Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Is this really a crime?

I don't know if the news article has provided the complete context, but I wonder if this should really be a crime.

Posted by RogueWriter at 10:57 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the name of ‘prevention’, it’s become necessary to criminalize the *potential* to cause harm — and since there is almost no human activity that doesn’t potentially cause some harm to somebody, we’ve, in effect, made ‘criminals’ of every one of us... The logical end of this is to criminalize risk, of any kind - and that end is in sight.....

When you have teachers who don't want to "break the rules" and who also support zero-tolerance policies [e.g., a water pistol is a "weapon"; a peck on the cheek is "rape";] and administrators and principals who want to keep their jobs and also avoid civil lawsuits against them; and elected prosecutors who demonstrate their "get tough" profile by calling Mommy's pinking shears "a deadly weapon" and two Flintstones vitamin pills "a potentially deadly threat to our children", then you have created a system that not only encourage but **demands** the litigious assault against not merely minors [under 18,] but little children of 8, 10, and 14 years old.

District Attorney Berry told reporter Susan Goldsmith of the Oregonian that his department "aggressively" pursues sex crimes. "These cases are devastating to children," he said. "They are life-altering cases." Hmmmm......so does the DA have any comments as to WHY the girls in this case ARE NOT being "aggressively" prosecuted ???? In other articles some of the girl [*victims*] admit to 'butt slapping' the boys.

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C

July 29, 2007 at 10:03 AM
RogueWriter said...

Right on, c. harris.

August 16, 2007 at 10:09 PM

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