"Geico was a cool gig until I ate the gekko. Like, who knew?, you know? Now, I have to register with the SPCA and can't live within a hundred yards of a terrarium. Say, are you here with anybody?" Posted on 12/23/2017 10:00:11 AM PST by LouieFisk
A teenage girl facing criminal charges after she sent an explicit selfie through Snapchat to a classmate says she is not a criminal. “Sexting is common among teens at my school, and we shouldn’t face charges for doing it. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I’m going through,” the 14-year-old girl said in a statement released by the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.
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Then the laws need to be rewritten.
“setting off a cherry bomb under a bucket to see how high we can get it to fly would probably land me in Federal prison for 40 to life for terrorism charges or something.”
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Yup, it was also usually safe to make prank phone calls - no Caller ID back in the day. I’m glad I grew during a time when being a stupid kid didn’t involve getting in a lot of trouble of the legal variety - it was getting in the parental variety of trouble that worried us!
Sounds like Woodstock but fortunately there were no cell phones with cameras in the 60s. So glad my kids are grown.
"Geico was a cool gig until I ate the gekko. Like, who knew?, you know? Now, I have to register with the SPCA and can't live within a hundred yards of a terrarium. Say, are you here with anybody?" “Prosecutors have abused the sex offender law to the point its time to scrap it.”
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Or to better define and revise it to reflect rational legal reaction to real life situations such as this.
Not sure where the government comes in - I was talking about the IDIOT PARENTS who give their 14 year old a smart phone, when she only needs a flip phone.
As to the cameras on flip phones, while they do exist, they are very easy scratch out, making them inoperable (which is what I did on several phones).
As to ‘good parenting’ and ‘instilling values’ - I guess that can work, if the kids trust the judgment of their parents above their peers. That certainly wasn’t my case when I grew up, nor my friends, but what the heck, maybe things have changed.
“Kids these days.
“Parents these days.”
Schools/indoctrination asylums these days.
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Yup. It’s one hot steaming mess.
You are right. But don’t forget the police and DA get to put this in their “crackdown on child pornography” speech.
When I was a kid I once tried to chop down my neighbor's cherry tree. Since I shared birthdays with George Washington, I took interest in the story about him chopping down a cherry tree.
Like George, I didn't lie about... and boy, was my dad pissed... and he didn't buy my logic that "George Washington did this too and look where he ended up". I couldn't sit for a week. I did learn my lesson without spending 20 years in a prison.
These kind of laws never get repealed. Do you know why? Let's say you are a politician who wants to write some sense into them. Your opponent puts out a commercial that goes something like this: "Congressman Louie Fisk thinks child pornography should not be a crime. Tell congressman Fisk that you think child pornographers should go to jail! What's on YOUR computer, congressman Fisk?"
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I’m a do-it-youselfer and I enjoy using ol Rusty, my favorite antique woodchipper
ACLU has a long history of supporting child pornography. Michael Dukakis in 1988 was forced to back off his support of the ACLU over this issue.
You are correct that parents should be responsible for her behavior and the punishment. Yet, they allowed the publik skools to impose their godlessness into her worldview, so she is completely ignorant of truth—so they are not really parents at all, since they didn’t “parent” her and allowed her access to such powerful technology, when she had no morals whatsoever, which is dangerous. Since the state raised her, the state will have to punish her. (It is the whole justice system which is already rotten and toxic that has to be corrected first).
You are wrong about the age. At age seven, and even before, I knew, as all children should if raise correctly, that it was evil to expose my body to people in this way. Privacy is essential to dignity and treating the most intimate and important physical aspects of your body in such creepy ways will always degrade your person, uniqueness, mystery and beauty and make your body into a meaningless object for lust, ridicule, degradation, or whatever. It also shows disregard and disrespect for the person she’s texting.
There is a reason why clothing is used by rational humans—because God intended the body for excellence and flourishing attachments, not to be used in meaningless, flaunting ways which disregard the intellect, the whole person. Sex is powerful and the only thing which can unite a male to a women for a long duration so children are nurtured, loved and raised as God intended so they can flourish, as culture will if the natural family flourishes.
It is dehumanizing to use your body as a piece of meat, in such a meaningless, vile way which advertises that you are worthless and makes you into an object. And that doesn’t even touch the fact that using “screens” is always degrading and dehumanizing and artificial, and reduces sex and intimacy and nudity to not only an artificial, meaningless, detached thing— which only objectifies this girl all the more and for her entire life, which is totally dehumanizing and will have ramifications for anyone who attaches themselves to this pathetic, unloved girl.
That’s parenting? Who knew?
Who contacted the ACLU? The parents. I know how hard it is to raise kids but if they’re raised right and they do wrong they know they did wrong and they’re usually sorry and ashamed. I know I was when I was a kid. And I did PLENTY wrong. . This girl is unrepentant and defiant. I put that on her parents.
You miss the point that the intent of the law is to find and punish willful,predatory,knowledgeable,adult sexual offenders preying on minors. It was not drafted to punish ignorant children behaving in a reckless manner due to lack of solid moral groundings.
She's 14 years old!!!!
If they want to send a nude selfie to their boyfriend then they'll simply borrow a friend's phone and do it from that. Nothing you do is going to stop them from doing what they want to do... other than the fear of getting into trouble with YOU, the parent.
Maybe I was just a smart kid, but it seemed that no matter what roadblock my parents tried to erect to stop me from doing stupid things, I could always devise a work around and do it anyway.
Back then, we didn't really fear the cops... the big fear was "what if a cop catches up doing this and tells our parents?".
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