The other day, crackpot federal judge Richard Matsch ruled Colorado public officials had to kill the state’s sex offender registry and pay reparations to sex offenders. The lawyer for the predatory scum, errr, sex offender plaintiffs, is working at least two other similar cases, and in one of the cases, the ACLU is also involved on the side of the rapists and against the public.
This item popped up on Fox News September 6, 2017:
“DAVENPORT, Fla. – Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd put out a warning to sexual offenders and predators, and even those with outstanding warrants, that they’re not welcome at evacuation shelters.
Sheriff Judd Tweeted early Wednesday that sworn law enforcement officers will be at shelters checking IDs and that those who are sex offenders or predators are not allowed to stay. He went on to say that anyone with an outstanding warrant will also be escorted from the shelter to the Polk County Jail.
Other Twitter users, including the ACLU of Florida, fired back at Judd in response to the sheriff’s series of Tweets, saying he is exploiting natural disaster and endangering lives.
The ACLU released a statement on Twitter saying people with warrants are dealing with non-violent offenses and pose no risk to those in a shelter and shouldn’t have to worry about facing a natural disaster without aid to avoid going to jail over things like unpaid traffic tickets. “With a storm of Irma’s size and ferocity bearing down on the people of our state, Sheriff Judd should be working to prepare his community, not burnishing his Joe Arpaio-style ‘tough cop’ credentials with a series of irresponsible tweets,” the ACLU said.
Sheriff Judd says he stands by his statements. “If you show up at a shelter, we’re going to shelter you safely, but it’s going to be in the county jail because we have a legal obligation to execute the warrant,” Sheriff Judd told FOX 13.
The sheriff says that his tweets give all offenders fair warning, four or five days in advance, so those with warrants still have time to take care of their infractions and then go to a shelter if they choose to, or make other arrangements.”
Fox News noted: “Sexual predators and offenders, however, are never welcome at shelters, he (Sheriff Judd) said, and which is something they are told when they are placed on the sex offender registry.”
“In a time of potential disaster, there needs to be a place that you can run to and absolutely know you’re safe,” said Judd. “Do you want your five-year-old daughter sleeping next to a sexual predator?”
Why didn’t the ACLU offer to house all the sex offenders and other predators at their shelter?
Trick question.
The ACLU doesn’t have a shelter. Anywhere.
It’s like when the ACLU attacks Catholic hospital staffers for not performing abortions. Why doesn’t the ACLU offer abortions in their own hospitals? Because the ACLU never built a hospital in all the years of their miserable existence. They don’t do charity. What they do is complain and file lawsuits aimed at extorting the money of good people so they can do more suing and extorting, in my opinion. Besides, the ACLU is not in the hospital business because germicides don’t play nice with germs like them.
The ACLU and others like them lie about the recidivism rate of sex offenders in arguing against government sex offender registries. (But they don’t argue against fringe groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center tagging many normal organizations as hate groups even though fringe people use the info to shoot people with these organizations.)
If sex offenders really don’t commit many repeat sex offenses, like the opponents of the public wrongly claim, then it means sex offender registries which publicly label sex offenders as predatory scum are a good idea because they keep many young girls and young boys away from these monsters.
The people of Polk County, Florida elected Grady Judd sheriff to protect and to serve. Homeland security begins when women and children are protected … especially from vermin like child predators.
Sheriff Judd even offered to help these vermin if they would temporarily ride out the hurricane in the county jail. The child predators could also go out of state, like to Hollywood, or to a public school teachers’ convention, where they could blend in with their peers.
If you are a registered sexual predator, a condition of your release is to stay away from children and obey other state laws regarding your proximity to children. No state suspends enforcement of laws against murder, kidnapping, rape, or robbery during a natural disaster. Why should they suspend enforcement of sex offender laws?
