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Genarlow Wilson -- Georgia is insane
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/26...ef=mpstoryview
This story is bizarre. Basically, someone was sentenced to TEN YEARS of prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old when he was 17. ??? Is that even illegal? Apparently so, and Georgia has recently changed this sort of conduct between consenting minors to a misdemeanor rather than a felony. Whew, what a concession, I'm glad it is only mildly illegal for high schoolers to give each other head. It's good that minors often will not be charged for murder, but could face TEN YEARS for sexual relations with someone two years younger than them. This just blows my mind. It's only one example, and [censored] happens, but if this isn't good evidence that a state monopoly on justice is really, really bad, then I don't know what is. Show me a private arbitrator who decides that the 17-year-old owes the 15-year-old something equal to 10 years of prison and I will show you a private arbitrator that goes out of business fast. It just couldn't happen. It's the type of injustice that would be totally inconceivable if state bureaucracy was not in charge. I mean, when I heard the story in the background playing on CNN, I first thought he was an adult who had consensual relations with a 15-year-old, and I was like "hmm, ya, 10 years is ridiculous, it's good that they overturned that." I assumed it was some sort of reasonable debate, and still thought it was newsworthy. But then the fact that HE WAS SEVENTEEN and it was a two year difference just makes this impressively ridiculous. This could easily be a high school junior getting head from a sophomore, if that puts it in the correct perspective. TEN YEARS IN PRISON! Obviously the fact that he's black is why this happened. But the point is this happened to a human being in the United States of America in 2005. Isn't that [censored] scary? Government does not work. I used to think it was at least good for the sake of a clear authority, but I came to my senses on that, and examples like this are just empirical icing on the cake. |
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Re: Genarlow Wilson -- Georgia is insane
Here's a Sport Forum thread and an OOT thread about this.
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Re: Genarlow Wilson -- Georgia is insane
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Here's a Sport Forum thread and an OOT thread about this. [/ QUOTE ] Oops, sorry. I didn't realize this was already being talked about. We might get a different sort of discussion here anyways. |
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Re: Genarlow Wilson -- Georgia is insane
Sometimes it just sucks to be black in this country. Just really really sucks. Well if Genarlow Wilson didn't like the state, he should have loved it or left it!
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Was the chick white?
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Was the chick white? [/ QUOTE ] No. Neither was the other chick that he was charged (but found not guilty) with raping. Not consensual sex. Rape. |
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Re: Genarlow Wilson -- Georgia is insane
How many teenagers do you know that study and read and know all state laws regarding sexual relationships? I doubt Genarlow Wilson was one of them. Do you really think that in the heat of the moment it dawned on him to go find out what the legal reprocussions of his actions with this teenage girl would be or that he ever be arrested for it???? No, I didn't think so. So, how was he to know what his state had in mind for him.
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Obviously the fact that he's black is why this happened. [/ QUOTE ] That can't be right. I've been informed hundreds of times by posters here that government *prevents* racism and *punishes* racists. |
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[ QUOTE ] Obviously the fact that he's black is why this happened. [/ QUOTE ] That can't be right. I've been informed hundreds of times by posters here that government *prevents* racism and *punishes* racists. [/ QUOTE ] pvn, this is intellectual dishonesty. You know damn well that because some govt tries to avoid X does not mean that X never happens anywhere, and you know that X still happens even without govt. Deleted |
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Re: Genarlow Wilson -- Georgia is insane
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Obviously the fact that he's black is why this happened. [/ QUOTE ] That can't be right. I've been informed hundreds of times by posters here that government *prevents* racism and *punishes* racists. [/ QUOTE ] pvn, this is intellectual dishonesty. You know damn well that because some govt tries to avoid X does not mean that X never happens anywhere, and you know that X still happens even without govt. Deleted [/ QUOTE ] Of course it happens without government. But when Joe Schmoe doesn't like you because of your skin color, you just don't get to eat in his restaurant. When Mr. Government Agent doesn't, you get 10 years in the pokey. The point being that statist who cry ZOMG RACISTS WILL RUN AMOK ignore the fact that the proposed "solution" creates even more opportunity for racists, and on a larger scale, with greater consequences for the targets, and YOU get to pay for it all! |
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