FITS 2024
Make It Stop. Join The Fight To End Human Trafficking.
Dakota Fitzgerald, GCGOP 2nd Vice Chair; Understanding the law, as a Republic, is crucial to our overall success in combatting Human Trafficking and provides We the People with the knowledge we need to press on. While strides have been made and the arrests continue to increase, there is still more work to be done. As free citizens of this great nation we have a responsibility to influence our legislators and implore them to adequately represent their constituents. That is why I would like to take a moment to discuss two bills being proposed to the House of Representatives that can greatly impact the demand for Human Trafficking through combatting child pornography.
H4535 – Device Filter Legislation: Protecting children from harmful images online; requiring manufacturers to default filters to “ON” rather than “OFF”.
Problem: Adolescent and preteen children are consuming hard core pornography with unfiltered internet accessible devices. Pornagraphy is a highly addictive agent and children are especially vulnerable; for many, it serves as their sex education. A nationally representative survey found that 64% of young people, ages 13-24, actively seek out pornography weekly or more often. Porn consumption continues to be an issue as the Navigators Christian Ministry at Clemson University reports most men and 25-30% of women students in Navigators struggle with pornography addiction.
Solution: Virtually all internet accessible devices are manufactured with built in filtering capabilities and parental controls features, but the filters are defaulted to “OFF”. This legislation mandates that the devices be manufactured so that the filters be defaulted to “ON” when activated in South Carolina.
According to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, “Without this legislation it is not possible for parents to effectively protect their children from the massive amounts of harmful material inundating them online.”
Reasoning: Why Filters?
- Devices are currently manufactured with filters built in but defaulted to “OFF”.
- Parents/guardians find turning filters “ON” to be very burdensome; default “ON” rather than default “OFF” addresses this.
- With the default “ON”, parents/guardians may control access to speech harmful to children.
- Placing filters on the device itself, instead of on the network, protects minors on the internet wherever the device is used.
Free Speech?
- This legislation does not restrict adult access to speech as it filters speech at the device level rather than universally restricting the source internet.
- Adults may elect to consume pornography by deactivating the filters on the device with a passcode.
- This legislation allows the state to mandate the use of filters while empowering parents to determine what material is appropriate for their children.
This legislation is a necessary incremental step in advancing South Carolina’s legitimate interest to protect our children from harmful online materials without restricting adult access to protected speech. Parents, guardians, and the SC Attorney General will be able to bring civil actions against: adults who deactivate filters on devices used by minors and manufacturers of devices who do not comply with the law.
H4563 – Cyber Sexual Harassment aka Revenge Porn: Protection against the online sharing of private images.
Problem: Cyber Sexal Harassment (Revenge Porn) is an action taken by a person who:
- Receives a private sexually explicit self-image from another person who sends it with a reasonable expectation of privacy that the image will not be shared, and
- The identity of the provider of the image can be recognized from it, and
- The person receiving the private image publishes it to the internet without consent.
The sharing of private sexually explicit self-images has become a frequent practice amongst both the juvenile and adult populations. The publication of these images on the internet without consent has also become common.
Unsuspecting juveniles are often preyed upon by online predators who solicit the images and use them to coerce the juvenile into sex trafficking and other illicit activities. Many juveniles share the images with those they consider friends only to find the image posted on a social media platform when the relationship turns sour. Once the image is posted on the internet it is almost impossible to have it removed, especially if the image goes viral. South Carolina is currently 1 out of 3 states without a Revenge Porn statute.
Solution: Law enforcement is asking the South Carolina Legislature to pass this statute. Currently, the only law available to S.C. law enforcement to sanction this activity as possession and distribution of child pornography. Law enforcement is reluctant to charge juveniles with this crime because it entails major criminal penalties inappropriate for what is often thoughtless juvenile behavior.
This Call to Action will take no more than 5-10 minutes and embodies what it means to be an American. Please reach out to your State House Representative and urge them to support these two bills. If you’re not sure who your Representatives are please go to https://www.scstatehouse.gov/
“Dear Representative,
I live in ________ and I am your constituent. Please sign on as a cosponsor to
H4535 – Lin Bennett, Youth Protection from Internet Pornography Act and H4563 – Chris Wooten, Cyber Sexual Harassment Act (aka Revene Porn Statute). H4535 addresses the fact that young people have unrestricted access to internet pornography through their smart phones. Pornography filters are built into these devices but they are sold with the filters turned “OFF” by default. Most parents do not know filters are available on the devices. Lin Bennett’s bill would require the internet accessible devices be sold with the filters turned “ON”. Please help protect our children from harmful pornography. H4563 addresses Cyber Sexual Harassment. Juveniles often share sexually explicit self-images with others. When the relationship sours the person receiving the images often posts it on social media as an act of revenge. It is nearly impossible to get the social media platform to take down the image causing the victim relentless embarrassment. H4563 makes this a crime. South Carolina is one of only three states without a revenge porn statute. Therefore, law enforcement does not have a needed tool at its disposal to deal with a crime that has become common. Please cosponsor these bills and call on Chairman Murphy to schedule hearings with the House Judiciary Committee. Thank you for choosing to be a part of the solution to combat Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in South Carolina.”
