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Ruining Kids in Order To Save Them
Monday, January 25th, 2010My crime column this week looks at the boneheaded logic behind treating “sexting” teens as if they were child pornographers.
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I can’t believe our society does such a backwards and evil thing. Kids have no rights. I hope there is a push to bring minors their rights that they are owed. Women got ‘em, black Americans got theirs, gays are getting closer…it just seems like our government just has to mistreat somone and kids are the best victim right now. People who can’t vote and never will once they have been enslaved by the government for consentual activity.
Just call them pedophiles and know one ever assumes that it’s for being attracted to people their own age. Might as well call everyone a rapist for having sex out of wedlock. But I guess I shouldn’t give the sexual sadists in Washington any ideas.
Well crafted, sound, and reasoned. I’ve always been concerned about laws that levy adult punishment to minors – citizens that don’t have any say (i.e. vote) in such legislation. Why do we expect children to assume the same responsibility for certain behavior at an ever decreasing young age (e.g., “trail” as an adult), yet desire to prohibit certain other behavior at an increasing older age (e.g., drinking).
Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?
If Jeff Pierson was indicted, what are they going to do with all those mothers pimping their daughters in pre-school beauty pageants?
More police professionalism:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/shocker_cops_taser_jet_fan_h3GlWKllBM6uplf0dOyc5K
For the second time in as many weeks a visiting Jets fan is abused by law enforcement. I hope that the NFL never hits the jackpot and ends up giving a team home field advantage at the Super Bowl. It would give the local cops license to beat up on the visiting team’s attendees.
Damned good article Radley.
This whole trend has the feel of an insane parent killing their children in order to save their souls.
Wait a doggone second. Are you suggesting that children shouldn’t be crucified under laws that were passed to protect them? Does that mean you’re not impressed at how a law designed to control one activity can be ingeniously adapted to other purposes? Are you arguing with the idea that porn is in the eye of the beholder and that beholder often happens to be an authoritative expert also known as the prosecutor? Have you no faith in the American Justice System, Sir? Would you prefer that we simply let these little innocent children run around as easy prey for their own lustful urges? While we have sex offender registries to protect them from strangers, who, who I ask, is going to protect them from themselves? No! we must crack down now while it’s only porn, because (as we all know) porn leads to rape!
So can they charge children who masturbate with sexual abuse of a minor?
Sure. And then try them as adults. And you know how child abusers get treated in the Big House.
I used to abuse myself quite regularly when I was a kid.
Keep allowing the legal industry to create our laws and operate without supervision or meaningful regulation and we are seeing but the tip of the iceberg!
The LI is the only industry that is totally unregulated by the fact that they create, enforce, argue and judge their actions. The club always wins!
Remember that any industry that fails to regulate itself, successfully, is begging for outside intervention.
Get the creeps out! Send them home. Do not elect lawyers to any office where a law degree is not required! EVER!!!
Totally agree with TC (#10), the ONLY jobs to which a lawyer should be elected are Attorney General and District Attorney. I’ve left judge out of that listing as I am beginning to think judges should NOT be lawyers first; or, if we are going to continue raising lawyers to judgeships, at the very least we should limit the pool of possible judges to those who were defenders and bar corporate lawyers and prosecutors from ever becoming judges.
Make it clear to all first year law students: “Want to someday become a judge? Then do NOT enter corporate law or criminal prosecution.”
#10,
Lawyers are the only profession which feel that they not only get to regulate themselves, but regulate others. It is inherent to the mindset of their profession. What is needed is for other professions to sit on the regulatory bodies that “regulate” the legal profession. The bars should be staffed entirely by doctors, engineers and high-skilled blue collar workers like plumbers and electricians ;)
Minors have no lobby.
Once again, it all comes down to money.
Did ya see, NJ is attempting to go ahead with Kyleigh’s Law:
minors must post special decals on their cars. I’m not joking.
As a regular commentator an attorney, the lawyer-bashing hurts. :)
Not all of us are evil. Lots of us are trying to get rid of all the bullshit and change the system, you know.
(and why bar corporate lawyers? Not like I have any desire to be a judge someday, but all I do all day is trudge through SEC and Delaware corporate rules. It’s quite boring, actually)
Quoting: “But federal prosecutors argued the models struck “illegally provocative,” “lascivious,” and “coy” poses that could entice pedophiles.”
Does anyone else here remember the old, old CBS sitcom “The Governor and J.J.”? One of their final episodes I’ve always remembered – it involved the “state censorship council” which was part of the office of the Governor of the show’s title. They received a shipment of books to review and decide if they would be banned.
But, the books they received were not those intended – they were textbooks and WWII history books, etc.
Yet, the “council” found “smut” in each and every one of them. One exchange I remember: “You say this book on use of Tanks in WWII is smut?”
“Yes, one man would drive and the other would sit on top and tap him on the shoulders with his feet to tell him where to steer.”
“How is that smut?”
“Foot fetish!!”
Exactly the same mindset. Cretins.
A child is a child until it is politically expedient to charge them as an adult.
Some of the “age” laws are really fouled up. For example, it is perfectly legal to star in an X-rated movie at the age of 18, but, you can’t have a beer until the age of 21.
Let me see if I have this right. As long as everybody involved is under the age of 18, they are perfectly free to shoot pictures of other people under the age of 18 having sex? They can sent these pictures across the internet and as long as the people they send them to are under the age of 18, there is no problem. If somebody over the age of 18, ends up with any of these pictures, they get charged for kidde porn. Sounds clear to me. Also sounds like a great way for somebody under 18 to make alot of money with no risk to themselves. Just make sure you wipe your hard drive real good the day before your 18th birthday.