen by law enforcement, which would contain all offenders that the board deems necessary.
The commission made up of judges and department heads dealing with criminal justice issues including the Office of the Victim Advocate and Chief State’s Attorney is also asking for a vote on SB 948, a bill that would allow defendants to seek a 364-day sentence rather than a one-year sentence, which in some cases would prevent deportation according to federal immigration laws.  
“We realize that these bills address difficult issues and that you have other competing priorities,” Commission Chair Judge Robert Devlin and Commission Executive Director Alex Tsarkkov said in a letter to Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven.  
“We ask that you review these two bills and bring them up for a vote this legislative session,” the two added.
Read More here: https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20190528_sentencing_commission_makes_last-minute_plea_to_senate/

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  June 14 2019
From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/06/chick-fil-owner-arrested-admitting-repeatedly-molested-underage-girl/

Chick-fil-A owner arrested after admitting she repeatedly molested an underage girl She was a church youth group leader at the time and the girl was under her care. Friday, June 14, 2019 
Heather Matuszek, a Chick-fil-A franchise owner-operator and former church youth group leader, has been arrested in Florida on two felony charges for “lewd and lascivious molestation” of an underage girl. Matuszek was serving in her role of a church authority at the time of the incidents.  Matuszek was 28 at the time, and the victim was 15. She has already admitted her guilt.  The victim told authorities that Matuszek climbed into bed with her on two separate occasions, kissing her and rubbing her hands over the victim’s breasts.  Police say other incidents occurred outside their jurisdiction. Matuszek has not been charged yet for those incidents, but local authorities where the crimes are alleged to have happened are investigating the allegations.  Chick-fil-A, the controversial fast food chain best known for waffle fries served with a side of homophobia, quickly distanced themselves from their hand-picked owner.  Related: Pete Buttigieg wants to negotiate a ‘peace deal’ between Chick-fil-A & LGBTQ people  “This is deeply disturbing news,” the company said in a statement after Matuszek was arrested. “No one should ever be subjected to this sort of abuse and we are shocked and saddened by the report. Law enforcement has jurisdiction over this matter and we are awaiting full facts to inform our actions. Chick-fil-A, Inc. is sending company representatives to the location for restaurant support.”  Would-be franchise owners go through an extensive background check and must abide by the company’s strict “Christian” stances. The company’s corporate mission is to “glorify God” and the nationwide chain is closed on Sundays so their operators and employees can attend church.  Company retreats include prayers and the company pushes franchisees to market their chicken sandwiches to church groups and other conservative organizations.  The backlash to the chain’s admitted opposition to LGBTQ rights has resulted in the chain being denied permission to open stores in some places. The San Antonio city council recently voted to authorize a vendor to open restaurants in the local airport, but stipulated that Chick-fil-A could not be one of them, saying the group’s outspoken stance against LGBTQ rights flew in the face of the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance.  In response, Texas legislators passed a “Save Chick-fil-A” law, signed by Governor Greg Abbott, meant to prevent local governments from exercising their authority to decide where or not to grant local approval for the franchise. While the GOP framed it as a matter of “religious freedom,” the law is widely seen as a way for Republicans to attack the LGBTQ community again in a state with a history of extreme reactions to advancements in civil rights for minorities.  The company has continued to donate to anti-LGBTQ organizations despite saying that would stop. Earlier this year, the company described the donations as “a higher calling.”

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  June 19 2019

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/06/extremist-pastor-wanted-save-children-arrested-repeatedly-molesting-child/
Like I always say: Judge not lest ye be judged:

Extremist pastor who wanted to ‘save the children’ arrested for repeatedly molesting a child He was a major supporter of a law that would have punished abortion with the death penalty while forcing “sexual intercourse multiple times a day or several times a week” on a teenaged relative. 
Monday, June 17, 2019     
endolyn Smith Monday, June 17, 2019     Stephen Bratton Photo: Harris County Sheriff’s Department Stephen Bratton was a successful pastor at Grace Family Baptist Church in Cypress Station Texas, but he harbored a dark and sinister side, according to his family and friends. Now he finds himself charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child after he admitted the crime to church elders and his wife.   Bratton 43, has been accused of inappropriately touching a teenaged relative, actions that escalated into “sexual intercourse multiple times a day or several times a week” according to Senior Harris County Deputy Thomas Gilliland. quoted by the Associated Press.  Bratton was known for his extreme right-wing views, including arguing in favor of House Bill 896, a strict abortion ban that would have made abortion a crime punishable by the death penalty under Texas law.  “Whoever authorizes or commits murder is guilty,” Bratton said in a hearing in support of the bill on April 8, as quoted by the Associated Press. “They’re guilty already in a court that is far more weighty than what is here in Texas.”  Related: This pastor allegedly drugged & brutally raped two men before going home to his wife   His former church released a statement about Bratton, and their own involvement in his arrest.  “Stephen Bratton confessed to Erin Frye and Aaron Wright, both pastors at the church, of sexually abusing a minor in an ongoing way for a number of years on May 16th,” reads the statement. “This activity is wrong according to Biblical and civil law and the church condemns the behavior as abhorrent.”  “The elders immediately filed a police report with Harris County Sheriff’s Office the same day, May 16th,” continues the statement. “As the weeks followed the pastors continued to make contact with the detective because they desired the case to be brought forward so that justice would be served.”  Bratton was removed from his job with the church and excommunicated from same.  Others moved swiftly again Bratton: Sermon Audio removed over 2over 200 sermons by Bratton as news grown about his arrest.   Bratton’s crimes are, unfortunately, not uncommon. An investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News uncovered more than 700 victims of sexual misconduct by members of the Southern Baptist Church over a 20-year periods.  Bratton is currently out of jail on a $50,000 bond.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  July 3 2019

FL: FORT LAUDERDALE OPENING MORE NEIGHBORHOODS TO SEX OFFENDERS WITH CHANGE IN STRICT LAWJune 7, 2019 
[sun-sentinel.com – 6/7/19]
There are no homes at 2700 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. Although the only buildings standing are a McDonald’s and a Chick-fil-A, 110 people have registered it as an address.
All of them are convicted sex offenders.
This hot spot for sexual criminals is one of several along Federal Highway in northeast Fort Lauderdale, one of the few slivers in the city where a registered sex offender or sexual predator — rapists, molesters, child porn addicts — can legally reside.
That will change soon. The city tentatively has agreed to relax its restrictive sex offender laws, opening up more of the city where offenders can legally live.
The current law leaves just 1.4 percent of Fort Lauderdale for legal residence. Sex offenders and the more dangerous sexual predators can’t live within 1,400 feet of a school bus stop, park, day care, playground or school.
The law is so restrictive, it’s not legally defensible, City Attorney Alain Boileau told commissioners Tuesday. One Broward County judge already has ruled against the city in a challenge.
“It makes it very difficult for our law enforcement to go out and enforce it with any meaningful punch,” Boileau said.
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The city’s northeast is home to upscale neighborhoods, whose residents have grown concerned about homeless people in the area. Occasionally they see small encampments: clothes on an outdoor line behind a business, people sleeping, garbage strewn about.
As of this month, 201 sex offenders are registered as transients along the stretch of Federal Highway from Oakland Park Boulevard south to Northeast 26th Street, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Mary Peloquin, president of the Coral Ridge Association, said the issue first came to her attention in 2017, after a registered sex offender was accused of raping a woman just east of Federal Highway. She wondered about other sex offenders in the area and was dismayed at what she found on the state’s searchable database.
Peloquin noticed an increase in transients after a homeless camp in downtown Fort Lauderdale was emptied in November. She supports the relaxing of the law, to give people more housing options.
Peloquin said she found it strangely unfair that offenders “be given such a slim chance to get their feet back on the ground and start a good life.”
Commissioner Heather Moraitis, who represents and lives in the part of the city with the cluster of offenders, said the current law led to homelessness of sex offenders, a dangerous proposition.
“My goal isn’t necessarily to disperse them throughout the city as much as to get them into housing, whatever that may be,” Moraitis said. “I think that’s really the goal. I’m not saying I don’t want them in my backyard.”
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Of the homeless sex offenders, nearly 80 percent of them are registered to Fort Lauderdale addresses, according to the Florida Action Committee. The city attracts more homeless people because of its easier access to food kitchens, the courthouse and mass transit, among other reasons. The Main Jail also is in Fort Lauderdale.
But Moraitis said none of the city-funded services to help homeless people, including shelters and a day respite center, can be used by convicted sex offenders. Federal law also bans them from subsidized housing and requires them to make early accommodations if they think they will need to use an emergency shelter.
The state Legislature’s research arm, the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, points to residency restrictions as the biggest factor leading to an increase in offender homelessness.
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Mayor Dean Trantalis said he didn’t want the city’s pending action to be misinterpreted. The city has no choice because its current law is unconstitutional, he said.
“We don’t want to open the door to sexual offenders, or predators thinking that Fort Lauderdale is a welcoming place,” Trantalis argued.
Read the full article: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-ne-sex-offenders-lauderdale-20190607-epjquklmy5c3fge7jfusond7f4-story.html
A LIMITED STUDY DONE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE STILL PROVES THAT REGISTRANTS HAVE THE LOWEST RE-OFFENSE RATEJune 10, 2019 
[sosen.org – 6/7/19]

The Department of Justice Bureau of statistics has put out another report “Recidivism of sex offenders released from state prison a nine-year follow-up 2005-14.” This is another attempt to muddy the waters by the Department of Justice in relation to the re-offense rate of people on the registry. First of all, this is not a valid study for evaluating the amount of recidivism by the 900,000+ people that are registered citizens. This is in fact a limited study of a small group of people that were released from prisons in 2005 and when I say a small group it is limited to rapists and sexual abusers, it does not take into account all the other types of sexual misconduct that will result in a criminal conviction and may or may not spend prison time as well as resulting in a listing on the registry. Although the authors of this 35 page long “study” attempted to conceal the truth with its all kinds of extraneous information that is unrelated to the underlying title of the document, the true information about registrants’ conviction rates is still there, you just have to dig for it.
Read more: https://sosen.org/blog/2019/06/07/a-limited-study-done-by-the-department-of-justice-still-proves-that-registrants-have-the-lowest-re-offense-rate.html
AK: SUPREME COURT DECLARES LAW REQUIRING ALL SEX OFFENDERS TO REGISTER UNCONSTITUTIONALJune 14, 2019 
The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s sex offender registry law violates offenders’ right to due process.
In an opinion handed down Friday, the court — voting 3-2 — found the law requiring all offenders to register unconstitutional unless offenders are first given the opportunity to demonstrate they aren’t a danger to the public. Full Article: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2019/06/14/alaska-supreme-court-declares-law-requiring-all-sex-offenders-to-register-unconstitutional/
Justices Nix Heavy Sentences for Repeat Sex OffendersJune 26, 2019 MEGAN MINEIRO and BRAD KUTNERWASHINGTON (CN) — In an opinion that aligns Justice Neil Gorsuch with his liberal colleagues, the Supreme Court overturned a law that imposes heightened punishments on sex offenders who are caught with child pornography.
“Only a jury, acting on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, may take a person’s liberty. That promise stands as one of the Constitution’s most vital protections against arbitrary government,” Gorsuch wrote for the plurality Wednesday. “Yet in this case a congressional statute compelled a federal judge to send a man to prison for a minimum of five years without empaneling a jury of his peers or requiring the government to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. As applied here, we do not hesitate to hold that the statute violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.”
In the underlying case, a federal judge sentenced Andre Haymond to an additional five years in prison, the mandatory minimum, after finding that Haymond had violated his parole by possessing child porn.
Probation officers caught Haymond with the images in a surprise 2015 search of his apartment while Haymond was two years into a 10-year term of supervised release for an earlier child-porn conviction. 
On appeal, however, the 10th Circuit found it unconstitutional that the mandatory-minimum law, codified at Section 3583(K) of Title 18 “imposes heightened punishment on sex offenders based, not on their original crimes of conviction, but on new conduct for which they have not been convicted by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reverse, saying that supervised release is by its nature conditional and includes “the prospect of reimprisonment if the defendant proves unable to comply.”
Declining to do so, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined Gorsuch’s opinion in full, and Justice Stephen Breyer concurred in the judgment.
The rest of the court’s conservative members meanwhile joined a stinging dissent by Justice Samuel Alito that calls the plurality opinion “irreconcilable with precedent, and sports rhetoric with potentially revolutionary implications.”
Touting the more narrow Breyer opinion as having “saved our jurisprudence,” Alito said “the plurality opinion appears to have been carefully crafted for the purpose of laying the groundwork for later decisions of much broader scope.” (Emphasis in original.)
“In short, under the plurality opinion, the whole system of supervised release would be like a 40-ton truck speeding down a steep mountain road with no brakes,” the dissent continues later.
Breyer noted that he agrees with Alito’s argument “that the role of the judge in a supervised-release proceeding is consistent with traditional parole.”
Still, the justice found this stance unable to resolve concerns with the post-sentencing program.
“The consequences for violation of conditions of supervised release under §3583(e), which governs most revocations, are limited by the severity of the original crime of conviction, not the conduct that results in revocation,” Breyer wrote. 
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the dissent in full as did Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.
Neither the Department of Justice nor Haymond’s attorney, William Dixon Lunn Jr., returned requests for comment by press time.
Rakesh Kilaru, an attorney with the firm Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz, said he was pleased with the high court’s decision.
“Regardless how this statute describes the additional punishment it imposes, the triggering of a new mandatory minimum prison term requires both factfinding by a jury and proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Kilaru, whose firm filed an amicus brief in the case on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
Full Article: https://www.courthousenews.com/justices-nix-heavy-sentences-for-repeat-sex-offenders/
The Supreme Court Is One Vote Away from Changing How the U.S. Is Governed
11:18 A.M.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh had not yet been confirmed when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gundy v. United States; his vote could have changed the outcome.Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / AFP / GettyHad Brett Kavanaugh not been accused of sexual assault, one of the first cases he would have heard as a Supreme Court Justice would have been that of Herman Gundy, a convicted sex offender. When nominated, last July, Kavanaugh was expected to be confirmed in time for the term that started last October. But the emergence of sexual assault allegations against him delayed his confirmation vote until October 6th, just after the Court’s first set of oral arguments—which included Gundy’s request to invalidate his federal conviction for failure to register as a sex offender. In June, the Court denied Gundy’s petition. As it turns out, Kavanaugh’s absence from the case likely changed its outcome.
Gundy v. United States was about the “Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act,” known as sorna, which Congress enacted in 2006. The statute made it a crime, punishable by ten years in prison, for individuals convicted of a sex offense involving a minor to fail to register in each state where they live, work, or study. But Congress gave the Attorney General “the authority to specify the applicability” of these requirements to people convicted before sorna took effect. In 2007 and in 2011, Attorneys General Alberto Gonzales and Eric Holder said the requirements do apply to such people.
That group encompassed half a million people, including Gundy, who was convicted of sexual assault of a minor in 2005. After serving prison time for the crime, he went to live in a halfway house in New York in 2012. After he failed to register there, he was rearrested and convicted of the new federal crime. Gundy claimed that sorna violated the non-delegation doctrine, wherein it is unconstitutional for Congress to delegate its legislative power to the executive branch. He argued that letting the Attorney General determine whether the law applied to people like him left too much to be decided by an agency rather than by Congress.
For the better part of a century, the Court has permitted Congress to delegate broad policymaking authority to federal agencies. The Court has not struck down a statute under the non-delegation doctrine since 1935, when a conservative majority was hostile to progressive New Deal measures aimed at protecting workers and consumers. Since then, the increasing complexity of modern industrialized society has made it obvious that—even when Congress is not as dysfunctional as it is now—it’s not possible for Congress to legislate the technical details necessary to regulate the environment, health, safety, labor, education, energy, elections, discrimination, housing, and the economy.
As a result, executive agencies create regulations and implement binding policies. That has long been understood as both necessary for the country to function and consistent with the Constitution. The Court has applied a test: if a statute gives an agency discretion that is sufficiently constrained by an “intelligible principle,” then Congress is not unconstitutionally delegating legislative power. But many conservatives complain that that test has been applied in a lax way, so that any statute delegating any scope of authority appears to satisfy it. For example, the Court has repeatedly upheld statutes that give agencies only general guidance, such as to regulate in the “public interest,” or issue air quality standards “requisite to protect the public health.”
In Gundy, all four liberal Justices, in a plurality opinion by Justice Elena Kagan, hewed to the prevailing approach, finding that Congress provided enough guidance limiting the agency’s discretion to pass constitutional muster. Three conservative Justices, in a dissent by Justice Neil Gorsuch, said that the law impermissibly gave the Attorney General “free rein to write the rules,” and was unconstitutional. Justice Samuel Alito cast the deciding vote that enabled the liberals to prevail this time, but his three-paragraph concurrence made clear that the victory may be short-lived. He said that if the majority “were willing to reconsider the approach we have taken for the past 84 years, I would support that effort.” A conservative majority was lacking here because of the absence of Justice Kavanaugh. Next time there’s a similar case before the Court, his vote will make for a different result.
We are now explicitly on notice that the Court will likely abandon its longstanding tolerance of Congress delegating broadly to agencies. What’s at stake is the potential upending of the constitutional foundations of the so-called “administrative state.” Today’s reality is that agencies, not Congress, make most federal laws. As Justice Kagan put it, if the delegation in Gundy were unconstitutional, “then most of Government is unconstitutional.”
What will happen then, when the conservative bloc prevails? The alarmist view is that the E.P.A. couldn’t have the power to decide how stringent pollution standards should be. The F.D.A. couldn’t have the authority to approve or deny applications to sell new medical drugs. The Department of Education couldn’t make rules for colleges and universities. The Department of the Interior couldn’t govern snow mobiles in national parks. The S.E.C. couldn’t regulate financial firms or securities. The F.C.C. couldn’t issue rules on net neutrality or Internet service providers. In sum, we would dwell in a world without the federal law that governs our lives.
The reason this parade of horribles is not quite right is that very few of us actually want to live in that world, and what the public, Congress, and the President all want over time, the Court is unlikely to stop. And to say that there are constitutional constraints on the scope and structure of congressional delegation to agencies is not to say that no delegation is allowed at all.
An irony of the conservative majority’s insistence on returning to the Constitution’s requirements is that non-delegation is not mentioned in the Constitution. It is a set of judicially crafted elaborations on the principles of separation of powers and good governance. Article I simply grants all “legislative powers” to Congress, Article II similarly gives the “Executive power” to the President, and the text says nothing about delegation, nor does it define legislative or executive power. The meaning of these terms, of course, has been subject to many pages of argument and judicial interpretation since.
read more here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-supreme-court-is-one-vote-away-from-changing-how-the-us-is-governed

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  July 6 2019

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/anti-gay-church-pastor-confessed-sexually-abusing-underage-boys/

An anti-gay church pastor confessed to sexually abusing underage boys
He led a church that compares homosexuality to bestiality. Now prosecutors are saying they don’t know how many victims will come forward.
Friday, July 5, 2019  
A pastor in Alabama at an anti-LGBTQ church was arrested after confessing to molesting an underage boy.
John Martin, 41, was the lead pastor of the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Florence, Alabama, until he resigned on June 23 amid allegations of sexual abuse.
When he resigned, he confessed to his congregation that he had sexually abused a boy under the age of 16, which he referred to as an “affair.” He said that he had confessed to his wife already.
He checked himself into a psychiatric unit and turned over his guns, and then he was arrested.
Related: Anti-LGBT pastor arrested for making little boys sit on his face
According to court records, he is accused of molesting one boy several times, both at his home and on a road trip. He also sent the victim explicit text messages.
Court records also say that he admitted to molesting another boy when he confessed to his congregation.
Assistant district attorney Angie Hamilton said that she believes there were other victims.
“We have identified several potential victims,” she said. “We believe other charges are forthcoming.”
The Lighthouse Baptist Church doesn’t hide its anti-LGBTQ stance. On its website, it compares being LGB to bestiality.
“We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex,” the website reads.
“We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman,” it continues.
The website also expresses hatred of transgender people: “We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance.”
The church doesn’t allow women to take on leadership positions because “The husband is to be the leader of the home, and men are to be the leaders (pastors and deacons) of the church.”
Martin has been charged with four counts of first-degree sexual abuse. He faces up to 40 years in prison on those charges.
 News  Alabama, Angie Hamilton, Florence, homophobic child molesters, John Martin, Lighthouse Baptist Church

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  July 10 2019

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/anti-gay-church-pastor-confessed-sexually-abusing-underage-boys/
Another; (Judge not, that ye be not judged.) post.

Matt.7. [1] Judge not, that ye be not judged. [2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. [3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Matt.7 – Bible, King James Version

Christian school teacher who scolded girls to be modest was molesting male students
She was a moral scold who told girls they were dressing like sluts & the entire time she was sending naked photos of herself to male students.
Monday, July 8, 2019 
A Christian school kindergarten teacher in the Chicago suburbs is facing charges related to sexual assault and child pornography after investigators say that she sent explicit material to minors for years.
Shannon Griffin is the wife of the pastor of Jordan Baptist Church and is a teacher at the associated Jordan Baptist school in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago.
She is now facing five counts of criminal sexual assault, one count solicitation of child pornography, one count of distribution of harmful materials, and one count of grooming, which the Cook County Sheriff’s Office says come from her alleged sexual molestation of one underage student at the school and sending nude photos and videos of herself to that student and another one.
A months-long investigation found “that Griffin sent nude pictures and videos of herself to and requested nude pictures from the minor and another juvenile victim, also enrolled at the school,” said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart in a statement. They believe that the molestation started in 2013 and continued until earlier this year.
Related: Conservative Christian leader accused of using Bible study to molest a teenage boy
The pictures were circulated among students until they reached one mother, whose name has not been made public.
One student, Yhaneera Aparicio-Armas, said that she remembered Griffin for being really strict when it came to dress code violations.
“She would write me up and other girls and, like, how ironic that you’re telling us how to dress, us how to be modest, and be Christian women, and you turn around doing the exact opposite,” said Aparicio-Aramas.
Parents of students at the school say they feel betrayed by the school, like Mike Mollo, who said that he immediately pulled his kids from the school when he found out about Griffin and called the pastor.
“I called the pastor, and I said to him, ‘You better get in front of this.’ I said, ‘All these kids are passing videos around of your wife,’” Mollo told CBS Chicago.
“And he said, ‘It’s not my wife. It’s not her. We’re just going to pray about it. Let the Lord take care of us.”
He said that he found out when his son showed him naked videos and pictures of Griffin.
“He said, ‘Dad, you got to see this,’” Mollo said. “He pulls his phone out, and it’s a bunch of pornographic videos of her doing things to herself.”
“You pay that kind of money to send your kids to a school to where you can trust these people, and they go and do this?” he said. “Betrayed is an understatement. Violated, betrayed, angry. There’s no words to describe what I was feeling.”

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  July 23 2019

From: https://thenextweb.com/code-word/2019/07/23/police-demand-access-to-sexual-assault-survivors-phones-or-have-their-case-dropped/
Police demand access to sexual assault survivors’ phones — or have their case dropped
Jul 23, 2019 – 7 hours ago at 2:12 Central Time
For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors.
In April 2019, police in the UK introduced new consent forms asking sexual assault survivors for permission to access their personal information stored on their phones. If survivors refuse to hand over phone data in this “digital strip search,” police will allegedly stop investigating their rape case.

These consent forms, which have been rolled out by all 43 forces in England and Wales, ask the permission of survivors to pick apart seven years worth of text messages, photographs, email, and social media content.
“If you refuse permission for the police to investigate, or for the prosecution to disclose material which would enable the defendant to have a fair trial then it may not be possible for the investigation or prosecution to continue,” the consent form outlines, according to the Associated Press.
According to Big Brother Watch, a non-profit privacy campaigning organization, the police and Crown Prosecution Service are already facing backlash over the gross invasion of privacy and concerns around data protection.
According to a petition addressed to Nick Hurd MP (Minister for Policing, National Police Chiefs’ Council, and CPS), this “digital strip search” is ‘unlawful’ and ‘makes survivors feel as if they’re the ones on trial.’ The petition against the practice has been signed by just shy of 36,000 people at the time of writing this — only 4,000 away from its goal. It has also been endorsed by 10 campaign groups, including Big Brother Watch, Amnesty International, the Centre for Women’s Justice, and End Violence Against Women.
“My phone documents [have] many of the most personal moments in my life, and the thought of strangers combing through it to try to use it against me makes me feel like I’m being violated once again,” one survivor who spoke to the campaigners said.
Since its introduction, police have attempted to reassure survivors that only material relevant to the potential prosecution will be taken into consideration. Soon after the new protocol for sexual assault survivors was rolled out, the NPCC tweeted:
We are sensitive to the concerns about privacy when asking for access to digital data to pursue a reasonable line of enquiry. Officers will only ask for access to private data when necessary and proportionate, and advice will be given so victims can make an informed decision.
But the form itself states even information of a separate criminal offense “may be retained and investigated,” as reported by The New York Times. 
Whilst it’s not unreasonable for police to request additional information to confirm a crime has taken place, in the case of rape, the legal system has all too often failed survivors of assault. When it comes to sexual assault, police often disbelieve survivors, something that doesn’t seem to happen as often with other crimes — simply having a one-size-fits-all criminal justice system won’t work.
This procedure only makes it harder for survivors to come forward with their story. Because of the fear of not being believed in court, according to RAINN, The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, out of 1,000 sexual assaults, just 230 are reported to the police. And out of 1,000 sexual assaults reported, 995 perpetrators will walk free. 
This “digital strip search” is just another hurdle for survivors to consider when reporting their attacker — as if it isn’t challenging enough.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  July 27 2019

From: https://www.rt.com/news/465181-apple-siri-human-contractors/
Siri ‘regularly’ records sex encounters, sends ‘countless’ private moments to Apple contractors 

Published time: 27 Jul, 2019 03:53 
Edited time: 27 Jul, 2019 04:42 
Apple’s Siri AI assistant sends audio of sexual encounters, embarrassing medical information, drug deals, and other private moments recorded without users’ knowledge to human ‘graders’ for evaluation, a whistleblower has revealed. 