Be sure to include your name and town and only identify yourself as a constituent if you are emailing the Representative for your district.
See Dakota’s most recent pieces on “The Fight to End Human Trafficking” below.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Dakota Fitzgerald is 2nd Vice Chair of the Greenville County GOP, an America First MAGA Patriot whose vision is to embolden others to embrace, wholly, their duty and contribution to humanity while forming a more perfect Union and fighting to End Human Trafficking.
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WE NEED YOU …
No more excuses. We started mySCGOP.com to purge the RINOs in the SCGOP, and we stated mySCGOP.news because the mainstream #FakeNews media is in bed with our local politicians and government. No more will stories be swept under the rug. If you have a story that needs to be exposed … send it to us and we will get it out there. Have an opinion piece, or want to write a series, submit your writings to us at mySCGOP@protonmail.com. See something we can do better, let us know. We are about #WeThePeople … so here is your chance to stop complaining and start do something about it. They are watching and reading … let’s start exposing it all.
You have to watch the video below if you want to fully understand the ridiculous nature of what the SCGOP “establish” does.
There at two major parts to H 4066 (HERE) which was filed this past Wednesday, and had a hearing the next morning at 9AM (unheard-of!!!).
Now this is incredible. You can read all about it in the article below from our friends at Palmetto State Watch … but watch the video. This “Election” bill was filed at 3PM on Wednesday, added to an agenda at 5PM … and had a sub-committee meeting with TESTIMONY from nonother than DREW MCKISSICK at 9AM the next morning.
Don’t let anyone ever tell you legislation “takes time” to get through the system. The SC House BROKE ITS OWN RULES (or at least bent them substantially) to move this at the speed of light with the hope nobody noticed it.
Read the details below from Palmetto State Watch … but we have a few suggested AMENDMENTS our legislators should all support coming on this bill that will FLIP the the bill on its head. Drew opened a can of worms in his efforts to cheat #WeThePeople … but let’s turn it into good.
#1. The bill seeks to quash any primary election appeals within the SCGOP by requiring a$5,000 bond. The reason? It is too expensive for the SCGOP to hold a meeting of the State Executive Committee in Columbia with a room that will hold 100 people and provide snacks. Seriously, that is in the video. [And the most ridiculous thing about this bill … if the “jury” rules against your appeal, the “jury” keeps your $5,000 bond!!! How is that for the new American Jurisprudence. Shame on Drew McKissick!!!]
#2. The bill seeks to consolidate “power” (for lack of a better term) behind Drew McKissick by reducing the influence of LARGER “Republican” Counties. The reason? Drew McKissick can’t find a venue in Columbia SC that will hold the 2,000 people a large SCGOP Convention would need. Seriously … he can’t find a venue … and he is admitting he wants a SMALLER SCGOP CONVENTION!?!?!?!
As we teach … they want to keep it small to control it all!!!
We will let our ELECTION INTEGRITY friends take the lead on fixing the (#1) the election appeal provisions … but we have the FIX for (#2) Drew McKissick’s attempt to consolidate his “power” …
… AND WE THANK #fireDREW FOR OPENING THE DOOR FOR US!!!
Had Drew McKissick not tried this “power play”, no one would be talking about this issue … and now EVERYBODY is, so thank your DREW!!!
First … look at what he is trying to do with H 4066:
It is clear what SCGOP Chairman Drew McKissick is attempting to do with H4066 is to consolidate his “power” by taking delegates away from conservative “Republican” areas and spreading it around to smaller areas (where he has “personal” influence) and to DEMOCRAT areas of South Carolina.
THE FIX:
Fortunately, Drew McKissick’s crazy “power play” has now opened the door for us to FIX what is wrong with the legal representation structure of the SCGOP in the first place … and here are the two major fixes that are now being proposed:
It is clear what SCGOP Chairman Drew McKissick is attempting to do with H4066 is to consolidate his “power” by taking delegates away from conservative “Republican” areas and spreading it around to smaller areas (where he has “personal” influence) and to DEMOCRAT areas of South Carolina.