If you are wanted on an arrest warrant, you have screwed up. Many of you with warrants are losers who don’t show up in traffic court. Many of you with warrants are wanted for acts like rape, assault, robbery, and sometimes murder. Or even if they want you for a lesser crime you skipped on, you have a past of violent behavior. (ACLU’s lawyers know this but their people choose to lie about it anyway.) It’s the job of police and sheriff’s deputies to arrest you if they find you. This doesn’t change during a hurricane.
I like Grady Judd due to a case he had to deal with when another self-anointed virtue signaler sued him for being charitable. He has a history of stepping on roaches, not kowtowing to them.
Here’s what happened:
In December 2010, militant atheist and former Philadelphia lawyer EllenBeth Wachs, an official of the group Atheists of Florida, decided to hassle the sheriff in the Florida county she had carpetbagged to. Why? Because Sheriff Judd, in the spirit of the Christmas season, gave some extra basketball hoops from the county jail to (gasp!) local church groups.
EllenBeth also sued Lakeland city council in federal court on similar grounds. She was mad they opened their meetings with (shudder!) a prayer. She criticized the Polk County school board for similar atrocities.
Sheriff Judd or someone else in local government noted something fishy about EllenBeth’s signature, and her bragging about her lawyer status. She signed her name with “Esquire,” which is a title some attorneys give themselves. Since EllenBeth was not licensed to practice law in Florida, this could technically be a law violation. Sheriff’s deputies in March 2011 arrested EllenBeth with a charge of falsely representing herself as a lawyer. They also searched her house and found marijuana and a pipe to smoke it in her safe.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board’s website I checked in 2012 listed EllenBeth Wachs as “retired,” although she was only about 50 in 2012. It also listed two of her aliases. She did not have a license to practice law in Florida, according to the Florida Bar website when I checked it in 2012.
EllenBeth said with a straight face the marijuana wasn’t hers, even though the deputies found it in her SAFE in her house. Who was she securing it for if not herself? Ironically, given her marijuana bust, she appeared in an on-line video extolling sobriety. Likewise, the actor who was the voice of McGruff (the crime dog) got busted for being (allegedly) a marijuana grower not in Colorado or Washington.
EllenBeth apparently didn’t like a basketball-playing neighbor boy either. So a few days after her licenseless lawyer bust, she reportedly tried a unique way to run him off. According to the boy’s father, EllenBeth started making noises like a woman in orgasmic ecstacy loud enough to come out of her window and be heard easily by dad and son. She allegedly kept moaning, “Oh John! Oh John!” in increasingly louder tones until she was shrieking. The dad, who knows what a woman’s orgasmic moaning and keening sounds like, called the law for this bizarre disturbance of the peace.
When sheriff’s deputies arrived, they found a guy in the house with EllenBeth. It is not illegal for an ex-lawyer to have sex with any other consenting adult, but it is illegal for her to disturb the peace. So the deputies arrested her. The disturbing part to EllenBeth about her disturbing the peace bust was that it was a felony charge because an underage boy was technically involved as an unwilling listener.
EllenBeth claimed she made the noises to summon the guy in her house for help with her meds. Most women don’t need to fake orgasm in exhibitionist fashion like Meg Ryan to get help or at least attention. Did EllenBeth need some kind of fire put out? Or maybe just some different drugs?
After the second arrest, EllenBeth filed suit against Sheriff Judd, claiming he targeted her as an atheist. He said she never had him served with any lawsuit, so he evidently treated it like a joke. He also said if she obeyed the law she wouldn’t get arrested.
A Polk County prosecutor and EllenBeth’s lawyer worked out a plea bargain to keep her out of serious trouble in August 2011. The judge ordered EllenBeth not to present herself as a lawyer or use the term “Esquire” with her name, which would mislead some to think she still was a lawyer, unless she decided to earn a lawyer’s license in Florida. He also ordered her not to contact the neighbors who complained about her morning moanings. She pleaded no contest to drug paraphernalia possession.
