Families of SOs Community Group
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I am feeling frustrated. I took the time to post "Sign the petition" and have had one response. If people can't do one simple thing as easy as "signing a petition" then all is lost.
You might think, "this won't effect me or my family" but this is just the beginning of what horrible things might happen. This wouldn't effect me or my family, but it might help others.
Nothing will ever change (and could get worse) if we don't band together. Please look at this petition and sign!
You might think, "this won't effect me or my family" but this is just the beginning of what horrible things might happen. This wouldn't effect me or my family, but it might help others.
Nothing will ever change (and could get worse) if we don't band together. Please look at this petition and sign!
I also had my wife sign it
and posted it to the GA RSOL group
Petitions online hold little weight because unless someone is going to verify all those names and addresses to make sure they are real it will not carry any weight with any lawmaker, business or court. And if it is never presented to anyone it will do nothing to change anything. Look up how petitions are made, how they are verified and how they are used. Then look up the effectiveness of those petitions when they actually pass muster and make it to presentation to the governing body that is in a position to make the change you desire. And when they hear it they don't have to do ANYTHING at all to change a thing.
DO NOT chastise folks for NOT signing a petition. It is rude and it is pointless.
You want to make change? Get one member of an SO family that can vote along with the offender (when they can vote) to call their representatives from local to federal and tell them their story, tell them the things that need to be changed, such as the registry and tell them that they do not work but actually punish offenders perpetually along with any family member that lives with them, ESPECIALLY the children of the offender.
If you could get EVERY SINGLE offender and one of their friends or family to do this, there would be 1.6 million folks knocking on their representitives' doors. Now that is speaking out in a way that will be heard. But I have yet to get even 20% of people to do that, I think we're lucky when we get 1% to do it. Petitions only give an easy out to those that don't want to go talk to the people that can make REAL CHANGE in our country.
I know we want people to be involved, and as Wisconsin said, our stories make a bigger impact, as they see the collateral damage these laws create. It humanizes the SO and their families, whereas an online petition doesn't.
They way I am making a change? I do not hide away, I fight with my husband to change what is happening to us. Yes at the moment is just us but eventually once we have the strength, more than this years experience we will help change it all in anyway we can.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/petitions/
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/24/e-petitions-often-worse-than-useless
http://www.bosshi.com/the-danger-of-online-petitions-have-we-become-slacktivists/
I respect the fact that you choose not to sign petitions.
Our board was asked by Janice Bellucci to sign the petition and send it on. That's what I did.
I disagree that they are completely useless for this reason: This petition and the explanation for it was enclosed. When it gets circulated to not only those in our community but other communities such as attorneys, law professors, and citizens not associated with our plight, they "might" realize that for the first time in U.S. History our representatives will be voting to put "identifiers" on U.S. passports and that constitutional rights are being violated.
There are some people out there that do still care about constitutional rights even for registered citizens.
And I will do whatever I can to draw attention to it.