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Allow legal sex at 13 to stop 'old men abuse persecutions', says barrister
The Telegraph ^ | 5/9/2013 | Andrew Hough

Posted on 05/09/2013 3:11:33 AM PDT by markomalley

In a controversial intervention, Barbara Hewson, a barrister at Hardwicke chambers in London, also called for the end of anonymity for complainants.

The lawyer, who specialises in reproductive rights also claimed crimes committed by disgraced broadcaster Stuart Hall were ''low level misdemeanours''.

Campaigners today criticised the ''outdated and simply ill-informed'' views, which it said ''beggars belief'' from a highly-experienced barrister.

Her article also provoked an internal row within her chambers, which launched an "investigation" into the claims.

Her comments come as Scotland Yard runs Operation Yewtree, an investigation split into three inquiries into allegations involving deceased presenter Jimmy Savile, involving Savile and others and those involving just others.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; United Kingdom
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To: stockpirate

that is twisted


21 posted on 05/09/2013 4:49:40 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: fr_freak; yldstrk
;-). The lawyer has a point, in that a society which promotes sexual activity among teenagers is going to have trouble enforcing boundaries been teenagers and adults. When children are taught from their earliest years that sexual attraction and availability are their most important assets in life, they don't even think of the concept of boundaries, but can view attracting an adult as an "achievement."

That is to say, a sick society produces both the male predators who are currently being arrested and prosecuted in England, and this woman who defends them based on the general amorality of their culture.

22 posted on 05/09/2013 4:53:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: markomalley

This is a movement which has very deep roots, sadly, with chapters throughout the United States and the world really:

Which way forward for sexual liberation?
http://platypus1917.org/2011/02/01/which-way-forward-for-sexual-liberation/


23 posted on 05/09/2013 4:58:42 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: markomalley

24 posted on 05/09/2013 5:45:37 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: markomalley
'As for law reform, now regrettably necessary, my recommendations are remove complainant anonymity, introduce a strict statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions and civil actions and reduce the age of consent to 13.'' Ms Hewson argued that ''touching a 17-year-old's breast, kissing a 13-year-old, or putting one's hand up a 16-year-old's skirt'' are not comparable to cases such as the Ealing Vicarage rape or Fordingbridge gang rape and murders from 1986. She added: ''Anyone suggesting otherwise has lost touch with reality.''

Are you f'ing kidding me?

I'm 35. If all of a sudden I became a dirty "old" man and made some moves on your 13, 16, or 17 year old daughter, you'd probably shoot my ass. And you should. While the things described isn't the same as sticking something where it didn't belong, it eventually leads there.

25 posted on 05/09/2013 6:28:06 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: from occupied ga

And Progressives call this “progress”.


26 posted on 05/09/2013 6:45:43 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
And Progressives call this “progress”.

To them it is. Depends on your goal. If your goal is a nation of serfs in thrall to a government that plunders the fruits of their labors and then spends the pelf as the whims of bureaucrats dictate, then we're on the right path.

27 posted on 05/09/2013 7:21:59 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: markomalley

Didn’t Theodore Roosevelt raise the legal age of consent from 9 to 12?

Why do the states not enforce anti-prostitution laws against adult porn makers?


28 posted on 05/09/2013 7:26:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: stockpirate
Ruth Bader Ginsburg once wrote a paper supporting lowering the age of consent for sex between adults and minors to something like 13 years old.

Probably hoping to find a lad horny enough to put her through the paces.

29 posted on 05/09/2013 7:36:57 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

The most unexpected people are all into sex with kids, or at least kids’ having sex. It’s like there are zombies among us, but the decay doesn’t immediately show on the outside ... only when they open their mouths (or write an “academic” paper).


30 posted on 05/09/2013 8:22:56 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: Tax-chick

There is a derangement afoot in the land.

Or maybe it is simply evil.

I just wasted 15 minutes on an e-mail exchange with an editor of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press over a story they printed yesterday, involving a mother and daughter who were set upon and beaten, in the street, by a gang of “teens”.

I chided the editor for plainly covering up the fact that the “teens” were black, and he responded by saying that the police had told the paper that “there were no detailed descriptions”.

Both the Minneapolis-area papers cover the news this way, and of course it is preposterous, and pointless, and demeaning to readers AND to those who are unfairly included (people of every race, by the way, including innocent blacks) in their stupid color-blind descriptions.

Let’s all of us agree that if it were gangs of white skin-heads who were perpetrating these crimes, and a bigoted white sheriff were screening their identities, then the papers would extend every effort to find out who was behind this viciousness, and who was covering up and why—as well they should!

But we are now in the land of derangement, and of favored groups, of suppression of facts and of outright lying.

We are in the land of Orwell, only with the rules of distortion and deceit being carried out in a clumsy, slovenly, roughshod manner—not with the chilling precision of Big Brother, but rather as if by a shabby, drooling Beast.

Feels like evil to me.


31 posted on 05/09/2013 11:25:35 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: markomalley


32 posted on 05/09/2013 11:28:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: cripplecreek

wanker!


33 posted on 05/09/2013 11:30:24 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Fightin Whitey

I think you’ve got it right - evil, and not even trying to be anything but obvious.


34 posted on 05/09/2013 12:12:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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And the march into the flaming abyss speeds up. The leftists are primarily driven by perverted and rapacious lustful sex desire. Take that waya and they'd be namby pambies to a large degree. That takes away a great deal of theier fuel.

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35 posted on 05/10/2013 11:15:38 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: stockpirate

They are not sexually grooming the children in public schools, via planned parenthood, for nothing. Homo activists want to leglize “consentual” sex with boys.

The UN is big on adult sex with children. The Muzzies want it to be global law. Hitlerly pushed the treaty when B. J. was in office. They frame it as the “right” of the child to have sex with whomever they want.

This is where we are going to see a lot street justice from mom and dad, brother and aunt and uncle. I see dead people.


36 posted on 05/10/2013 12:00:23 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: markomalley

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3017833/posts?page=25#25


37 posted on 05/10/2013 5:14:05 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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