This May Have Been Posted Here, But I'm Foaming at the Mouth Reading This
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, December 24, 2007 20:06
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Quote:I missed that.
Originally posted by SignyM:
The REAL sin is that he's black and she's white.
Damn.
That DOES have an effect on the landscape.
Now I truly understand the sit.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
The REAL sin is that he's black and she's white. Has nothing to do with underage sex. This IS Georgia after all.
Frem, let us know if there's anything we can do to help.
BTW- you might want to check out the "Privilege" thread. There're more examples of similar persecu... I mean PROsecutions... there.
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What does that have to do with anything?
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Why did you have to play the race card?
"This IS Georgia after all" So now you are branding the whole state, and its residents as racists?
I for one think 10 years is insane, but let's not overlook the fact that this actually played out within the law. It may be harsh, and I/we may not agree, but he still broke the law.
It may have been consentual, or it may have been that he did indeed take advantage of a minor. None of us really know, all of this outrage is from a news article as far as I can tell. None of us were there in the courtroom and heard the evidence that was put on the table. As posted earlier, the age of consent is 16, not 18, so she was a minor and he was not.
There is an element of self responsibility here. If you boil it down to it's most basic element and cause, you see that if he hadn't had relations with, and videotaped a minor, he wouldn't be in prison. He made that decision to go down that road, noone forced him.
Before you get the industrial strength flamethrowers out, let me re-iterate that I think the sentance is insane, I just wanted to point out that it's not simply some judge with an agenda. This kid willingly did something that *could* have gotten him in trouble, and it in fact did. He just happened to get a judge that wanted to (in my humble opinion) make an example out of him.
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I've heard about this case before, and yes, it makes me sick too.
I thought I should probably point out here that the prosecutor in question was black. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that race wasn't an issue in the case. Speaking as a black person, I know that it is more than possible to act in a racist manner towards our own people. But I'll also say that it's unfair to generalize all of Georgia because of it's past. Hell, I live in Michigan, and we got plenty of racist folks here.
I think, perhaps more than race, the issue in this case is power. The prosecutor in question is afraid of losing face, and as a result, a young man is suffering the consequences.
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Re: recording it.
That just makes him stupid and tasteless, neither of which are, or should be, crimes.
-F
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Re: recording it.
That just makes him stupid and tasteless, neither of which are, or should be, crimes.
But a video depicting an underager engaged in sexual activity is illegal.
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Quote:No, I was branding Georgia as a bunch of backwoods hicks who think that a 15-year-old virgin is OLD.
"This IS Georgia after all" So now you are branding the whole state, and its residents as racists
Nah. Just kidding.
But if I got this corectly there were THREE people involved, and one of them was the videographer. Whatever happend to him/her?
I think in CA there is some slack for consenting sex above a certain age if the age difference is less than 2 years. That seems more logical to me.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Agreeing there. Still, why isn't SHE in jail too????
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Teens having responsible sex is fine *shudders* (I'm a prude), but making home porn is not something high schoolers should be doing. Sorry.
It wouldn't hurt her porn career....Chrisisall
I'm in 100% agreement with that girl & Chris on this. Where's her glistening mug been? What kind of life could have brought a 15 year old girl to do this on film? Could it possibly be, do ya think maybe...the 42 billion porn sites that are available & accessed daily with one touch of a button?...Is that the final gift of our civilized culture to our progeny, from homo sapiens that crawled up from the trillibyte slime we began as, and fought & struggled for millenium? Good Grief!
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BDN, i'm well aware of that - but his mere possession of such a thing constitutes more of an idiocy than a crime, surely not one worth the sentencing.
I say this because while they're oh so busy making an example of this kid, there's a good 30,000 sites running out of a certain place in North Carolina *producing* and then SELLING such a product over the net - which are allowed to function damned near unhindered due to political contributions and the fiction that they're based overseas, which they are not.
You just think of what kind of smack in the face it is to folks who have been trying to get REAL predators behind bars it is when those guys walk on house arrest and they totally fry some kid like this.
FYI - The Governor can commute this kids sentence, so any GA browncoats who feel he's paid enough of the price are welcome to up the pressure on him if they want to.
If he ain't learned his lesson about it by now there just ain't no point TO it, is there ?
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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The Governor can commute this kids sentence, so any GA browncoats who feel he's paid enough of the price are welcome to up the pressure on him if they want to.
GA Browncoat here, and Genarlow has paid way more than he should have. What's sadly ironic here is that the laws against 'sodomy' were overturned some 10 yrs ago, but the child molestation laws were so poorly written that no distinction was made between a 15 yr old having sex w/ a 40 yr old and a 15 yr old having sex w/ a 17 yr old. Genarlow is a smart kid, academically, and was on course to get scholy offers to play football at some of the finest schools in the country. And now ? Because of some hayseed hick attitudes, his life is basically ruined. Gov. Purdue should do the right thing and pardon the kid, and let him salvage what's left of his life.
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