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It shows exactly how the word "children" is being mangled by zealots to mean 17, 18, ... even 20 year olds. The tragedy is that it undercuts actual crimes committed against prepubescents as badly as the "let's pretend drawings on paper are real people" bullshit.
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2013-03-19, 03:35 | Link #27045 |
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An interesting read on China's underdeveloped foreign policy. The fact that neither of the two highest-ranking officials with foreign policy portfolios are members of the Politburo is especially instructive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/op...gn-policy.html
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2013-03-19, 08:43 | Link #27046 | |
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2013-03-19, 08:55 | Link #27047 | |
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So does this mean this entire board can be sent to jail and registered as sex offenders for seeing hentai somewhere? Thankfully, there are enough real child porn criminals floating around for them to be busy. But god help us all if prosecutors have a slow day month and in need of a scalp. |
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2013-03-19, 10:03 | Link #27048 |
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A Sterling teenager was shot and killed after he apparently entered a home thinking it was his own and was mistaken for a burglar or home invader. Police said Caleb Gordley, 16, had been drinking and entered a neighbor’s home through a back window.
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2013-03-19, 12:14 | Link #27049 |
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Murderer flips off victim family in court
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/loc...-triple-murder
This piece of trash is a shining example of why the death sentence is needed, and it's a travesty that we now have to feed and cloth him for the rest of his life, instead of dragging him out the back and put a bullet or ten in his head. |
2013-03-19, 12:40 | Link #27050 | |
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2013-03-19, 13:22 | Link #27052 | |
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2013-03-19, 13:41 | Link #27054 | |
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That would be work. However, if you present them an easy case, like say carry said hentai in your luggage, or on your laptop during a border inspection, they will not let this chance slip. We had some examples there already... should even be in this thread somewhere. |
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2013-03-19, 14:16 | Link #27055 | |
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2013-03-19, 14:52 | Link #27056 |
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The Handley case (which isn't a great example but he really only had drawings of loli-hentai and he copped a plea to avoid going to trial and fighting it (which the rest of us wish he would have but it is easy to see his dilemma sitting in Iowa and not, say, in Los Angeles).
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial/2010-03-02/7
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2013-03-19, 16:48 | Link #27057 | |
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2013-03-19, 16:55 | Link #27058 | |
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2013-03-19, 17:15 | Link #27059 |
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Supreme Court upholds First Sale doctrine
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said "yes, you can resell what you buy from overseas markets in America and not infringe on copyright." Somehow, I'm not surprised that Copyright Apologists are already trying to spin it so that they're the victim.
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2013-03-19, 19:34 | Link #27060 |
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It's always interesting to see how the Court aligns on issues like this one. In this case, Breyer wrote the decision and Ginsberg wrote the dissent. She was joined by Scalia and Kennedy, hardly her usual allies. Kennedy is usually depicted as the "median Justice" on most traditional left-right votes. He was decisive on Citizens United and may also be the swing vote when the Defense of Marriage Act comes up later this term. Thomas is usually attached at the hip to Scalia but voted in favor of the doctrine in this case.
While a unidimensional model of political conflict explains a lot about American politics, there are some issues that do not fit that model and create unusual alignments like this one.
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