Recordings from Apple’s Siri voice assistant are fed to human contractors around the world, who grade the AI based on the quality of its response and whether its activation was deliberate, according to an anonymous contractor who spoke to the Guardian. They claimed accidental activations are much more frequent than Apple lets on, especially with Apple Watch users – and wants the company to own up to the problem.
“There have been countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual encounters and so on. These recordings are accompanied by user data showing location, contact details, and app data,” the whistleblower revealed.
“Apple is subcontracting out, there’s a high turnover. It’s not like people are being encouraged to have consideration for people’s privacy, or even consider it,” the whistleblower said, explaining that they are concerned these recordings, produced when Siri thinks it hears its “wake word,” could be used against the people who (accidentally) made them – especially given the “broad” amount of user data they claim contractors are “free to look through.” In what sounds like a sick joke on the part of some programmer, the sound of a zipper unzipping often triggers Siri to wake up.
If there were someone with nefarious intentions, it wouldn’t be hard to identify [people on the recordings].
While Apple does not explicitly mention any human involvement in Siri’s training in the AI’s documentation, it acknowledged when asked about its practices that “a small portion of Siri requests are analyzed to improve Siri and dictation.” The company insisted that this amounted to less than one percent of all daily activations of the AI and that the recordings were “typically only a few seconds long.”

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  July 30 2019

My father was a police officer so I strongly support the police where ever I live. We have a great bunch of Police here in Texas. In one of my searches I must have gotten on this sex offender watch list. I like it over the years because it always has pictures of our local sheriff leaders; so I have not unsubscribed. Last year I noticed what the email said and was shocked to see such uneducated comment’s on it. Here is a copy of it with my words in bold.:
From: https://offenderwatch.com/
What should you do?
This notification will assist you and your family in avoiding situations that may make you vulnerable. Please remember that these people have served their sentences and are not wanted by the Sheriff’s office at this time (at this time? that seems disrespectful in a way). Citizen abuse of this information such as threats, intimidation, or harassment of these offenders is prohibited by law (what does that mean? prohibited but not discouraged?).
Children are particularly vulnerable to offenders (they think all sex offenders are a danger to children automatically, no matter what the offence). Open communications between parents and children are vital to family safety. If a picture is available from your government Web site, show it to your family. (Stuff like this has got to hurt kid’s mentally. Of course if you are like most irresponsible parents; you have to tell them things like this because you do not spend enough time watching over your kids.) In general terms, tell your children that this person has hurt someone before. Explain to them they should stay away from this individual. Avoid scary details. (Yet the problem behind all this is fear.) The purpose behind community notification is to reduce the chance of future victimization by better informing the public. (this sounds like every single person that has violated a sex offence law is unable to function in society without being held under constant supervision of the public.) Nearly 80% of all sex crimes are committed by someone known to the victim. (yet the term predator in constantly used to describe a committer of a sex crime.)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Q. Is it just a matter of time before the offender commits another crime? (why is this even a question your average citizen would ask?)
A. While there is no way that anyone can accurately predict the future behavior of another person, (no; really?) past behaviors are an indication of whether an individual, or group, poses a higher risk to the public. (only if that person is uneducated enough not to learn from their mistakes) For example, if a driver has speeding tickets, they pose a greater risk to be in a traffic accident than drivers who do not; thus, they pay more for their insurance because they are more likely to get into an accident than non-speeders. Not all speeders get into accidents. In fact, most will not have an accident; it’s just that they are statistically more likely to have an accident than are other drivers. (This is the worst explanation of whether or not a sex offender will commit another sex offence; I have ever read. It seems more to prove that a sex offender will commit another sex crime than will not.) Similarly, not all offenders will commit another crime; (what does that mean? Does this mean they are still condemned no matter what? Why is there no mention; in even the smallest of ways, that some offenders may be completely reformed and a respectable people, positively contributing to society?)  however, knowledge of a potential risk should assist you and your family in avoiding situations that allow for easy access to victims. (You don’t let your children around adults unless they are professional bonded child care professionals. That would be my motto if I had kids.) 
Q. There is an offender in our area that I believe is coming in contact with children. What should I do? 
A. First of all, do not confront the individual. Contact us and inform us of your suspicion. We will inquire whether or not contact with children is being made.
Q. What do I tell my children about this offender? (You see it is always about children. This cause people too suspect things that are not true; feeding the typical paranoia and automatic hatred of those guilty of sex crimes.) 
A. DON’T accept a ride from this person, DON’T go into their home or yard. TELL your parents if this person offers you toys, money or gifts. (You have to be mentally challenged not to know this through commonsense.)
Other safety tips to discuss with your children:
There are certain kinds of strangers that can assist you when you need help – others with children, other children, police in uniform or store clerks in the mall.
Teach your children to dial 911 and to use a pay phone without money.
Teach your children to trust their feelings and say NO and run away from a situation that doesn’t feel right. (I do feel bad for parents like this; pulled into this, by the ratings starved media/internet fiend’s. How do you described all of this to a kid without damaging them mentally?)

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 02 2019

This is a good example of what me and the ACLU and other’s have been warning you about all these years. I hate animal abuse and am glad updates on laws punish people like this. This is a example of how laws that are used on sex offenders could be used on others in the future. :
NC: ANIMAL ABUSERS COULD APPEAR ON REGISTRY — LIKE SEX OFFENDERS IN NORTH CAROLINAJuly 12, 2019 [abc30.com – 7/10/19]RALEIGH, N..C — A new bill introduced in the North Carolina legislature would require the names and photos of convicted animal abusers to appear in an online registry for at least two years.
The legislation is called the North Carolina Animal Abuser Registry Act and it was introduced by North Carolina state Sens. Floyd McKissick, a Democrat, and Danny Britt, a Republican.
First-time offenders would be put on the registry “for two years following the date of conviction.” After two years, the individual would be removed from the list.
“If you are a second offender, you have to actually go out there and be convicted in court, then your image would stay up there for up to five years,” McKissick said. “In the event of a second event, you would not be able to own any type of pet.”
Read more here: https://abc30.com/pets-animals/animal-abusers-could-appear-on-registry—-like-sex-offenders-in-north-carolina/5388368/
From: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/in-great-decision-out-of-indiana/
ANOTHER federal district court that has found the registry is PUNISHMENT!
Stevens was spot on in his dissent in Smith – “No matter how often the Court may repeat and manipulate multifactor tests . . . it will never persuade me that the registration and reporting obligations that are imposed on convicted sex offenders and on no one else as a result of their convictions are not part of their punishment.” (Also quoted in this opinion)
Let us hope the state of IN does not appeal and this will be a other case we can use in support. Other than being on the registry for a offenses before we had one here in FL what is more bafflingis how it is ruled ex post facto punishment in other states. The US Constitution governs us all. It seems like things are getting better everywhere but Florida. Hats off to FAC and the legal team for fighting for fighting for us.
IL: WAYSIDE RESIDENTS SUE CITY OF AURORA, CHALLENGE STATE’S RESIDENCY LAWS FOR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERSJuly 21, 2019 The 19 child sex offenders who were told they must leave Wayside Cross Ministries by July 26 have filed a civil federal lawsuit against the city of Aurora, arguing the men should not have to move and challenging the state’s residency laws for registered sex offenders. Read more here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-wayside-sex-offenders-lawsuit-st-0721-20190719-wtuoermhwbdczi35g6is5o5q7u-story.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 03 2019

From: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2019/08/dps-intelligence-chief-who-briefed.html
DPS intelligence chief who briefed Trump on immigrant rapists himself accused, arrested, jailed for sexual assault: He ran the state’s fusion centers gathering intelligence on millions of Texans

This seems self evidently awful, so rather than opine on the subject in prose, here’s the short version of how I feel about this story: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/texas-dps-chief-of-intelligence-and-counterterrorism-fired-accused-of-sexual-assault
High-ranking Texas DPS chief fired, accused of raping female party guestby CBS AustinWednesday, July 31st 2019
John Jones, who was the Chief of the Texas Department of Public Safety Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, has been fired and arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman who was a guest at a party in his home
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety says the chief of their Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division has been fired after being charged with sexual assault.
John Jones was terminated by DPS on Tuesday, the same day he was arrested by investigators from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Rangers and booked in the Travis County Jail on the charge of sexual assault.
According to an affidavit, Travis County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call for a sexual assault at Jones’ home in Leander on July 21st.
The victim, a woman in her 40s who was a friend of his wife, told investigators she had attended a party at Jones’ residence the night before with 10 to 15 other people in attendance, and described Jones as a “pillar of the community” because he had met President Trump.
She told deputies she arrived at the home around 1 p.m. on July 20th and that Jones had been drinking all day to the point of him passing out. She said he woke up in the evening and began drinking again and around 9 p.m. offered to take her for a ride on his ATV.
Court documents state that the woman drove the ATV while Jones sat behind her as they traveled along trails and streets near his home. She said he then instructed her to go off road.
According to deputies, Jones then asked her when she last had sex. She thought the question was odd given Jones’ position in the law enforcement community, but answered the question anyway.
She told investigators Jones then reached around her and aggressively grabbed the handlebars, pushing her forward and demanding he steer the ATV. The victim says they went off road and into a brushy clearing, where deputies say he sexually assaulted her.
CBS Austin has learned that Jones took part in a round table discussion with President Trump at the White House in January on border security, where he specifically mentioned his concern about the number of undocumented immigrants in Texas jails for sexual assault. You can see that video here: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/texas-dps-chief-of-intelligence-and-counterterrorism-fired-accused-of-sexual-assault

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/christian-group-accuses-filthy-whole-foods-supporting-pedophilia/
The reason I posted this is to give a example of what I have been saying on this blog since 2012: prejudice people against LGBTQ folks; automatically assume they are sex offenders. 

Christian group accuses ‘filthy’ Whole Foods of supporting pedophilia

One Million Moms (OMM) — the boycott-happy anti-LGBTQ hate group with only 93,000 social media followers — has launched its latest campaign against Whole Foods for supporting Drag Queen Story Hour, the delightfully queer children’s library program where volunteer performers dress up and read books to kids.

And this time, they’re encouraging violence against everyone involved by basically saying that the program facilitates child rape.

In its usual overwrought and alarmist style, OMM writes:

A retailer that once promoted organics and clean food is now saturated in absolute filth, exploiting America’s children to be “groomed” by drag queens. Whole Foods Market is now sponsoring a Drag Queen Story Hour event to indoctrinate children into transgenderism and homosexuality. Their goal is to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle.

Whole Foods Market was one of the primary sponsors of the Drag Queen Story Hour held in Atlanta, GA…

The disturbing events involve men dressed up as garishly adorned women who read LGBTQ-themed books to young children under the guise of performing a public service. Some drag queens have admitted their goal is to “groom” the next generation.

If you shop at Whole Foods Market, you are also supporting child exploitation…

In none-too-subtle language, OMM is basically implying that gay, trans people and drag performers want to have sex with children. “Grooming” is a noun defined as “the action by a pedophile of preparing a child with the intention of committing a sexual offense.”

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 10 2019

Many police officer’s kill themselves immediately after that are accused of a sex offence. I tried to find some statistic’s on the subject but was unable. I know I have reported this on this blog before and seen stories like this on several occasion. This is a testimony on how in large amounts the media\internet is ruining our country. The police know what they will face as a sex offender and quickly choose death instead; like coward’s and murderer’s. I am sorry for being so coarse; I just hate when people commit suicide. This police officer could have helped allot of people by living his life instead of murdering himself. This is a example of how inhumane and Nazi like our perverted justice system has become concerning sex crimes. This type of unconstitutional behavior, on the part of out justice system; will be the downfall of our country.
From: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-05/sdpd-sergeant-accused-of-soliciting-minor-dead-apparent-suicide
San Diego police sergeant accused of soliciting minor for sex found dead from apparent suicide 
Aug. 5, 2019 |9:14 PM 
SAN DIEGO —  A San Diego police sergeant accused of soliciting a minor for sex was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday afternoon inside his Carmel Valley home after failing to appear in court earlier in the day, police Chief David Nisleit said.

Since a man with that much money is the same as a police officer I think this goes good with the story above. I can not help but feel bad for Jeffrey Epstein. I feel sorry in a way of seeing through all the emotion to all the fact’s and true to life statistics of all life’s good and evil judged by God not man. He without sin throw the first stone kind of way of looking at it all. If you can do to other’s how they would do to you; not condemn with prejudice, huge populations of human’s at a time you are in the true majority, not the internet/media’s fantasy majority. I must do what anyone that would support this blog should do; keep your head up and press on. Press on like you have a big stone around your neck if you have too. Just toe the line and press on. 
Say what you want about the Jewish people. I see nothing in the Bible prophesying their demise. They have a short time during the Great Tribulation. Even the Anti Christ is smart enough to make peace with the Jewish people. They may just increase in power. 
From: https://www.timesofisrael.com/ehud-bark-on-jeffrey-epsteins-death-i-wish-id-never-met-him/

Ehud Bark on Jeffrey Epstein’s death: I wish I’d never met him
Former prime minister had business dealings with the disgraced billionaire and was a frequent visitor to his homes, but denies he ever knew of any his sex trafficking activities 
By TOI staff Today, 9:31 pm |
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, who has been dogged over his ties to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, reacted Saturday to his death, saying he wished he had never met him. 
“On this day, I am thinking of his victims, the price (they paid) and the terrible things he did,” Barak told Channel 13 news.

 “Like many respectable people in the US, in retrospect, I would have preferred never to have made contact with him. But from the moment things became clear, that contact was immediately severed,” said Barak. 

Barak’s ties to Epstein, which go back over 15 years, have become an unexpected hot-button issue in the election campaign in Israel, after Epstein was arrested last month.

Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Fire officials received a call at 6:39 a.m. Saturday that Epstein was in cardiac arrest, and he was pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital.

Epstein, 66, had been denied bail and faced up to 45 years behind bars on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges unsealed last month. He had pleaded not guilty and was awaiting trial on accusations of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.

Barak, who entered a business deal with Epstein in 2015, years after the American financier served time for solicitation, has called long-rumored allegations of sex trafficking by Epstein “abhorrent” and announced that he had officially cut off all business ties with him.

But he has also been linked as a frequent visitor to Epstein’s properties.

Neighbors in a building owned by Epstein’s brother said that Barak was a “frequent presence” in their New York apartment building, The Daily Beast reported Monday.

Residents told the outlet that they knew when the politician was in the building because there were “flashy cars” outside and his security detail in the lobby.

One resident said they saw Barak in the building and recognized him, and another said they were told about his presence by a doorman or another resident. Five other current or former residents said they saw his security detail around the building.

“When he wasn’t in his apartment, [the security guards] would hang out in the lobby as if it was their own living room,” a resident of 301 East 66th St. said. “They would sprawl out, they’d put all their shit on the couches, and sometimes they ate on the table there.”

A resident told the outlet they were in the elevator with Hebrew-speaking security guards and another said she regularly saw a guard posted outside an 11th-floor apartment. A further resident said they saw a security detail in the lobby on at least a dozen occasions.

The report did not clarify how the residents knew that the security detail belonged to Barak.

The building has been tied to the financier’s alleged New York trafficking ring, The Daily Beast reported.

Asked about his stays by The Daily Beast, Barak said: “Despite the fact that there was no wrongdoing on my part, and that there is not even the faintest suspicion of wrongdoing on my part, I’m not going to address these questions because in the current political environment in Israel, the mere fact of my response to such a question is churned up as spin in the political game.

“As a former prime minister I’m accompanied by bodyguards everywhere I go,” he added.

The Daily Mail’s online news site has rejected an ultimatum by Barak to retract a “libelous” article insinuating he socialized with young women at the home of Epstein.

The US-based DailyMail.com said it stood by the story “100 percent,” and denied as “absurd” Barak’s claim that the decision to re-publish the three-year-old photos of him entering the New York mansion of the disgraced billionaire was a bid to help his political rivals ahead of the elections. (The article has not appeared in the main Daily Mail tabloid newspaper in Britain.)

At a campaign launch event for his new party, Barak asserted the report was a result of the “poisoned atmosphere” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fostered over the past two decades.
The tabloid noted in its article that the women photographed also entering Epstein’s home did so “on the same day” as Barak and “within hours.” However, the Mail did not provide a clear timeline of the photos, and it was not clear whether they were taken before Barak entered, during his time there, or after he left.
If he was in the house at the same time as the women, it could contradict Barak’s earlier assertions that he “never met Epstein in the company of women or young girls.”
Barak confirmed it was him in the photos, and has admitted to visiting Epstein’s mansions and private Caribbean island, but insists he never attended parties of a sexual nature there.
Barak has also said that he was looking into dissolving his limited partnership with Epstein after it emerged that the US financier was a major investor in the Reporty startup headed by Barak in 2015, seven years after Epstein served time for solicitation.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 15 2019

Autopsy results add to questions surrounding Epstein’s death  
Thursday August 15, 2019 · 8:47 AM CDT 8:47 AM CDT
The autopsy conducted on the body of pedophile and rapist Jeffrey Epstein revealed he had multiple breaks in his neck. Epstein’s hyoid bone, which is near the Adam’s apple in men, was broken along with other bones. That injury is more common in strangulation homicides than in hanging, forensic experts told The Washington Post, but can occur in hanging suicides as well, particularly in older people. 
Jonathan L. Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, told the Post that in general a broken hyoid in a death requires a more extensive investigation by pathologists. “If, hypothetically, the hyoid bone is broken, that would generally raise questions about strangulation, but it is not definitive and does not exclude suicidal hanging,” he said.
Read more here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/15/1879188/-Autopsy-results-add-to-questions-surrounding-Epstein-s-death

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 20 2019

Another case of the pot calling the kettle black.: “The pot calling the kettle black” a person who is guilty of the very thing of which they accuse another and is thus an example of psychological projection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black

I am not saying that the preacher being a sex offender makes him the same as a LGBTQ person. I have said many times on this blog that I am not like most people who are extremely prejudice of LGBTQ people; that believe all LGBTQ people are sex offenders. This type of conspiracy type demented thinking; is why the constitution does not apply to those unfairly labeled as sex offenders. The wrongly labeled registered sex offender; is a victim of our country, like the Jewish people were during the Nazi’s. This type of treatment of our citizen’s will surely contribute to our demise; just like believing all LGBTQ folks are sex offenders.

No the preacher was a casualty of the old; judge not lest ye be judged adage.: ( Matthew 7:1-3 Judge not, that ye be not judged. ) Don’t forget how God says he will judge them that judge false judgments way worse than is normally judged: Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

When you judge those labeled as registered sex offender’s or LGBTQ people or people of color falsely; that judgement will be so great against you, you may end up a sex offender yourself as Singer found out in the following article: 
From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/anti-lgbtq-church-minister-charged-sexually-exploiting-underage-boy/
Anti-LGBTQ minister charged with sexually exploiting an underage boy Three other teen boys also say the youth minister made advances towards them. 
Sunday, August 18, 2019     
Investigators believe that Singer has been making inappropriate advances toward an unnamed 16-year-old boy.  
Singer allegedly told the boy that the two should spend a weekend alone together. He asked the boy invasive questions about his sexual habits and asked him for naked pictures.  
Police believe that he met the boy at a church event in 2016. Afterwards, he sent the kid sexually charged text messages from October 2016 and August 2017.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 21 2019

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/christian-rock-singer-arrested-allegedly-sexually-assaulting-pre-teen-girls/

Christian rock singer arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting pre-teen girls
The pastor is charged with multiple counts of third degree sexual assault of a child. The band “is always and all for Jesus!!!”
August 19, 2019     
A pastor who is a member of a Christian rock band was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two girls under the age of 14.
Emanuel J. Rodriguez of the group 70xForgiven was set to play a gig at the Wood City Music Festival in Minnesota this past Saturday when he was arrested. Police in Omaha, Nebraska, had a warrant for Rodriguez and they asked police in Minnesota for help since he was going to play there.
The warrant for his arrest was issued in September 2016. Police believe that he was known to the alleged victims.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 29 2019

I had this on my other blog page but it fit’s better here I think:

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/one-biggest-evangelical-preachers-accused-bisexual-swinger-drugs/

If you are a wayward Christian; there is no better way to learn not to do things like this, than to read all the articles I post like this.:

Major charismatic evangelical Todd Bentley has been publicly accused of being “not fit for public ministry” because he has a “perverse sexual addiction” to both men and women. And Bentley, who founded Fresh Fire USA, responded by admitting that many of the accusations are true.

Stephen Powell of Lion of Light Ministries in North Carolina accused his former mentor in a Facebook post last week of a long list of sexual misdeeds, including hitting on interns and assistants, asking for naked pictures from people in his congregation, and having sex outside of marriage. Powell said that he has spent time gathering proof of the accusations, although he did not hire a professional investigator or otherwise seek help.

In the post, Powell said that he had proof of many of the accusations, like screenshots of conversations. One student told Powell that she was asked by Bentley to send him pictures of herself, that he would hug her too long, and that he made inappropriate comments.

A male intern said that Bentley offered him $1000 to perform oral sex on the younger man. “I was like, ‘What the fuck is your freaking problem… are you fucking retarded?” the intern said, according to Powell.

Related: This notoriously homophobic pastor has been caught running a hellish private school

The intern said that Bentley sent him naked pictures of his wife.

Another male intern said that Bentley offered him $500 for a video of him masturbating. Yet another male intern said that Bentley sent him naked pictures and video of him and his wife.

One person allegedly said that Bentley spent 30 minutes in a hotel room with a female assistant. Another person accused the evangelical of smoking pot and then trying to hook up with a male intern.

Others accused Bentley of drinking too much, partying, having porn on his phone, and using crude language.

Powell said that he has been aware for some time of rumors about Bentley, but it wasn’t before this summer that he had anything more than rumors to go public about.

“I believe that Todd was preyed on sexually as a child, and I believe that that same demonic entity uses Todd to prey on others that have come into Todd’s ministry with their guard down because they felt all was safe being in the presence of an anointed man of God,” Powell wrote in the Facebook post.

He also blamed Bentley’s wife Jessa Bentley, whose marriage, Powell said, “began in sexual sin.”

Bentley’s response to the accusations came several days later. In a rambling Facebook video, Bentley said that many of the accusations Powell made were false and that many of the others are in the past and that people around him have already forgiven him.

He said that he has had no sex outside of marriage “connected to this incident” and that he has not had an affair in the past six years.

But he admitted that he sent “sexually suggestive” and “inappropriate” text messages to people. He said that his behavior was “despicable.”

Powell’s accusations also included Christian author Rick Joyner. He said that Joyner, who helped create Fresh Fire USA with Bentley, knew about the accusations for years and did not do enough to stop Bentley.

“I believe that Rick Joyner, along with other Senior leaders who have had oversight over Todd through the years, have failed the body of Christ in this regard,” Powell wrote.

Joyner responded with his own Facebook video, accusing Powell of “witchcraft.”

“When people come to me with pressuring, manipulating, especially threatening if I don’t do something their way, or in their time, I know that’s the devil,” he said. “That’s in Scripture, counterfeit spiritual authority which is called witchcraft. That is not the Holy Spirit. We’ve got to start recognizing what is from the Holy Spirit and what is not.”

Both Joyner and Bentley made it appear that Bentley had done some inappropriate things in the past, in 2013. But Powell said that many of the accusations are more recent.

