Free As A Bird (With Priors)

Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle was recently acquitted of failing to register as a sex offender and lying on his driver’s license application. Pyle pled guilty in 1993 to attempted capital sexual battery and lewd assault on two young Floridian girls, avoiding a maximum sentence of life in prison. From the Florida Times-Union:

Jurors deliberated four hours after a five-day trial before delivering their verdict, ending the 61-year-old rocker’s latest legal ordeal.

Pyle hugged and kissed his lawyers and numerous friends and family who showed up to support him.

Pyle said the acquittal now frees him up to ask the governor to set aside his 1993 guilty pleas to attempted capital sexual battery and lewd assault charges on two young girls in Jacksonville Beach. He will have plenty of supporters in that effort, including one of the girls, his now-20-year-old daughter Kelly, who said Friday she believes the crime never happened.

Kelly Pyle was in court for much of the trial to support her father, who she didn’t meet until she was 18. She said she has never believed her father sexually assaulted her or any other child.

“If those charges were true, I wouldn’t be here supporting my dad,” she said. “I love him, and I know that he is a good person.”

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This trial was completely unnecessary and an idiotic waste of time, money, effort, and other very limited resources.

The criminal governments of the United States, including the federal government, most state governments, and thousands of other governments, could make Registration and the rest of its BS tag-along laws (e.g. Banishment) somewhat fair and much less counterproductive.

What simply needs to be done is to remove all requirements for people who are listed on the Registries to actually do anything, other than perhaps just some very, very basic, minor things like not try to change their identity, hide, or refuse to answer some basic questions if asked. I'm not going to get into a lot of details. Registration and the rest of it do not function worth a damn today and I feel like it is the responsibility of the people who want it (I'll call them "Registry Mongers") to figure out how to make it work. It's not my problem and I don't care to help. Frankly, I would think that the Registry Mongers would be a lot more interested in making Registration work than they obviously appear to be. But whatever.

The criminal governments and the Mongers can keep the Registries so that they can stay "informed". Remember, that was the original lie that was used to justify the retroactive, harassing Registries? There was no mention that the Registries were to really just be the foundation and basis needed to really create the full-blown, retroactive punishment/harassment system of today (that is still being constructed and built up).

The Registries would be maintained completely by the criminal governments with no help or input by the people who are listed on them. They can monitor the people on the Registries however they can, but within the law. Isn't that currently one of the big lies of Registration anyway - that "law enforcement" is somehow monitoring people on the Registries? So make that lie a truth.

Registrants would not have to tell any criminal government where they live, work, or whatever. They would know. And I know this can be done without infringing on people's liberties. We just have to make that work instead of concentrating on harassing people on the Registries.

I have seen many times, over and over again, where inaccuracies and problems with certain Registries have been exposed and tons of Mongers will come out of their crevices and say, "Well, what do you expect. We are counting on the criminals themselves to give us this information. And it's not like they are honest or want to be found." So, here is the chance for the genius Registry Mongers to stop just complaining and actually do something about that problem.

Stop asking the completely untrustworthy, Unwashed Registrants for any information. Get it yourself. Then the criminal governments will know the information will be accurate. This will have the additional benefit that the criminal governments will not have to "verify" the information either. If they are going to "verify" the information, why don't they verify it from the beginning. This would save a seriously large amount of resources.

The local criminal government where I live tries to "verify" my residential address numerous times per year. They invariably have to come to my home probably on average 5 times each time that they try to verify it. The last time they tried to verify it, they came to my home 8 times over the course of 2 months. And this government is having a budget crisis and cutting officers! But apparently they have nothing better to do than drive from home to home, day after day.

And this job of theirs is only going to get more difficult. I've spoken with my attorney a few times about it to try to decide whether or not to put a stop to it. He says he can tell them to quit trespassing or I can simply put a fence or wall around my entire property. But I don't think I'm going to do either of those because I feel I have a moral obligation to waste their time and money. So, I'm going to let them keep visiting. I am going to take a number of actions that are going to make it pretty much impossible to verify anything in this manner but I would like for them to keep trying. I am also going to consult with other people on the Registries to help them take the same actions. That is what these laws deserve.

BTW, I am not being flip about this at all. I really think this would be a great idea to solve the huge mess that is Registration. Let the criminal governments track and post whatever information is appropriate. However, at the same time, it should be made that a Registrant cannot be held liable for anything. A person on the Registry should not have to be concerned every single day about whether or not he or she is breaking some new idiotic law or not. Make it so that is not an issue, get the criminal governments to stop their propaganda war against "sex offenders", and then how could people on the Registries complain? The Registries would almost become acceptable and not anti-American. The criminal governments would simply keep information up-to-date and post it. They would no longer put out false statements about dangerous "sex offenders", advise people to ostracize Registrants, or carry out any other type of propaganda campaign.

And the Mongers could still have their "residential restrictions" and similar, worthless idiocy. But only for people who are on probation or parole. And, the person's supervising officer would look at each case individually and decide what is appropriate based on facts, not one-size-fits-none stupidity. Is there anyone who do not think that would be more moral, American, and intelligent? Anyone with a brain, really?

That's it. Do this and almost all of the problems of Registration disappear. We wouldn't be wasting billions of dollars in court or out in the street messing around with all this idiocy. The United States would almost be returned to the great country it almost once was. Certainly the greatest country in the world anyway.

But if not, we'll continue as we have and the criminal governments appear to be getting even more and more idiotic. We'll continue to try to force families from homes that they own because the home is suddenly "too close" to a swimming pool. We'll continue to force people (under the threat of a felony conviction and minimum 10 year sentence) to drive 50 miles to an office of the criminal government every 2 months to inform them of a new password for an e-mail address that the person's employer requires them to change often. We'll continue to do all sorts of similar brilliant, world-changing activities all under the lie of "public safety" and "protecting children". And we'll do all of this instead of reducing sexual offenses.

I doubt that the criminal governments are going to get smarter about this. A long time ago, when the government first started to become criminal, I decided that as long as these laws existed that I would ensure that at least for myself, they did more harm than good. I started a very long list of activities that I do on a regular basis that are completely legal but that are definitely not good for the United States. And I do nothing but add to that list year after year. I promise you that even a Registry Monger would have to be a complete moron to look at those activities and conclude that Registering me was a good idea and that it has made anyone "safer". A complete moron.

Some of the easy, fairly benign things that I now do is that I no longer give anything to charities (I used to give thousands a year and could do much, much more now); I don't give my time to charities; I no longer donate blood (used to as often as possible); I'm not an organ donor; I don't worry about being courteous to people, taking my turn, or being fair (so I'm just like the Mongers!); I don't worry about littering; I only help people I know; I don't worry about crimes or problems or reporting any of it to anyone; I don't help, ever interact with, or trust any law enforcement; and I spend a lot of time around children. I used to be a good citizen and I loved the United States, even wanted to be part of the military at one time, but Registration is very effective at destroying all that. At least in my case it undeniably has been. I don't like being like I am and I would like to be the good person that I was, but I can't. And that is what the Registration, etc. laws deserve.

Please forgive me for the length of this rant and if it is not well-organized or proofed. I just wanted to throw out some ideas and I don't have much time.