In exchange, the prosecutor dropped marijuana possession charges against her. The judge allowed the felony sexual noise charge to fade, on the condition she obey the terms of the plea bargain and stay out of further trouble for the next two years. He also withheld a finding of guilt on her, so that means technically she has not been convicted of any crimes in connection with the incident. She had to pay $800 or so in court costs and sheriff investigation costs.
In October 2011, claiming vindication, EllenBeth dropped her federal lawsuit against Sheriff Judd. In February 2012, a federal judge dismissed EllenBeth’s lawsuit against the city of Lakeland.
Monetarily, the winners in the case were the lawyer the city had to hire, and the lawyer EllenBeth hired.
Lakeland officials did successfully defend the rights of expression of their officials and citizens. Cities with less money or less sturdy public officials would have folded.
Will the ACLU or other nuisance litigation group do something useful against a town like suing its officials for theft in office or unethical bid awarding or predatory foreclosure? No.
Will such groups sue a school district or teachers’ union for protecting teachers who sexually abuse students or deprive kids of a decent education because they are substandard teachers? No.
Will such groups sue New York City officials for allowing a mosque near Ground Zero – thus urinating on the memories of the dead and the psyches of their loved ones? No.
Instead, they sue a town for having a Nativity scene in front of town hall. Or they sue a school district for having a moment of silence before a football game. Or they might lean on officials to honor Islam. Or they sue states for having sexual offender registries and threaten to sue county sheriffs for keeping rapists out of storm shelters.
In many cases, the ACLU or a similar nuisance litigation group doesn’t have to pay legal fees if a judge throws out their case against a local government, but gets to collect legal fees if the local government loses or settles. They’re gambling in court with house money.
Even if the ACLU or a similar nuisance litigation group wins nominal damages, they often win legal fees, which they unethically jack up through the stratosphere.
So many small communities, faced with the prospect of getting a lawyer billing hosefest, fold.
Letting the town jerk thwart the will of the great majority of the town because he or she was recruited by a predatory outside group with an ambulance chaser mentality and millions of dollars collected from people who live nowhere near the town is the very negation of democratic government.
You and others who care about your children will have to get involved in elections where judges, politicians who appoint judges and police chiefs, sheriffs, school board officials, and legislators are chosen. At the very least, do some research on the candidates to see what they have done, if anything, to protect children – and let family and friends know – before your vote.
You and others who agree with me will also have to get members of Congress and state legislators to adjust the laws regarding civil rights lawsuits by the ACLU and similar groups. Since these groups are nonprofits that are funded by donations, government grants, and the taxpayers (whose money they take when judges side with the groups), there should be a cap on legal fees and awards in such lawsuits.
If a man on trial for murder has to rely on a public defender getting paid $50 or so an hour, then it is only fair for the ACLU and similar vexatious litigators to get no more in legal fees if they win a case due to a corrupt or crackpot judge.
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END NOTES
Fox News TV station WTVT, Tampa area, is the source of the story on Sheriff Judd barring sex offenders from shelters.
Info on the McGruff the Crime Dog voice guy being busted came from a 2/6/2011 report from CBS Houston. They reported authorities in Texas raided John Morales’ home after finding many marijuana seeds in his car. They found about 1000 marijuana plants, a grenade launcher, several other weapons, and several thousand rounds of ammunition. Who did he think he was, a newly-armed USDA officer, bent on taking down a local farmer who sells unpasteurized milk to health food types? Morales drew a 16-year sentence for the various offenses. He got a bite out of crime.
Info on the EllenBeth Wachs case comes from 5/3/2011, 5/6/2011, 8/26/2011, 10/24/2011, 2/23/2012, and 2/25/2012 articles in the Lakeland, Florida Ledger, a 6/24/2011 article in The Blaze, a 6/24/2011 article in the New York Times, and an opinion piece by Polk County lawyer Kemp Brinson. The New York Times writer was a little snide toward Sheriff Grady Judd for fighting against pornography and child molesters – exactly what one would expect from this grossly overrated fish wrap, which still boasts a Pulitzer Prize for covering up Stalin’s murder of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s.
