Where is All The Anger???

Over six years ago when the police first raided my home and our lives were put on this unforeseen path I knew and I learned the reasons behind all this, I still knew deep inside that my husband was not a threat to anyone.  Our marriage was not perfect, but I knew that he would never harm another human let alone a child.  I now had the world telling me that he was a monster, someone to shun, someone to turn away from, and someone who should be locked away forever. 

It is in all this that I started to get angry.  I was mad at my husband for not getting help sooner and mad at the pain he inflicted on our family.  But that is not what really made my blood boil.  It is how the system, society, and all the officials now view and control our family.  They can tell us where we can and can not live.  They tell us where we can and can not go for vacation.  They control the time we spend with family and friends and where my husband can work and what hours.  They do not permit him to be a part of our children's lives by restricting him from attending school functions.

Other families in the same situation have been prevented from spending time with extended family members, prevented from seeing their grandchildren and told that they could not travel with family for vacation.  Some are told that they can not spend time with their own children unsupervised. So my question is, where is all the other families anger?  I used my anger to try and change the public's perception of the sex offender label, I try to educate others about the dangers of a pornography addiction and effect change in any way I can, whether by writing a politician or offer support to others going through a similar situation.  Where are all the other angry people?

There are over 750,000 people listed on the sex offender registry, if every person on the registry had parents and a sibling or spouse who stood up for them, that would be a voice of over two million people.  Are all these other family members  content to sit by and watch as the country treats our loved ones as sub human?  Quietly sit by as the government stripes away the civil rights of a select group of citizens.  But that is OK because they are no longer important citizens.  How much longer before the government decides that drunk drivers need to be on a list, animal abusers, former drug users, and gun owners?  If we stay on the current path, the government will not only be in my house telling my family how we can live our lives, but they will be in your home as well.  And you can be proud that you all sat by and let it happen.  By not standing up now, you will be responsible for the government in your home and once they are in there, they will be hard to get out. 

Where are all the other family members fighting for the rights of their loved ones?  Do they just bury their heads in the sand and hope that things will magically change?  Or maybe they don't mind that the government is telling them exactly what to do?  There are so many small groups out there trying to make changes but the politically correct populous is so much louder.  We need voices to teach and share the truth about the real recidivism numbers for this group, share that the research supports that an underage pornography charge does not equal a hands on offense and that many of these guys go on to live productive lives and never re-offend.   Is the fear to overwhelming that they would rather keep quiet than change an injustice? 

Fear keeps many away, but there is so much you could do without putting your face out in the public eye.  Fear of being found out, fear of being harassed by neighbors and fear of being shunned by friends.  I had lived through all that fear, and my greater fear is having my children grow up in a world where our government can plant itself in our private lives and claim it is for the good of others.  Fear that my children will live in a world that civil rights have been slowly striped away and I did nothing to stop it. 

So I say again, where are all those other angry family members?  Why are they not a loud voice out there screaming for the rights of their loved ones?   I can not sit by and not fight for an injustice that has been thrown in my lap.  This is my path to follow, I just wonder where are all the others that should be on this path with me?