“They are current, as current as a few months ago, and they show a disturbing ongoing pattern of unrepented sin as well as a cover-up from leadership,” he wrote.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  August 30 2019

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/cop-forced-trans-women-sex-pled-guilty-paying-prostitute/
A cop forced a trans women to have sex with him. He pled guilty to paying a prostitute.He’ll serve no jail time and the charges will be dismissed in six months. He still has his job.Wednesday, August 28, 2019     
Nine months ago, two police officers were accused of forcing transgender women to have sex with them by threatening to take them to jail if the women didn’t comply. Now one of them has pled guilty – to “sexual solicitation” of a prostitute.
Officer Ian G Lucas from the Prince George’s County Police Department and an unnamed officer from the Washington DC police force have been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. The officers allegedly would target transgender prostitutes and threaten to to take them to jail unless they gave the officers oral sex.
One woman went to DC’s FOX station with her story, providing photos and video proof of her accusation. In one, the officer is shown having sex inside of his squad car. Another photo shows a veteran police lieutenant wearing a DC Police polo shirt, naked from the waist down and having sex with one of the women.
 Read more here: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/cop-forced-trans-women-sex-pled-guilty-paying-prostitute/

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  September 4 2019 

From: https://cpa.ds.npr.org/michigan/audio/2019/08/SS_20190829_Aukerman_Sex_Offend_Registry_Update.mp3
MI: ACLU Michigan Attorney Advocates End of Registry; Provides Update on 6th Circuit DecisionAugust 30, 2019
In a recent NPR interview, ACLU Michigan attorney Miriam Aukerman stated she believes that sex offender registries should be abolished.  In support of that belief, Aukerman stated that registries are ineffective and make society less safe. Aukerman criticized both legislators and law enforcement for the current challenges now facing registrants.  Legislators have passed and keep passing new laws because they believe doing so will…
From: https://washingtonstatewire.com/why-a-sex-offender-would-run-for-office-willie-russells-story/
WA: Why a sex offender would run for office: Willie Russell’s storyAugust 20, 2019
[washingtonstatewire.com – 8/20/19] Willie Russell is running for the Snohomish County Council this year. He squeaked through the August primary, and will face Stephanie Wright in November for Council position 3. He is also a Level III sex offender. You can read the narrative from the sheriff’s office database here. I recently spoke with Russell in an extended conversation. I wanted to ask him…
From: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/10th-circuit-rules-special-conditions-allowing-probation-complete-discretion-over-internet-use-is-excessive/
10th Circuit Rules Special Conditions Allowing Probation Complete Discretion over Internet Use is Excessive
August 16, 2019
[floridaactioncommittee.org – 8/16/19] The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in US v. Blair, ruled that a special condition on the Defendant’s Internet use that was “limited to those the defendant requests to use, and which the probation officer authorizes” involved a greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary for deterring criminal activity because it allows the probation office to completely ban the defendant’s…
From: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/congratulations-derek-appellate-court-voids-lauren-books-injunction/
FL: Congratulations Derek!!! Appellate Court Voids Lauren Book’s Injunction
August 14, 2019 
[floridaactioncommittee.org – 8/14/19] The order was issued by the 4th District Court of Appeals today so it’s being posted prior to our adding commentary in an effort to share this as quickly as possible. The court voided Senator Lauren Book’s restraining order against Once Fallen’s Derek Logue. We all knew it was bogus, now the court’s agree! Logue v. Book UPDATE: All the credit…
From: https://verdict.justia.com/2019/08/13/a-critical-non-dershowitz-look-at-statutory-rape-laws
A Critical (Non-Dershowitz) Look at Statutory Rape LawsAugust 13, 2019
[verdict.justia.com – 8/13/19] Last week, Jeffrey Epstein died in jail, apparently a suicide. The prior month, he was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges related to his and other men’s conduct with girls as young as fourteen. Most spectators to the very public humiliation that might have driven him to suicide, judged him very harshly. Epstein, in his mid-60s, had apparently slept with young…
From: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/protecting-children-sexual-abuse/201908/sex-offender-registries
[psychologytoday.com – 8/9/19] Sex offender registries have been in the news lately as media outlets have been questioning why billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor female, was able to largely elude the penalty of being on a sex offender registry by maintaining residences in states that did not require him to register. This then begs the bigger question –…
Sex Offender Registries: Are they keeping our children safe?August 10, 2019
From: https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Without-guidance-Alaska-judges-to-muddle-through-sex-offender-registry-decision-531556171.html
AK: Without guidance, Alaska judges to ‘muddle through’ sex offender registry removal decisionsAugust 10, 2019
[ktuu.com – 8/9/19] ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – Without guidance, Alaska Superior Court judges will have to “muddle their way through” decisions over how a person can apply to be removed from the sex offender registry, says John Skidmore, the director of the criminal division with the Department of Law. In June, the Alaska Supreme Court determined that people on the sex offender registry had a…

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  September 19 2019 

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/09/republican-state-senator-charged-possessing-child-porn-sexual-abuse-minor/

It is so easy for people to sit on their high horses making railing accusations against everything and everyone except for themselves! It is so easy to say thing’s like: all sex offenders are scumbags, or all LGBTQ folks should not have constitutional rights. These many examples like Mike Folmer; are a way to remind us all of how we are judged, twice as much; as those we wrongfully condemn. People who point their finger of ignorance; ruining people and community’s, as a part of their uneducated demented beliefs; do so to shield themselves from the judgement’s they so essentially deserve. These are all example’s; of how that shield can and should, turn into the self destruction, of them that wield it.  
Read and learn:
Republican state senator who blocked LGBTQ rights charged with sexual abuse of a minor 
As a powerful committee chair, he had blocked LGBTQ rights legislation for years. 
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 91 Comments
Pennsylvania Republican state senator Mike Folmer has been arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a minor, possessing child pornography, and criminal use of a communications facility. Police were tipped off by the micro-blogging platform Tumblr after Folmer uploaded an incriminating photo to the site. 
In 2016 Folmer, a powerful committee chair, has blocked passage of LGBTQ rights legislation for years.
Folmer blocked the Pennsylvania Fairness Act in committee, saying he supported LGBTQ rights, but was worried about “religious freedom” implications. “No one should be fired because they are gay,” he said at the time, before saying he didn’t see any urgency to pass the legislation. 
In 2018, Folmer blocked the bill again despite bipartisan support. “Everyone is in agreement that we don’t want to discriminate against LGBT people, but we don’t want to step on the rights of people with religious objections,” Fred Sembach, Folmer’s chief of staff, told the Philly Gay News at the time. 
Folmer, a married father and grandfather, uploaded a pornographic image to Tumblr that was caught by the site’s security measures. The site contacted the authorities who identified the disgraced politician as the person responsible. Other images were found on his phone when he was arrested.
 Folmer told authorities he was having “some personal problems” when he was arrested. He has been removed as the chair of the committee by Republican leadership while Democrats, including Governor Tom Wolf, have called for his immediate resignation from office.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  October 4 2019 

AL: SPLC SUES ALABAMA OFFICIALS FOR OVERLY SEVERE SEX-OFFENDER LAW THAT PUNISHES CHILDREN FOR LIFESeptember 19, 2019
____ ____ met ____ ____ when their mutual friends introduced them at a local skating rink. He was 14 and she was 12.
Over time, the two became a young couple, going out on movie dates, hanging out with friends at each other’s houses, and attending school dances together.
Eventually, the high school sweethearts got married, bought a house, and had three children. They’ve been married now for 20 years.
But this otherwise happy love story has a sad twist: When Herbert was 17 and Candi was 15, her mother – on the advice of her stepfather, who did not approve of the budding relationship – called police and had Herbert arrested for statutory rape.
Under an extremely restrictive Alabama state law that does not recognize the teen romance, Herbert was tried and convicted – as an adult – of second-degree rape because Candi was also a minor.
The arrest led Herbert down a spiral of legal consequences that landed him in prison for over 15 years and forced him to register as a sex offender. 
Full Article: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2019/09/19/splc-sues-alabama-officials-overly-severe-sex-offender-law-punishes-children-life
NE: NEBRASKA SEX OFFENDERS TESTIFY FOR CHANGE IN REGISTRY LAWSeptember 28, 2019 [journalstar.com – 9/27/19]Twenty-eight people who were registered sex offenders, or the wife, mother, father, brother or counselor of sex offenders, lined up to give testimony to the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Friday, asking for changes to the Nebraska registry law.
The Judiciary Committee embarked on a study of the sex offender registry law over the interim to determine if changes are needed and, if so, what they should be.
The registered offenders told the committee about how the registry created life-altering situations in which they couldn’t get jobs, or only the lowest-paying jobs, or were denied housing. Spouses and children were punished along with them, and in some cases their inclusion on the registry led to divorce because of the limitations it placed on their lives.
One man said he had been shot in the back because of his presence on the registry.
“Almost 6,000 Nebraska families live under discrimination and paranoia created by the registry,” said Deborah Whitt.
Families are deeply and negatively affected by the unintended burdens of this law, she said. It is unjust, and does not protect people, but rather creates in communities climates of suspicion, anxiety, hate, bullying and fear.
If offenders have served their sentences, done all the programming and therapy, why continue to discriminate against them, Whitt asked.
Read more: https://journalstar.com/legislature/nebraska-sex-offenders-testify-for-change-in-registry-law/article_ec543e21-61be-5d4c-b72c-51a1284c3d36.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  November 4 2019 

McDonald’s boss Steve Easterbrook fired after dating employee
4 November 2019
McDonald’s has fired its chief executive Steve Easterbrook after he had a relationship with an employee.
The US fast food giant said the relationship was consensual, but Mr Easterbrook had “violated company policy” and shown “poor judgement”. 
In an email to staff, the British businessman acknowledged the relationship and said it was a mistake.
“Given the values of the company, I agree with the board that it is time for me to move on,” he said.
Mr Easterbrook, 52, who is divorced, first worked for McDonald’s in 1993 as a manager in London before working his way up the company.
Read more here: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50283720
25 New Sexual Harassment Complaints Brought Against McDonald’s
May 22, 2019 
McDonald’s Corp. was accused on Tuesday in 25 new lawsuits and regulatory charges of condoning sexual harassment in the workplace and retaliating against employees who speak up.
The cases announced by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the labor group Fight for $15, and the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund cover alleged misconduct at McDonald’s locations in 20 U.S. cities, including groping, indecent exposure, propositions for sex, and lewd comments.
Read more here: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/05/22/527171.htm

IL: Former Sex Offenders can Proceed with Lawsuit Challenging Restrictions on Internet Use
October 5, 2019
A group of former sex offenders may continue with their lawsuit, challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC’s) restrictive policy on internet access for those convicted of sex crimes. A federal district court has ruled that it is premature at this early stage of the litigation to dismiss the lawsuit. Full Article: https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/2019/10/04/former-sex-offenders-can-proceed-with-lawsuit-challenging-restrictions-on-internet-use/

NY: Sex offenders form PAC to try and gain political voice
October 14, 2019
[timesunion.com – 10/14/19] Voting blocs, where people support candidates on specific issues, have long played an outsized role in New York politics – from labor unions that focus on workplace rules, to environmentalists who place clean air and water at the top of the list. But now an unusual bloc is emerging from an unexpected place: the locked sex offenders unit at one of… Read more here: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Sex-offenders-form-PAC-to-try-and-gain-political-14515657.php

WA: Tarra Simmons Looks To Become 1st Former Inmate Elected To Washington Legislature
October 21, 2019
[opb.org – 10/21/19] A Washington attorney and criminal justice reform advocate who previously served time in prison is seeking to become the first formerly incarcerated person elected to the Washington Legislature, at least in modern times. Tarra Simmons, of Bremerton, who in 2017 won a Supreme Court fight to sit for the state bar exam, despite her prior criminal conviction, plans to formally announce her candidacy for… Read more here: https://www.opb.org/news/article/tarra-simmons-washington-legislature-incarceration/

JPMorgan Chase Hired 2,100 People With Criminal Records In 2018 (And Will Hire More)
October 22, 2019
[forbes.com – 10/21/19] Topline: JPMorgan Chase announced an expansion of its efforts to hire people with criminal backgrounds Monday, continuing the trend of big companies “banning the box” and giving people second chances. JPMorgan Chase hired 2,100 people with criminal records in 2018, which equals about 10% of their total hires last year. The bank knows those people have records, because they conduct background… Read more here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/10/21/jpmorgan-chase-hired-2100-people-with-criminal-records-in-2018-and-will-hire-more/#63fa0f2538f2

WI: Nonprofit trying to find homes for those living in ‘Tent City’
October 22, 2019
[wisn.com – 10/22/19] The homeless in Milwaukee’s Tent City have less than two weeks to clear out after the Wisconsin Department of Transportation ordered them out by Oct. 31 to make way for a construction project. A federally funded nonprofit is taking on the mission of finding everyone a home to avoid forcing people out at the end of the month. … ______ is… Read more here: https://www.wisn.com/article/nonprofit-trying-to-find-homes-for-those-living-in-tent-city/29554808

PA: Internet dissemination provision of SORNA II violates the federal prohibition against ex post facto laws
October 23, 2019
Summary from FAC: A Pennsylvania Appeals Court has found that the dissemination of persons who have been convicted of sexual offenses’ information on the internet (Megan’s Law) violates the ex post facto clause of the Constitution for individuals whose offenses pre-date the ordinance. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court had a prior landmark decision  (Commonwealth v. Muniz, 164 A.3d 1189 (Pa.2017)) finding similarly, so this new opinion… Read more here: http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/J-A12038-19oA.pdf?cb=1

KY: Louisville launches a registry for animal abusers
October 24, 2019
[wave3.com – 10/23/19] A new Animal Abuser Registry in Louisville is expected to prevent pets from falling into the hands of people with a history of animal abuse. Approved by Louisville Metro Council and administered by Louisville Metro Animal Services (LMAS), the registry is similar to a sex offender registry. Anyone who lives in the Louisville Metro and is guilty of animal cruelty is.. Read more here: https://www.wave3.com/2019/10/23/louisville-launches-registry-animal-abusers/

LA: Teen beat up a stranger he recognized as a sex offender, now faces hate crime count, NOPD says
October 25, 2019
A 17-year-old boy who realized he was at the same convenience store as a man whose picture had appeared on a mailed sex-offender notice followed the man away from the shop and beat him up, New Orleans police said this week. Now, besides facing a count of misdemeanor battery, Tyrin Calloway stands accused of a hate crime, apparently on the theory that he targeted… Read more here: https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_8b0b2784-f744-11e9-9e16-4370b10664e3.html

Army sex offender argues that prison’s ban on contact with his children violated rights
October 29, 2019
A soldier convicted of a sex crime involving a child will argue in the military’s top court next week that a prison policy preventing him from contact with his own children violated his rights and unduly punished him. Full Article:
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/army-sex-offender-argues-that-prison-s-ban-on-contact-with-his-children-violated-rights-1.605080

NM: Sex offenders suing New Mexico sheriffs, DPS
October 31, 2019
ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – More than a half dozen sex offenders who committed their crimes in other states say they’re being treated unfairly in New Mexico. Now, eight out-of-state sex offenders now living in New Mexico, calling themselves John Does, are suing the Department of Public Safety and various sheriffs to get their fair shot at a hearing. Full Article: https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/sex-offenders-suing-new-mexico-sheriffs-dps/

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  November 6 2019 

From: http://www.adotas.com/2019/11/meanwhile-the-state-police-wont-talk-about-this-8/
Meanwhile, the State Police won’t talk about this, citing litigation  November 5, 2019
A state Court of Appeals panel ruled likewise against his prosecution for breaking guidelines for tier 3 offenders, discovering that “the injury to (Spencer) is not simply the minute criminal prosecution (for possibly breaking the 2006 and 2011 guidelines), however the threat of arrest and prosecution at the next time or destination. in a choice final November involving William Sim Spencer of Thompsonville up against the Benzie County prosecutor in northwest Michigan”
“Easily put, (he) must stay glued to a significant limitation on their freedom in relation to statutory conditions that don’t connect with him, and live underneath the specter of arrest and prosecution for the 15-year offense should he neglect to do this. This is certainly an ongoing damage and it is irreparable,” the court stated.
This past year, on Nov. 20, a lot more than a dozen situations brought within the Michigan Court of Claims, all challenging retroactive application regarding the registry legislation, had been closed, the court choosing when it comes to registrants, noting the Supreme Court’s declining to know a challenge towards the 6th Circuit’s ruling.
And all sorts of of the instances cost cash: within one situation by which Oakland County didn’t also bring a prosecution — the scenario relating to the medical manager — it nevertheless paid funds to her to get rid of the outcome as well as its involvement, agreeing never to prosecute her retroactively.
This has delivered circulars off to local authorities, saying officers could face civil obligation for almost any retroactive application of this rules. Nonetheless it’s perhaps maybe not within its capacity to scrub the registry, or move individuals off it, or purchase police never to arrest individuals, lacking a judge especially telling them to take action or even the Legislature agreeing to rewrite what the law states.
And there’s absolutely nothing saying police can’t still charge individuals they perceive as violators.
In Oakland County, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton stated police nevertheless generate some instances which can be dubious underneath the courts’ rulings, however the county — after reviewing every one carefully — does not prosecute.
“People think we’re in control of the SORA (the Intercourse Offender Registry Act), that we’re in control of the registry. We’re perhaps perhaps not in control of the registry. We are able to simply review the costs us,” Walton said as they’re brought to. “I want their state would turn out and simplify the positioning for the State Police because we don’t understand what it really is. All I am able to let you know is, whenever (fees are) presented to your workplace m.chaturbate, we review each instance separately.”
Do offenders nevertheless pose a danger?
Meanwhile, its definately not clear exactly how effective sex offender registries are in reducing intercourse offenses: within the ACLU instance that led to the 6th Circuit’s choice, specialists testified that while many intercourse offenders pose a substantial risk, many try not to — nor do many commit intercourse offenses once again after their beliefs.
As one specialist, Janet Fay-Dumaine, a psychologist at Michigan’s Center for Forensic Psychiatry, place it if so, “It’s exceptionally contrary to our social assumptions. . Yes, there was a team of sex offenders which can be at high risk of recidivating, but that is a really number that is small of offenders. Many intercourse offenders try not to.”
As instances like those Michigan that is engulfing State and United States Of America Gymnastics involving previous recreations medical practitioner Larry Nassar appear to suggest, intercourse offenses tend to be about possibility, involving perhaps not complete stranger but somebody near the survivor.
In the past, the Justice Department stated that just about 5% of intercourse offenders had been re-arrested for the next intercourse criminal activity within 3 years of the launch — and that the portion went down after that as former offenders got older. In a 2015 evaluation of adult sex offender management, the Justice Department stated in terms of intercourse offender enrollment and notification while the effect on rates of intercourse crimes, the data is “mixed . with several studies showing no noticeable modification.”
Even though research reports have discovered that police views value within the registries with regards to understanding the place of past offenders and information that is sharing other authorities, in a 2016 research posted in Criminal Justice Policy Review, also they raised issues, having a bulk surveyed expressing issues that registries could produce “a false feeling of protection.” Almost three-quarters of these surveyed additionally stated challenges associated with homelessness and transience among offenders possibly brought on by residence limitations like Michigan’s — that are not element of federal law — had been a problem.
“those who have never ever been in the registry, that is whom commits the crimes,” stated Sandy Rozek, communications manager for the nationwide Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL), a business that contends in support of restricting use of intercourse offender information to authorities therefore the period of time a registrant must stick to record, and also other reforms to regulations which have sprung up in current years, thinking they are doing more damage than good. “We’re investing millions watching and monitoring, placing limitations on this massive band of people.”
In line with the Michigan ACLU, state taxpayers spend a lot more than $1 million a to maintain the sex offender registration database year. And presumably so much more — during the state and levels that are local to examine prospective violations also to fight lawsuits more than a concept already determined by federal and state courts.
Stated Miriam Aukerman, senior staff lawyer when it comes to ACLU in Michigan, “their state, despite a definite ruling it is unconstitutional to put on these conditions retroactively, continues to use them retroactively to lots of people.”
Also it renders numerous being unsure of what direction to go.
Carrick, in Montcalm County, stated he has had officers arrive at his house, “just to be sure i am residing here.” The construction subcontractor said he has had to take a quick job close to a school, knowing it will only be for a day or two, hoping he won’t get stopped, knowing he has to work from time to time.
Often he wonders if it is well worth the time and effort.
“we view my p’s and q’s,” he stated. But he included, often, he believes, “I’d instead return back (to jail). I’m sick and tired of dealing utilizing the anxiety.”

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  November 20 2019 

From: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutors-preparing-charges-against-two-guards-epstein-death-sources-say-n1085371
Two jail guards charged in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s death, sources say
The guards face charges tied to falsifying records. The case will have no bearing on the determination that Epstein died by suicide.
Nov. 18, 2019, 8:48 PM CST / Updated Nov. 19, 2019, 12:09 PM CST
Two guards at a federal prison in Manhattan have been indicted in connection with the investigation into accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior law enforcement official said.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  November 21 2019 

From: https://www.news24.com/World/News/prince-andrew-under-pressure-amid-sex-allegations-hong-kong-university-a-ghost-town-watch-the-top-world-news-videos-for-today-20191121
Prince Andrew under pressure amid sex allegations | Hong Kong university a ghost town: WATCH the top world news videos for today
2019-11-21 07:01
Prince Andrew to step back from public duties
Prince Andrew will step back from public duties after his interview about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sparked a major backlash.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  November 24 2019 

From: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/11/24/rape-murder-and-a-positive-dna-test-that-the-cops-sat-on-for-weeks/
Nothing we as a community can do or say will ever bring back Molly Jane Matheson, 22, or Megan Leigh Getrum, 36, the two vibrant and much-loved Dallas-Fort Worth-area women police say Reginald Kimbro brutally raped and murdered just four days apart in April 2017.
And nothing will ever change the fact that more than 40 days before Matheson and Getrum were raped, strangled and murdered, the Texas Department of Public Safety had officially notified the Allen Police Department that Kimbro’s DNA was found in a sexual assault forensic exam — also called a “rape kit” — taken in January 2014 by a local woman who survived a similar rape, strangulation and attempted murder after attending a party at which Kimbro was present.
In other words, nothing will ever change the fact that the Allen Police Department failed to arrest Kimbro for well over a month after the authorities there knew that DNA found on the January 2014 rape victim’s body was Kimbro’s, who was, from the onset of the case, the primary suspect.
In fact, as WFAA-TV (Channel 8) uncovered in a Nov. 15 investigative report, “One-hundred-and-five days would elapse between the time that the DNA results came back in the Allen rape case and when an Allen police detective obtained a warrant for Kimbro, who by that time was being held in the Tarrant County jail in the murders of Matheson and Getrum.” That, clearly, is inexcusable.
With Kimbro’s trial for capital murder in Tarrant County scheduled to begin soon, we reached out to Allen police this past week to ask why it took years for DPS to process the 2014 rape kit and report Kimbro’s DNA match to them, as well as why it took over 100 days to obtain a warrant for Kimbro’s arrest. They responded to our inquiry by saying they’ve been instructed by both the Tarrant County district attorney and the Collin County district attorney not to comment on any case involving Kimbro until both capital murder trials have ended.
That is perhaps understandable from a legal standpoint, given what appears to be at the very least undue delays and the possible mishandling of the 2014 rape kit and its DNA results linking Kimbro to a brutal sexual assault and attempted murder three years before Molly Jane Matheson and Megan Leigh Getrum were similarly raped and murdered. But from a moral standpoint, and from the standpoint of Matheson’s and Gertrum’s friends and family, it is, again, inexcusable.
Sadly, as Amy Jones, CEO of the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center, told us this past week, it’s also far too common. “Very often when survivors do have the forensic exam — the ‘rape kit’ — it takes a very, very long time for them to hear anything back, and often they never hear anything.”
But, she continued, due to legislation signed into law in June 2017, just two months after the murders of Matheson and Getrum, “there are now going to be tracking numbers attached to every single rape kit that is performed in the state of Texas, so the survivors will actually know where these kits are in the process.”
Another piece of legislation, she said, will help the state come up with the funding to chip away at the backlog of rape kits that have failed to be processed.
Jones was referring to H.B. 281, which mandates the tracking of rape kits throughout the state and matches DNA results with national databases; and H.B. 1729, which gives Texans renewing their driver’s license the opportunity to donate $1 to the Department of Public Safety to help fund the costs of the equipment, training and personnel to tackle the cost of eliminating the rape-kit backlog.
“Making sure that there are enough labs available to test this information, making sure there are enough folks who are qualified to process the evidence, is absolutely crucial,” Jones told us, “because there are so many bottlenecks all along the way.”
How bad is the rape-kit backlog problem? According to the Joyful Heart Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to healing and empowering survivors of sexual assault, Texas was the first state to enact all six pillars of reform recommended to address the rape-kit backlog problem. Yet there are still more than 2,000 rape kits awaiting testing in Texas alone.
As Ilse Knecht, Joyful Heart’s director of policy and advocacy, said when H.B. 281 and H.B. 1729 were enacted, “Only after law enforcement agencies track and account for the untested kits in their custody can communities begin to take steps to test those kits, hold offenders accountable and bring justice to sexual assault survivors whose cases have languished, often for years — or even decades.”
Tragically, these reforms were enacted too late to save the lives of Molly Jane Matheson or Megan Leigh Getrum. But that hasn’t stopped advocates such as Jones, Knecht, or Molly Jane Matheson’s mother, Tracy Matheson, from pushing for still more reforms to prevent future rapes and murders by repeat offenders.
This spring, H.B. 3106 — better known as “Molly Jane’s Law”—mandating that all state law-enforcement officials enter information into an FBI database for every sex offense they investigate — was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.
“This will enable law enforcement access to information on potential serial rapists and sexual offenders in the future,” Abbott said at the signing ceremony. “No more should we ever again have a Molly Jane Matheson.”
We can only hope — and yes, pray — that these reforms do just that. And that the families of both Molly Jane Matheson and Megan Leigh Getrum find, if not peace, then some degree of comfort in the fact that their beloved did not die in vain.
We also encourage all readers to visit www.projectbeloved.org , which is part of the Matheson family’s Molly Jane Mission, which “strives to educate, advocate and collaborate to change the conversation about sexual assault and empower survivors to find their voices.”

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  November 28 2019 

I love posting these stories. If you think it is acceptable to stand up for human rights but are against everyone’s rights, even African Americans or LGBTQ folks; than you are a in a dangerous place. Stories like this are proof. People can learn allot from stories like this.

