Civil Rights Champion, Louisiana ACLU Silent on Issue
Many families, men, women, children are continually having their Civil Rights violated in Louisiana.
The state of Louisiana has enacted a number of laws labeling, targeting and singling out a group of people.
The state has effectively created a new under class of people and gone to war against them using the legislature to do it. This new underclass contains a wide spectrum of people. Men, Women and Children who are being labeled, segregated, punished, banished and ostracized from the rest of society.
All of this done to gain political clout.
Apparently you have to be a homosexual, or a Non-Christian. Seemingly, if you are a homosexual or a Non-Christian, you can get some help from the ACLU in Louisiana.
- Ex post facto law enacted
- Due Process Violated
- Full Rights as Citizens Not Restored
- Access to Public Parks and Recreation Prohibited
- New Punishment added to a 25 year old crime when that debt has already been paid.
- Collateral damage to innocent women and children
- Banishment of Innocents from society
- Good Name Defamed
- Housing Denied
- Employment Denied
- Assigned Fees with no court hearing.
- Threat of Incarceration if one does not Register
- Threat of Monetary Penalty if one does not Register
- Adding a Badge of Shame to a Driver’s Licenses (Just like Hitler did to the Jews) Public Humiliation.
- Children of Former Sex Offenders, Shamed, Ridiculed, Ostracized, Loss of all friends, Outcasts. With your mouths you say protect the children, with your lawmaking you harm THOUSANDS EVERY DAY.
- Not given access to the courts to plead your case in above said labeling.
- Good name is defamed.
- Cannot attend Your Child’s School Events-Even though still required to pay taxes for same event properties which are held on public land.
- Cannot take children to school sporting events, football, soccer, baseball Even though still required to pay taxes for same event properties which are held on public land.
- New Driver’s License / State ID every year (with Sex Offender designation) Public Shaming
- Cost: All other citizens of the state renew their Drivers License every 3 years, Sex Offenders are required to do so Every Year, charging 3 times the amount of other citizens.
I went and talked to the State Representative Mike Walsworth about all the innocent victims these laws are creating. His response, These are good laws. He has no concern for all the children who are victims of these laws in Louisiana. His concern lies with His children, not All children of Louisiana.
I have to wonder, how can a man watch a video of a 14 year old boy, all the way through, intently, and then refuse to do anything about the very laws which are ruining this boy’s life? How can a man who professes to be about Family on his website, do nothing about these laws which are so blatantly unconstitutional?
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Federal Judge Stops New Retroactive State Sex Offender Law
Federal Judge Stops New Retroactive State Sex Offender Law -Citing Unconstitutionality of the law.
Sep 10, 2008 07:46 PM
A federal judge Wednesday put a stop to a new state sex offender law. The law would have reclassified sex offenders putting them in categories based on the crimes they committed.
Opponents say the new system is unfairly targeting non-dangerous offenders.
It means sex offenders who committed crimes years ago, and served their time, will not have to worry about their past resurfacing.
“It is an impossible law that they are trying to impose on people.” People like Cameron Wolten. He is a registered sex offender.
“I was charged with a sex crime against an adult. I did my time — 22 years — and now in the state of Nevada they are trying to implement sanctions which would make it impossible to live,” said Wolten.
Lawyers representing the Attorney General’s office and those working with the ACLU both explained to a federal judge why the new law would work — and why it doesn’t.
Maggie McLetchie with the ACLU argued the law once again punishes sex offenders who have already served jail time. “You were throwing all kinds of people into this sex offender group — anybody. Number of people could have qualified as sex offender under the definition. It made no sense. It would not have furthered public safety.”
McLetchie says it would ruin hundreds of lives. “It would have put them at risk of losing their jobs, put their families at risk of violence.”
Wolten says some sex offenders are considered more dangerous than others. And this is why the new law was challenged.
One man we interviewed said he has paid his dues and now he just wants to live his life.
The judge made it very clear his decision Wednesday has no affect on existing laws when it comes to sexual crimes against children.
Chris Saldana, Reporter
Time..
time brings up the images of clocks ticking, trees growing, mountains failing, and ultimately brought to dust… but how much more interminable, how much more real, is the time spent behind jail bars? Moments blur into days, days into years, each moment taken as part of the restitution for a crime against society. These moments are irreplaceable. They are the punishment for crime, a time of solitude to reflect upon the crime, and separation for the society which was wronged by that crime. Continue reading