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Current events: November 22, 2024

Judge (U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton) rejects request to block passport marker law A federal judge declined Wednesday to immediately block a law that requires a marker to be placed in the passports of people convicted of sex offenses. (SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press, April 13, 2016) Phase two of Operation Spade The United States Postal Inspection Service represented by US Postal Inspector Wylie Christopher is now using the AZOV customer database to compile targets for a sting operation, sending e-mails to invite targets to download child pornography on a USPIS-controlled undercover website similar to their Operation Insider with the Insider Video Club/Award Films International costumer database. These new defendants are listed under the new sub-heading Phase Two Defendants on the Boywiki Azov Films Prosecutions page. (April 9,2016) The U.S. Congress Has Successfully Extended the “Megan” Franchise We lost the battle, brewing for some eight years in Congress, which will effectively stop those of us, U.S. 'registered sex offenders', from venturing beyond our own countries. The enactment of International Megan's Law is not the end of the war, however, as we are fighting back against this injustice in the courts and, to the extent that we wield any influence, in the media. (David Kennerly, March 6, 2016) Two gay trilogies worth a read Many same-sex-attracted MAPs these days profess to feel completely separate from the gay community (sorry, LGBT-ETC-but-no-P community), but in reality, writings that are potentially relevant to us get published fairly often by members of that community. The opposite may happen, too – useful stuff published within our community may be out there for those LGBTs who are brave enough to take advantage. (Book review, Bernie Najarian, March 27, 2016)