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/11/minister-railed-gay-people-caught-sexually-harassing-young-men/

Minister who railed against gay people caught sexually harassing young men
“This can’t be happening. Eric is known as the guy who hates gay people. We’re the church that built our church based on anti-homosexuality.”
Wednesday, November 27, 2019    
An anti-gay Anglican minister in Florida resigned last year after admitting to sexual harassment and “undesired physical displays of affection.” Now an investigative report found that many of his victims were young men and aspiring priests he had power over.
Father Eric Dudley – married, the father of three – is the founder of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Tallahassee and was the leader of that church until he resigned in disgrace.
Related: Imprisoned, anti-LGBTQ Oklahoma senator has to pay $125,000 to the teen male prostitute he hired
Dudley was a pastor at a different Episcopal church for ten years. In 2005, he left that church to found his own, citing the Episcopalians’ increasingly pro-LGBTQ stances, and his new church – St. Peter’s – was associated with the Anglican Church of Uganda.
The independent group Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE) investigated the circumstances that led to Dudley resigning, and their report, released yesterday, says that Dudley would lavish attention on “attractive young men.” He would give them gifts and jobs at the church, even while he raged against homosexuality and marriage equality from the pulpit.
GRACE spoke with 51 alleged victims and witnesses and reviewed text messages and emails, concluding that it’s “significant that the reported victims’ accounts often corroborated each other, even though they were not aware of other reported victims at the time.”
One of Dudley’s alleged victims said that he went on an out-of-state trip with Dudley, and he booked a hotel room with a single large bed and blamed it on a front desk error.
The victim woke up to Dudley rubbing his back and chest.
“Part of me is going like, ‘This is super strange,’” the victim told investigators. “And another part is going, ‘This can’t be happening.’”
“Eric is known as the guy who hates gay people. We’re the church that built our church based on anti-homosexuality. He kind of has a caricature out there, so no way this guy is coming on to me. I’m misreading him.”
According to GRACE’s report, Dudley used the “oops, they accidentally gave us only one bed” trick multiple times with young men he traveled with for work. One victim said that Dudley went to bed in only his underwear and then reached under the victim’s clothes to grope him.
Another victim said that Dudley lay on top of him and became physically aroused.
A victim identified as John Doe in the report said that he met Dudley in Tallahassee when he was in seminary. Dudley gave Doe a job, took him on a $700 shopping spree, said that he wanted Doe to succeed him one day, and the two became friends.
After Dudley booked a hotel room with only one bed for the two of them and groped Doe, he made several passes at Doe when they were alone in his house.
Doe showed Dudley his new bed and Dudley asked him to lie down in it. Dudley got on top of him and started kissing him, taking off off both of their shirts. Dudley got aroused.
That’s when Doe pushed him off and said he didn’t want to have sex. Dudley got mad and stormed out.
The next day, Dudley had an excuse. “I don’t want to run away to California,” he allegedly said, implying that he believed that gay men have to live in California. “I’m not gay. I’m not into that. I just, I need your, I’m an affectionate person. I need to be touched by you.”
Another victim said that he got “incessant” text messaged from Dudley. If he didn’t answer immediately, he said that Dudley would show up at his house.
“It was so bizarre,” he said. “I think he thought we were in some kind of romantic, intimate relationship or something.”
That victim was so weirded out that he emailed an associate priest at the church and CC’d Dudley. Dudley tried to call the victim, and when he didn’t pick up Dudley showed up at his house, banging on the door and shouting “I know you’re in there!”
He said that he was worried that Dudley would break the glass on the door so he opened it, and Dudley was crying and said that the victim shouldn’t report him “after everything I’ve done for you.”
“It’s over,” Dudley said. “You screwed up. How dare you contact my employee.” The victim said he apologized.
The victims weren’t the only ones who saw this side of Dudley. One witness told GRACE that she noticed “a pattern of young males that seemed to have captured our rector’s eye.”
Another witness said that Dudley really liked “good-looking, thin, and fit young men,” according to the Tallahassee Democrat, describing the men as the kind “that women notice when they walk into a room.”
GRACE said that Dudley went far beyond giving attention to the young men, though.
“Once Father Eric developed enough trust in his relationships with the reported victims, he would use abusive tactics to further manipulate them,” the report said. “Again, Father Eric followed a pattern, exploiting his reported victims emotionally, financially, spiritually and physically.”
The report said that he also had anger issues and would bang on the desk and yell when criticized. His outbursts weren’t limited to his victims or to reports of sexual misconduct, like when he made workers uncomfortable walking around shirtless at a church retreat.
Dudley resigned last year and was given one year’s severance pay. A letter from a bishop at the time said that he was stepping down due to “inappropriate treatment of others, abuse of alcohol, and anger issues,” but it did not say that the victims were men.
This detail is significant because Dudley’s homophobia ran deep. He left the Episcopal Church in 2005 to start another church because Gene Robinson, a gay man, became bishop in New Hampshire. Afterwards, Dudley continued to speak against LGBTQ rights.
In 2015, he wrote an editorial criticizing the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which expanded marriage equality to all 50 states. He said the decision was a “tragic event.”
“We believe [marriage equality] stands in direct contradiction of God’s creative purposes,” he wrote. “We do not believe that we can be faithful to God’s word and at the same time support an ethic that articulates not only marriage within the same gender, but an affirmation of bisexual expression, and the blurring of clear lines in gender identity.”
In a sermon he was more direct, calling the decision “shocking, sad [and] infuriating” and said it was the result of a “well-oiled political scheme involving the media and Hollywood” that caused people to accept bisexuality, polyamory, and identification as “any gender.”

New Blogs Part 12 Updated  November 29 2019 

My wife reads me the top news stories that are retentive almost everyday. She read me this sickening sex offence story; yesterday.: 
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/us/chicago-college-student-killed-catcall.html
A College Student Was Killed by a Man Whose Catcalls She Tried to Ignore, Prosecutors Say
 Ruth George’s attacker grew angry, prosecutors said, when she ignored his remarks. “She was just trying to go home,” a fellow college student said.
Nov. 27, 2019
CHICAGO — The young college student was walking to her car. The man catcalled her. She ignored him. What happened next could have been lifted from any woman’s most vivid nightmare: The man, Donald Thurman, followed the 19-year-old student, Ruth George, as she entered a parking garage, prosecutors said on Tuesday. He followed her from behind and put her in a chokehold, they said. “The defendant was angry that he was being ignored,” prosecutors said in a statement. Ms. George’s family became worried when she did not return home on Friday night, and on Saturday morning, the police tracked the pings of her cellphone to the parking garage, where her body was discovered, face down in the back seat of her car. Mr. Thurman, 26, was identified by the police from surveillance video at the scene, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. They arrested him when he was spotted again in the area on Sunday; he was charged with first-degree murder and criminal sexual assault. Mr. Thurman’s lawyer, a public defender, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Mr. Thurman had previously been convicted of armed robbery and was released on parole in 2018 after serving two years for the crime.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/us/chicago-college-student-killed-catcall.html
I think our perverted, unconstitutional, Nazi like, justice system, publicly torturing with cruel and unusual punishment, so called registered sex offenders; causes this kind of crime to take place. If this barbaric, inhuman, grotesque, shameful, treatment of our fellow citizens, is meant to deter sex offences, let it be to no surprise if it has a opposite effect; if not cause the ruin of us all. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 4 2019 

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/teaching-assistant-sexually-abused-student-turn-straight/

Teaching assistant accused of sexually abusing student to turn him straight
The 51-year-old woman met the student at school – and they attended the same church.Tuesday, December 3, 2019 
A teaching assistant who is accused of having sex with a student on four occasions may have been trying to turn him straight, according to statements she made to police and the victim.
Tedria Fluellen, 51, was a teaching assistant in Houston, and she met the victim while working at Worthing High School. The victim said that they both attended the same church as well.
The victim said that he knew Fluellen for a few years and that he would sometimes help her out with tasks at her home or moving things out of her storage unit.
Court documents state that the victim was 16 in 2018 when the sexual abuse started. Fluellen allegedly told the victim: “You don’t have to be gay,” and then proceeded to sexually abuse him.
The victim said that he was at her home and she performed oral sex on him.
After the first time, she gave the victim a cell phone and started sending him sexually explicit text messages. She called him “my secret lover.”
Investigators believe that she molested him three more times: once at his house, once in her car before school started, and once at her storage unit.
The victim lived with his grandmother, and when she was out of town once Fluellen came to visit. She allegedly gave the victim’s cousin a drink that contained alcohol and an unknown medication and said, “It’s going to knock him out.”
The grandmother eventually suspected something was wrong and she checked the victim’s phone, finding the graphic text messages. She called 911 and reported the abuse to Houston Independent School District police.
Fluellen admitted to police that she had had oral sex with the victim, but she said that they never had vaginal or anal sex. She said that his life was “not the lifestyle” for him and that another student was trying to “turn him out,” slang for having sex with another man.
She said that the text messages were intended for her boyfriend, not for the victim. She gave police consent to search her phone, where they found the sexually explicit messages that she had sent the victim.
Fluellen was arrested and is being held on a $40,000 bond. She is being charged with sexual assault of a child under 17.
The Houston Independent School District said in a statement that they “are cooperating fully with the Harris County District Attorney’s office.”

“Keeping our students and campuses safe so that productive instruction can take place remains the district’s top priority,” the statement said.

NJ: NEW JERSEY COULD SOON COMPENSATE THOSE WRONGFULLY PUT ON SEX OFFENDER LIST
November 8, 2019
[nj.com – 11/7/19]
Dion Harrell spent two decades on New Jersey’s sex offender registry.

He had trouble finding a job. He couldn’t be alone with his kids. For a time, he was homeless.

But when a DNA test finally proved his innocence, the state had nothing to offer him for those years.

“I was surprised I wouldn’t get compensation,” Harrell said at a hearing in Trenton Thursday.

If you can prove that you were wrongfully imprisoned in New Jersey, you can receive up to $50,000 for every year spent behind bars. But you’re out of luck if you were forced into treatment or supervision for a sex crime you didn’t commit, or if you falsely pled guilty to any crime.

State lawmakers could change that. A bipartisan bill (A1037) would allow people to receive $25,000 for every year spent under the state’s supervision, which includes sex offender lists and parole.

Read more: https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/11/new-jersey-could-soon-compensate-those-wrongfully-put-on-sex-offender-list.html

LA: MAN REMOVED ‘SEX OFFENDER’ FROM HIS ID, AND A JUDGE DISMISSED THE CASE. WHY?
November 8, 2019
When a Lafayette Parish man removed the words “sex offender” from his state-issued ID, law enforcement officers said Louisiana law had been broken. A local judge saw things differently. Full Article: https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/courts/article_1d1f2698-0177-11ea-8cee-fff345768dca.html

VA: CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER ELECTED TO VIRGINIA SENATE
November 10, 2019
[theohiostar.com – 11/11/19]
One of the many Democrats elected to the Virginia Senate on Tuesday is a convicted sex offender and disbarred lawyer, according to Breitbart.

Joe Morrissey was jailed and lost his license to practice law after being convicted of having sex with his 17-year-old secretary. He pled guilty to a misdemeanor in the ensuing court case and served for only three months in a “work-release term.” He was also forced to resign from his seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, but then ran again in the special election to retake the seat and was re-elected.

Morrissey then went on to marry the girl in 2016, and she gave birth to their first child at 19. They now have three children together. Morrissey is 62.

Read more: https://theohiostar.com/2019/11/11/convicted-sex-offender-elected-to-virginia-senate/

SEX CRIMES BY COPS AN OUTGROWTH OF THEIR ‘POWER AND COERCIVE AUTHORITY,’ EXPERT SAYS
November 12, 2019
[ocregister.com – 11/12/19]
LAPD officers who took advantage of their power imbalance to commit sexual assaults fit national trends, says prominent criminologist.

LAPD officers Luis Valenzuela and James C. Nichols sexually assaulted a woman at this McDonald’s parking lot, located at 405 N Alvarado St. at W. Temple St. in Los Angeles. They were on duty using a black Jetta. Photographed on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

By Olga Grigoryants | ogrigoryants@scng.com and Sarah Favot | Los Angeles Daily News
PUBLISHED: November 12, 2019 at 10:03 am | UPDATED: November 12, 2019 at 10:03 am

Criminologist Philip Stinson has spent more than a decade studying bad cops and oversees a national database that often explains exactly how they came to violate their sworn duty.

Often, Stinson says, the power imbalance between a police officer and the civilians they encounter leads some astray.

Police officers regularly come in contact with vulnerable people who are “subject to the power and coercive authority granted to police,” said the criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who is a nationally recognized expert on police behavior and misconduct.

Prominent among such criminal activity are sex-related crimes, he says.

“There’s a lot of power and control that comes with the gun and the badge in terms of being able to coerce people, specifically women and girls,” said Stinson, himself a former police officer in Virginia and New Hampshire.

Additionally, circumstances related to police work make it conducive to committing sex-related crimes.

Many police officers, Stinson says, are free from direct supervision while they are on patrol and sometimes work alone. Also, many police interactions occur late at night outside public view.

Read more: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/11/12/sex-crimes-by-cops-an-outgrowth-of-their-power-and-coercive-authority-expert-says/

From: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/11/12/sex-crimes-by-cops-an-outgrowth-of-their-power-and-coercive-authority-expert-says/

Sex crimes by cops an outgrowth of their ‘power and coercive authority,’ expert says:

Officers who took advantage of their power imbalance to commit sexual assaults fit national trends, says prominent criminologist

LAPD officers Luis Valenzuela and James C. Nichols sexually assaulted a woman at this McDonald’s parking lot, located at 405 N Alvarado St. at W. Temple St. in Los Angeles. They were on duty using a black Jetta. Photographed on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

By OLGA GRIGORYANTS | ogrigoryants@scng.com and SARAH FAVOT | Los Angeles Daily News

PUBLISHED: November 12, 2019 at 10:03 am | UPDATED: November 12, 2019 at 10:03 am
Criminologist Philip Stinson has spent more than a decade studying bad cops and oversees a national database that often explains exactly how they came to violate their sworn duty.

Often, Stinson says, the power imbalance between a police officer and the civilians they encounter leads some astray.

Police officers regularly come in contact with vulnerable people who are “subject to the power and coercive authority granted to police,” said the criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who is a nationally recognized expert on police behavior and misconduct.

Prominent among such criminal activity are sex-related crimes, he says.

“There’s a lot of power and control that comes with the gun and the badge in terms of being able to coerce people, specifically women and girls,” said Stinson, himself a former police officer in Virginia and New Hampshire.

Additionally, circumstances related to police work make it conducive to committing sex-related crimes.

Many police officers, Stinson says, are free from direct supervision while they are on patrol and sometimes work alone. Also, many police interactions occur late at night outside public view.

Los Angeles is typical of statewide trends for officers convicted of crimes.

New data obtained by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and analyzed over six months in partnership with the Southern California News Group and other news outlets across the state, reveals that 21 Los Angeles police officers were convicted of crimes committed from 2007 to 2017.

About half of those convictions were for felony sex crimes, domestic violence or other assaults, according to an analysis of the data. Many of them were crimes of opportunity, in which the officers took advantage of their power over vulnerable victims.

Officer ‘groomed’ 15-year-old cadet
One such sexual abuse case that grabbed headlines in 2017 involved an officer in South Los Angeles who was a supervisor of the LAPD cadet program.

For several months, Officer Robert Cain was gaining the trust of a teenager in the program, sending her gifts, and letting her drive his car and sit at his desk, according to a civil lawsuit filed against the city in 2018.

The 15-year-old girl, who was not identified in the suit, was enrolled in the cadet program at the 77th Division from January to June 2017, according to court documents. Cain, a 10-year veteran of the department who was 31 at the time, was a supervisor and mentor of the girl.

On June 14, 2017, Cain invited her to Six Flags Magic Mountain as a reward for participation in the program. There, he sexually assaulted her in the parking lot, according to the girl’s lawsuit.

Attorney Luis Carrillo, who represented the victim, said Cain was gaining the victim’s trust for months before he assaulted her.

“Grooming takes different forms, such as being nice, letting her sit at the desk, bringing her to his car,” Carrillo said. “Things like that break barriers for the child who is 15 or 16 years old.”

Cain was assigned to “supervise, train and advise” the victim. Instead, he “used his position to groom and sexually molest and sexually abuse” her, the lawsuit claims.

Details of the assault were discovered after the LAPD began investigating the theft of police cruisers, ballistic vests and other equipment from the 77th Street Division. The girl was one of seven cadets arrested in connection with the thefts. During the probe, police detectives discovered text messages between the girl and Cain revealing the details of their unlawful sexual contact.

Then-LAPD Chief Charlie Beck personally arrested Cain in 2017. The officer was later charged with oral copulation of a person under 16 and unlawful sexual intercourse.

The victim’s lawsuit said the department and city “failed to take reasonable steps and implement reasonable safeguards to avoid and/or prevent the unlawful sexual conduct” by Cain.

His attorney did not return multiple requests for comment.

In the days following Cain’s arrest, investigators seized more than 100 firearms, including assault rifles and inert grenades, when they searched his home in Rancho Cucamonga, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Cain resigned from the Police Department following his arrest. In August 2018, he entered a no contest plea to two felony sexual abuse charges in exchange for a two-year prison sentence. The judge also ordered him to register as a sex offender and stay away from the victim for 10 years.

Lewd act with a 5-year-old
Another LAPD officer, Miguel Angel Schiappapietra Jr., also was sentenced to prison for a disturbing case involving the child of a neighbor in Castaic.

Schiappapietra had developed a friendship with his new neighbor after moving to the community in the far reaches of northern L.A. County. Both were fathers of young children.

But a month after they met, Schiappapietra invited his neighbor’s daughters — 5 and 8 years old — from their yard into his bedroom and exposed himself to them. Then Schiappapietra asked the 5-year-old to touch him. And she did as the 8-year-old left the room.

Schiappapietra, a six-year veteran of the LAPD, was charged in 2013 with felony lewd act upon a child and attempted lewd act upon a child.

“It will be the responsibility of the prosecution to overcome the overwhelming evidence of Mr. Schiappapietra’s strong community and family ties, lack of any criminal history, and an overall history of success and superior citizenship,” Schiappapietra’s attorney, David Diamond, wrote in a motion to reduce the officer’s $200,000 bail at the time.

However, Schiappapietra resigned from the LAPD, eventually pleaded no contest to the charges and was sentenced to three years in state prison. He also must register as a sex offender.

Officers Luis Valenzuela and James C. Nichols entered the pleas to counts of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation; they were sentenced to 25 years in prison https://t.co/a1h6W0qW09

— KTLA (@KTLA) February 26, 2018

Narcotics officers prey on informants
The LAPD case that most illustrates Stinson’s warnings involved two undercover narcotics officers who preyed on informants who were abusing drugs.

Officers Luis Valenzuela and James C. Nichols were arrested in February 2016 and charged with more than a dozen felony counts for sexually assaulting four women under color of authority during a period from 2008 to 2011.

Valenzuela and Nichols pleaded no contest to charges of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation. Both men were handed 25-year state prison terms and ordered to register as sex offenders.

One of the victims, identified in court proceedings as Jane Doe No. 1, was picked up by the officers in the Echo Park area and driven to a McDonald’s parking lot near Temple and Alvarado streets in December 2008.

Valenzuela stepped out of the car and Nichols stayed behind with the woman, ordering her to perform oral sex.

According to a preliminary hearing transcript, the woman — who was in her 20s and had served as an informant for the officers — said she followed the Nichols’ orders because she was “scared” and felt she “would get in trouble” or be arrested if she didn’t cooperate.

After Valenzuela returned to the car, the officers drove the woman to her home and gave her $40.

County prosecutors said in court that the two officers threatened their victims, saying they would be sent to jail if they didn’t have sex with them.

Attorneys who represented the two officers in court did not return multiple requests for comment.

Dennis Chang, an attorney who represented two of the victims, said the power the two officers had over the women was “enormous.”

“They would say, ‘You haven’t given us enough,’ ” Chang said. “ ‘I need more arrests. I need more sex. I need more blowjobs. You need to do this and you need to do that. If you don’t, you’re going back to jail.’ ”

On one occasion, the officers threatened a victim that they would spread the word she was a “snitch” if she told anybody about the sexual assaults, according to a civil lawsuit filed in 2016.

Stinson points out that police officers who commit crimes obviously is not the norm in law enforcement. But there are officers who commit sexual misconduct and believe they can get away with it, he said.

“Because they can. Because they don’t think they’ll get caught. Law enforcement is generally exempt from law enforcement. Police officers don’t typically like to arrest other police officers.”

Click here to read all of the articles in this series.: https://www.ocregister.com/tag/criminal-cops/

TX: ‘WEPT LIKE BABIES THAT DAY’: MAN RECALLS FAMILY’S REACTION AFTER CHILD SEX ABUSE CONVICTION OVERTURNED
November 18, 2019
[kvue.com – 11/15/19]
GEORGETOWN, Texas — For more than 20 years, Troy Mansfield was branded a “registered sex offender,” a shameful asterisk by his name that followed him everywhere.

“I took my stepdad’s name and I wanted it to be a good name,” Mansfield said. “And I felt like somehow or another it got trashed by me, and I didn’t mean for it to.”

The father of two sons struggled to support his family from a cleaning business, purposely in his wife’s name, Amy Mansfield.

“We lived between $16,000 and $19,000 a year, for a family of four – so very tight and very hard – because I’m trying to make a living but everywhere we go we get the door slammed on it because of this,” Troy Mansfield said.

One of his worst days came when he was kicked out of his church.

“They came in that Sunday they said, ‘We want y’all to get out. You haven’t done anything wrong, we don’t have a problem with you but public opinion is killing us in this church and you’ve got to leave,’” he said.

But Williamson County prosecutors and a judge now agree Troy Mansfield should have never been a registered sex offender or convicted of a crime.

Read  more: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/investigations/defenders/williamson-county-registered-sex-offender-innocent-troy-mansfield-michael-morton-ken-anderson-district-attorney/269-bc79d30e-0d88-4548-a7b1-962a01b9540a

This is a great example of why I am against the death penalty. The life in prison is a much harsher sentence than the death penalty. I have been saying this for years. I have been actively fighting against the death penalty for over 20 years. EXODUS 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill.” 

FL: INMATE GETS WISH, SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THIRD FLORIDA MURDER
November 19, 2019
[newsherald.com – 11/18/19]
Rocky Ali Beamon, a three-time killer who publicly professed his hatred for sex offenders, had his wish granted Friday when he was sentenced to death for the 2017 murder of 27-year-old Nicholas Anderson.

Beamon had been previously sentenced to die on Jan. 28 for killing a fellow inmate in 2012 at Apalachee Correctional Institution in Jackson County. He had pleaded guilty to the crime and waived his right to trial.

In May of 2018, Beamon wrote a letter to 14th District Judicial Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson in which he professed that killing sex offenders “was the best feeling I’ve had in a long time.”

He pledged to continue targeting victims if he was not sentenced to death.

“I’ll do my best to eliminate every single one until one of three things happens: (1) someone kills me, (2) I run out of people to kill, or (3) they put me where I can kill no more, death row,” the letter said.

He told Judge Patterson “if you don’t send me to death row, I vow to dedicate my next (killing) to you.”

Read more: https://all4consolaws.org/2019/11/fl-inmate-gets-wish-sentenced-to-death-for-third-florida-murder/

NJ: REGISTERED FOREVER: NJ OFFENDERS FIGHT FOR REPRIEVE
November 19, 2019
[courthousenews.com – 11/18/19]
TRENTON, N.J. (CN) — A lawyer for New Jersey urged the state Supreme Court on Monday for a strict reading of a law that lets registered sex offenders off the registry so long as they keep a clean record for 15 years. Read more here: https://www.courthousenews.com/registered-forever-nj-offenders-fight-for-reprieve/

FL: JUDGE RULES PINELLAS DETECTIVE, PROSECUTORS LIED IN CHILD PORN CASE. DEFENDANT COULD GO FREE
November 21, 2019
[tampabay.com – 11/21/19]
A 63-year-old man facing charges of lewd and lascivious molestation and possession of child pornography could go free after a judge found that Pinellas sheriff’s detectives and Pinellas-Pasco prosecutors lied to obtain a search warrant in the case.

The Tampa Bay Times obtained a Nov. 1 order written by Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge William Burgess III in which he found law enforcement officials engaged in a “ruse” to obtain a search warrant for one crime that they used to obtain evidence to prosecute other crimes.

“Had it not contained false statements and not omitted certain material facts, no reasonably prudent judge or magistrate would have signed the warrant,” the judge wrote.

Instead, the judge concluded “the police and prosecution knowingly and intentionally … made false statements.”

“The likely effect of this order is that all charges against the Defendant will have to be dismissed.”

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2019/11/21/judge-rules-pinellas-detective-prosecutors-lied-in-child-porn-case-defendant-could-go-free/

IL: ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR SEX OFFENDERS
November 21, 2019
Illinois’ highest court ruled Thursday that it is unconstitutional to ban convicted sex offenders from social media sites.

Conrad Allen Morger was convicted of sexually abusing a minor and sentenced to four years of probation by a court in McLean County. That came with a binding condition he not use specific internet sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

During oral arguments, held in September in Godfrey, Morger’s representative said the ban is a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment fundamental right to freedom of speech. Full Article: https://chicagocrusader.com/illinois-supreme-court-strikes-down-social-media-ban-for-sex-offenders/

Decision: https://courts.illinois.gov/Opinions/SupremeCourt/2019/123643.pdf

MD: THE ABSURDITY OF CHARGING 10-YEAR-OLDS AS SEX OFFENDERS
November 25, 2019 ·8 Comments
A ten-year boy has just been charged as a sex offender as a result of a schoolyard game of tag that got out of control. As reported by the local CBS news affiliate: “the fourth-grade students were playing a game of tag that escalated when a boy began making inappropriate comments and movements toward the girls. One of the boys also wrapped his arms around one of the girls.” Full Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2019/11/25/the-absurdity-of-charging-10-year-olds-as-sex-offenders/#5a52ef0b140e

Related

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/11/22/10-year-old-boy-charged-sex-offense-marbury-maryland-school/

SUPREME COURT WON’T WEIGH CURBING U.S. AGENCY POWERS
November 26, 2019
[bloomberglaw.com – 11/25/19]
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Nov. 25 to once again consider whether Congress is disregarding a long-held legal doctrine and giving too much power to federal agencies.

