blanc wrote: I was not surprised, as you apparently were, when ET asked the question which was on my mind. So far you have fairly consistently taken up most of the positions used by pro paedophile advocacy to undermine efforts to enforce the law.
I didn't know that. What are my positions, anyway? Everyone else seems to know that so much better than me.
By the way - moral panics do exist. So do falsely remembered memories. And false convictions.
FREE THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE
The testimony of those abused you have seemed to try to demonstrate as flawed, by faffing around with the FMS argument, and now the very concrete evidence of credit card transactions linked to purchase of paedophile porn is a waste of time, and the police op a witch hunt.
I think its fairly obvious the Ore thing was a snafu - fubar - and hopefully they will learn to conduct a more meaningful dragnet in the future. And notice how you try to undermine any sense of fair play by associating me with a discredited organization. Not fair. There are cases of clearly wrong convictions. That's not fair either.
The age of consent issue you fudged with wishy washy statements about disparity of ages, and relativism over the use of the word 'child'.
Eh. Now you are just putting words in my mouth. Is it because I criticized your "x is a x is a x" formula? Here in Florida we had a guy arrested for statutory rape and put on the Offender register because he turned 18 after having dated his girlfriend who was two years younger. He slept with her in the girl's mother's house. Do you really think something like that is at all useful or even makes any sense?
I'm as aware as anyone of the fear of misuse of prosecution and fabrication of evidence, probably more so than many here as I have been threatened with that process.
Okay. And now I'm acutely aware of the strong feelings and irrationality people have about this issue.
Be clear about what you want to say please TKL, then we won't misunderstand your motives.
I tried. This has degenerated into a discussion about me. Oh well.
So, okay:
Child abuse is bad. People shouldn't do it. If people are caught doing it, they should be punished.
People have issues with sexuality in general. Probably a lot of sexual dysfunction (like pedophilia) could be avoided or reduced if sexual issues were addressed with less raw emotion and more rational understanding.
The feelings stirred up by discussions like these, as well as repressed or shame-producing sexual energies are easily channeled for bad purposes. Like in fundamentalist religions where people blow themselves up. Or in fascist societies, were people blow other people up.