Comments on: WRAL, Capitol Broadcasting blast General Assembly’s unconstitutional habits

By: dell

dell — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 19:15:10 +0000

the progression of the law is a slow process. the full unconstitutional law may take up to 20 more years
I am going to argue
violations of 8 and 5th amendment
along with the fact that the supreme court said the law is civil in nature but all states are hearing it in criminal court.
the law have so many restrictions it is now probation or parole just seeing the sheriff department instead of a parole officer.

By: rwvnral

rwvnral — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 03:32:11 +0000

In reply to Tim L. This is something that Atty Glenn Gerding is working on...and NCRSOL will be involved in helping to identify these individuals. They certainly have a reasonable argument to get their names cleared of the charge. We'll keep you posted.

By: Tim L

Tim L — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 14:45:34 +0000

I am wondering about the 1000 sex offenders who were convicted over the law prior to packingham decision. Will they be exonerated? Since the law is unconstitutional?

By: Tim L

Tim L — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:33:04 +0000

” Reckless disregard” is exactly what happened with Alaska v Doe. J. P. Stevens declared a clear violation, and he was right! Ms. P. Wetterling now recognizes that the Act named for her dead son is not appropriate. Recently she declared it wasteful,

Mr. Anthony Kennedy: who is often peer reviewed as part of the liberal wing of that court and thereby sometimes aligned with Stevens, opted to uphold the Act forming the original list. Scalia, Thomas, O’ Conner and Rehnquist also voted to uphold. That denial of punitive intent by the people is not erased by pretext of law. Deferment by that court to stated legislative intent was a glaring abdication of judicial onus.

We plainly see the vary man who argued for upholding the Act to SCOTUS in 2003 is now the top dog on that court. If I know anything about our form of gov’t it is that Agendas are set by the leader of the group. This does not bode well for Mr. Snyder in MI, nor our nation.

While I am sure Mr. J. Roberts has a lifetime position on that court he may wish to consider an early retirement given he has led the effort to uphold an act that indentured citizens – felons to a machine in the form of a computer database. If the Packingham case tell us anything it is that the list of sexual deviants obviously has the purpose of imposing “affirmative disability”. This indenture was done wholesale outside of public purview. It was done to many without fair trial nor opportunity of defense through judication.

Holding a citizen responsible for the wrong doing of others cannot be the path to a more perfect union. It is also incongruent with any form of lasting social contract. While sound governments have an obligation to protect its citizens it must be done with sound reasoning not panic!

By: Ric Moore

Ric Moore — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:56:28 +0000

The next stop should be “the registry”. Either every felon is posted to a registry or shut it down. There are five forms of abuse, not just one. They are: physical, emotional, sexual, intellectual and spiritual. If you don’t think someone can be abused (misdemenor) or raped (felony) spiritually, think Jim Jones. I think that once everyone finds themselves on a list, people might start to consider tearing them down.

By: Don Thurber

Don Thurber — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:57:25 +0000

An excellent piece. Thank you for speaking up against this irrational and reckless legislation. But to go further, lawmakers would not be following this trail if it were not so popular with voters. What is badly needed is education of the public, which has collectively swallowed an immense lie about the danger presented by those convicted of sex offenses. A mountain of research over the past 20 years has clearly demonstrated that registered citizens in fact pose very little risk to the public and the rate of recidivism is actually very low. But people’s minds are seared by a handful of horrific, high-profile cases in the media and they assign the behavior of a handful of criminals to all 800,000 people on US registries. The fact that people routinely stamp hateful labels like predator and pedophile on everybody on the registry, ignorant of the fact that only a small percentage of registrants fit either one of those labels, is reason enough for the registry to be abolished. Registries do nothing to protect the public, but simply rain down endless punishment on anyone we can drag into the hated class.