Last term a short-handed Supreme Court refused to reinvigorate the “non-delegation doctrine,” which prohibits lawmakers from effectively passing off their legislative authority to another branch of government. The doctrine was used to upend New Deal legislation in the 1930s, but has been dormant since.

Conservatives and libertarians eager to dismantle the so-called administrative state are eager for the court to find that Congress has violated separation of powers and to curb executive authority.

But the justices refused to take up Ronald Paul’s and Arnold Caldwell’s appeals, who each claim that Congress violated the doctrine when it delegated to the attorney general the decision of whether sex offender registry laws should apply retroactively to those who were convicted of sex crimes before the reporting requirements were enacted.

Read more: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-wont-weigh-curbing-u-s-agency-powers

IL: DOCUMENTED HARASSMENT OF A REGISTRANT BY A POLICE OFFICER

November 30, 2019
[uscourts.gov – 11/26/19 – 7th Circuit]
The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that state actors have, at a minimum, a rational basis for treating similarly situated people differently. Rex _____ alleges that Officer Tizoc Landeros prevented him from updating his Illinois sexual offender registration and otherwise used his official position to harass Frederickson purely out of personal dislike. Without an updated registration, Frederickson was unable to move from Joliet, Illinois, to nearby Bolingbrook.

The district court found that Frederickson had put forth enough evidence to allow a jury to find that Landeros had singled Frederickson out for unfavorable treatment, and that in so doing Landeros was motivated solely by personal animus and thus lacked a rational basis for his actions.

PDF of original uscourts.gov file Frederickson v Landeros: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Frederickson-v-Landeros.pdf

uscourts.gov case posted: http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2019/D11-26/C:18-1605:J:Easterbrook:dis:T:fnOp:N:2436411:S:0

Listen to oral arguments: https://www.courtlistener.com/audio/59532/rex-frederickson-v-tizoc-landeros/

TX: NEIGHBORS: SEX OFFENDERS MAY FOLLOW PROPOSED GOOD SAMARITAN HOMELESS SHELTER TO AREA
November 30, 2019
[caller.com – 11/29/19]
There was a time when Abel Palacious found himself homeless. Now, he lives across the street from the old Lamar Elementary School.

The school, at the corner of Morris and 19th streets, could be converted into the largest homeless shelter in Corpus Christi. It would house 308 beds as the new location for the Good Samaritan Rescue Mission.

The organization served Palacious when he was homeless.

Even so, he said he can’t support the shelter’s proposed location because registered sex offenders are allowed to stay at the Good Samaritan. He has four kids aged 11, 14, 15 and 20, and numerous grandchildren.

Read more: https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2019/11/29/neighbors-worry-sex-offenders-would-follow-proposed-homeless-shelter/4254672002/

There really should be a registry for violent crimes and murders. I recently discovered that if you do a search in Google News for: “injured” “shooting” you get many new crimes every day. Apparently the media/internet does not consider these stories top headlines. I don’t know about you but I would rather have a sex offence committed against me; then get shot in the leg. This is all part to the media/internet concentrating on sex offences as a worse crimes than violent crimes. This is the very definition of perverting the laws of our country. For this and everything else the internet/media has brought upon us all with it’s grasping for ratings or just being hateful, our country has gone almost too far over the edge; of no return. Keep your eyes on my blog here: https://amnnow.blogspot.com/ for true updates of how we are doing as a nation.  

WHY THERE IS NO NATIONAL DOMESTIC ASSAULT OFFENDER REGISTRY – YET
November 30, 2019 ·
[foxnews.com – 11/30/19]
It was a murder so brutal – and one that continues to haunt law enforcement in the quiet community of Osceola County, Florida.

…

For those like Gibson, who are tasked with safeguarding the most vulnerable in the community, it has raised the question as to what more the justice system should and could be doing to support victims of domestic violence.

Namely, why there has been little headway made to establish a national registry for those convicted of domestic violence crimes – similar to the SORNA registry, which has three tiers publicly listing sex offenders.

“In the year 2019, why don’t we have this in place? We must change that,” Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson told Fox News. “I can’t see any cons in regards to a registry. Information is powerful. If you armed with information that this person has been convicted of domestic violence, you can stay away from that. Being aware of a persons’ violent or abusive background can absolutely save your life.”

…

The bill that Hottinger and her team are proposing to lawmakers’ centers on three levels. Level one would be attributed to those deemed a first-time offender, and removed after five years. The second level is for offenders convicted of a violent crime or a second offense and would remain on the registry for at least a decade. And the third level is for those convicted three times, and twice or more in five years. Their names would remain on the registry for life.

…

Indeed, the quest for such a registry is considered by many industry experts to be more of a hindrance than a help.

“The issue comes up nearly every legislative session. Well-meaning legislators and constituents around the country propose creating a state or national registry that lists domestic violence offenders,” said Corbin Streett, a technology safety specialist with the National Network to End Domestic Violence. “But there are many unintended consequences that would actually end up harming survivors and giving a false sense of security to potential victims who look at the registry, thinking it will help them avoid getting into a relationship with an abuser.”

Streett pointed out that only a small number of domestic violence offenders are ever arrested, and many victims simply don’t call for help because they are scared of retaliation. Even if they do, such a small number is subsequently convicted.

“We are also concerned about the impact a registry will have on victims reporting violence. Victims are already hesitant to report domestic violence, worried about the violent retaliation that will come after. If the abuser knows their name will be posted on a registry, it doesn’t make them less likely to abuse; it makes them more likely to try to scare a victim into not reporting,” she continued. “There are also major privacy implications, including potential discrimination against victims that can occur with a registry. When an abuser’s name ends up on a list, it’s not just the abuser who will be outed, but their victims as well.”

Read the full article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/national-domestic-assault-offender-registry-nicole-montalvo

There are four cases before the court challenging the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s system for monitoring sexual predators. A loss in even one of them would be a loss for children’s safety across our state. My team of deputy attorneys general argued to protect this critical statute. Full Opinion Piece by PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro: https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-pennsylvania-sex-offender-registry-20191201-wndo2yyfs5fh3c3wevetsmymku-story.html

CHILD CUSTODY/VISITATION LAWS APPLICABLE TO REGISTERED PERSONS
December 2, 2019
[sosen.org – 12/1/19]
In my 2016 Jobs and Welfare Survey of 307 registered persons, I found that registrants in this survey were less likely to be married than the general population (34.43% of Regs vs 49% of gen) and less likely to have kids (54.93 Regs. vs 74% Gen. pop.). However, this still means many people forced to register on America’s sex offense registries have families. This makes parental rights an important topic for, registered citizens many of whom are afraid that registry status can be used against them.

PURPOSE OF REPORT: This list covers state statutes pertaining to parental rights or the right to reside with minors for registered persons. Parental rights generally mean custody and/or visitation rights. This report also covers state statutes covering the right of registered persons to live in households with minors or have unsupervised visits with children.

Read more: http://sosen.org/blog/2019/12/01/child-custody-visitation-laws-applicable-to-registered-persons.html

I have reported more this morning on all 3 of my political blogs than ever. Thanks to the internet/media; usually the relentless enemy; of all things sex offended related. In other words Nazi fascist to human beings with friends and family’s and community’s that suffer from the exploitation of the scarlet lettered ones. Just found this article:

Top Ten Texas Counties with STDs
December 3, 2019

from: https://www.reformaustin.org/2019/12/03/top-ten-texas-counties-with-stds/

The Texas Department of State Health Services released the annual Texas STD Surveillance Report. https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/STD-Trends-508.pdf The report found that Texas saw an estimated 205,732 cases in 2018.

Many STI/STD hot spots are in the state’s major metro areas.

10. Collin County

This DFW suburb is home to McKinney, Texas and a population of 782,341 people. The county reported 2,860 cases of chlamydia, 897 cases of gonorrhea, and 175 cases of syphilis.

9. Hidalgo County

This South Texas county boasts a population of 774,769. The county reported 3,387 cases of chlamydia, 458 cases of gonorrhea and 280 cases of syphilis.

8. Fort Bend County

With about 585,375 people, this Houston-area suburb is on the grow. It also has 3,221 cases of chlamydia, 794 cases of gonorrhea and 148 cases of syphilis.

7. Bell County

The home to Fort Hood and the First Cavalry Division had 2,397 cases of chlamydia, 1,245 cases of gonorrhea, and 137 cases of syphilis.

6. El Paso County

The Sun City boasts a population of 800,647 with 5,699 cases of chlamydia, 1, 137 cases of gonorrhea, and 335 cases of syphilis.

5. Tarrant County

The home of Fort Worth has a population of 1.8 million people and reported 9,571 cases of chlamydia, 3,210 cases of gonorrhea, and 778 cases of syphilis.

4. Travis County

The home of the State Capitol and SXSW is home to 1.2 million people with 9,033 chlamydia cases, 3,423 cases of gonorrhea, and 792 cases of syphilis.

3. Bexar County

The home of the Alamo and 1.7 million people is also home to 10,539 cases of chlamydia, 3,876 cases of gonorrhea and 1.287 cases of syphilis.

2. Dallas County

The Big-D has about 2.4 million people and 19, 017 cases of chlamydia. Dallas County also has 7,486 cases of gonorrhea and 2,637 cases of syphilis.

1. Harris County

Houston, the Bayou City, the Big Sticky. The Concrete Swamp boasts a population of around 4.1 million and reports 27,415 cases of chlamydia. H-Town also has 8,730 cases of gonorrhea and 3,251 cases of syphilis.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 5 2019 

From: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7759139/Prince-Philip-ordered-Andrew-step-sake-monarchy.html
Published:  05:11 EST, 5 December 2019   | Updated:  09:22 EST, 5 December 2019 
Prince Philip ‘ordered Andrew to step down for the sake of the monarchy’ at Sandringham showdown with Charles amid worsening Jeffrey Epstein crisis
Prince Philip also joined his sons for the light lunch, which took place shortly before the BBC interview with Andrew’s accuser Virginia Roberts aired on Monday. Andrew has repeatedly claimed that he did not have sex with Virginia Roberts and says that he couldn’t remember meeting her.
Andrew faced fresh humiliation this week after Miss Roberts gave an interview to the BBC in which she reinforced claims she was forced into sleeping with the royal.
Miss Roberts has claimed that she was forced to have sex with Andrew that evening by her alleged sex trafficker Epstein, having danced with the prince inside the club. 
In his own ‘disastrous’ BBC interview with Emily Maitlis last month, Andrew claimed he ‘was never in Tramp’s’ with Miss Roberts, now known as Virginia Roberts-Guiffre. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 6 2019 

I love posting these stories. If you think it is acceptable to stand up for human rights but are against everyone’s rights, even African Americans or LGBTQ folks; than you are a in a dangerous place. Stories like this are proof. People can learn allot from stories like this.

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/christian-pastor-pleads-guilty-28-charges-sexual-abuse-boys/
Pastor who railed against “sexual immorality” pleads guilty to sexual abuse of boys
His wife has already divorced him.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019     12 Comments
A prominent Christian youth pastor from Alabama, 39-year-old Paul Acton Bowen, has pleaded guilty to 28 counts of sexual abuse involving six victims between the ages of 13 and 16. One of the charges included sodomy with a boy, and though we know very little about his other victims, we know others were boys as well.
Bowen, who married his now ex-wife in 2015, initially said upon his arrest that he was “hurt, confused, and heartbroken” by the allegations, adding, “I have not done what I am accused of and have not acted inappropriately in any way.” He now faces decades to life in prison.
Though web searches didn’t reveal a history of anti-LGBTQ speech on Bowen’s part, one of his books, Escape the Noise, reportedly condemned “sexual immorality.” He also served as an advisor to anti-LGBTQ Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Dawson.
Previous to his arrest, Bowen served for 12 years in a local church, wrote several “best-selling” books, worked as a public speaker at youth groups and summer camps, led a citywide student Bible study and hosted xlroads TV, a program viewed weekly by millions of U.S. teens and adults and in over 170 international countries. Bowen claimed to be a Fox News contributor (something Fox News denied) and said he was Justin Bieber’s “personal friend” and “spiritual mentor.”
Bowen had previously been fired from a church job in Gadsen, Alabama for looking at pornography on his work computer.  Consequently, the board of advisors at his company, Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries, required him to install software called “Covenant Eyes” on his computer to notify a designated “accountability buddy” if he ever looked at online porn.
Sex columnist Dan Savage noted when Bowen was first arrested in April 2018, on Bowen’s now defunct Instagram account “almost every picture was Bowen posing with a boy or boys who appeared to be over 12 and under 16 years of age. No girls. Only boys.”
Following his arrest, District Attorney Jody Willoughby said, “Acton Bowen is a danger to every child in this community.”
Deputy District Attorney Carol Griffith added that his work with youth was only a way for him to get access to underage victims. “Under the guise of leading children to the Lord, he was abusing them and leaving them more lost than ever before.”
I think our perverted, unconstitutional, Nazi like, justice system, publicly torturing with cruel and unusual punishment, so called registered sex offenders; causes this kind of crime to take place. If this barbaric, inhuman, grotesque, shameful, treatment of our fellow citizens, is meant to deter sex offences, let it be to no surprise if it has a opposite effect; if not cause the ruin of us all. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated December 17 2019 

This sounds about right. If it was a guy’s butt; mabye not.
Alex Bozarjian, a reporter for WSAV-TV who was covering a local race in Savannah, Georgia went viral last weekend because a then-unidentified male race participant allegedly smacked her backside while jogging by on Saturday, Dec. 7. The reporter’s expression after being smacked rings in as particularly emotional and recognizable; confusion, shock, then resignation to continuing to do her job. Like too many women and non-binary people know, unwanted contact happens all of the time and perpetrators are rarely held accountable. Read more here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/15/1905768/-Runner-who-smacked-reporters-butt-on-live-television-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charge

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 03 2020

Deplorable! We need some good old fashioned, caring Texans; to fix this, quick.
More on victimization at Texas youth prisons
After Grits earlier reacted to a new federal report on sexual victimization in Texas youth prisons, other reporters are following up. Here’s a piece from Tommy Witherspoon at the Waco Tribune Herald, and another from Keri Blakinger, who just left the Houston Chronicle to join the Marshall Project. For related reading, see the new annual report from the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and 2018 statistical data on juvenile probation in Texas.
Links: https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2019/12/texas-should-raze-last-large-youth.html
https://www.wacotrib.com/news/report-sex-abuse-persists-in-texas-juvenile-lockups-including-mart/article_a48c6edb-4427-52a9-ba37-38bea688439f.html
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/The-place-is-a-jungle-Texas-youth-prisons-14938409.php
http://www.tjjd.texas.gov/index.php/doc-library/send/338-reports-to-the-governor-and-legislative-budget-board/2285-tjjd-annual-report-to-the-governor-and-legislative-budget-board-2019
http://www.tjjd.texas.gov/index.php/doc-library/send/334-state-of-juvenile-probation-activity/2256-the-state-of-juvenile-probation-activity-in-texas-2018

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 03 2020

PA: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY LAW IN PA. FACING LIFE-OR-DEATH TEST AT SUPREME COURT
December 5, 2019 The landmark Pennsylvania law that for nearly a quarter of a century has required a public registry of sex offenders and community notification about their whereabouts is facing a life-or-death challenge before the state’s highest court. Full Article: https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/spl/pennsylvania-sex-offender-registry-megans-law-challenge-supreme-court-20191205.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated January 28 2020

This is a example of what I have said about our country; from the first time I ever posted anything on the internet about those guilty of a sex crimes of any kind. We as a perverse justice, orientated country; pick and choose who we want to be a sex offender. Famous rock music stars rarely get chosen, church people and rich people and politicians; always get chosen. Then we all except the lie; when we post all over the world, these people have committed a sex crime, it is not cruel and unusual punishment. When we do away with the foundation of our country; like the constitution and separation of church and state, out house is going fall right over. 
From: https://apnews.com/aff9e82dbd41948100c72b0ad7a7c956
Kobe and other athletes often get a pass January 28, 2020 GMT
DENVER (AP) — Folded conveniently into the narratives about his “complicated past” was the detail about Kobe Bryant that could’ve wrecked him.
It was a rape allegation by a 19-year-old employee of a Colorado hotel. It happened in 2003. Some argued that making that life-altering detail a mere footnote to the stories detailing Bryant’s life and unexpected death was the human thing to do on such an awful day. Others felt it was another example of an icon being given a pass of sorts because he was a successful athlete.
While dozens of high-profile figures — including senators, movie producers, news anchors and comedians (but not the president or the newest Supreme Court justice) — have seen their careers vanquished by allegations of sex abuse and domestic violence, high-profile sports figures have skated past similar accusations at a far more frequent rate.

“We look up to them to win games,” said Miki Turner, a longtime journalist who is now a professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “But we don’t really scrutinize their values as closely as we might for politicians or news anchors. I think there’s just a different line there.”
Here’s a quick list from the recent past: relief pitcher Roberto Osuna, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, running back Ezekiel Elliott, quarterbacks Jameis Winston and Ben Roethlisberger, Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton and Super Bowl 54-bound receiver Tyreek Hill of the Chiefs. All are among the sports stars who have had stomach-churning allegations leveled against them but have skirted major repercussions — from their leagues, the teams, law enforcement or, in large part, in the court of public opinion.
“There’s something about the instant gratification of having a game that night versus, say, being an actor and taking a year to make a movie,” said Courtney Cox, a former ESPN staffer who teaches a class on race and gender in sport at University of Oregon. “If (sports stars are) treated differently, part of that is the instant way they’re visible, and the way they are able to rectify and rebrand themselves” by the final buzzer of the next game.
In other words, winning makes up for a lot.
The case of troubled wide receiver Antonio Brown could be instructive. He was released by the Patriots earlier this season when rape allegations surfaced. The NFL is investigating the accusations, and not until that is over will we know what appetite teams might have to sign him.
Among the central questions in the Bryant story, and how his life is being remembered, is whether the pass he received in the obituaries and tributes was more about the passage of time than any bias toward him, or athletes in general.

It’s been 17 years since the allegations. A good section of Bryant’s fan base either wasn’t born, or was barely able to understand the news, when reports of his case first surfaced.
And yet, here we are in the #MeToo era, in which everyone’s past is easily researched on Google, and any transgression or poorly thought-out meme on social media is not only discoverable, but has the potential to change the narrative for any celebrity.
Allegations of sex abuse are leveled with greater frequency against the rich and famous; more of the accusers, but certainly not all, are increasingly treated with greater respect, and their complaints are being taken more seriously.
“I don’t know if something like that happened now, even with Kobe Bryant, if people would be as forgiving in this current climate,” Turner said.
But Bryant was a sports celebrity, not a movie, television or media star, and that reality almost certainly impacts the calculus, regardless of era.
“Sometimes, it’s OK to not have a right answer,” Cox said. “We’re all very morally righteous with our Twitter fingers. The idea of the black-and-whiteness of it all. But it’s not that easy. We grieve family members who had problematic pasts. But with athletes, it seems like we need a neat, tidy story even when it’s not always there.”
For celebrities who aren’t athletes — don’t play a game every other night, aren’t as frequently accessible for the media and therefore don’t have as many chances to shift the conversation — the story lines aren’t as malleable.
The torrent of allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein in 2017 marked a turning point in the #MeToo era. Hollywood and, to some extent, Washington, took the brunt of the blame. Bill Cosby, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Al Franken,  Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose and  Placido Domingo are a small part of a list of more than 250 public figures in entertainment, politics and media who have been accused of wrongdoing since the start of #MeToo. The majority have seen their careers either stymied or completely brought to a halt. There’s very little doubt over which paragraph in their obituaries will contain details about the lowest moments of their lives.
And while nobody sheds any tears about that, there’s an argument to be made that, with some exceptions, such as Woody Allen and Donald Trump, the leagues, the law and the public have meted out a different kind of judgment for them than for their brethren in sports.
Bryant’s case was litigated both in the media and the courtroom. But the case never went to trial, and though sponsors cut ties with Bryant in the aftermath, his losses didn’t last long. Bryant walked away from his charges — chastened and clearly a changed man. He issued an apology through his attorney and later settled a civil case brought by his accuser. 
He missed a few games while attending hearings in the case, but the best of his career, and his life, was still to come. 
In the 17 years that followed, Bryant became a father of four girls and a vocal champion of women in sports. He became even better known for his alpha-male psyche and his uncompromising work ethic. To some, he is the GOAT — Greatest Of All Time — in a sport that triggers plenty of discussion about that title.
But that’s not the only part of his legacy that’s open for debate. 

New Blogs Part 12 Updated February 05 2020

WISCONSIN CAME CLOSE TO CHANGING A RULE THAT OFTEN LEAVES PEOPLE ON SEX OFFENSE REGISTRIES HOMELESS
Republicans are leading an effort to get rid of blanket restrictions on where some people with sex-offense records can live. A Democratic governor is blocking them.
So it seemed odd to see Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, block Republican efforts to get rid of one such ban, at a time when Democratic candidates are out front on a range of criminal justice reforms.
Both legislative chambers unanimously supported Senate Bill 60, which four Republican state senators sponsored. It would have done away with the state’s rule forbidding those released from the state’s sex-offense civil commitment program from living within 1,500 feet of schools and other places. The civil commitment program confines about 280 people beyond their prison release dates for treatment, a program the state says is intended to lower their risk of recidivism. Read more here: https://theappeal.org/wisconsin-sex-offender-residency-restrictions/
CT: DIVIDED APPEALS PANEL SLAPS FEDERAL JUDGE FOR ALLOWING JURY NULLIFICATION DEFENSEJanuary 8, 2020 It’s not news that most judges balk at the prospect of jury nullification—the right and power of juries to bring “not guilty” verdicts when defendants violate laws that jurors consider unjust or wrongly applied. It is news when judges take a high-profile slap at a colleague who endorsed jury nullification in his own courtroom. And it’s an even bigger deal when they barely assemble a majority to join in the public shaming. Full Article: https://reason.com/2020/01/06/divided-appeals-panel-slaps-federal-judge-for-allowing-jury-nullification-defense/
CT: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY SHOULD BE BASED ON RISKJanuary 11, 2020 What is the point of a sex offender registry? As a woman and mother of two, I view Connecticut’s sex offender registry as a tool to increase public awareness about offenders living among us and to weigh my safety and the safety of those around me. Full Op-Ed piece: https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-gilchrest-sex-offender-registry-0110-20200110-ribwhef6wbafjm254nfv6c3mmu-story.html
CO: LAWMAKERS CONSIDER CHANGES TO COLORADO’S JUVENILE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRYJanuary 25, 2020[9news.com – 1/24/20]DENVER — It’s not often you see prosecutors and public defenders working together on the same team.
But Thursday night, representatives from both groups spoke before state lawmakers in a joint effort to reform the law around Colorado’s juvenile sex offender registry list.
“There are demonstrable…effects for children listed on this public registry right now,” said Amanda Gall, a Sexual Assault Resource Prosecutor at the Colorado District Attorney’s Council.
“This bill strikes a balance between public access and privacy for these children.”
HB-1079 was passed out of the House Judicial Committee Thursday. It calls for several changes, including:
Limiting public access to the juvenile sex offender registryLimiting lifetime registration for sexual offenses committed when the offender was a juvenileGiving judges more discretion at the time of sentencing a juvenile to decide whether or not to exempt the offender from the registry, based on an evaluation of the offender and recommendation from the evaluation teamIf the juvenile offender moves to Colorado from another state, and the juvenile offender is no longer required to register in that prior state, he or she would not have to register in Colorado Read more here: https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/lawmakers-consider-changes-to-colorados-juvenile-sex-offender-registry/73-1cac1a21-5221-4ec8-b067-40d6413f99a1
NY: DNA EVIDENCE EXONERATES NEW YORK CITY MAN FOR 1985 SEX ASSAULTJanuary 29, 2020 [abcnews.go.com – 1/28/20]After spending a full 25-year sentence in prison for a crime he did not commit, a Bronx, New York, man was exonerated by the first prosecutorial conviction review unit on the East Coast.
Rafael Ruiz was convicted in 1985 for sexually assaulting a girl in East Harlem. Ruiz, then 25, was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison and was released on parole in 2009 after serving the entire stint.
Now, at the age of 60, Ruiz had his felony conviction wiped off his criminal record after newly tested DNA from the victim’s sex assault kit found by the Innocence Project and the Manhattan District Attorney Office’s Conviction Integrity Program excluded him from the case.
Read the full article: https://abcnews.go.com/US/dna-evidence-exonerates-york-city-man-1985-sex/story?id=68592919
GA: GROUP CONFRONTS COBB COUNTY SHERIFF OVER ‘INVENTED REQUIREMENTS’ IMPOSED ON SEX OFFENDERSJanuary 30, 2020 [11alive.com – 1/29/20]ATLANTA — A sex offender rights group is accusing the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office of overstepping Georgia’s sex offender registration laws.
In a letter sent this week to Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren, the North Carolina based National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) claims deputies are “imposing invented requirements not contained in Georgia law.”
NARSOL Executive Director Brenda Jones, in the letter, writes the requirements the sheriff’s office is imposing are considered harassment. The letter includes four specific claims against the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office.
First, registrants are allegedly being required to have personal contact four to 10 times a year at a deputies’ discretion – a requirement NARSOL claims isn’t detailed in state law.
Second, deputies are accused of leaving cards demanding registrants call or face arrest, in excess of required sex offender renewal requirements.
Read the full article: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/cobb-county-sex-offender-requirements-questioned/85-39063e85-aa1b-411b-b510-4fac8a8370dd
By believing the SOR is not unconstitutional and not punishment is a lie and is taking the foundation of our county away; that will eventually make it all tumble down. 
MI: AG FILES AMICUS BRIEF STATING THAT SORA IS PUNITIVE AND UNCONSTITUTIONALFebruary 2, 2020Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed an Amicus Brief on Jan 30 in People vs. Betts, Supreme Court No. 148981 .
Introduction: There are dangerous sexual predators, to be sure, and the public needs to be protected from them. But the current SORA it is not the way to achieve that goal because it places people on the registry without an individualized assessment of their risk to public safety. Indeed, it provides little differentiation between a violent rapist or reoffender and an individual who has committed a single, non-aggravated offense. And it provides no way for most registrants to lessen their registration period based on their circumstances and rehabilitation. Taken as a whole, SORA’s onerous requirements are punishment and their retroactive application violates both federal and state Ex Post Facto Clauses.
Conclusion: Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act, taken as a whole, imposes burdens that are so punitive in their effect that they negate the State’s public safety justifications. Accordingly, Amicus Curiae Attorney General Dana Nessel asks this Court to hold that SORA is punishment and its retroactive application violates the Ex Post Facto Clauses of the Michigan and United States constitutions. The unconstitutional 2011 amendments cannot be severed without leaving an Act that is inoperable without remedial efforts that are quintessentially legislative. Protecting the children and families of Michigan from sexual offending is critical, but it is the Legislature’s task to determine how best to do so within constitutional constraints.
Full Brief: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/445142629-AG-Nessel-Amicus.pdf
FAC: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/

