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This news letter brings important information about what is happening inside SOSEN, Sex Offender Support and Education Network in their efforts to educate political figures, mothers, wives, girlfriends, and others including the public about the punitive sex offender legislations, laws, legal systems, and judiciary in their collective treatment of all who are forced to wear the label of sex offender.

 

This first news article concerns a June 15th event in Miami Florida where protesters from various groups peacefully assembled to bring national attention to the sex offender residency restrictions that have put several men, sex offenders under the Causeway bridge as official place of residence.

 

In Miami Florida this situation has been going on for months with no relief from the city of Miami nor the state of Florida. Severe and punitive residency restrictions across America are forcing men, women, and children into homelessness, joblessness, and destitution all under a stated intent in sex offender legislations, for the safety of the public from sex offenders, which I will remind you are children as young as five years of age, children labeled by a growingly callous and indifferent population.

 

In the effort to bring attention to these matters organizers of the Miami Bridge Event were met with hostility from the Miami police and other Miami officials. Below is part of what transpired on that day, June 15, 2007:

 

Update:
Hello everyone,

I know all of you have been anxiously awaiting news on the outcome of the event in Miami that we have all been working so hard on. A late change in plans was put in place to hold the press conference at the Miami Chamber of Commerce located directly across the street from the Holocaust Memorial.

Terry Brown paid for the membership to the chamber and the conference room was secured. On the application we told the Chamber we were a human rights organization and that we were holding a press conference.

Yesterday, I spent about three hours on the phone with Miami police Captain James Hyde, who did everything in his power to try and head us off at the pass. He initially told me there was a Federal ruling which was just handed down barring us from holding the event at the Chamber. This later turned out to be false. He flat out told me we should have a "plan C" which left me with the impression that he and other Miami officials were going to force the Chamber to renege on our use of the room, which they ultimately did. Terry is in possession of a letter which clearly demonstrates that this is in fact what occurred.

It is my belief that Miami City officials strong armed the chamber of commerce (which is privately owned) to bar us from holding the press conference inside of their facility. I will be writing a detailed article and account on this later this evening.

When the group arrived at the Chamber this morning the area was inundated with police. The police stopped everyone in the area grilling them on what their business there was. They threatened the individuals in our group that if they stepped one foot on the Holocaust Memorial or touched any part of the memorial, they would immediately be arrested.

Journalists and onlookers alike were sent away. Tom did manage to hook up with a journalist from the Miami Herald and he and our members regrouped under the Julia Tuttle causeway. They had their speech and recorded everything.

The ACLU is involved but I have no further details on that at this time.

If there were any doubt in anyone's mind that democracy is dead and that, in fact, we have ultimately lost our most basics right of all, the freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble. What happened today should cancel out any doubt.

Amanda
Posted by autumn from SoClear

 

Additional information is found here: Press release and other information.

As more information is gathered it will be shown in this newsletter. 

Here you will also find links and other information on legislations, news articles, and other matterial all brought together to inform and educate the public, news organizations, and political figures.

The Miami Bridge Event is not over for it has spurned other battle grounds against entrenced ideas that are creating hundreds of thousands, and soon to be millions of sex offenders in the United States of America.