I submitted my info, thank you Red

Paul Rigney urgently requests that everyone please help with the following:

1. Everyone, call and have others call The Speakers office THIS Monday morning. 202-225-600, 202-225-3031.

David: We need to tell them that they must not vote on H.R. 515 under RULES OF SUSPENSION because the bill received an amendment from the Senate that is SUBSTANTIVE and HISTORIC. (U.S. passports have never been branded with criminal convictions of citizens before)

I would like to see 500 phone calls. Please put this up on Affiliates websites. Lets leave hundreds of messages on 202-225-0600 for them to sort through Monday morning
(202) 225-0600
(202) 225-0600
(202) 225-0600
(202) 225-0600
(202) 225-0600
(202) 225-0600
(202) 225-0600

2. Spread Josh Graven’s petition that should go directly to their representative.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/hr-515-international-megans-law?source=direct_link&referrer=josh-gravens

3.. Send people to https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-vote-against-hr-515

4. For those with Twitter accounts, tweet this , “Are you familiar with International Megan’s #Law, or IML? http://ow.ly/WITZv” sends to David Post’s article. Also, please TWEET the following image and message which can be found here (simply right-click and save the image to your hard drive and then insert it, along with the text message, into new Tweets): https://twitter.com/IndividLiberty/status/691870334220423168

Also, you could help further by re-tweeting Tweets already sent to House members which have been sent from that Twitter account.

5. Continue to call and email congressional members.

6. Contact media outlets with the attached Banner

Paul Rigney
Registrant Travel Action Group, Inc
rigneyp@registranttag.org

And so history begins to repeat itself.

Well meaning politicians passed new laws to protect people from these undesirables. License documents were marked to alert the public and the police that they were dealing with someone dangerous. Entire towns and areas were designated as off-limits to these types of people. Free travel was restricted and travelers were required to check-in with the police. Passports and identity documents were marked. Homes were marked with signs indicating that one of those lived there. Many of these people were forced to attend reeducation classes and of course they had to pay. A list of these people were compiled so they could be quickly identified and located. If a certain type crime was committed, these were the first suspects to be questioned by police. These people were shunned by normal people who didn't want to be suspected of the same crime. In the prisons they were considered to be the lowest of the low and were often attacked and killed. When these people were released, they hid their background as best they could so that others would not find out. Employment was nonexistent and many became homeless and hungry. Some committed suicide. In every case, these people had no future and nothing to look forward to. The families of these people were also affected. The children were harassed at school and the spouses lost their job. Long time friends disappeared and relatives distanced themselves or cut off any contact. Few landlords would rent a house or an apartment to these people. The police took every opportunity to harass these type of of person in a private war of oppression. Police were congratulated and promoted when they made arrest of these types of people. Large scale dragnets netted dozens of these people and their arrest was plastered all over the news. Judges regularly sentenced these types to long prison terms. Judges, Politicians, Prosecutors and Police used their tough-on-crime approach toward these people to show how well they were doing their job.

So when and where did this happen and who were these people?

That's easy: NAZI Germany, 1930's/40's, Sex Offenders

Those convicted of sex crimes were forced to wear Pink Triangles along with the Homosexuals.

Any of this sound familiar?

Here is the letter i'm sending:

On 2/1/16, the CONTROVERSIAL International Megan's Law is up for "suspension of the rules." This must not pass! IML as written will place a "unique identifier" on the passports of ALL registered citizens and will establish a new bureaucracy for expanded government control.

International Megan’s Law is an attempt at imposing the American way of thinking on the rest of the world, an act of arrogance that will lead to disastrous results if implemented. IML will attempt to force other nations to create a registry and raise the age of consent to conform to the American standards. This is a blatant violation of international law and a show of contempt for the governments of all nations who do not maintain close ties to the US.

Victim industry advocates have tried to justify International Megan’s Law using anecdotal examples, assumptions, unsourced statistics and non sequiturs to attempt to justify this bad piece of legislation. In reality, various government agencies have reported they have found very few examples of actual sex tourism, and even fewer examples of sex tourism from a registered citizen. It is estimated only about 10 convictions a year occur from Americans engaging in sex tourism annually. The GAO, the US Dept. of Justice, ICE, and the now defunct NDIC have all stated they have found few, if any, examples of Americans traveling abroad specifically to engage in sex tourism or sex trafficking. Key researchers studying sex crimes have repeatedly warned their own research or the research of others have been misinterpreted or distorted by those trying to promote human sex trafficking as America’s next social panic.

International Megan’s Law will be a costly and ineffective measure. It will cost millions just to establish a new bureaucratic agency and to revise the passports of registered citizens. It will cost millions more to enforce the various proposed changes to passports proposed by Congress. Passport limits run afoul of international law, particularly the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), by interfering with the free movement of citizens. The ICCPR was signed, ratified, and enforced by the US. In addition, 22 U.S. Code § 217a has been narrowly tailored to limit passports only to those registrants convicted in a court of law for sex tourism, thus nullifying the perceived need to pass IML passport provisions. As previously noted, very few cases of sex tourism/ trafficking are confirmed by government agencies, so the cost of investigating and prosecuting a mere handful of cases do not justify the need for a new bureaucracy, especially if the SMART office is passing IML notification provisions without the authorization of Congress.

The proposal to mark the passports of registered citizens is unprecedented in American history and is offensive enough that even mass media have made parallels between International Megan’s Law and Nazi law. In 1938, the Nazi government required all Jews to surrender their passports and have new passports issued with a scarlet “J” stamped on them. If IML passes, registered citizens will be forced to surrender their passports and have new passports issued with a “unique identifier” on them. In addition to the obvious parallel to Nazi law, this practice will obviously lead to travel impediments and denials of entry across the globe for all registrants regardless of offense. This mark of infamy could potentially lead to travel problems domestically as states struggle to fall into compliance with the so-called “REAL ID” system and thus requiring passports to fly within the boundaries of the US. Furthermore, IML could have an effect described as “humiliating” and “devastating” for individuals whose passports may be falsely marked as belonging to a registered citizen and would lead to costly litigation.

While certain provisions of IML imply that these provisions would be limited to “high risk/ interest” registrants, the harsh reality is this law will be applied to every registered citizen regardless of offense, even teens who engaged in consensual relations with other teens. The law is especially difficult for juveniles on the registry, who are assumed to be less likely to reoffend, more amenable to rehabilitation, and far less likely to become a “sex tourist.”

Finally, International Megan’s Law violates a number of constitutional safeguards, including the 1st (freedom of association) and 14th (Due process) Amendments, as well as the Ex Post Facto clause. In addition, protecting the reputation of American travels and their privacy is of great governmental interest, especially given the attitude of much of the world regarding American tourists. Unconsidered in this report was the potential chilling effect IML could have on ALL American tourists as the US gains a reputation for being a country full of “sex traffickers.” International Megan’s Law will ultimately do far more harm than good, not just in regard to registered citizens, but for the reputation of this nation as well.

For the full report and references for my assertions, go to http://www.oncefallen.com/internationalmeganslaw

Don't forget that sex offenders in NAZI Germany had their papers marked and were forced to wear Pink Triangles along with the homosexuals.

Can I copy and paste your letter, oncefallen?? I am not good at relaying my thoughts and feelings.

Done. Called the above number and left message for Speaker Paul Ryan as instructed by pressing number 6. You get to record and review your message before sending it. Pretty easy.