MI: FEDERAL JUDGE TO HEAR LATEST ARGUMENTS IN CASE OF SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
February 3, 2020 [michiganradio.org – 2/3/20]Lawyers will make their case in front of a federal judge on Wednesday over what to do about the state’s sex offender registry.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled nearly four years ago that many of the requirements of Michigan’s registry are unconstitutional. But the law hasn’t been changed, and people continue to be on the list.
“The court has said that this registry is so ineffective, that it is also unconstitutional,” says Miriam Aukerman, senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Michigan. “And yet the Legislature has done nothing to fix it.”
In its August 2016 opinion, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals described Michigan’s Sex Offenders Registration Act (SORA) as “a byzantine code governing in minute detail the lives of the state’s sex offenders.”
“SORA brands registrants as moral lepers solely on the basis of a prior conviction,” the court wrote in its opinion. “It consigns them to years, if not a lifetime, of existence on the margins, not only of society, but often, as the record in this case makes painfully evident, from their own families, with whom, due to school zone restrictions, they may not even live.”
Read the full article: https://www.michiganradio.org/post/federal-judge-hear-latest-arguments-case-sex-offender-registry-ruled-unconstitutional
What good would this really do? It is already a unconstitutional law. This would continue the stereotype, that most Americans are sex offenders; to the rest of the world. Since I had one article that was good about the republicans I will post a bad one too:
Rep. Smith Meets With Trump; Says Int’l Megan’s Law Is Working
On Friday, your local congressman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ4) met with President Trump for the Human Trafficking Summit.
Jan 31, 2020 4:10 pm ET | Updated Jan 31, 2020 4:19 pm ET
REP. SMITH MEETS WITH TRUMP; SAYS INT’L MEGAN’S LAW IS WORKINGJanuary 31, 2020 Your local congressman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ4) held a press conference with U.S. Dept. of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Tuesday, where he talked about the success of his 2008 bill, International Megan’s law. Full Article: https://patch.com/new-jersey/middletown-nj/rep-chris-smith-says-intl-megans-law-working

New Blogs Part 12 Updated February 07 2020

Why is surveillance in nursing homes a question at all?  This is a necessity of life and should be instituted in all nursing homes; by law. 
From: https://www.wndu.com/content/news/Controversy-arises-over-adding-cameras-in-nursing-home-rooms-567672591.html
Posted: Fri 8:18 PM, Feb 07, 2020 
LANSING, Mich. (WNDU) –  Michigan lawmakers are proposing a bill that would add video cameras in the rooms of nursing home patients.
“Every person I talk to says this is a great and absolutely wonderful idea except the nursing home,” said Michigan Sen. Jim Runestad, who is proposing a bill that would allow video camera surveillance inside the rooms of nursing home resident only if residents agree. 
The goal is to help combat elder abuse.
“There are unbelievable numbers of videos and the stark, horrific nature of the abuse was mind blowing to me,” Runestad said.
A study by Nursing Home Abuse shows nearly 5 million elders are abused in nursing homes each year. In addition, 24.3% of those elders experience at least one instance of physical abuse, while others suffer from sexual and financial abuse. Finally, only 1 and 14 of elder abuse are formally reported. 
If the bill is passed, Michigan would become one of seven states to allow cameras in nursing home rooms. It would allow families to view camera footage of their loved ones from their phones.

New Blogs Part 12  Updated February 20 2020
You can not blame homosexuality for sending people to hell; just like you can not blame a sex offence on drugs or alcohol. Here is yet another great article proving that them that judge are judged twice as much, from the great human rights organization LGBTQ Nation:

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/02/church-settles-lawsuit-said-anti-gay-pastor-forced-employee-sex/

Church settles lawsuit that said its anti-gay pastor forced an employee to have sex with himThe pastor said “Homosexuality is vile” in his book, but allegedly told his teenage associate pastor, “I’d really like to teach you how to [kiss].”February 18, 2020    
An Ohio megachurch has reached an undisclosed financial settlement with a former employee who sued the church claiming that its head pastor – who is also anti-gay – had sexually abused and harassed him for over a decade.
Brock Miller, a former employee who worked as assistant pastor of Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio claimed that televangelist Rev. Ernest Angley had “inspected his genitals and asked him sexual questions” from 2004 to 2014. The church claims no responsibility in the settlement and has stood by its assertion that Miller’s claims are false.
Miller began working at the church as an associate pastor at age 17. Around that time, Angley allegedly told Miller that he was destined to become its pastor to lead its worldwide TV broadcasts ministry. Miller says that Angley hand-picked a wife for him to marry at age 19; she was 17 at the time they wedded.
Miller also said that Angley pressured him and others to get a vasectomy and for women to get abortions so they’d have more money to invest into the church.
Prior to his wedding, Miller says he approached Angley with questions about sex, and Angley allegedly told Miller to show him his penis and masturbate in front of him to ensure that he could ejaculate for his wife. Miller says he trusted Angley and complied several times over a decade. He also claims that Angley asked him graphic questions about Miller’s sex with his wife.
Miller then claimed that in 2006, Angley invited him to his bedroom for a special “anointing ceremony” wherein Angley asked Miller to get naked and then allegedly massaged the front and back of Miller’s naked body. These bedroom trysts allegedly occurred many times.
According to Miller, during one of their bedroom encounters, Angley said, “I’d really like to teach you how to give a good [passionate kiss].” Miller claims he responded “No!” adding, “It was just like the veil was completely lifted from my eyes and I saw him in that moment for the monster that he is.”
Despite he fact that Angley has been caught on tape admitting that he has repeatedly had gay sex, the church claims that Miller fabricated his allegations either to become the church’s lead pastor or to extort money from the church. Miller’s lawsuit sought full back pay, benefits, and reinstatement to the lead pastor position or else compensatory and punitive damages and attorney’s fees. The amount of the settlement remains publicly undisclosed.
“I try every single day to see some light shine on the horrible sexual abuse I endured,” Miller said, “and, even if I never get justice for myself, maybe the truth and my story can impact someone else and save them from the same hell I lived.”
In Angley’s 1995 book Oh, God, What a Mess!, he wrote, “Homosexuality is vile, vile before God; and it will send souls to hell.”

New Blogs Part 12  Updated March 5 2020

CA: SAN DIEGO SETTLES ACSOL SUIT ON SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY LAWFebruary 7, 2020[kpbs.org – 2/6/20]The city of San Diego has settled a lawsuit challenging a city law that limits where convicted sex offenders can live, agreeing to enforce the law only against those who are on parole.
The 2008 ordinance bans all registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park or other facility that caters to children. The city has never enforced the law, however, because of concerns over its constitutionality.
In 2015, the California Supreme Court overturned a nearly identical law covering unincorporated San Diego County. The court found such residency restrictions are unconstitutional when applied to all sex offenders regardless of an individual’s circumstances, such as the severity of the crime or how much time had passed since their conviction.
Then, in 2017, City Attorney Mara Elliott asked the City Council to repeal the ordinance, noting it had never been enforced and would not likely withstand a legal challenge. But council voted 5-4 against the repeal, which prompted the Sacramento-based Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws to file suit on behalf of anonymous sex offender plaintiffs.
Read the full article: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/feb/06/san-diego-limit-enforcement-sex-offenders-law/
MI: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY – VALUABLE RESOURCE OR TOOL FOR PUBLIC SHAMING?February 10, 2020 A cursory glance at the Michigan Sex Offender Registry may reveal that someone who’s been convicted of a sex crime lives near you.
Now what?
Advocates for reforming the registry say this publicly available information not only doesn’t make communities safer, it actually has the potential to make them more dangerous.
Those on the other side of the debate say the registry is a valuable tool that gives people the information they need to be aware of their surroundings and cognizant of potential threats. Full Article: https://www.cadillacnews.com/news/sex-offender-registry-valuable-resource-or-tool-for-public-shaming/article_7a045ebc-7e1b-5968-815c-95358b272ef9.html
Related
https://www.woodtv.com/news/target-8/sex-offender-hopes-his-story-will-help-change-registry/
CA GOVERNOR PARDONS FIRST REGISTRANTFebruary 12, 2020 California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued the state’s first pardon to a registrant.  The pardon was issued to Bayard Rustin, a colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on February 4.  Rustin was convicted of a sex offense and required to register as a sex offender in Los Angeles in 1953 because he participated in a consensual adult sex act with another man.
“We celebrate the courage and wisdom of Governor Newsom in his decision to issue a pardon to Bayard Rustin,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “This is the first time a California Governor has issued a pardon to a person convicted of a sex offense.”
The issuance of Rustin’s pardon followed requests made to the Governor by both the California Legislative Black and LGBTQ Caucuses.
Rustin is credited as a key strategist and organizer behind the 1963 March on Washington, D.C.  He is also credited with helping Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  Rustin visited California several times during his civil rights career, including trips to Japanese Americans imprisoned in the Manzanar interment camp.
President Barack Obama honored Rustin in 2013 by posthumously awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award in the United States.  That award described Rustin as “an unyielding activist for civil rights, dignity and equality for all.”
Following his issuance of Rustin’s pardon, Governor Newsom announced that his office would launch a new clemency initiative focused on pardoning others who were prosecuted in the state of California because they were gay.
“I thank those who advocated for Bayard Rustin’s pardon, and I want to encourage others in similar situations to seek a pardon to right this egregious wrong,” stated Governor Newsom in a press release issued on February 5.  According to that press release, the new clemency initiative will work to identify eligible pardon candidates, and diligently process applications with the express goal of pardoning eligible individuals.  Additional information regarding that initiative is available at www.gov.ca.gov/clemency
CA: APPELLATE COURT UPHOLDS CHALLENGE TO PROP. 57 REGULATIONSFebruary 13, 2020An appellate court in California today upheld ACSOL’s challenge to regulations issued by the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that prohibit anyone convicted of a sex offense from receiving early parole consideration. This type of consideration was granted by Prop. 57 to all persons convicted of a non-violent offense.
In its decision, the Third Appellate District Court noted that CDCR has made “repeated attempts to exclude categories of inmates undisputedly classified as ‘nonviolent’ from early parole consideration.” The court rejected CDCR’s argument that the exclusions were necessary due to “public safety.” In fact, the decision specifically states that the appellate court rejects “the Department’s claim that the goal of public safety entitles it to contradict the unambiguous language of the Amendment (Prop. 57).”
“This decision is a significant victory for every person in custody who has been convicted of a sex offense,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “CDCR can longer refuse to grant those individuals early consideration for parole.”
Today’s unanimous decision by three appellate court justices affirmed the decision of a single judge in Sacramento Superior Court made in March 2018. In that Superior Court case, Judge Sumner ruled that CDCR’s regulations were inconsistent with the language of Prop. 57 as well as the intent of the voters who approved that proposition. In addition, the judge determined that CDCR’s regulations “must be set aside.”
Consistent with the lower court’s decision, the appellate court determined that the plain language of Prop. 57 is unequivocal and does allow CDCR to “promulgate regulations directly contradicting the text of the proposition.” The appellate court dismissed CDCR’s argument that those convicted of a sex offense pose a current danger to society “based on their likelihood of recidivism.” Although the appellate court did not address the issue of recidivism, it ruled instead that public safety is a “policy consideration” that does not trump the plain language of Prop. 57.
Today’s decision could be reviewed by the CA Supreme Court, if it agrees to grant review, and CDCR has stated it will seek review by that court. A similar Prop. 57 case, involving a registrant who was previously convicted of a sex offense but is currently in custody for a different type of offense, is currently pending before that court. The name of that case is Gadlin and its case number is S254599.
The basic difference between Gadlin and the case decided today is that the case decided today includes all inmates convicted of a sex offense regardless of whether that offense is the reason there are currently in custody.
Decision – Appeal – Feb 2020: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Decision-Appeal-Feb-2020.pdf
Order – Final – March 2018: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Order-Final-March-2018.pdf
Related
California appeals court says nonviolent sex offenders eligible for early parole  (SF Chronicle)
MI: FEDERAL JUDGE INVALIDATES PORTIONS OF SORAFebruary 14, 2020A federal judge has issued a ruling that invalidates portions of Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA) that are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Cleland issued the decision on Friday in a lawsuit that argued the SORA was unconstitutional. Full Article: https://www.wxyz.com/news/federal-judge-invalidates-portions-of-michigan-sex-offender-registry-act
Court Decision: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/5e46e10b8677f.pdf.pdf
Press Release from the Michigan ACLU: https://www.aclumich.org/en/press-releases/us-district-court-ruling-will-require-michigan-rewrite-sex-offender-registration-law
Related
https://mitchellhamline.edu/sex-offense-litigation-policy/2020/02/14/john-doe-et-al-v-richard-snyder-e-d-mich-2020/
FL: FLORIDA CAN’T BAR FELONS FROM REGISTERING TO VOTE OVER FEES AND FINES, COURT RULESFebruary 19, 2020[cbsnews.com – 2/19/20]Florida cannot bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Tallahassee federal judge’s preliminary injunction that the implementation of Amendment 4 – approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 to allow most felons who served their time to regain the right to vote – amounted to an unfair poll tax that would disenfranchise many of them.
A spokeswoman for Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said the state will immediately ask the entire 11th Circuit to reconsider the ruling. In addition, a full trial on the issue is set to begin this spring.
Read the full article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-cant-bar-felons-from-registering-to-vote-over-fees-and-fines-court-rules/
NATIONALMI: STATE OF MICHIGAN SET TO PAY $80M TO SETTLE SEX ABUSE SUIT WITH FORMER JUVENILE OFFENDERSFebruary 27, 2020 [detroitnews.com – 2/27/20]The Michigan Department of Corrections will pay $80 million to settle a lawsuit with former juvenile offenders who claimed they were sexually abused in Michigan prisons between October 2010 and February 2020, state officials said Thursday.
Pending final approval April 9, the state will pay $25 million immediately, $15 million by October, $25 million by October 2021 and $15 million by October 2022.
Buy PhotoMichigan officials have settled a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by former juvenile offenders for $80 million. (Photo: Daniel Mears, The Detroit News)
State corrections officials and Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office announced the settlement with the individuals in a press release after Washtenaw County Judge Carol Kuhnke signed Thursday an order of preliminary approval.
The settlement would be the largest since the department reached a $100 million resolution in a 1996 case, Neal v. Michigan Department of Corrections, in which female prisoners alleged a pattern of sexual misconduct and harassment related to the supervision of female prisoners by male officers.
The department agreed to a $100 million settlement in the Neal case in 2009, and distributed the payments to plaintiffs between 2010 and 2015.
Read the full article: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/02/27/state-pay-80-m-settle-sex-abuse-suit-former-juvenile-offenders/4892037002/

New Blogs Part 12  Updated March 30 2020

This is a great example of why conversion therapy is a crime:

From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/03/utah-man-allegedly-told-lesbian-going-fix-gay-raping/

Utah man allegedly told lesbian he was “going to fix the gay” before raping herThe prosecutor hasn’t determined if it was a hate crime yet, but confirmed there is evidence to back up her story.Friday, March 27, 2020 
A lesbian in Utah says she was the victim of a “corrective rape” when a man sexual assaulted her in an anti-gay hate crime.
The victim told police in Salt Lake City that she was visiting a straight woman she was friends with. When the woman went to bed, her husband Adam Quinn Atwood, 34, started sitting “closer and closer” to her.
Related: A lesbian couple was raped, beaten & held in a basement for 4 days
She wanted to leave, but she said that Atwood convinced her to go to a convenience store with him to buy beer. When they got back to the house, he attacked her.
The man allegedly pulled up the victim’s skirt and groped her. She told him to stop, and that’s when he asked her “if she was sure she didn’t like it” and “if she was sure she was gay.”
She tried to get up and leave, but, according to court documents, he grabbed her by the neck and threw her down a short flight of stairs to the basement.
The victim said that she told him to stop because his wife and kids were upstairs and she’s a lesbian, but he allegedly responded that he was “going to fix the gay.”
Atwood then allegedly raped her and choked her.
She escaped and “made it to her vehicle and as she locked the doors the suspect ran up to the car and yelled, ‘You better not tell anyone,’” a police affidavit says.
She went home and told her roommates what had happened. She reported the crime to the police.
The alleged assailant was later arrested and told police, “I did not rape anyone.” He is currently being charged with suspicion of object rape, forcible sodomy, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, and forcible sexual abuse and is being held on $150,000 bail.
Police told the Salt Lake Tribune that there is evidence to corroborate her story. Police also believe that her injuries are consistent with her story.
They are also looking into whether the attack qualifies as a hate crime, saying that the decision to proceed with hate crimes charges is up to the prosecutor. Utah added sexual orientation and gender identity to its hate crimes legislation last year.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated April 03 2020

MI: YPSILANTI ADDS EX-OFFENDERS AS PROTECTED CLASS IN NONDISCRIMINATION ORDINANCEMarch 5, 2020 [mlive.com – 3/4/20]YPSILANTI, MI – People with felony convictions cannot be discriminated against in Ypsilanti in a new addition to the city’s non-discrimination ordinance that passed Tuesday.
Ypsilanti City Council voted unanimously to make ex-offenders a city-protected class at its meeting on March 3. Elected officials said the move will help returning citizens reintegrate into society and address racial disparities.
Speakers during public comment said felony convictions are particularly challenging to finding employment and housing after returning from prison or parole. Several said a felony conviction can often act as a discrimination tactic as a proxy for race since incarceration rates for people of color and whites are disproportionate.
The ordinance allows for exceptions if the conviction directly relates to safety or another direct relationship between the offense and the job, housing or other opportunity. Councilman Steve Wilcoxen said some residents were concerned about sex offenders, but he noted those on the sex offender registry already have limitations in place of where they can live and work.
Read the full article: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/03/ypsilanti-adds-ex-offenders-as-protected-class-in-nondiscrimination-ordinance.html
FIVE LESSONS PANDEMICS CAN TEACH US ABOUT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMMarch 9, 2020[prisonpolicy.org – 2/6/20]No need to wait for pandemics: The public health case for criminal justice reformWe offer five examples of policies that could slow the spread of a viral pandemic in prisons and jails – and would mitigate the everyday impact of incarceration on public health.by Peter Wagner and Emily Widra
The United States incarcerates a greater share of its population than any other nation in the world, so it is urgent that policymakers think about how a viral pandemic would impact people in prisons, in jails, on probation, and on parole, and to take seriously the public health case for criminal justice reform.
Below, we offer five examples of common sense policies that could slow the spread of the virus. This is not an exhaustive list, but a first step for governors and other state-level leaders to engage today, to be followed by further much-needed changes tomorrow.
Quick action is necessary for two reasons: the justice-involved population disproportionately has health conditions that make them more vulnerable — such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, and HIV — and making policy changes requires staffing resources that will be unavailable if a pandemic hits.
The incarcerated and justice-involved populations contain a number of groups that may be particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Protecting vulnerable people would improve outcomes for them, reduce the burden on the health care system, protect essential correctional staff from illness, and slow the spread of the disease.
Read the full article: https://news.prisonpolicy.org/t/ViewEmail/r/87F5F4B95DB087262540EF23F30FEDED/2F6A8A9426D3B4F9C67FD2F38AC4859C
MO: THE MAN WHO HAS TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER BASED ON LIESMarch 15, 2020 [womenagainstregistry.org – 2/20/20]ST. LOUIS – He’s the sex offender who’s innocent. According to the reported victims, _____ didn’t do it.
Tuesday’s interview with _____ is part of Fox 2’s ongoing investigation into why the Missouri justice system isn’t listening.
“I’ve been fighting this for 31 years of my life and it has caused me something new, every time I turn around,” _____ said. “The neighbors looking at me wrong, not being able to go to a state park. Just recently I found my passports got pulled because of a new sex-trafficking law.”
_____ must register as a sex offender after being falsely accused in the 80s of molesting his nephews. He would have been as young as 13 during the alleged crimes.
“I kept saying, ‘There’s no way my nephews said this because I’ve never touched them.’ I’ve never done anything to them,” he said.
We’ve shown you in prior Fox Files reports how the nephews say they were coerced into making false sex allegations by a Missouri Division of Family Services caseworker.
Read the full article: https://ww1.womenagainstregistry.org/the-man-who-has-to-register-as-a-sex-offender-based-on-lies
CA: CDCR ASKS CA SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW PROP. 57 DECISIONMarch 23, 2020 [ACSOL]The CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) filed today with the CA Supreme Court a petition requesting review of ACSOL’s successful challenge of CDCR’s regulations that prohibit all registrants from early parole consideration.  The prohibition in CDCR’s regulations has been found to be unlawful by several appellate courts.
In its petition, CDCR acknowledges that the Court has already granted review of a similar case, In re Gadlin, S254599.  CDCR therefore requests that the Court defer action in the ACSOL case until the Gadlin case is decided.  All documents in that case have been filed, including an amicus brief by ACSOL, however, the Court has not yet scheduled oral argument.
“We are looking forward to a final and positive disposition of our case,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “Until the Court rules on this issue, however, thousands of registrants will continue to lose the right to early consideration for parole provided to them by Proposition 57.”
The Court of Appeal, Third District, ruled on February 13, 2020, that CDCR’s regulations were unlawful because Proposition 57 did not include an exception for individuals convicted of a sex offense.  The Court then upheld the trial court’s decision issued on March 5, 2018.
In addition to In re Gadlin, the CA Supreme Court has granted review of six similar cases: In re Mohammad, S259999; In re Adams, S257081; In re Bertram, B293475, In re Bowell, S255066; In re Jones, S259606 and In re Schuster, S260024.
Download the petition for review:
Prop 57 Petition for Review – CA Sup Ct – March 2020:https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Petition-for-Review-CA-Sup-Ct-March-2020.pdf
ACSOL CHALLENGES MURRIETA IN-PERSON REGISTRATION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
[ACSOL]The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed a lawsuit today challenging the City of Murrieta’s requirement that all registrants, including those with  COVID-19 high risk factors, register in person.  The lawsuit is expected to be the first of many such lawsuits to be filed in California this week.
“The City of Murrieta is requiring registrants to make one of two deadly decisions, that is, to register in person and risk exposing themselves to COVID-19 or to fail to register and be sent to jail where the risk of exposure to COVID-19 is even greater,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “In addition, registrants who go to the Murrieta Police Department to register in person violate the Governor’s order to shelter in place.”
The lawsuit, which was filed in Riverside County Superior Court, asks the court to issue a writ of mandate that requires the City of Murrieta to provide methods of registration that do not require registrants to register in person.  Those methods could include registration by telephone or by computer.
“We are researching registration methods throughout the state and nation,” stated Bellucci, “and we will file as many lawsuits as possible in order to protect registrants and their families.”
Download the lawsuit:
Petition – Registration during COVID-19 – March 2020:https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Petition-Registration-during-COVID-19-March-2020.pdf
LAPD STOPS IN-PERSON REGISTRATION, PROVIDES REGISTRATION BY TELEPHONEMarch 24, 2020 [ACSOL]The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has stopped all in-person registration of individuals required to register as a sex offender in that city.  In place of in -person registration, LAPD is allowing individuals to register by telephone.
“LAPD is to be commended for its decision to protect registrants and their loved ones by allowing registrants to register by phone,” stated ACSOL President Chance Oberstein.  “Unfortunately, there are many other law enforcement agencies that still require registrants to register in person.”
According to LAPD, signs will be posted at every police department where registrants normally register.  The signs will include a phone number to call in order to register telephonically.
“LAPD has promised to provide ACSOL with a list of phone numbers to call so that registrants in the City of Los Angeles do not have to have to travel to a registration office,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.