1. DELEGATE VOTER BASE AMENDMENT: H4066 takes convention delegates away from large counties and transfers them to small counties where Drew McKissick has more “personal” influence. Like the US House and SC House of Representatives, there is no +2 (current) or +3 (H4066 proposed) provided additional representation to smaller counties. Delegates should be based on actual party voters … the actual constituents of our representatives … and that can easily be done using the previous November’s “top of the ticket” voters (i.e., the Presidential race & SC Governor’s race). This is exactly how State Law already allocates PRECINCT DELEGATES (using “R” voters, not population).
2. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT: Why does Greenville County with 108,222 Republican voters in the 2022 Governors race have 1 vote on the SCGOP State Executive Committee, while Allendale County which had 562 Republican voters in the same race have 1 vote? Greenville has literally 192 times more Republicans than Allendale, but the same representation one the State Executive Committee? That is clearly not fair and just on example of the inequities of the system designed to protect moderates. Like your local County Legislative Delegations, votes should be allocated (as with convention delegates, and as now done in the SC Senate having constituent based districts as opposed to one vote per county).
Drew McKissick’s GREEDY “Power Play” just may get this whole system FIXED for #WeThePeople!!!
FITS 2024
ReOrg Election Law Violations – Call Your State Senator (and SLED?)
It sometimes seems that no public officials will DO THEIR JOB!!!
In our observations, they do not do their jobs because they are SCARED of certain legislators … otherwise called the “good ole boy network”. It is destroying SC and must stop!!!
Weeks ago we reported to the SC State Election Commission (SEC) that the SCGOP has, in an unprecedented move, “taken over” the Precinct ReOrg & County Convention in Greenville, and that move was ILLEGAL.
It is a CLEAR VIOLATION of SC Code Section 7-9-70. You know … it VIOLATES SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION LAW!!!
Read about it by clicking HERE or the image below.
Worse yet, the Chairman of the Greenville County Republican Party … the effected County … has called SEC Executive Director Howard Knapp and he has refused to return the call.
Why would a Mr. Knapp refuse to return the call from the GCRP Chairman & others? Is there something “more important” in February 2023? We know of no elections … so what is more important … other than making sure he does not say something that would get the SEC in more trouble?
STEP 1: Call Your Senator!!!
If Mr. Knapp is not going to do his job … he should not be CONFIRMED by the SC Senate.
If Mr. Knapp is going to do the bidding of political bosses like Drew McKissick … and aid them in VIOLATING THE LAW … he should not be CONFIRMED by the SC Senate.
Ask your SC State Senator to INSIST that Mr. Knapp DO HIS JOB!!! You all have read the law (HERE) … it is not complicated … and if he does not do his job and YOUR SENATOR votes to confirm him … you know “who” your SC State Senator serves, and it is not #WeThePeople!!!
STEP 2: Report to SLED!!!
Next, do know that SLED has a new reporting system for election law violations. Section 7-9-70 is in Title 7, ELECTIONS.
Let’s see if SLED and Chief Keel will “promptly review all reported violations and take action as it determines appropriate.” Section 7-25-30.
Stay tuned …
Noted Irony: Whereas a lot of us are involved as we are NOT happy with the 2022 election law changes … the new law really did not do much to add to Election Transparency (or Integrity) … but both of the above two points (Senate confirmation & SLED reporting) are new to the Law. Wouldn’t that be ironic if the these changes STOP Drew McKissick’s tyranny. 😉
Let’s see if the new 2022 Election Law additions are worth anything …
FITS 2024
President Trump Endorses 2023 Precinct ReOrg
How do you eat an Elephant?
One bite at a time!
Do you want to want to get rid of the RINOs (“Republicans In Name Only) in South Carolina? Did you know SC is ranked the MOST LIBERAL “RED” STATE in the nation? YES, we have a RINO problem right here in SC and #ReOrg2023 is the next step in fixing that problem.
Who, more than any other politician, wants to get rid of RINOs? Perhaps President TRUMP? Well President Trump has seen the way and it is with our friend, Arizona Attorney & West Point Graduate Dan Schultz’s www.PrecinctStrategy.com.
On February 27, 2022 President TRUMP endorsed Precinct ReOrg Strategy:
“Just heard about an incredible effort underway that will strengthen the Republican Party,” Trump said Sunday in a statement emailed to his supporters. “If members of our Great movement start getting involved (that means YOU becoming a precinct committeeman for your voting precinct), we can take back our great Country from the ground up.”
Others are huge fans of #ReOrg2023 being the way to “TAKE BACK” our Republican Party such as Steve Bannon and General Mike Flynn. Watch this video below where Steve interviews Dan Schultz on WAR ROOM. https://youtu.be/INf7l-uHM9Q
Q: How do you eat an Elephant?
A: One bite at a time!
Let’s take back our great State of South Carolina from the RINO Establishment one precinct at a time … let’s “take back our great Country from the ground up.”
Get involved TODAY → mySCGOP.com/join
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