Comments on: SF Chronicle: suffer the children

By: Robai

Robai — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:06:24 +0000

That was an excellent piece of journalism Violet. May it be just the thing to start the ball rolling towards needed policy change. Grass roots activism is the basis of Democracy, and believe it or not we still do live in one.

By: casualencounters.com/blog

casualencounters.com/blog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:57:05 +0000

Jesus Christ. I read the first comment and my jaw just DROPPED. These laws are some seriously broken shit.

By: Ira

Ira — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:27:38 +0000

You’ve probably heard, but this recent Illinois ruling is a tremendous bummer as well.

http://hackerjournalist.net/2009/08/12/sex-offenders-your-tweets-and-linkedin-and-timespeople-are-now-a-felony/

By: DJTennessee

DJTennessee — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:34:27 +0000

The comments are making me cry

In a good way or in a bad way?

Whenever I’m published on a big site, I feel like 5% sensible and correctly-spelled comments is like an astronomical success rate.

See you all on the sex predator list!!!

By: Neve Black

Neve Black — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:21:28 +0000

Great post, Violet. Thanks.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:41:21 +0000

Yeah, I live in Maine and I was right ripped by the whole shameful episode. One of the two men killed did have sex with his girlfriend when she was 15 and he 19. Under Maine law, under age 14 you cannot have sex at all. Between 14 and your 16th birthday, you may have sex with someone up to three years your senior. After that ‘sweet 16′ party, you can have sex with anyone you want. If he’d been six months younger, or she six months older, he wouldn’t have had to register.

The other fellow shot and killed had not reoffended in thirty or forty years – he’d been living with a ‘youthful indiscretion’ hanging over his head for decades.

Some times I think we live in the ‘God Damned USA’ – with a plague of stupid people.