ACSOL FILES SECOND CHALLENGE TO SAN DIEGO IN-PERSON REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMICMarch 24, 2020 [ACSOL]The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) today filed a second lawsuit challenging a city’s requirement that all registrants, including those who have high-risk COVID-19 factors, register in person.  The defendant in this lawsuit is the City of San Diego.  There are multiple plaintiffs in the lawsuit including ACSOL, a female registrant who suffers from chronic diseases, and additional registrants to be identified in the future.
“The City of San Diego, during this historic pandemic, is increasing the risk of spreading the COVID-19 virus by requiring people to register in person,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “Therefore, we are asking San Diego Superior Court to issue a writ of mandamus that would stop this dangerous behavior.”
The lawsuit does not specify an alternate method that should be used by the City of San Diego to register individuals during a pandemic.  However, the lawsuit notes that the City of Los Angeles has already stopped registering individuals in person and instead is allowing them to register by phone.
“It is important to note that state law does not require most registrants to register in person,” stated ACSOL President Chance Oberstein.  “Therefore, the actions of the City of San Diego are unlawful.”
ACSOL filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging a requirement by the City of Murrieta that all registrants register in person.  That lawsuit was filed in Riverside Superior Court.
“ACSOL continues to research the registration requirements of cities and counties throughout California and the nation,” stated Bellucci.  “We expect to continue filing lawsuits until no one is required to register in person during the pandemic.”
Related links:
Lawsuit Filed Against SDPD for In-Person Sex Registration Amid Pandemic:https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/mar/25/lawsuit-filed-against-sdpd-person-sex-registration/
ACSOL Files Fourth Lawsuit Challenging DOJ and L.A. In-Person Registration During COVID-19 PandemicMarch 26, 2020 – [ACSOL] The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) today filed a fourth lawsuit challenging in-person registration.  This lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against both the California Department of Justice as well as the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. “We added the CA Department of Justice as a defendant in this case because several registration officers in the LA Sheriff’s Department said… https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Petition-CA-DOJ-and-LASD-CONFORMED.pdf
The Unethical Dilemma of an Offense Based Sex Offender Registration and Notification System and the Indiscriminate Effect on the Low Risk OffenderMarch 27, 2020[floridaactioncommittee.org – 3/26/20] The Law Review article linked to below was written by Kenneth H. Browning, a third-year law student at Barry University School of Law. He examines ethics in the sex offender registration scheme and questions whether it is ethical to sweep up everybody into a common dust bin. Read the full article on floridaactioncommittee.org
CA: 60 Organizations Jointly Request Significant Parole and Probation Changes During PandemicMarch 27, 2020 [ACSOL] A group of 60 organizations, including ACSOL, are jointly requesting that parole and probation agencies in California modify existing supervision conditions, policies and practices to align with public health recommendations in order to protect the lives of more than 400,000 people under their supervision.  Included in the request is the end of in-person registration. “ACSOL and its members need to share the list… http://www.rootandrebound.org.
https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020.03.27_COVID-19-Recommendations-to-CA-Parole_Probation.pdf
ACSOL Files Fifth Lawsuit Challenging San Diego In-Person Registration During PandemicMarch 27, 2020 [ACSOL] The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed today a fifth lawsuit challenging in-person registration for all registrants, including those with high-risk COVID-19 factors.  This lawsuit was filed against the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department which registers more than 3,200 individuals each year. “The plaintiffs in today’s lawsuit include a 72-year-old man who suffers from hypertension as well as a 51-year-old man… https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-03-27-Petition-San-Diego-County-Sheriff-FINAL.pdf
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/lawsuit-filed-against-sdpd-for-in-person-sex-offender-registration-amid-pandemic/2293498/
FL: GROUPS CALL ON GOVERNOR DESANTIS TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND IN-PERSON REPORTING REQUIRED UNDER SEX OFFENSE REGISTRYMarch 28, 2020 [floridaactioncommittee.org – 3/27/20]BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA – March 27, 2020. The Florida Action Committee (FAC), the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute are calling on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to temporarily suspend the requirement that persons required to register for past sexual offenses appear in-person at the Sheriff’s office to report during the Coronavirus state of emergency.
Florida Statutes mandate in-person reporting every six months, quarterly, or monthly for registrants who are transient. Changes to vehicles or reporting travel for three or more days (or changes to prior reported travel) must also be reported within 48 hours in-person. Failure to report in-person is a felony. In some cases, the registrant is also required to report to the driver’s license offices, which are not even open during this crisis.
Read the full article: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/groups-call-on-governor-desantis-to-temporarily-suspend-in-person-reporting-required-under-sex-offense-registry/
ND: YET ANOTHER WAY COVID-19 HAS CHANGED LIFE: FARGO SEX OFFENDERS CAN NOW REGISTER REMOTELYMarch 30, 2020[inforum.com – 3/29/20]FARGO — The Fargo Police Department is allowing sex offenders to register by phone in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus, while other local law enforcement agencies continue the registration process with few changes.
Fargo police made the switch March 19, the same day it closed the lobby of its headquarters. The department is making several adjustments to its operations to limit contact amid the global pandemic, and having sex offenders register via phone is one of them.
“If a new registrant who has never registered with Fargo does show up to register at the police department, there is a sign that gives them instructions to call into our records bureau and the registration process would begin from there,” Detective Mark Voigtschild said in an email.
Meanwhile, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office is allowing sex offenders to call in address changes, but deputies still will check in on the registrants, Sheriff Jesse Jahner said. The agency’s first-time registrations will be done in person, he said.
Read the full article: https://www.inforum.com/news/crime-and-courts/5010664-Yet-another-way-COVID-19-has-changed-life-Fargo-sex-offenders-can-now-register-remotely
PENNSYLVANIA, OREGON SUSPEND IN-PERSON REGISTRATIONMarch 30, 2020 [ACSOL]The States of Pennsylvania and Oregon have temporarily suspended in-person registration for all registrants in those state.  Instead of in-person registration, Pennsylvania is allowing registrants to register by mail, if needed, and Oregon is allowing registrants to register by telephone.
“Pennsylvania and Oregon are protecting the public, including registrants and their families, from further infection of COVID-19 by suspending in-person registration,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “These states are setting an example that should be followed by all 50 states in the nation.”

In Pennsylvania, registrants are required to register by mail only if they need to change or update previously reported information, such as home address, employment or school address.  For those registrants, the state has provided a form which is be mailed to the Pennsylvania State Police, Megan’s Law Section 1800 Elmerton Avenue, Harrisburg, PA 17110.  A link to that form is immediately below this article.
Pennsylvania State Police Sexual Offender Update Form – March 2020 [PDF download]https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Pennsylvania-State-Police-Sexual-Offender-Update-Form-March-2020.pdf
NY: NEW YORK RELEASES SOME LEVEL 3 SEX OFFENDERS, HOUSES THEM AT HOLIDAY INN EXPRESSApril 2, 2020 [leoaffairs.com – 4/1/20]Sex offenders in western New York have been released as part of the pandemic, with several currently being housed in a Holiday Inn Express.
The Level 3 offenders, who were released as part of the outbreak, have drawn the attention of local journalists, citizens and police officials alike, particularly in the town of Greece.
“Among the inmates known to be staying at the Holiday Inn Express are four registered sex offenders,” Sabrina Maggiore tweeted. “Three of whom are registered as level 3 sex offender and are deemed by New York courts as most likely to re-offend. All three of the level 3 sex offenders staying at the Holiday Inn Express have been convicted for the rape of minors.”
Read the full article: https://www.leoaffairs.com/new-york-releases-some-level-3-sex-offenders-houses-them-at-holiday-inn-express-does-not-notify-local-police/
MD: MARYLAND HIGH COURT RULES SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION QUALIFIES AS ‘PUNISHMENT’April 2, 2020 [By Guy Hamilton-Smith, an ACSOL board member, a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA fellow, and a contributor to The Appeal and Slate. You can read more of his writing on his website]The Maryland Court of Appeals — Maryland’s highest court — issued an opinion this week that, effectively, calls a spade a spade: that being listed on a sex offense registry constitutes punishment. In Rogers v. State, the appellant had been convicted of a crime that would require registration if the victim was a minor. However, the age of the victim was not an element of the offense to which the appellant pleaded guilty, nor was the age of the victim established in the plea agreement. Subsequent to the appellant’s guilty plea, state authorities required that he register as a sex offender. The appellant complied with the state’s demand, but also filed a lawsuit asking the courts to declare that he was not required to register as a sex offender and to remove him from the registry.
Who wins depends entirely on whether or not the registry is punishment. In a completely separate case from twenty years ago, the United States Supreme Court held in Apprendi v. New Jersey that “any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.” In this case, if the registry is punishment, and the age of the victim determines whether or not an individual must register, then it is a “fact that increases the penalty” and thus must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt at trial (or stipulated to in a guilty plea), as opposed to state police making their own determinations as to whether or not someone must register.
The opinion analyzes at length the history of Maryland’s sex offense registry statute—and its present form—and concludes that it is clearly punishment: frequent in-person reporting requirements, the compelled disclosure of enormous amounts of personal information, the broad public availability of that same information over the Internet which “expose[s] sex offenders to ostracism, and may cause lost employment opportunities, housing discrimination, threats, and violence,” and the similarity to the historical punishment of shaming all factored into the Court’s decision. The Court even noted that, at least at some point, members of the public had been allowed to post comments on individual registrant’s pages which would then be viewable to the public — thus transforming Maryland’s registry into something not unlike from an electronic pillory.
The ultimate conclusion that the Court reached was that, because of the punitive evolution of Maryland’s registry, any fact that would require registration must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in line with Apprendi. While it was certainly not the Court’s role here to make a determination about whether or not registries are good policy, or effective at their stated aims, it it heartening when any court is willing to tell the truth even—and perhaps especially—when it is an unpopular one.
Download opinion PDF:
Maryland-Court-of-Appeals-Opinion Sept 2019https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Maryland-Court-of-Appeals-Opinion-Sept-2019.pdf
https://jlusa.org/
https://guyhamiltonsmith.com/
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1999/99-478

New Blogs Part 12 Updated May 05 2020

The entire system in our country concerning so called RSO’s is unjust and that is left to God to judge us all for. In my opinion the pandemic is directly God’s judgement against our country for all of it’s unjust, unconstitutional oppression of it’s citizens through our unjust justice system. It is obvious that many Christians are most susceptible to committing sex offence crimes because of our sick obsession with the word sex and everything that goes with that. When we involve any crime that includes a large amount Christians and then proceed to treat them inhumanly we will be judged for it very badly. I believe the inhuman sentencing and treatment of so called registered sex offenders has allot to do with the word sex, in that unfair title. The media/internet capitalizes on sex offender news because sex sells; I have said this since 2001. Unless we turn from our evil ways God will continue to judge us all until we are no more significant than any third world country or completely gone all together. This is all proficiency in the Bible; the only difference is how fast we end up there. I have said since the 1st post I ever made on the internet about RSO’s in 2001; that our country would end up a 3rd world country by our inhuman treatment of RSO’s and our mass incarceration. Actually I should not say mass incarceration because I did not know those two words used together then. If I had to define what I said back then in 2001; it would best be defined by the words our (perverted justice system), even though I did not use those words either back then. You can view for yourself allot of my posts from back then here: https://sexoffenderfaq.blogspot.com/p/stand-with-survivors-of-sexual-assault.html Just search the page for the words Joe Dork. Joe Dork was the name of a cartoon politician I invented that ran and won his office by his inhuman treatment of so called sex offenders. The point is I warned in my posts about RSOs; of our eventual demise. I do not want this to happen to my country and will continue to post posts and send emails; for all Americans constitutional rights, no matter who they are. We have perverted our justice system to work as a meter to what ever is popular or unpopular with the media/internet. Mass incarceration and our perverted unjust justice system has defined us as a nation. I leave it all up to the Lord to judge it all; like I know he does. I do not envy all those in charge of things like this and like us all, should be; obligated to pray for our elected officials, to make the right decisions not matter how popular it might be to the media/internet.  
Probation and Parole Officers Are Rethinking Their Rules As Coronavirus SpreadsApril 3, 2020Social distancing is pressing officials across the country to skip traditional methods such as jailing people for “technical violations” like missing check-ins. Full Article: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/04/03/probation-and-parole-officers-are-rethinking-their-rules-as-coronavirus-spreads
MI: JUDGE: STATE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY CAN’T BE ENFORCED IN PANDEMICApril 6, 2020 [detroitnews.com – 4/6/20]A federal judge is commanding state authorities to stop enforcing rules under the Michigan Sex Offender Registry Act during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to an interim order U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland issued Monday, officials are “preliminarily enjoined from enforcing registration, verification, school zone, and fee violations of (the act) that occurred or may occur from February 14, 2020, until the current crisis has ended, and thereafter until registrants are notified of what duties they have under SORA going forward.”
On Valentine’s Day, Cleland declared the act unconstitutional and urged the state Legislature to move to bring the law into compliance.
Under the February decision offenders would still have had to report to their local law enforcement agency or state police post through mid-May, while orders encompassing Cleland’s ruling were drafted by the parties. After that, unless the state Legislature acts, the Sex Offender Registry Act would no longer be enforceable against those who offended before 2011.
Read the full article: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/06/judge-state-sex-offender-registry-cant-enforced-pandemic/2958141001/
IL: LAWSUIT – RELEASE SEX OFFENDERS WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR TIMEApril 9, 2020 Sex offenders who have completed their sentences but are still being held in Illinois prisons should be released as part of the effort to reduce the state’s prison population during the COVID-19 crisis, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
The request for a temporary restraining order was filed on behalf of Marcus Barnes, a sex offender held at Graham Correctional Center, and about 300 other sex offenders who remain in prison because they have not located state-approved housing required for their release. Full Article: https://www.wglt.org/post/lawsuit-release-sex-offenders-who-have-served-their-time#stream/0
ACSOL FILES TRO APPLICATION IN LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURTApril 10, 2020 The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) has filed an application for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in Los Angeles Superior Court.  If granted, the TRO would require both the Attorney General and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to temporarily stop in-person registration during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The TRO application, filed yesterday, requests a hearing or a decision without a hearing on April 14.
“In-person registration continues to threaten the lives of registrants, their families, law enforcement and the public because it increases the risk of infection from COVID-19,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “Doing so makes no sense because there are other ways to register individuals that do not endanger public health.”
The TRO application was filed on behalf of two registrants who live in Los Angeles County and are considered high risk due to chronic medical conditions, including asthma and hypertension.  One of the registrants is homeless and is therefore required to register every month.  His next registration date is May 7.
“The Los Angeles Police Department stopped in-person registration about three weeks ago,” stated ACSOL President Chance Oberstein.  “The department is now registering everyone by phone.”
The Attorney General’s legal representative has stated in writing that his office will oppose the TRO application although he provided no reason for that opposition.  The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s legal representative has not stated whether his client will oppose or support the TRO application.
NY: NYC BAR REPORT TO GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: CALL TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND IN-PERSON REPORTING REQUIREMENTSApril 13, 2020 [mitchellhamline.edu – 4/3/20]By NYC Bar Committee | April 3, 2020
Dear Governor Cuomo:
The New York City Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Operations Committee and the Sex Offender Registration Act Working Group write this letter to urge the temporary suspension of in-person reporting requirements for people on the sex offender registry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By continuing to require in-person reporting for the 8,050 New York City residents on the registry, all of whom have in-person reporting requirements at the same office in lower Manhattan, the health and safety of registrants, court personnel, police officers and the public are being put at risk unnecessarily. Instead, the City Bar urges you to follow the precedent set by the Los Angeles Police Department, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the states of Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Hawaii, and numerous other counties across the country, and allow registrants to satisfy their registration and verification requirements by reporting to the Sex Offender Monitoring Unit (“SOMU”) by telephonic or electronic means.
Read the full letter: https://mitchellhamline.edu/sex-offense-litigation-policy/2020/04/08/nyc-bar-report-to-gov-andrew-cuomo-call-to-temporarily-suspend-in-person-reporting-requirements/
CO: COLORADO GOVERNOR STOPS IN-PERSON REGISTRATION DURING PANDEMICApril 23, 2020 [ACSOL]The Governor of Colorado has issued an Executive Order that temporarily suspends the requirement to register in person during the pandemic.  Specifically, the Order suspends the requirement that registrants provide a current photograph or a set of fingerprints to verify their identity during registration.  As a result, registrants are allowed to register using alternate effective means determined by local law enforcement.
The purpose of the Executive Order, issued on April 6, is to “mitigate the effects of the pandemic, prevent further spread, and protect against overwhelming our health care resources.”  The Order addresses a wide range of state regulations, including those related to the renewal of drivers licenses, claiming of lottery prizes and taxi operations.  The Order will remain in effect at least until April 30 when it could be extended.
Read a PDF of the order:
Governors Order – Colo – April 2020: https://all4consolaws.org/wpcontent/uploads/2020/04/Governors-Order-Colo-April-2020.pdf
CA: TOWN REPEALS SEX OFFENDER ORDINANCEApril 27, 2020 [hidesertstar.com – 4/24/20]YUCCA VALLEY — Facing costly litigation, the Yucca Valley Town Council discussed repealing the ordinance restricting where paroled sex offenders can live within town limits.
The urgency ordinance repealing part of the Yucca Valley municipal code was approved 5-0.
“It’s a tough decision for us to make,” said Councilman Robert Lombardo, adding he believed the town could prevail in a lawsuit. “I think we could successfully fight this, but at a great cost. I feel comfortable appealing the ordinance.”
In early February, the town of Yucca Valley was served with a lawsuit, John Doe versus the Town of Yucca Valley, challenging the constitutionality of restricting paroled sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, park or daycare center.
In 2015, the state’s Supreme Court decided a similar ordinance in San Diego was unconstitutional, and that city’s ordinance was repealed. This case opened the door for numerous lawsuits to following hitting city by city across California, according to Thomas Jex, the town of Yucca Valley’s attorney.
Jex said the attorney who filed the suit, Janice Bellucci, is winning similar suits she has filed against other California cities.
Read the full article: http://www.hidesertstar.com/news/article_2b25c6c2-868b-11ea-b4e4-3734f8ac86c6.html
ACSOL Challenges In-Person Registration in Federal District CourtApril 28, 2020 [ACSOL] The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed a lawsuit today in a federal district court challenging in-person registration requirements of both the City of Fresno and the County of Fresno.  The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California. According to the lawsuit, the city and county’s requirement to register in person violates the due process clause…: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Complaint-CONFORMED-28-April-2020.pdfhttps://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Complaint-Exhibit-A-28-April-2020.pdf
CA: 7 SEX OFFENDERS RELEASED EARLY DUE TO COVID-19 IN ORANGE COUNTY DESPITE PAROLE VIOLATIONSApril 29, 2020 [nbclosangeles.com – 4/30/20]Seven sex offenders who violated parole were released from jail early as part of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department reducing its inmate population during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sex offenders were released months before schedule, despite being charged with violating their parole by cutting off their GPS monitors and tampering with their tracking devices, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Public Information Officer Kimberly Edds.
California law requires sex offenders who violate their parole in this way to serve six months in jail, but many of the sex offenders who have been released during the pandemic served just days, Edds said.
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…said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “As a state legislator, I was the author and founder of the State of California Sex Offender Management Board and the author of Megan’s Law on the Internet, which allows the public to see where these sex offenders are so that they can protect themselves and their families.”
Read the entire article: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/7-sex-offenders-released-early-due-to-covid-19-in-orange-county-despite-parole-violations/2353911/
CA: ACSOL SUES FRESNO COPS FOR FORCING SEX OFFENDERS TO APPEAR AMID COVID-19May 4, 2020 [law360.com – 5/3/20]Authorities in Fresno, California, are inflicting “cruel and unusual punishment” on registered sex offenders and violating the U.S. Constitution by requiring the individuals to appear in person for registration updates during the coronavirus pandemic, three offenders contend.
In an April 28 complaint filed in the Eastern District of California, those John Doe plaintiffs say the Fresno Police Department and the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office are running afoul of the Eighth and 14th Amendments and the California Sex Offender Registration Act by requiring convicted sex offenders to physically appear for their 30-day, 90-day or annual registration updates.
The state statute only requires that in-person registration occur for those who move out of state, for those who change their residence address or for those who legally change their names, according to the complaint. It does not call for initial registrations or for 30-day, 90-day or annual updates to be conducted inside a police station, according to the complaint.
The first John Doe considers himself vulnerable because he is 71, the second John Doe is worried because he is 68 and has chronic medical conditions that include hypertension, and the third John Doe is concerned because he has asthma, according to the complaint.
“Plaintiffs are gravely afraid of contracting COVID-19 should they be forced to register in [Fresno Police Department] and [Fresno County Sheriff’s Office] stations,” the complaint reads.
There is no practical reason for registered sex offenders to have to physically appear for such updates, as authorities are simply confirming information that they already possess or are obtaining information that could be confirmed over the telephone or via a teleconference link, as police in Los Angeles and other locales are currently doing amid concerns over the novel coronavirus, according to the complaint.
Read the full article: https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1268468/cops-sued-for-forcing-sex-offenders-to-appear-amid-covid-19

New Blogs Part 12 Updated June 07 2020

PA: Court Determines Annual Registration, Internet Publication PunishmentMay 12, 2020 [ACSOL] The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued an important decision on May 11, 2020, in which it determined that annual registration as well as publication of a registrant’s personal information on the internet constitutes punishment.  The petition in this case committed a sex offense prior to the effective date of these requirements. According to the Court, annual in-person registration “imposes affirmative restraints and probation-like…https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/TS-v.-State-of-Pennsylvania-registry-is-punishment-May-2020.pdf
NC: Registrants Win in North Carolina CourtMay 13, 2020 [ACSOL] A federal trial court in North Carolina has ruled in favor of registrants whose out-of-state convictions were determined by law enforcement to be “substantially similar” to sex offenses in North Carolina.  As a result of this decision, registrants who were convicted of an out-of-state sex offense prior to December 1, 2006, and who also moved to North Carolina prior to that date are no…https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Grabarczyk-v.-Stein-North-Carolina-May-2020.pdf
CO: Divided state Supreme Court ruling allows convicted man to terminate sex offender registrationMay 19, 2020 [coloradopolitics.com – 5/19/20] In a 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a criminal defendant was entitled to his request to de-register as a sex offender because he completed the terms of his probationary sentence and therefore no longer had a conviction under the law. Brian Keith McCulley pleaded guilty in 2000 to two counts of sexual assault. One of the charges, a…https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/divided-state-supreme-court-ruling-allows-convicted-man-to-terminate-sex-offender-registration/article_b8f11460-99d3-11ea-a1ed-0f1695b9f02e.html
NE: Advocates call for an end to the public sex offender registryMay 21, 2020 [fox42kptm.com – 5/20/20] A shooting in North Omaha has sparked concerns over the state sex offender registry. Following the death of Mattieo Condoluci, members of the National Association of Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) are calling for the state to remove the public state sex offender registry. “If he was not on the registry I have no doubt he would be alive,” NARSOL Vice…https://fox42kptm.com/newsletter-daily/murder-arrest-follow-up
Watch Recording of Safe and Just Michigan to learn the evidence-based case for ending sex offender registriesMay 22, 2020[safeandjustmi.org – 5/28/30 event] 5/28/20 UPDATE: Sex offense registries were supposed to keep communities safer. Under them, people convicted of sex offenses are required to register where they work, live, volunteer and go to school. Certain restrictions are placed on where they can live and earn a living. These laws have created an underclass of people who struggle not only to find a good job, but to even find an available place to live. Meanwhile, studies show the promised safety benefits of these laws have failed to materialize.
Join Safe & Just Michigan Policy Analyst Josh Hoe and special guests — ACLU of Michigan Senior Staff Attorney Miriam Aukerman; Columbia University School of Social Work Senior Research Scientist Vincent Schiraldi; and Judith Levine, feminist author, journalist, co-founder of the National Writers Union and author of “The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence” — at noon on Thursday, May 28. We’ll talk about recent court rulings regarding the unconstitutionality of Michigan’s sex offender registration act, the evidence showing registries fail to protect communities, and the movement to end the registries….https://www.safeandjustmi.org/take-action/events/
CA Supreme Court Grants Review of ACSOL’s Successful Prop. 57 LawsuitMay 28, 2020 [ACSOL] The California Supreme Court today granted review of ACSOL’s successful lawsuit in both the trial and appellate courts which challenged regulations issued by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that, in effected, prohibit anyone convicted of a sex offense from receiving the benefits of Prop. 57.  In today’s decision to grant review, the Court stated that the submission of additional briefings in the case is “deferred pending further order of the court.”
Including today’s decision, the California Supreme Court has granted review of four cases which challenge CDCR’s Prop. 57 regulations.  The lead Prop. 57 case is In re Gadlin (S254599), which has been fully briefed to the Court.  The total number of briefs submitted in the Gadlin case include briefs submitted by ACSOL as well as a group of 19 social science and law scholars.  The Court has not yet scheduled oral arguments in the Gadlin case and is not expected to make a decision in that case without oral arguments.
“Thousands of registrants continue to be denied the benefits of Prop. 57 due to repeated appeals submitted by CDCR,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “We hope that the Court will soon decide the ultimate fate of CDCR’s regulations.”
TX: UNFAVORABLE DECISION IN THE HEARN CASEMay 29, 2020 ·8 CommentsFrom TexasVoices: As many of you are aware our constitutional claim rested on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Santobello v. New York. In Santobello the Supreme Court ruled a state violates substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment when it breaches a plea bargain agreement with a criminal defendant. In our case the State of Texas did just that: it changed state law to require Jack, Donnie and Jimmy to register for life, long after they accepted a plea bargain agreement in their criminal cases. The negotiated terms of their plea agreements, at the time of they were induced to waive their constitutional rights to a fair trial, either provided they would not be required to register at all, or that they would only be required to register until they completed their probation.
Today the U.S. District Court in our case ruled against us on two, and only two, issues. First, the Court correctly ruled contract principles generally apply to our constitutional breach of plea claim. However, to our surprise, the Court further ruled that a valid breach of contract claim, as well as our constitutional claim based on Santobello, requires an aggrieved person to prove the consequences of the breach resulted in a criminal “punishment” being imposed against him. Most of us are familiar that rule applies to Ex Post Facto claims. However, I am unaware of any case that recognizes such a principle in contract law, or any case that has interpreted Santobello in this way in the plea bargain context. Full Analysis and Decision: http://texasvoices.org/court-cases-hearn-v-castilleja-update/
Movie “Brian Banks” Now Streaming Free on iTunes, Redbox, and YouTubeJune 6, 2020 [California Innocence Project – 6/5/20] “Brian Banks” Now Streaming Free on iTunes, Redbox, and YouTube. The feature film follows the true story of Banks’ trials and tribulations in the American criminal justice system San Diego, June 5, 2020 – On Friday, June 5, 2020, “Brian Banks” started streaming free on iTunes, Redbox, and YouTube, and is expected to be free on additional platforms in…https://californiainnocenceproject.org/read-their-stories/brian-banks/
FAMM and NACDL Present the Movie: The Vanishing TrialJune 6, 2020 – [famm.org – 6/6/20] Imagine you’re charged with a crime. Now you must choose between pleading guilty and receiving a shorter sentence–or going to trial and risking decades behind bars. “The Vanishing Trial” focuses on four individuals who were forced to make that excruciating choice. Each was threatened with a “trial penalty,” the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence a person receives if…https://famm.org/vanishingtrial/
New Blogs Part 12 Updated July 08 2020

