THE RIDICULOUS
See NAMBLA's press release regarding this ridiculous association at
www.nambla.org: "Soft on NAMBLA? The pro-pedophilia book was published by the same homosexual company, the now-defunct Alyson Publications, that Kevin Jennings used to publish his first two books."
http://americansfortruth.com/news/break ... books.html
"It's official: High school kids are no longer allowed to have any fun. Seriously. High school streakers are sex offenders?! Give us a break."
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009 ... _schoo.php
Idiots who don't understand human sexuality are crying that the sky is falling. Anyone who was a kid before the current long running sex panic would remember common sex play that could send the same kids to jail today: "Children are committing sexual assaults in alarming numbers, with five times more attacks last year than there were five years ago.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/k ... 5788054098
More youthful hijinks criminalized: "25 Chicago Students Arrested for a Middle-School Food Fight "
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/us/11 ... ss&emc=rss
"Moose Lake sex offender program officials say the new plasma-screen TVs have some clinical benefit. Some offenders say they waste a lot of tax money."
http://www.startribune.com/local/648597 ... _Yyc:aUUsZ
This from Australia should have ring a familiar note to those who know of or remember the Communist scare of the 50's. In the US and abroad, "pedophiles" are the new "commies": "A full and immediate investigation must be made into claims a pedophile ring is operating inside Customs, Family First senator Steve Fielding says."
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-na ... -hclp.html
THE SUBLIME (RATIONALITY IN EVIDENCE)
"Our society has a rather poor track record when it comes to respecting the validity of certain ‘mind-types’. We once tried to 'cure' homosexuality with conversion therapy. Today there’s an effort to cure autism and Asperger’s syndromea development the autistic rights people have railed against. And in the future we may consider curing criminals of their anti-social or deviant behavioura potentially thorny issue to be sure."
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky20091020/
"Disproportionate Sentencing for Possession of Child Pornography: Witchcraft Trials of the Modern Age?"
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? ... id=1457197
"Insignia's Little Buddy Child Tracker encourages kids to run away, disown parents"
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insi ... o-run-awa/
"Imprisoning a Child for Life"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opini ... l?_r=1&hpw
THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST
"According to a long, disturbing article in Vanity Fair, online predators who seek out sex with kids are much less numerous than we think and police efforts to catch them may be imprisoning innocent men."
http://jezebel.com/5396202/to-catch-a-n ... e-innocent
And here is the full article. It is long but well worth reading.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... ors-200912
This is even more tragic. Because of the mistake, this man's daughter was unable to get necessary medical attention and died. "An Australian wrongly spent more than two years in jail for child rape after the Australian Federal Police and the federal prosecutor denied the existence of crucial documents that would have exonerated him."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busines ... 5797555503
My correspondent who sends most of these links says: "I don't like the bitch, but this helps to show how broken the child porn laws are."
http://www.momlogic.com/2009/11/carrie_ ... _conse.php
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/12/did- ... e-prejean/
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencin ... ntage.html
DOUBTS
"In our new bizarre world of sexual offender legislation each child is a victim and a perpetrator."
http://prorev.com/2009/09/sex-offender- ... g-our.html
Fred Berlin, please realize that even broken clocks are correct twice a day. Now why don't you fix yourself and be right more often?: "Fifty-two of those offenders are being tracked using GPS technology. But do these precautions make the public safer? Or, do they merely turn sex offenders into societal "pariahs," asked Dr. Fred Berlin, founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic."
http://www.somdnews.com/stories/1014200 ... 2178.shtml
"Conventional wisdom is a powerful force that often leads the well-intentioned astray. For example, there's the widespread belief that we can make children safer by restricting where known sex offenders are allowed to live. The notion is enticing in its simplicity. Make sure offenders don't lay their heads near schools or parks or other places where children congregate, and kids will be safely ensconced in a predator-free bubble. Unfortunately, it isn't that easy."
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/editoria ... -1.1528561
Eventually, we will all be guilty: "Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography."
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091108/ ... usejackass
Will those bare butt, bear rug photos that were popular in the 1940's make a comeback on the Internet?: "It’s fun to show relatives baby’s first bath, but some wonder if it is safe to post pictures of children online." Also check out what Finkelwhore, sorry, Finkelhor has to say on the subject.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/fashi ... ?th&emc=th
BOYS RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR EXEMPLARY DEEDS
"Scott Black ran the New York City Marathon in 1979 as a 9-year-old. “I find that running has defined me as a person; a lot of my self-esteem has come from it. I don’t regret anything. That said, as a parent, I wouldn't push my kid to that,” Mr. Black said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/sport ... wanted=all
"A local 10-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero. He says he used what he learned in Cub Scouts to save his teacher's life."
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti ... id=7065148
Another Billy Elliot?: "Their [two gay dads] adopted offspring, James Gibson-Jones, appears destined for some species of ballet greatness, having been snapped up by the National Ballet of Canada this fall after just two years of lessons."
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article ... am#article
SOCIAL ISSUES
"You can divorce an abusive spouse. You can call it quits if your lover mistreats you. But what can you do if the source of your misery is your own parent?" ..." He had recently come out as gay to his devoutly religious parents, who responded by disowning him. It gets worse: at a subsequent family dinner, his father took him aside and told him it would have been better if he, rather than his younger brother, had died in a car accident several years earlier."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/healt ... ntemail1=y
This link is not meant as an endorsement for physical punishment but as a lesson in the unintended consequences of changes in social values: "For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/fashi ... &th&emc=th
"As more families face economic hardships, experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/us/26 ... ?th&emc=th
ON THE LIGHT SIDE
Hilarious Halloween costume advice from the Onion (turn off ad-blocker)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/h ... _halloween
Spoof from the Onion on society's continuing effort to medicalize the human condition: "More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28223
He must have either been very cute or very ugly to cause such consternation: "The alleged flasher being blamed for a bus crash in Hamilton is just 14-years-old."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10609076
STYLES
"In recent years, a growing number of teenagers have been dressing to articulate or confound gender identity and sexual orientation. Certainly they have been confounding school officials, whose responses have ranged from indifference to applause to bans."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/fashi ... ef=fashion