ABCNews: Outrage Over Sex Offender Monitoring Reaches White House.
In the wake of John Albert Gardner III being charged today for the killing of Chelsea King, we find that he was already a registered sex offender, which once again shows how ineffective these registries are in preventing crime:
John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted," said he met with President Obama Wednesday to discuss child protection laws and funding for the Adam Walsh Act, signed three years ago by President Bush.
The law promised to create a national registry of sex offenders and keep closer track of the most violent of them, but it did not come with the funds needed to carry it out.
"President Obama said yesterday, 'As the father of two girls, John, I will get the Adam Walsh law funded,'" Walsh told "Good Morning America" today.
Walsh, whose 6-year-old son for whom the law is named and who was kidnapped and murdered in 1981, knows firsthand the grief King's parents are experiencing. ( again let us correct the myth, there was no sexual assault of this boy)
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ConstitutionalFights spoke to a live person at the White House who expressed interest in our concerns about the Adam Walsh Act and how it violates constitutional rights of 700,000 Americans. Granted, these secretaries know nothing about the Act, but she gave potentially useful instructions on how to communicate effectively to President Obama on this issue.
She said to FAX A ONE PAGE OUTLINE summary sheet to 202-456-2461.
You can email but faxes will be MUCH more effective she said, because they receive millions of emails.
1. At the top of the page, put a clear subject line- re: Adam Walsh Act.
2. List clear concise bullet points, not narrative. She said outline form is much more likely to be read than a narrative story.
Now, I no longer use faxes, but I am sure many of you have access to fax machines. So while this may result in a lower number of us sending a fax, if many of us do this, it could be effective (according to the secretary).
You know the bullet points to make: constitutional violations of Ex Post Facto/Retroactivity, Separation of Powers, Breach of Contract, ect, how it damages families and children of offenders, how it imposes life-long registration to many who committed a crime decades ago, ect..
Again, one page, in outline form!