MI: Lawmakers debate changes to states sex offender registry law after court rulingJune 8, 2020 Michigan lawmakers are debating how to overhaul the state’s sex offender registry after a federal appeals court ruled sections of the law are unconstitutional, but Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is contending the proposed fixes don’t repair the law’s flaws. Full Article: https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/08/michigan-sex-offender-registry-changes-considered/5196974002/
WILL SEX OFFENSE REGISTRY CHANGES BE PART OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM?June 11, 2020 [medium.com/@zilneyl/ – 6/11/20]The killing of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement has sparked outrage and mass protests across the nation. Calls for police reform have created yet another divide among the American public. As we move toward what will likely be significant changes to the criminal justice system, will individuals on the sex offense registry be included in those reforms?
Why So Many Laws?
Throughout history the level of outrage associated with various types of criminals has changed, yet the moral disgust directed at sex offenses and sex offenders has remained constant. We use terms like “sexual predator” and “monster” indiscriminately to refer to individuals who have committed crimes ranging from minor sexual offenses to violent sexual assaults that end in murder. We pass laws to control sexual offenders based on the most high-profile and serious cases, yet most offenders do not fit these categories.
While legal control over sexual behavior can be traced to the earliest of civilizations, the 1980s and 1990s is when sex offense legislation began its dramatic rise in the U.S. There was an increase in the number of child sexual abuse cases prosecuted by the courts and recounted in the media. The high-profile disappearance of Jacob Wetterling, the sexual assault and murder of Megan Kanka, the abduction and murder of Amber Hagerman, and the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas were all presumed to involve children brutally harmed or murdered by previously convicted sexual offenders. These events launched a new wave of stranger-danger panic and get-tough legislation which remains today, despite minimal, if any, impact on sex offense recidivism or community safety.
Read the full article: https://medium.com/@zilneyl/will-sex-offense-registry-changes-be-part-of-criminal-justice-reform-6c3c897c367a
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FL: TAMPA BAY TIMES NIXES MUGSHOT GALLERYJune 16, 2020 [newsmax.com – 6/16/20]The Tampa Bay Times will stop publishing its online mugshot gallery, which features people who have been arrested in the newspaper’s coverage area.
The Times made the announcement on Monday.
“The galleries lack context and further negative stereotypes,” said Tampa Bay Times Executive Editor Mark Katches. “We think the data is an important resource that our newsroom will continue to analyze and watch carefully, but the galleries alone serve little journalistic purpose.”
Katches added that the newspaper will still publish individual mugshots with stories when arrests have been made.
Read the full article: https://www.newsmax.com/us/mugshot-newspapers-arrest-tampa-bay-times/2020/06/15/id/972301/
PA: COMMONWEALTH V. TORSILIERIJune 23, 2020 Nature of Case: Mr. Torsilieri — the Appellee in this case — was convicted of a sex offense and, as such, was required to register as a sex offender under Pennsylvania’s sex offense registration scheme. He brought a post-conviction challenge alleging that, because Pennsylvania’s sex offense registration law essentially used an irrebutable presumption of dangerousness that if violated several constitutional provisions related to punishment as well as state constitutional provisions protecting reputation.
The trial court agreed, and and held that based on expert evidence adducing that re-offense rates were lower, the provisions that the Appellee challenged were unconstitutional. The Commonwealth sought review.
Holding: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated the trial court’s opinion on the constitutional question, but did not reverse their opinion. Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court observed that the Commonwealth did not submit evidence that was contradictory to the Appellee’s evidence related to re-offense rates. The Court remanded the case back to the trial court for further fact-finding on the question of re-offense rates. More: https://mitchellhamline.edu/sex-offense-litigation-policy/2020/06/16/commonwealth-v-torsilieri-pa-2020/
ACSOL FILES LAWSUIT CHALLENGING CDCR EARLY RELEASE PLANSJune 23, 2020The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed a lawsuit today challenging the early release plans of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).  The agency plans to begin releasing from prison on July 1 anyone convicted of a non-violent offense who has a release date no later than December 31.  The agency’s plans, however, exclude anyone required to register as a sex offender.
According to a press release issued by CDCR, prisoners will be released early in order to reduce the possibility of their infection by COVID-19.  The threat of infection and death from COVID-19 is especially acute in prisons where social distancing, face coverings, hygiene and medical care are difficult to achieve and may be nonexistent.
“The categorical exclusion of all registrants from CDCR’s early release plans is irrational, arbitrary, an abuse of discretion, and serves merely to reflect CDCR’s apparent judgment that the lives of registrants are less important than those of other incarcerated persons,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.
According to today’s lawsuit, CDCR’s plans constitute an abuse of discretion and violate the equal protection clause of the California Constitution.  The lawsuit requests that the court issue a writ of mandate directing Respondent to render persons required to register as a sex offender eligible for early release from incarceration on the same terms as other incarcerated persons.
Today’s lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and is the eighth COVID-19 legal challenge prepared by ACSOL.  Of the remaining seven challenges, six were filed in state courts including the California Supreme Court and one was filed in federal district court.
TRO – Points & Authorities – June 2020: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TRO-Points-Authorities-June-2020.pdf
FL: CYBERSTALKING INJUNCTION OBTAINED BY SEN. LAUREN BOOK OVERTURNED BY APPEALS COURTJune 25, 2020 [sun-sentinel.com – 6/24/20]TALLAHASSEE — Citing First Amendment rights, an appeals court Wednesday overturned an injunction that state Sen. Lauren Book obtained because of alleged cyberstalking and harassment by an activist who opposes laws dealing with sex-offender registries.The full 4th District Court of Appeal, in an 8-3 ruling, said a Broward County circuit judge improperly granted an injunction that, in part, was designed to prevent Derek Warren Logue from having contact with Book and from publishing any statement threatening her.Book, who was sexually abused as a child by a nanny and is a prominent advocate for victims’ rights, pointed to actions by Logue at events in Tallahassee and New York and online posts in seeking the injunction. But the appeals-court majority, while describing Logue’s posts as “vulgar and insulting,” said Logue did not violate a state stalking law and that his actions were protected by the First Amendment.“As tempting as it might be to force some civility into the matter by stanching respondent’s (Logue’s) speech against petitioner (Book) with a court order, to do so would ignore the protections of the First Amendment and the wording of the stalking statute,” said the 19-page majority opinion, written by Judge Mark Klingensmith. “There was no evidence presented to the trial court that respondent incited action by urging people to threaten harm to petitioner or her family. Claims of threatening speech or harassing action are actionable if the speaker threatens, harasses or intimidates, and intended targets would reasonably perceive that intent. Merely posting public information, or potentially embarrassing and annoying content, without more, is not conduct within the stalking statute and does not entitle petitioner to an injunction.”
Read the full article: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-nsf-lauren-book-injunction-overturned-20200624-rbb7tuxjizboleebxboepnz3by-story.html
If we spent half as much time trying to educate people about sex crimes, as we do condemning people like Nazi’s for sex crimes; we could help save our justice system from it’s inevitable downfall. Wouldn’t it be ironic if our perverted justice system’s fall would signal the final straw that broke the camel’s back of our entire country?  
This should be a required course.

CRITICAL TEACHING IN A SEX CRIMES COURSEJuly 5, 2020 [medium.com/@zilneyl/ – 7/5/20]It is often said that the media doesn’t tell us what to think; the media tells us what to think about. The media frames our understanding of public issues and informs us which public issues should be at the forefront of our minds.
For 8 years I have taught a college course entitled Sex Crimes. The course uses history and theory to critically examine sex crime laws and sexual offending behavior. In the course, I aim to provide an in-depth examination of the causes and responses to sexual offending and engage students with a non-stereotypical view of offenders as well as an understanding of the many legal controls with which individuals must comply.
Each semester teaching this course, I struggle with the extreme views that students have of individuals who commit a sexual offense: the individual is a pervert, a monster, a stranger waiting to kidnap and rape a child. Students remark that individuals who commit a sex offense are sick and cannot be cured, deserve to be castrated or executed, and should be locked away forever.
What students don’t realize at the start of the semester is that a sex offender in the eyes of the law can be someone who urinated in public in a school zone, a 21-year-old who had sexual relations with his 15-year-old girlfriend whom he later married, an individual caught viewing online child pornography, an individual conversing in a chat room with someone who they think is a minor but is actually a cop, or an individual that kidnapped and raped a child (to name only a few). These are extremely varied acts in their impact, but they all fall under the umbrella term sex offender.
As the American criminal justice system continues to strengthen laws against individuals who have committed a sexual offense, it is important to understand how attitudes toward controversial criminological topics can be altered based on scientific understanding rather than a media frenzy.
So, what do I convey to students to help them understand the nuances of sexual offending in America?
It Starts with Language
Society refers to those who have committed a sex offense as a sexual offender as if that person is always an offender. If you played sports in college, are you considered an athlete still at 50? If you stole a candy bar from a convenience store as a child, do you remain a thief forever? If you cheated on one of your partners, are you an adulterer for life?
Read the full article: https://medium.com/@zilneyl/critical-teaching-in-a-sex-crimes-course-efc8b64a4155
9TH CIRCUIT INVALIDATES EMPLOYMENT PAROLE CONDITIONJuly 6, 2020 [ACSOL]9th Circuit Invalidates Employment Parole Condition
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently invalidated a condition of parole which restricted a registrant from “engaging in any occupation, business, volunteer activity or profession” that had “the potential to be alone with children.”  In its ruling, the Court agreed with the registrant that the parole condition at issue was overbroad.
The Court noted in its decision that the condition “would leave only professions in industries that rigidly prohibit the presence of minors, such as a bar, casino, or adult-entertainment venue.  The Court also noted that there was nothing in the record to suggest that the registrant “had an ongoing propensity to harm children, particularly random children he might ‘potentially’ encounter on the job.”  The registrant in this case was convicted in Arizona of assaulting a child under the age of 16.
This decision, issued on June 8, has been designated as “not appropriate for publication.”  The decision was issued without oral argument due to a unanimous decision by the panel of judges involved in the case.
Download the decision:
U S v Tullie – Parole Conditions – 9th Cir – 2020: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/U-S-v-Tullie-Parole-Conditions-9th-Cir-2020.pdf

New Blogs Part 12 Updated August 01 2020

From my blog:  Constitutional Rights Blog Updated July 19 2020
The most I ironic thing about COVID-19 is; when you get it, it is like having to wear the scarlet letter. You become marked as someone to avoid at all cost’s; by closed minded people. Trust me the amount of closed minded people in our society is astounding and daunting. Even though being closed minded is actually a mental disorder; the huge population of them is always there. Closed minded people will avoid you like the plague if you get this deadly virus. Aids was exactly like this when it first started. Getting the coronavirus is like getting aids in the early 1980’s. The bottom line is there will always be uneducated people that think if you got the corona virus in 2020; you could be contagious, forever. However unfair it is to be ostracized like this by narrow minded people, that are completely oblivious to the actual COVID-19 virus; it is still going to be a fact of life for those that are labeled with COVID-19. Young people should think of this before they take part in high risk behavior. Another thing young people should think about is; this virus is so new that no one knows what it is truly capable of beyond a shadow of a doubt.  
Never forget that I warned that sex offender registration would be the end of our country; since I ever posted anything about RSO’s. The first website I had with this was the Joe Dork website around 1999. I think it is when we truly crossed the line of what this country was founded on and against with the sex offender laws and it does not let up at all. As far as I can see it is worse now than it ever was for anyone that breaks a sex law.
This what I mean about the irony of it all. I do not wish this Covid on anyone ever and pray against everyday with my wife, but I do not wish anyone to face a court in this country for a sex crime either. I mentioned the scarlet letter in the website Joe Dork. read it here: http://sexoffenderfaq.blogspot.com/p/stand-with-survivors-of-sexual-assault.html I mention it 8 times on that page. Here is a copy and paste from that page:
The story of The Scarlet Letter is a good example of how it must feel like to have your personal information posted on the internet for a crime you may not even be guilty of or a crime you committed so long ago even you can barely remember. Yet the internet displays it as if it is a current event; causing false judgments to be railed against you a new, every day. Like a scarlet letter you wear on your clothing and can not take off.
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.[1] Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
In June 1642, in the Puritan town of Boston, a crowd gathers to witness an official punishment. A young woman, Hester Prynne, has been found guilty of adultery and must wear a scarlet A on her dress as a sign of shame. Furthermore, she must stand on the scaffold for three hours, exposed to public humiliation. As Hester approaches the scaffold, many of the women in the crowd are angered by her beauty and quiet dignity. When demanded and cajoled to name the father of her child, Hester refuses.

New Blogs Part 12 Updated August 8 2020
CA Governor Extends Encouragement to Stop In-Person RegistrationJuly 8, 2020 [ACSOL] California Governor Gavin Newsom has extended the provisions of an Executive Order that encourages local law enforcement organizations to forego in-person registration.  The original Order, issued on May 8, included a waiver from obtaining individuals’ fingerprints and photographs for a period of 60 days. The Governor’s revised Order was issued quietly on June 30 without a press release.  According to the revised Order,…
20200630 – N-71-20 Gov’s Order Extending Remote Registration Authorization
20200508 – N-63-20 Gov’s Order Authorizing Remote Registration

PA: SUPREME COURT RULES 2ND GENERATION REGISTRATION NON-PUNITIVEJuly 27, 2020 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Opinion holding that Pennsylvania’s second-generation sex offense registration statute is non-punitive and thus ex post facto challenges against it fail.
Case Summary and Details
WI: A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER HAS FILED A FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGING MUSKEGO’S RULES THAT RESTRICT WHERE HE CAN LIVEJuly 29, 2020 [amp.jsonline.com – 7/28/20]A convicted sex offender has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Muskego’s rules that restrict where he can live, or whether he can live in the city at all.
In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, Ronald E. Schroeder said the city’s ordinances violates his constitutional rights by preventing his move from Waukesha to Muskego, where he has been invited to live at the home of a woman who is a longtime friend.
Schroeder, 50, is residing in Waukesha on a temporary living plan after his release from prison in March. He was convicted in 2008 of two counts of second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious person.
Read the full article: https://amp.jsonline.com/amp/5504382002

NJ: DEM CONGRESSMAN ONCE LOBBIED AGAINST CHILD SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BILLAugust 7, 2020 [dailycaller.com – 8/6/20]A Democratic congressman once fought against legislation that strengthened and improved the national child sex offender registry before taking office.
Tom Malinowski, before becoming a Democratic congressman from New Jersey, lobbied against a 2006 bill that imposed tougher penalties on sex offenders, a review of congressional records and lobbying disclosures by The Washington Free Beacon found. He said that expanding sex offender registry requirements would put sex offenders “at risk of retaliation and discrimination.”
Malinowski was a top lobbyist for Human Rights Watch in 2006 and joined in sending a letter to Congress arguing that there was “no legitimate community safety justification” for strengthening the registry, the Beacon reported.
Human Rights Watch is an organization focused on investigating and reporting abuses “happening in all corners of the world,” according to its website.
“Registration requirements put these individuals at risk of retaliation and discrimination and make it extremely difficult for these individuals to find employment, housing, and to rebuild their lives,” the letter said.
Full article here: https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/06/democrat-opposed-sex-offender-registry-tom-malinowski/

New Blogs Part 12 Updated September 7 2020
TN: WIN IN TENNESSEE – DISTRICT COURT DENIES STATE’S MOTION TO DISMISS AND GRANTS INJUNCTION ON EX POST FACTO GROUNDSAugust 11, 2020 [floridaactioncommittee.org –  8/10/20]A Tennessee Federal District Court last week denied the State’s Motion to Dismiss and ordered an injunction preventing them from enforcing the sex offender registry against an individual whose offense pre-dated the enactment of the ordinance.
The best part of this case was that the court based its opinion on Ex Post Facto grounds!
Read the full article: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/tn-win-in-tennessee-district-court-denies-states-motion-to-dismiss-and-grants-injunction-on-ex-post-facto-grounds/
Link to PDF of the decision [eagle.com] https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20200806d55
ACSOL CHALLENGES IRVINE’S PRESENCE RESTRICTIONS IN CAAugust 24, 2020 The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) today filed a lawsuit challenging presence restrictions in the City of Irvine which were declared to be preempted by state law six years ago.  Today’s lawsuit was filed after repeated requests by ACSOL to repeal the unlawful restrictions including a letter sent to the city dated February 13, 2020.
“The City of Irvine has acted unlawfully for the past six years by continuing to require some registrants to obtain prior written approval before entering a public park,” stated ACSOL President Chance Oberstein.  “This is particularly egregious because an appellate court has already ruled that the city’s restrictions are preempted by state law.”
In its decision, the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, upheld the right of a registrant to use the city’s tennis courts without first obtaining written permission from the city’s police chief to do so.  In its ruling, the court noted that state law “regulate[s] numerous aspects of a sex offender’s life,” including “the places a sex offender may visit,” “the people with whom he or she may interact,” “where and with whom a sex offender may reside,” the duty to inform law enforcement of numerous facts, “law enforcement’s ability to track a sex offender,” “what sorts of jobs or volunteer positions a sex offender may accept,” and “the public and private places a sex offender may visit.”
The Court further noted that, “although the Penal Code does not include a provision identical to the restrictions Irvine section 4-14-803 imposed on all sex offenders entering a public park where children regularly gather, it does include several sections prohibiting or limiting a sex offender’s ability to visit many public and private places where children regularly gather.”  In light of the scope and number of the state laws governing Registrants, the Court ruled that the state’s “comprehensive and standardized scheme for regulating sex offenders” established a “complete system for regulating a sex offender’s daily life [that] manifested a legislative intent to fully occupy the field to the exclusion of Irvine section 4-14-803 and other local regulations.”
In the past, ACSOL filed a total of 32 lawsuits challenging presence restrictions in California cities and counties.  As the result of those lawsuits, a total of 79 cities and counties repealed their presence restrictions.
“The only known remaining presence restrictions for registrants not on parole or probation in the state of California are those adopted by the City of Irvine,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.  “It is clear that Irvine’s restrictions are unlawful and therefore ACSOL challenged them today.”
Download PDF of People v. Nguyen_ 222 Cal. App. 4th 1168: https://all4consolaws.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/People-v.-Nguyen_-222-Cal.-App.-4th-1168.pdf

New Blogs Part 12 Updated October 8 2020
Sexual assault charity Act Fast receives fundingActs Fast, which works with the non-abusive parents or carers of children who have made a disclosure of sexual abuse, was able to continue operating during the pandemic thanks to funding accessed through the Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner.
Posted: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 at 2:15 pm
Read more: https://www.mags4dorset.co.uk/sexual-assault-charity-act-fast-receives-funding/
If you hate so called social media as much as I do you will like this article.:
Digital space is serving as the scene of sex crime. We need to frame a responseThe dissemination of nude photos and videos of a victim engaging in a sexual act deserves to be defined as a continued sexual violation for what is once put in the digital space can rarely be wholly retracted.
Updated: October 8, 2020 8:43:50 am
Given that the digital space is increasingly serving as the scene of unprecedented sex crimes, there is a dire need for an impactful solution.
With only three days to go for the wedding, the bride-to-be received a call from her fiancé. Nothing could have prepared her for what he had to say. Hundreds of links had suddenly appeared on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook flashing extremely obscene pictures of the woman. Thus began a terrible nightmare for the hapless woman, her sole solace, the extraordinary strength of character and commitment of the groom-to-be.
A losing battle against this flood of obscenity began immediately. The photos and videos had been mass downloaded and were being shared by hundreds of accounts solely in the business of supplying pornographic content on social media websites. Paid folders promised “a good time” — from Rs 30 for five photos to Rs 200 for seven photos and two videos. Associates of the accused began contacting the victim for sexual favours and to extort money to “delete” the pictures in their possession. The victim plunged into a dark depression. Emotionally drained from a lonely fight of four months, the couple finally approached the police.
It was a classic case of revenge porn — an invasion of sexual privacy and a form of online harassment where the perpetrator, usually a disgruntled ex-partner, posts intimate photos, often to shame the subject. The consequences for victims can be extreme, encompassing honour killings, breakdown of relationships, destruction of reputation and career, and immense emotional trauma. Two high profile suicides last year involving Korean pop star, Goo Hara, and a student at the University of London, Damilya Jossipalenya, both victims of revenge porn, are cases in point.
While the police may succeed in collecting evidence and prosecuting the perpetrators of such crimes, it can do little to clean up the mess left behind on the internet, the root cause of the victim’s suffering. Reporting of such non-consensual content by victims to the concerned social media platforms is often of no avail. The scale of the problem can be gauged from the half-a-million reports of revenge porn received per month by Facebook alone. All social media companies operate Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) portals where police authorities make requests for IP addresses of errant accounts and the removal of obscene content. However, often the portals are a mere formality, with the requests from investigative agencies remaining unacknowledged and unaddressed. While Facebook has in place a reasonably responsive legal support system, Twitter, Instagram and Whatsapp are virtually bereft of one. This is a frustrating stonewalling of the police and thousands of desperate victims. A country which offers one of the largest subscriber bases in the world deserves better legal support.
Read more here: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/call-social-media-to-account-6708724/

New Blogs Part 12 Updated October 17 2020
Former security guard sues sex ‘predator hunters’ for defamation in Randolph County
OCTOBER 16, 2020 07:30 AM, 
A metro-east group that posts photos, videos and other information on social media to expose and shame suspected pedophiles is being sued for defamation by a Randolph County man.
In his complaint, Collins maintains that Swanson posted a Facebook conversation between Collins and someone identified as “Jordan Lane” in June on the KTS Facebook page and falsely called it a “sex trafficking situation,” insinuated that Collins was “grooming” a 14-year-old girl and referred to Collins as “very creepy.”
“Defendants maliciously and intentionally caused the publication of the false statements to a Facebook page with thousands of followers for the purpose of harming the Plaintiff’s good reputation,” the complaint states.
KTS announced the lawsuit Wednesday on the Facebook page of its non-profit organization, KTS: Stop Sexual Assault. The group is asking its more than 47,000 followers to donate money for legal fees.
“Wondering why we haven’t been doing live meet ups lately?” the post asked, using the term “meet ups” to describe videotaped confrontations with suspected pedophiles that are sometimes streamed live on Facebook or YouTube.
Then KTS members show up at the locations, confront suspects, videotape confrontations and post videos on Facebook or YouTube. The idea is to shame and perhaps scare the adult men into stopping their activities, as KTS has no legal authority to arrest them.
As of Thursday afternoon, nearly 150 followers had offered support on the KTS: Stop Sexual Assault Facebook page in response to news of the Randolph County lawsuit. Some suggested legal strategies or reported that they had donated money. Others called for protests at Swanson’s court appearances.
Read more here: https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article246480085.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated October 21 2020
Bill Cosby may be smiling but I am crying for him inside and all them that have tormented this harmless old man. As a child I was a big fan of Bill Cosby. I remember one of my relatives had Bill Cosby on record album and it was a treasured event for me to here it and laugh so hard. This is a example of how I have been saying for many years that God will and maybe is punishing our country for it’s unconstitutional, Nazi like behavior, towards our fellow human beings; some who are shinning stars like Bill Cosby. Out of what; ignorance? I am not trying to justify Bill’s awful behavior. All I am saying is he could have gotten better in a couple years of counselling rather than a death sentence in prison. If he survives all this; it will surly shorten what little time he has left.
Bill Cosby, 83, is seen SMILING in latest mugshot with facemask around his neck Cosby, 83, has been imprisoned at the State Correctional Institution in Phoenix, PA since September 2018, after a jury found him guilty of a 2004 sexual assault The disgraced comic was photographed inside the state prison for the first time in nearly two years on September 4 The image shows a disheveled looking Cosby grinning towards the ground, with a white face mask hanging around his neck The prison periodically takes new photos of inmates because their appearance can change and Cosby was due for a new image Cosby looks remarkably different to the forlorn-looking figure who was pictured upon entry to the facility just over two years ago The elated expression he showcased in his new mugshot may be due to the fact he’s up for parole soon, having served two years of a three-to-10-year sentence
Read more here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8859901/PICTURED-Bill-Cosby-83-shown-grinning-unnerving-new-mugshot-facemask-neck.html

New Blogs Part 12 Updated October 28 2020
From: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/10/antigay-politician-admits-secretly-prescribing-opioids-lover-shes-also-second-cousin/
Antigay politician admits to secretly prescribing opioids for lover. She’s also his second cousin.The doctor and author of Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay bill” was handing out prescriptions to family members. One of them was also his lover – and his nurse.Tuesday, October 27, 2020    Tennessee GOP state representative Joey Hensley