If the United States Constitution clearly states something as being forbidden, why is it that even governors are able to circumvent being found guilty of violating their oath of office when they enact or allow laws which clearly violate the constitution?
In a simple way of looking at things, when an article in the constitution, such as
Article 1, Section 9
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
It would seem to mean that no one, not a judge, not congress, not even the president of the United States of America can pass neither a bill of attainder nor an ex post facto law.
If a person honors and upholds the constitution, then they would be barred totally from enacting any sort of ex post facto law or bill of attainder.
Case in point.
Governor Piyush Jindal took an oath of office:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution and laws of the United States and the constitution and laws of this state and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me according to the best of my ability and understanding, so help me God.
At the same time, the state in which he is governor has a constitution which states:
Article 1, Section 23. Prohibited Laws
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be enacted.
If Piyush Jindal took an oath to support both the United States Constitution, and also the Constitution of Louisiana, how is he upholding the constitutions by supporting the Retroactive, Ex Post Facto application of the Sex Offender Registration laws in Louisiana.
How can Piyush Jindal, Governor of Louisiana continue to persecute the lives of those who have satisfied all terms of their 20, 30, 40 year old convictions when clearly the constitution forbids doing so?
Many people do not even know what a Bill of Attainder or an Ex Post Facto Law is. A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. The United States Constitution forbids both the federal and state governments to enact bills of attainder, in Article 1, Sections 9 and 10, respectively.
That is exactly what these Sex Offender Registries do. In some cases, they dredge up persons who have committed a crime and served their sentence 10, 20, 30 years ago, and without taking them to court, sentence them to Lifetime Sex Offender Registration with all the Punishments and restrictions..
Once on the registry, these people, these persons who are now among the new underclass of people, the "SEX OFFENDERS" are subject to a whole new, daily growing list of punishments and restrictions.
One state's highest court ruled that the state cannot force a man with an unblemished record since his 1979 rape conviction to register as a sex offender without giving him a chance to argue that he should be exempt.
When a person has committed one crime 20, 30, 100 years ago, and the state or federal government now requires that person to register as a Sex Offender based on that 20, 30 or 100 year old conviction. The state and federal government violate every person's right to due process by insisting they have a mandatory obligation to register as a Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3 sex offender for the rest of their life, despite evidence that they are unlikely to re offend.
A new class of people has been created in America. The new class of American Citizens is named' "SEX OFFENDERS".
Millions are now placed into this group and the number of those who are labeled as such is growing in leaps and bounds.
Once a person is placed in this group, each city, each municipality, each state is creating countless new laws and all they have to do is apply all of these new laws to those in the group, SEX OFFENDERS. Much the same way white Americans use to have signs up all over America which read: "No Niggers allowed, Only White People in Our Establishment". Just the same way the Germans, Nazis took everything from the Jewish people and labeled them Nasty Jews.. until they ultimately Exterminated them... while the German People watched.
These American Citizen who are placed in this Sub Group, Sub Class are then denied many of their Constitutional rights.
Their privacy is totally removed as much of their Private Information is placed on the World Wide Web for the World to see.
The lives of their children and family members are at great risk for any vigilante who wishes to target them for murder or mayhem.
These people, since they are made members of this new Sub Class, are denied work, housing, friends and privacy in any way.
Teenage Children Going to Prison and being labeled Sex Offender for the rest of their lives for simply sending a nude photo of themselves over their cell phone or computer to their boy or girlfriend.
Children as young as 8 years old being arrested and charged with sex crimes for things as simple as playing, "You show me yours and I will show you mine". These children are sentence to many years of counseling at their parent's expense.. and labeled Sex Offender for the rest of their lives for doing what is normal at their age, investigating.
Women being arrested for taking, having developed or owning photos of themselves breast feeding their babies.
Men and women who committed one crime 20 or 30 years ago who have served out all their sentence for that crime are now finding that the United States Government and Local State Governments are passing Retroactive laws which heap Hundreds of new punishments upon these people who have already served out their sentences. In effect, they are Re Sentenced to Lifetime Probation. Their Constitutional Rights are being totally ignored and most do not have 30 or 50 thousand dollars to hire a lawyer to fight for their rights. The states know this and pass the unconstitutional laws anyways.
So you see, it is hard to understand how a simply written statement in the constitution can so easily be circumvented by our political and judicial leaders.
In his article, "BANISHMENT IN AMERICA" Keith O'Brien wrote:
A study, published by Minnesota state corrections officials, found that proximity to a park or a school had no bearing on repeat offenses.
In this very practical way, Finkelhor said, the laws being passed in many Massachusetts municipalities do very little to make families safer. He criticized the state for allowing local officials to engage in a sort of "bidding contest," where towns seem to compete to keep sex offenders out.
"It's kind of a race to the bottom," Finkelhor said. "Everybody feels forced to get into the act."
"You need to police your own family," Billings said, recounting his arguments at the town meeting this spring. "I didn't enjoy saying this, but you need to look inside your own home and pay attention to who you're leaving your children with when you drop them off. It's a sad statement on society, but that's where we're at today."
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